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[QUOTE="MaryLynn, post: 961677, member: 11024"] [SIZE=3]In 2017, I stayed overnight in Burgos and in the morning I left the Municipal Albergue, turned right onto the Camino which goes past the albergue door and headed down the path toward the Arch of San Martin, where royalty entered the town when they visited Burgos. It was a beautiful morning with clear blue skies and a perfect temperature; the ancient wall and arch were in sight, a few cars were driving past on the street next to the path. Suddenly, a bolt of electricity struck the top of my head (ouch!), went through my body and into the ground. I was surprised, but I was ok. I looked up at the sky, expecting to see a random storm cloud, but the sky was clear. Then I realized I was wearing a long heavy cotton dress with long sleeves and flat black shoes and that I was now standing on the grass on the left side of the arch, right in front of the steps that lead up to the broad walkway on top of the defensive wall and the arch (today the steps are quite worn and the entry to the steps is gated). A man in a thick wool uniform was waving at me and yelling, urging me to 'Hurry up!' and come with him up the stairs (to safety on top of the wall/arch?). There was smoke behind the wall and arch and a red glow, as if cannons had been shot. He kept looking back beyond me, as though he saw an enemy approaching and we were in danger. I was suddenly filled from head to toe with fear for my life and I knew, for certain, that if I went up the stairs with him, I would die. I looked behind me but saw nothing more than the grassy hill, the modern-day buildings, and the traffic on the two-lane street that led in and out of town. When I turned back to the man, he was gone and I was back in the present time, in my own Camino clothes and boots. My immediate reaction was to look around to see if anyone was nearby and might have seen the soldier urging me to go up the stairs. No cars had stopped, nobody had been walking by, and I was no longer standing on grass - I was standing on the cement sidewalk that leads down the hill next to the road and through the arch. I was quite shaken by the experience. I took a photo of the iron gate and the very worn stone steps that still lead to the top of the medieval wall where my death had been waiting for me. If there had been no experience of the electric shock through my body, no overwhelming physical fear of my impending and certain death, and no physical experience of wearing a heavy cotton dress and little black shoes, I might have written off the experience as a result of an over-active imagination or a hallucination. I can only explain it as a ‘rip in the fabric of time.’ [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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