A community newspaper in Prairie County, Montana is reporting that time slowed down on September 9 of this year, and that on the following day it ‘caught up’. The residents are unable to say how long they spent in September 9, as all their timekeeping devices were affected by the phenomenon. It is worth noting that the article specifies that the phenomenon affected not just digital watches, but also analogue watches and clocks.

Presumably the phenomenon didn’t specifically affect the county, as the article suggests – the laws of physics usually take no account of county boundaries – but perhaps a large proportion of the affected area was in Prairie County – if the event did actually occur. The newspaper reporting the incident has a noted flexibility where the truth is involved.