h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Tell me about. I was just reading this past month from Jack LOndon's people of the abyss, set in turn of the 19th century Londons' east end.

Anything related to that?

Sort of, The Stories I've heard involve The Blitz

Two generations later. Something the all too irreverent have sometimes referred to as Adolf Hitlers slum clearance program, same principle as many of the WWI era 'social Darwinists' (Darwin wasn't one, himself), considered the war in Europe a means of dealing with 'excess population'. Didn't work. Baby boom followed. Even Richard Malthus had predicted it would. Unfortunately, the social Darwinists had overlooked that in their readings of him.

A crack in time somewhere in the east of London?

Exactly

What are its' characters and properties?

Hard to say, One definite one is Its a One Step Vanisher.

A one step vanisher?

Lets say you're walking along in 1999 and Suddenly You're in 1277. To someone watching you You've just Vanished in one step, Not Faded out or Sped up

So this would be late in the reign of Henry III and around the time of the founding of the Inns of Court?

The Particular one I'm Specifically Talking About Leads to the blitz the 1277 one was just an example

I see. Rifts in time are usually related to crises of some sort that induce a contradiction in the histories of closely related time lines. Ultimately, it's not always easy to say just what crisis may be or where or when its causality originated.

At any rate, what kind of events or manifestations have been observed or reported?

Ghosts are often thought to be apparitions seen across the veil of time.