[WP] Scientists devise an experiment to test if we're living in a simulation. They realize too late that its developers didn't fully anticipate the corner cases.

Have you ever stopped and noticed how, as the centuries passed and humanity's knowledge of the universe deepened, myths and legends all lost their power? We weren't scared any more, and Halloween just became a dress-up and free candy day.

Today, though, is the one year anniversary of 'Glitch Day', as people call it. It looks like October 31 will be forgotten in favour of the 25th. People are hiding out in their homes, scared to death that that fateful day will be repeated. You don't know about Glitch Day? You must have been under a rock that day. Well, let me tell you about it. This was my experience of October 25th, 2015.

The morning started out like any other: The sun, glaring into my room. The alarm clock, blaring music. Me, snoring. Third round of snoozes and I finally get up, and start cursing myself while I rush through a shower and shave combo. I switched on the TV for some noise while I wolfed down some breakfast.

'-Appears that the United Kingdom has...disappeared. Planes flying to Heathrow Airport have reported that they are turning back after circling England's...usual whereabouts for a time.' Wait...what? Realising I had a spoon still halfway to my mouth, I dropped it to the bowl and turned up the volume. 'Let's hear from an expert-' I laughed *'-on alien abductions, and other supernatural phenomena, Stephen Wight.' The image changed to show an unshaven man in a suit that looked around thirty years old. The suit, not the man, that is; he was about forty.

*'Thank you, Ellie. It's common knowledge, of course, that aliens abduct humans to carry out tests on them. But what I believe is, after the years of abducting one or two humans at a time, they're now going to abduct and test a whole country worth of us. If I'm correct, the country should return after te

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