Things that make you think you're in ATL

Have you ever had the experience of seeing something that made you think you're in an alternate universe? It could be a newspaper headline, somebody wearing unusual clothes, a special event, or anything.

For example, I was in a national park in the western US last year when I saw some Indians (Native Americans) on Harleys with tribal flags flying from behind the saddle and feathers on the handlebars. Plains Indian raiders with 20th-century tech?
 
The amount of Southern pride shown at the Olustee Battlefield re-enactment made me feel like I was in the Confederate States.
 
Definately had my moments. I remember a time I was at work and I was just reading about "Greater Germany." And after I read I went off into a day dream and felt like I was part of the 3rd Reich, it didn't help that the T.V. was on the news showing a politician giving a very animated speech that was on mute.
 
I came back from a holiday in Greece some years ago. I hadn't read an English paper for two weeks and when I finally saw one - a Daily Mail I think- it had the headline "Life Found on Mars".
 
Only being semi-flippant at most, but lots of newspaper headlines make me feel like I'm in an ATL.

To take one general instance, when I grew up the whole theme of conflict between Islam and the West belonged to history so remote it was effectively romance. That is, it had no connection at all to the evening news, in the way that even Napoleon does - it belonged mainly to the Middle Ages, the very tail end of it just barely touching the very beginning of US national history.

The Middle East was in plenty of turmoil when I was growing up, but none of it, as reported in the West at least, had a thing to do with Islam. The few times Islam was mentioned at all, it was as a force unfriendly to Communism, thus implicitly friendly to the US. Now, jihad is a regular term in the news, and so is once-arcane stuff like the difference between Sunnis and Shias. No one now can write a book or make a movie about the Crusades or Barbary Wars without implicitly editorializing about current events.

That really feels like an ATL, with a POD way back in the past, to turn medieval history back into news.
 
In Virginia, I was visiting my anut and uncle, and we saw a bunch of Confederate battle flags - that's OK, I was expecting that. Then I saw a church flying the flag of the Confederate States of Ameica. This one:

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It kindof freaked me out.
 

Thande

Donor
In Virginia, I was visiting my anut and uncle, and we saw a bunch of Confederate battle flags - that's OK, I was expecting that. Then I saw a church flying the flag of the Confederate States of Ameica. This one:

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It kindof freaked me out.

The Not Quite Stainless Banner?
 

Thande

Donor
I often see things in Cambridge that make me think I've either time-travelled or slipped into an ATL...
 
Obviously, the day I saw 9/11 on TV. I had spent the afternoon with my friends and one of them called me and simply told me to turn on the TV, without telling me what I would saw. For one minute, that was ATL, plain and simple...
 
I had just finished the Great War Trilogy by HT, and in my area, there's a lot of people who's parents, or grandparents moved here from Kentucky, so there are a good amount of people who speak with a Southern Accent. A person who I rather dislike has a southern accent, and I thought "Damn Rebs" :eek:
 
I have reason to believe I am in my OTL. For one thing, I can't get those dried, spiced, lizards that I could get in that ATL I visited.
 
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