The Why Files: Operation Podcast 625: Unexplained Phenomena: The Dead Village, Rain Phenomena, YouTube Mystery
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Jan 23, 2026 Three eerie true-incident tales that bend reality. Sailors stumble into a village frozen in time with rotting oxen and motionless smoke. A corrections officer experiences water appearing from nowhere inside a cell. A YouTube channel floods the platform with impossible uploads and vanishes after pointing to mysterious Atlantic coordinates.
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Cadets Walk Into A Time-Shifted Village
- Three Royal Navy cadets entered Kersey in October 1957 and experienced an overwhelming, lifeless silence and the smell of death.
- They saw frozen smoke, dark watchers in windows, and a butcher shop with rotting oxen that suggested a vivid historical scene.
Place Memory Explains The Kersey Encounter
- Andrew McKenzie correlated the cadets' vision with Kersey circa 1420, linking their experience to post-plague recovery imagery.
- He proposed the village was a persistent memory imprint, not a parallel universe, making trauma 'remembered' by place.
Water Materializes Around A Man On Furlough
- Don Decker experienced sudden cold and drops of water that materialized and fell around him during a furlough in February 1983.
- Police witnessed the water appearing midair with no visible source and reported ozone-like smells.