The original post: /r/glitch_in_the_matrix by /u/AdLeather8285 on 2025-03-13 17:22:55.

I was a junior or senior in high school so 1994 or 1995. I know that’s a long time ago but I remember this incident perfectly because it makes no sense. I was reading The Color Purple by Alice Walker in my bedroom. No one else was home and I had to go to the bathroom. I left the book on my bed. The bathroom was right down the hall. When I returned the book was gone. I know that I left it on the bed. Still no one was home and someone would have had to go up the stairs and pass the bathroom door to get to my room and it was probably 1 minute that the door was closed. I was very irritated because I was enjoying the book and it had just disappeared. I asked my mother later that evening if she’d seen it and she told me she hadn’t. Several days passed and I remember considering whether to start a different book because I read a lot at the time, but liked to finish a book before moving on. Then I was in my bedroom standing up near the closet and something fell and hit me on the head. I look down and at the object that had fallen on my head and it was my missing book. I remember feeling a weird feeling in my stomach like I was going to throw up. That I had seen something that I wasn’t supposed to see. Creeped me out big time.