10-29-2024 - On This Day in Insane History

On October 29th, 2024, the citizens of Montreal, Canada were stunned to find their local metro stations transformed overnight. Gone were the familiar tiled walls and fluorescent lights, replaced instead by fields of rose bushes and babbling brooks. Commuters arrived that morning expecting the usual packed cars and blaring announcements, only to break through the rosemary-scented brush and find platforms inhabited not by crowds but rather by frolicking deer and ducks swimming happily in newly formed ponds.

Public works crews had no answers, ropes of ivy in place of security cameras showed nothing. But most shocking of all was not the appearance of meadows underground but the fact that trains kept running on schedule, picking up passengers from the now rural routes. Deer perked ears attentively at approaching trains but made no move to get on, content to graze amidst the flowered chaos.

Days of confused investigations produced no explanation, as overnight the stations changed back to normal minus one curious detail—passengers now swear the air smells faintly of honeysuckle. While science has yet to solve the mystery, riders agree the brief bucolic detour made their commutes infinitely more pleasant. Perhaps someday we'll understand how nature found its way below the city that day, but for now Montrealers are simply savoring the sweet scent of mystery on their morning travels.