After reading the Buzzfeed article "9 Strange Stories that Might Make You Believe in Parallel Universes," I feel like I've read some very cute fiction by some young authors trying to stretch their writing muscles. None of the stories seem to be backed up by anything, even after I read the sources. Truthfully, it would be very difficult to prove a parallel universe exists and that you have traveled through it. However, silly accounts such as, "I was driving, and then things were different!!" or "I visited a parallel universe and wrote a short story and took some pictures of a desert to prove it!"
In fact, it'd be very difficult to convince me- even a photograph of a portal would make me say, "Such clever vfx!" or "What could this promo be for?"
The story of Lerina was the most interesting to me, because I was talking to my friend who discussed somewhat similar things- "Sometimes I find clothes I don't remember buying," or "I don't even remember when that cup got there!" but those things could also be explained away by something other than parallel universes.
That's not to deny that parallel universes don't exist. I'm just not entirely convinced by these random stories that anyone could write and put up on the internet, and I'm especially skeptical of random websites that are used as sources such as "Week in Weird" or "Before its News."
On the other hand, I don't think there's any way that you could totally dismiss the idea of a parallel reality. We could never truly know, such as there is no way to know for sure if the truth of reality is solipsistic, or divine, or a simulation.
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