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From Wikipedia, that fountain of all reliable and well-sourced knowledge: In the Palladium Books universe of role-playing games, ley lines have been depicted by the authors as being normally unseen lines of magical energy ... In addition, at points where two or more ley lines intersect, an interdimensional portal (or rift) opens at the nexus. If a person steps through an open rift, he is essentially crossing through a tear in the space-time continuum ... The more ley lines intersecting at one point, the more powerful the rift; so at very powerful ley line nexus points like those at the Bermuda Triangle, Calgary, and Saint Louis, the traveler may find himself crossing between planets, dimensions, and even periods in time (past and future).

I have been saying this for years, and now I have proof: my in-laws are from outer space.