In the fall of 1934, Miriam Golding found herself in an unusual place simply by stepping out of an elevator. This incident is also unusual in that there she met a young man who was also lost in an unknown dimension.
Miriam's story is startling: “I'm sure my husband and I returned to the elevator, but in the commotion on the way down we lost each other. When I arrived, as it seemed to me, on the first floor, I tried to push through to the exit behind Stan, but was thrown back. The door closed again and we drove downstairs. As soon as I left, I was surprised to find myself in a huge room, no doubt a basement, but not an office building in the city center. Boxes and crates were piled everywhere. Climbing the stairs, I was dumbfounded. There is no trace of the store I left. In general, nothing that should have been there is not visible.
There was nothing extraordinary in the world around me, but this place was completely unfamiliar to me. I was at the big train station! Passengers hurried in droves everywhere. I walked along the wall until I saw a sign "Out into the street" and went out into the fresh air. I still didn’t know where I was. There were also a lot of people on the street, everyone looked healthy and happy.
Wandering aimlessly along the street, I noticed a blond boy in front of him, who was standing in the center of the alley, looking to the sides. I stopped and smiled at him in return. He said, hesitating: "I think you … also got off at the wrong stop?" I suddenly realized that, as unthinkable as it seemed, the same thing happened to him. “It's very strange,” he said. “I was playing tennis at home and went to the dressing room to change my shoes. When I got out, I found myself … at this station. " "And where's your house?" I asked. “Well, of course, in Lincoln, Nebraska,” he replied, surprised. "But I started this journey … in Chicago!" - I said.
We wandered the streets and ended up outside the city. When we saw the lake, we headed towards it. Watching the sun go down, we noticed a large sandbank nearby. I saw, much to my surprise, that one of the girls in the shallows was my fiance's sister. There were others with her, and they all waved and shouted. My newfound friend tried to swim to them, hoping that this would help us return to reality, but he could not get close to them and, having lost his strength, returned to the shore.
I can't imagine what we would do next. Suddenly, darkness enveloped me. It felt like I was suspended in space, and then I was already sitting on a stool in a music store again! This time I decided to use the stairs and went to my husband, with whom I was in the store. He said that he lost me near the elevator, and when he came out on the first floor, he could not find me. Thinking that I got off on a different floor, he waited a little, and then finally decided to go home. Upon entering the room, I was more than surprised to see Stan's sister with the same friends as on the sandbank. She said, smiling, "We saw you in the city, but you were so busy that you didn't even hear us!"