A Truck Driver Lost 4 Hours in 1987 — He's Been Writing Things No Scientist Can Explain Since

On the night of March 14th, 1987, a truck driver named Gary Hollis was driving south on Interstate 65 when his truck stopped on an empty stretch of highway outside Louisville. His watch said four hours had passed. He had no memory of them. He drove to Memphis. He delivered his load. He went to sleep. When he woke up the next morning, he picked up a motel notepad and filled twelve pages with diagrams and equations he had never learned. He has no formal education beyond eighth grade. He has never studied physics, mathematics, or biology. But in 1994, a professor at Ohio State looked at his notebooks for two weeks and wrote him a letter. The letter said that some of what was in the notebooks should not be there. In 1997, his wife was diagnosed with an autoimmune condition her doctor said could not be resolved. Gary filled three notebooks with what he described as a map of what was going wrong and how to stop it. The doctor called it biologically coherent. His wife has been in remission for twenty-three years. In 2008, a scientist published a paper that used a concept from Gary's notebooks, crediting an anonymous source. He has filled forty-seven notebooks since March 1987. He does not know what happened in the four hours. He knows what came after. The forty-seventh notebook is different from the others. It is not sending content. It is asking a question. Has it been useful? Gary said yes. This is what is in those forty-seven notebooks.