In 1995, a mysterious incident happened to a resident of Rhode Island (USA) Paul Colizzo, which he still cannot find a rational explanation for.
Paul traveled regularly to Newport, where the yacht races took place, and Newport was just 45 minutes from his home. And when Paul came to Newport, he preferred to have breakfast at the Newport Creamery, which served donuts, burgers, waffles, ice cream cocktails, hot chocolate, coffee, strawberry sweets and other delicious things for which Paul felt a great weakness.
However, in 1995, Paul and his friend Kenny came to Newport not for the yachts, but to visit the dental clinic. However, they decided to go to the same cafe when they were hungry.
They drove along Americas Cup Avenue to Thames Street, and then past the Shell gas station, which he had seen before and had to go even further to the cafe, but then Paul glanced up and noticed a wall, next to which he was surprised to see the entrance to a street that I had never seen before on previous visits.
“There you could see a part of the embankment with stands near the water with little things for tourists and a sailing ship floating on the water. It all looked so beautiful that we entered this street and it turned out to be a business part of the city, where I had never been. It was a busy two-way street. I can still see the bus stop on it before my eyes."
On the street, Paul noticed several restaurants with his eyes, but he instinctively looked for his familiar Newport Creamery cafe and he finally saw it, realizing that he did not even know that there was another such restaurant in the area.
"I was embarrassed in front of a friend when I realized that I had never been to this place, but I did not say anything to him, I did not want to look like an idiot."
Paul Colizzo and his friend Kenny walked into a restaurant, ordered burgers and cola sets, and sat at a table by the window. There, according to Paul, there was a beautiful view of the ocean, and happy people walked along the waterfront, playing frisbee with their dogs or just walking.
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"The place seemed so pretty that I couldn't stand to go home and share my discovery with my wife."
Everything seemed normal, the food was just as tasty, the same cars were passing outside the window. Paul and Kenny ate breakfast and left Newport safely. That evening Paul told his wife that he wanted to take her to an amazing place on Saturday.
Three days later, Paul Colizzo and his wife drove to Newport. They turned onto Americas Cup Avenue and drove to Thames Street, and then they drove past the same Shell gas station. But there was no longer any wall and there was no entrance to that very street. Paul drove by several times and drove around, but he could not find anything.
“There was no ocean view anywhere, there was only a vacant lot with a football field and residential buildings. After half an hour I gave up and stopped looking."
But inside Paul there was still hope for a miracle. In the summer of that year, he again tried to take his wife to the Newport Creamery on a wonderful street. And again I did not find this street. Then there were attempts in 1997, 1998 and 1999. Wasted again.
“In 1999, I walked down every street near Americas Cup Avenue and Thames Street. I walked for more than three hours and … found nothing."
But Paul was very stubborn. He still remembered very well the day he visited the street and the cafe on it and it was all very real. And he understood that all this was not a hallucination. Moreover, his friend Kenny saw it all too.
In 2000, Paul bought himself a computer and began punching all the places where Newport Creamery cafes and restaurants are located. He found one of them where he regularly had breakfast, and another on Bellevue Avenue, and at first it seemed to him that this was the place where he had been. But then he checked it and it turned out that in 1995 this cafe did not exist yet. Moreover, there was no ocean view.
Then Paul talked to Kenny's friend again about that day, and he finally confessed to him that he also felt that there was something strange and unusual around.
But that was not all. In 2016, Paul's mind exploded with shock when he spoke to a city clerk who assured him that there were never more than two Newport Creamery cafes in Newport and they never moved from one area to another.
However, then Paul decided to go the other way. He decided to find an area that would be as close as possible to the desired view (embankment, shops, stands for tourists). He found the very place, as it seemed to him, on Google maps and even exclaimed "This is it!"
But when he actually visited this place, everything was completely different there. There was no business district, no cafes, no outlets for tourists. It was not now and it was not in the past. When Paul found a spot where the restaurant should have been, there was a vacant lot. But the view of the ocean from there was the same.
Now Paul is sure that he and his friend Kenny somehow got through a spatial vortex or "window" to another Newport (another dimension or another universe) and in that Newport this area was a business center with a developed industry.
“I spent 21 years solving this riddle. This whole story is true, I assure you."