History Main / TheHiddenHour

* In ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'', Sarah is taken to Jareth's world late in the night and spend 13 hours there, before returning at midnight and Jareth uses a 13 hour clock throughout the film.

* This is the hail-mary move of the Behaim family of Chronomancers in Literature/{{Pact}}. Using their well of accrued power they wedge in a whole '''extra day''' for the magical residents of Jacob's Vell to settle their distances while the {{Muggle}}a sleep in their beds. {{Deconstructed}} in that the normal people still exist during this time they'll just be stuck in bed and probably get bed sores from staying there.
* A rare non-magical examples occurs in Creator/KimStanleyRobinson's ''Literature/RedMarsTrilogy'': on Mars, the day is 40 minutes longer than on Earth, and they deal with it by freezing the clock each night at midnight. The 40 minutes becomes a sort of free time, a time that is considered not to really count.

* During this time, all players play with hole cards in TabletopGame/HoylesRulesOfDragonPoker.

* ''VideoGame/Persona3'' has the Dark Hour, between midnight and 12:01 a.m., wherein monstrous [[TheHeartless Shadows]], based off the ideas of UsefulNotes/CarlJung, roam free and ordinary people turn into coffins.

* ''VideoGame/{{Terranigma}}'' the opening sequence makes reference to the clock having 13 hours, which leads to [[ChekhovsGun an important plot point later]].

* Website/SCPFoundation has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3455 Liberary,]] an entire period of 47 days that doesn't exist in normal time. No one remembers the events of Liberary once it ends, but every Liberary people regain their memories of all the previous Liberarys. It causes people to relax their inhibitions and basically engage in a month-long hedonistic celebration. It also nullifies TheMasquerade for its duration.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'': [[BigBad DIO]]'s The World, creates [[TimeStandsStill halted time]] only he [[spoiler:and Jotaro]] can inhabit and move in.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'': [[spoiler:[[TheDon Diavolo]]]]'s King Crimson is to {{enforce|dTrope}} this for 10 seconds. The events occurring therein are 'destroyed' and remade according to his wishes, while others enter a fugue state and cannot remember even their own actions during the period. So for example, if in the middle of the erased seconds someone opens fire on Diavolo, he will make himself dodge if he wouldn't have normally, and when the 10 seconds end, the person will be puzzled as to when they picked up their gun.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'': After [[spoiler:Pucci acquires Made In Heaven]], he moves through time fast enough for the heroes to be unable to noticed.

* Wiki/SCPFoundation has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3455 Liberary,]] an entire period of 47 days that doesn't exist in normal time. No one remembers the events of Liberary once it ends, but every Liberary people regain their memories of all the previous Liberarys. It causes people to relax their inhibitions and basically engage in a month-long hedonistic celebration. It also nullifies TheMasquerade for its duration.

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* ''Franchise/JojosBizarreAdventure'':
** DIO's Za Warudo, or rather, The World, creates a world of halted time only he [[spoiler: and Jotaro]] can inhabit and move in.
** [[spoiler: [[BigBad Diavolo]]]]'s Stand ability is to {{enforce|dTrope}} this for 10 seconds. The events occurring therein are 'destroyed' and remade according to his wishes, while others enter a fugue state and cannot remember even their own actions during the period. So for example, if in the middle of the erased seconds someone opens fire on Diavolo, he will make himself dodge if he wouldn't have normally, and when the 10 seconds end, the person will be puzzled as to when they picked up their gun.

* In Creator/RALafferty's ''Days of Grass, Days of Straw'' heroes take it upon themselves to wrestle with the gods; if they win, the human race is allowed a "day of grass", when all of life is more intense and fulfilling than the "days of straw" that constitute everyday life. (We don't remember the days of grass during the days of straw, although deja vu, love at first sight and such phenomena are caused by a sort of half-memory of people we met and things we did in those happy moments.)

* [[Literature/{{Midnighters}} The Midnighters Trilogy]] has the Blue Time, between midnight and 12:01, though in the last book it starts appearing during the day as well. Also involves monsters which attack the defenseless ordinary people (or would were it not for the efforts of a bunch of teenagers who fight them with superpowers and the number 13).

* ''VideoGame/BillyVsSnakeman'' has The Dark Hour as part of the Monochrome Academy questline; the hour cannot be detected by normal people, and it's when the dark forces occupying the school [[spoiler:including Mister Tea, who was presumed dead]] come out to do battle. Once you've passed the Dark Hour quest, certain hours of the day (thankfully conventional ones that fit into normal space-time) are listed as "Dark Hours", and you can compete in the Arena against other Dark Hour players. The Pizzawitch questline also has "The Witching Hour", where you can race in certain extremely difficult Fields that only become available at this time.
* Aeon from ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaJudgment'' is a time guardian whose powers revolve around time and clocks. Notably, his clock has thirteen hours on it.

* ''TabletopGame/DontRestYourHead'' has a hidden hour that occurs twice a day, once at noon and once at midnight.
** However, this extra hour occurs only in the [[DarkWorld Mad City]]; no-one in the real world, supernatural or not, experiences it. As a result all the doors between the real world and the Mad City are locked during that hour, and the only time anyone ever actually managed to pry one open they let in the literal GrimReaper.

->"Would you believe me if I said that a day consists of more than 24 hours?"

The Hidden Hour (a.k.a. the Witching Hour) is a period of time within the average day that is InvisibleToNormals; most people don't experience it, nor are they aware it even exists at all. Only a few people, often those with some kind of special power, know about this extra hour; and only they are able to act during it. To these people, when TheHiddenHour occurs, normal clocks [[TimeStandsStill stop ticking]], {{Muggles}} [[TimeStandsStill freeze in place]] (or vanish entirely), and strange things start to happen.

* Zig-zagged by Daylight Saving Time, or Summer Time. Transition to DST implies moving clocks one hour forward (usually in the Saturday-Sunday night at 0200 AM) and return to winter time implies moving them back one hour. It is basically having one hidden hour in the Spring and sensing one hidden hour in Autumn.
* This could also apply to traveling between time-zones.
* Some businesses that run 24 hours or who only close for brief periods in the early morning, such as city bus companies, will number midnight as 24:00, 1 AM as 25:00 and so on in order to make it clear that it's 1 AM on a Wednesday instead of 1 AM on Tuesday, for example.
* There have been proposals for a calendar with 13 months of 28 days each (meaning dates always fall on the same day of the week), which covers 364 of the 365 days in a typical year. The remaining day, New Year's Day, would be a built-in holiday not belonging to any month.

* [[Literature/{{Midnighters}} The Midnighters Trilogy]] has the Blue Time, between midnight and 12:01, though in the last book it starts appearing during the day as well. Also involves monsters which attack the defenseless ordinary people (or would were it not for the efforts of a bunch of teenagers who fight them with superpowers and the number 13).
* The book ''Tom's Midnight Garden'' has Tom able to access the titular garden [[spoiler: via TimeTravel]] when the clock in his aunt's house strikes 13 at midnight.
* Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer's ''Dayworld'' books have a slightly more science-fictional version of this. To combat overpopulation, just about everyone is in stasis six days out of seven, and there's a half-hour gap between the time one day's population goes into stasis and the time the next day's population comes out.
* The science fiction story "Zeepsday" by Creator/GordonRDickson is about an alien race that shows humanity that there is an ''eighth day'' in the week.

* In Creator/RALafferty's ''Days of Grass, Days of Straw'' heroes take it upon themselves to wrestle with the gods; if they win, the human race is allowed a "day of grass", when all of life is more intense and fulfilling than the "days of straw" that constitute everyday life. (We don't remember the days of grass during the days of straw, although deja vu, love at first sight and such phenomena are caused by a sort of half-memory of people we met and things we did in those happy moments.)

* The first chapter of ''Literature/TheBFG'' is called "The Witching Hour", during which young Sophie cannot sleep, and looks outside and sees the title character.
* ''Literature/ThereIsNoEpicLootHereOnlyPuns'': Referenced in the chapter title of [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/there-is-no-epic-loot-here-only-puns-dungeon.590739/post-44640193 "Witching Hour"]], where Devina explores her evolution into a Witch Doctor.

* ''VideoGame/BillyVsSnakeman'' has The Dark Hour as part of the Monochrome Academy questline; the hour cannot be detected by normal people, and it's when the dark forces occupying the school ([[spoiler:including Mister Tea, who was presumed dead]]) come out to do battle. Once you've passed the Dark Hour quest, certain hours of the day (thankfully conventional ones that fit into normal space-time) are listed as "Dark Hours", and you can compete in the Arena against other Dark Hour players. The Pizzawitch questline also has "The Witching Hour", where you can race in certain extremely difficult Fields that only become available at this time.

* Wiki/SCPFoundation has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3455 Liberary]], an entire period of 47 days that doesn't exist in normal time. No one remembers the events of Liberary once it ends, but every Liberary people regain their memories of all the previous Liberarys. It causes people to relax their inhibitions and basically engage in a month-long hedonistic celebration. It also nullifies TheMasquerade for its duration.

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* In an episode of ''Series/{{Eerie Indiana}}'', after being told that Indiana doesn't observe Daylight Savings Time, Marshall sets his watch back an hour anyway, wanting to get the extra time. He wakes up an an extra hour inhabited by lost children and milkmen.

* On ''Series/FridayThe13thTheSeries'', when the owner of a watch murders someone and arrives at a subway station at midnight, an extra hour appears on the watch as time freezes for everyone else. The owner can do anything they want in that time. Ryan grabs the owner just as it occurs and thrown to see everyone feezing. The downside is learned too late by the watch's owner and her lover when they're unable to get to the station by midnight with the watch and are frozen in time forever.

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** However, this extra hour occurs only in the [[DarkWorld Mad City]]; no-one in the real world, supernatural or not, experiences it. As a result, people in Mad City cannot enter the real world during that hour; the last one who tried to cross over instead let something else in: Mother When, the deadliest thing in the Mad City.

** However, this extra hour occurs only in the [[DarkWorld Mad City]]; no-one in the real world, supernatural or not, experiences it. As a result, people in Mad City cannot enter the real world during that hour.

** However, this extra hour occurs only in the [[DarkWorld Mad City]]; no-one in the real world, supernatural or not, experiences it.

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