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Thursday, 11 December 2025

Elevator Ride To Another Reality: The Mysterious Case of a Woman from Chicago

 This story was told on the Reddit few years ago and is still one of the most famous and popular there in the “Glitch in the Matrix” subreddit.

What does it mean when you glitch in The Matrix? A phrase first coined in the 1999 film The Matrix—which posited the idea that humanity is living in a giant computer simulation—over the years a “glitch in the matrix” has become shorthand for an example of an unusual occurrence that cannot logically be explained.

The photos in the article belong to the author of the story and were posted by her in the same post.

The author of the story is a young woman named Sidney Daniel. A mysterious incident happened to her in 2001 when she was 8 years old. Then she, along with her mother, brother, aunt and grandmother, went to Chicago to see the skeleton of a dinosaur named Sue.

“This happened when I was about 8 in 2001. My mom, brother, aunt and grandma had all traveled to Chicago to see Dinosaur Sue. We had been staying in a hotel nearby for about 5 days. It was very upscale, new, and overall very nice....<<<Read More>>>...