Is time travel possible? Does it already
exist? Do intrepid travelers walk among us today? For decades, even centuries, the
idea of time travel has offered unparalleled mystique and allure. And any claim that it’s
real can very quickly take the world by storm. This is Unveiled, and today we’re taking a closer look at 25 time travel stories
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the best, most convincing, most well-known and most bizarre claims
of time travel. So, let’s get into it! #25: The 1860s iPhone This picture has become a well known piece
of art, but mostly because of something in it that looks more than a little out of place.
The painting, titled “Die Erwartete” (or “The Expected One”) and by the Austrian
artist, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, shows a young woman at the center of the
image. She appears to be holding an object that’s strangely similar to a modern smartphone.
Take a look, and let us know what you think! Art historians counter that she's merely
holding a prayer book, with some suggesting a pocket watch. But the resemblance has
sparked theories about anachronistic technology. The figure is clearly somewhat
distracted by whatever it is she’s holding, and seemingly completely unaware of
another character in the foreground. Some claim there’s even a phone screen-like
light that illuminates the girl’s face. #24: The Dodleston Messages In 1984, when Ken Webster and his partner Debbie
began renovating an 18th century cottage in an until-then unknown English village, you may
not have guessed that their story would become famous. However, when Ken reportedly borrowed
an old-style BBC Micro computer from his work, and brought it home… he quickly found himself
embroiled in a long series of time messages. The Dodleston Messages are so named after
Dodleston, the village in which they were received. They’re a series of typed notes sent to
Webster, mostly from someone known as Lukas - who claimed to be from the year 1546. Among other
things, Lukas commented on Ken’s horseless cart (his car) and seemingly chastised him (Ken) for
taking the house that he (Lukas) used to live in. Over the course of almost two years, multiple
messages are said to have been exchanged. And, at one stage Ken is also said to have communicated
with another figure, through the same computer, this time a voice from the future who
claimed to be in the year 2109. Ultimately, Webster wrote about and published his story,
in the 1989 book “The Vertical Plane”. #23: Charlie Chaplin’s Extra Although a silent movie icon first and foremost,
Charlie Chaplin also has his own potential link to possible time travel. It’s buried pretty
deep in the actor’s cinematic history, and may have been missed by some…
but ever since it was spotted it has been a constant talking
point for time travel sleuths. The key moment features during a bonus section
on the DVD release of Chaplin’s 1928 film, “The Circus”. The footage is said to
be from the premiere of the movie, and it shows what appears to be a woman talking on
a mobile phone. The most popular counter-argument says that the woman was more likely hard of
hearing, and was using an early hearing aid device. She’s clearly holding something up
to the side of her head. What do you see? #22: Rudolph Fentz Although he’s at the center of one of the
earliest, widespread time travel claims of all time, the story of Rudolph Fentz is perhaps one
of the sketchier examples out there. It typically goes that Fentz mysteriously appeared in Times
Square, New York, in the summer of 1951, but dressed more like he belonged in the late 1800s.
It’s said that he was spotted by a small number of people, looking dazed and confused, before he
was unfortunately hit and killed by a passing car. After some investigation, it’s alleged that
it was revealed that the same Rudolph Fentz had disappeared without a trace in 1876. The
sudden death of an unidentified man in the 1950s was supposedly proof of some kind of
time slip between there and the 1870s. The problem is that the entire story has been
largely written off as just an elaborate urban legend. A tall tale, but generally
considered to be a work of fiction. However, there are those who continue to
believe that it could be genuine, and proof not only of the existence of time
travel… but of the dangers it carries, as well. #21: Satoshi Nakamoto In the ever-shady world of BitCoin, perhaps
it’s no surprise that there’s a rumored link to time travel. What we know is that, in 2008, an
individual (or group) going by the name Satoshi Nakamoto released a white paper outlining the
general concept of Bitcoin, a decentralized digital currency that has since garnered headlines
the world over. What we don’t know for certain, however, is who Nakamoto is… or,
indeed, if they even exist at all. Nevertheless, there’s some speculation that
Nakamoto could be a time traveler; one who traveled from the future back to our present-day
to introduce a revolutionary technology. The argument goes that BitCoin, when it did arrive,
appeared as if out of nowhere. And that such a disruptive product can be better explained if
we accept that it came from a time after now. For sure, it’s a claim that isn’t widely
supported. Although the notion that Nakamoto could be a group adds another interesting dimension
to the theory. One in which time travel isn’t just one AWOL renegade, but a clear, deliberate
and organized infiltration of the present day. #20: John Titor Cast your minds back to the early days
of the internet, and John Titor might be considered one of the first figures
to go viral. During the early 2000s, various online forums were flooded with
messages from an individual claiming to be a time traveler from the year 2036, going
first by “TimeTravel_0” and then “John Titor”. Titor claimed to be US military personnel, who had originally been sent back
even further in time, to the 1970s, to retrieve a specific IBM 5100 computer, which
he said was needed to fix technical issues… in the future. His appearance in the 2000s was
explained as a stopover on his way home. Over many months, Titor shared
detailed information about future events - including claims of a coming civil war
in America - and he even posted a checklist and instructions for how to build his supposed time
machine. Over time, his appearance has come to be dismissed as just an elaborate hoax, particularly
as many of Titor’s supposed predictions failed to come true. And yet, his name remains one of the
most famous ever to be connected to time travel. #19: Dimensional Warp Generator In a case that drew a lot of parallels with
John Titor at the time, Bob White - otherwise known as Tim Jones, and real name Robby Todino
- was the trigger for another internet-based, time travel conspiracy, between 2001 and
2003. It started when White posted a series of requests online, looking for someone
to provide him with a dimensional warp generator. The reason being was that he claimed
to need one, in order to complete a time machine. The story got particularly strange, however,
when many of those online responded, and some even set up stores from which
you could purchase the generator (and other parts). One person even reportedly charged
large sums of money for time travel “courses”, seemingly as a way to vet White as the real deal.
As it was revealed, however, that the man behind the posts (again, real name Robby Todino) had
been diagnosed with schizophrenia in the past, and that those seeking money from him had merely
been preying on his state of mind… this one was less of case of leaving you to question
reality, and more to question humanity. #18: Paul Dienach’s Coma Here, the question of time travel ties into
debates around consciousness and the soul. In 1921, Paul Amadeus Dienach, a Swiss-Austrian
teacher and otherwise ordinary guy, fell into a coma after suffering from Encephalitis
Lethargica. His comatose state lasted for a year, but while he appeared unresponsive to doctors
and visitors back then… he claims that during that time he was actually transported into the
body of another man, called Andrew Northman, in the year 3906. Dienach didn’t
immediately tell everyone this, but instead recorded all that
had happened to him in his diary. Just a couple years later, and Dienach’s health
was still bad. He moved to Italy in a bid to get well, but unfortunately died in 1924. Before then,
though, he had given his diaries to a student, leaving them to him to translate. Which
he did, and Dienach’s story became known. In general, the claims made by Dienach are at
times criticized for being short on detail. Unlike with others, there aren’t a long list
of predictions that he made. Nevertheless, he does say (in his diaries) that those in 3906
realized that Andrew Northman’s body was playing host to someone else’s consciousness
(his consciousness). Suggesting that, at this future time, such a situation will be
much less… surprising… than it would be today. #17: Everyday Chemistry Theories on time travel vary in exactly the
mechanics behind making it happen. But one of the most popular possibilities in recent
times is surely through parallel universes, and in particular the Many Worlds
Interpretation. Many Worlds was first put forward in the 1950s by the
US physicist Hugh Everett III. In short, it suggests that every time any kind of decision
(or event) occurs, reality splits into two (or many) so that all possible outcomes of
that decision (or event) are created. Say you could move across this
now-inevitable web of realities, then, and you could quite easily find yourself
not just at a different place… but also in a different time. Along a different timeline.
Some say that that’s what may have happened to one James Richards, who claims that, in
2009, he stumbled into a parallel universe in which the iconic British rock
band, The Beatles, never broke up. According to Richards, while in the parallel
world he spoke with someone named Jonas and, at the end of their meeting, he was able to steal
a cassette tape containing a Beatles album that was never released. Not in this reality, anyway.
And, having jumped back into this timeline, he hit the internet to tell the world. His claims
are widely doubted. The album - apparently called “Everyday Chemistry” - includes many
seeming mashups of other Beatles songs, as well as past solo material from
members of the band. But still, it’s a story which opens up all new
opportunities for potential time travel. #16: Time Traveling Celebs Given that celebrities are constantly
photographed, it’s perhaps unsurprising that their likenesses should be spotted
in other images. But, occasionally the similarities between today’s famous people and
random folks of the past is genuinely uncanny. Among the most well known (and convincing)
are the actress Jennifer Lawrence, who’s said to look a lot like the 1960s and ‘70s
Egyptian actress, Zubaida Tharwat. Keanu Reeves, who has been likened to the late nineteenth
/ early twentieth century French actor, Paul Mounet. And Nicolas Cage, who has been labeled
(by the internet) as both a time traveler and a vampire due to his passing resemblance
to a man in a US Civil War era photograph. Shortly after that story broke in 2011, Cage even
commented to deny his supposedly vampiric past. But what do you think? Are Nic Cage’s
counter-claims enough to convince you? Or is that just what he would say if he were a
traveler? Clearly these kinds of stories should be very much taken with the proverbial pinch of
salt. But, then again, they do look very alike. #15: The Philadelphia Experiment Of all the alleged government cover ups ever
made, the Philadelphia Experiment surely goes down as one of the most bizarre. It
takes us back to late October 1943, when it’s said that the US Navy conducted a
monumental experiment in one of its shipyards… to make an entire warship - a destroyer escort,
the USS Eldridge - completely disappear. In some versions of events, the boat then suddenly
showed up around 200 miles further south, down the US coastline, without any
significant time gap between the sightings. Most of the story comes from the accounts
of one Carl M. Allen, a merchant mariner who claims to have witnessed the boat disappear
as if into thin air, in Philadelphia. And, while Allen’s recollections have
mostly been written off as a hoax, elements of them have continually
come under further scrutiny. For one, it’s said that many of the crew
on the Eldridge did suffer with unspecified mental conditions, seemingly as a result
of tests they may have been put under. But, for another, there’s always been a little…
inexplicability… around the impossible timings. If the ship really was sighted 200 miles
away, then that journey should be traceable, and should’ve taken hours. However, there
are no records, and there’s said to have been just minutes between the sightings. For
some, the only explanation is time travel. #14: Lost and Missing Time In Ufology circles, the phenomenon of missing
time (or lost time) is weird and widespread. In general, it’s the name given to any period of
time during an alleged UFO encounter in which the person experiencing it loses all (or almost all)
memory of what happened to them. After missing time, that person may well wake up in a wholly
unknown place, with no idea how they got there. Naturally, there are a number
of possible explanations put forward - including that the person claiming a
UFO was intoxicated, or that they suffered some kind of brain injury. Failing that,
and within the accounts themselves, missing time has also been linked to seeming
extraterrestrial memory wipe devices. But, if all of that fails, then there’s always the
suggestion of time travel to fall back on. Whitley Strieber is an American writer predominantly
known for the horror genre, but one of his most successful works came in 1987 when he
published the non fiction book, “Communion”. A great deal of the alleged alien encounter
it covers is underpinned by missing time, which has - in the past - led Strieber to
highlight the potential for time travel, as well. #13: The Chronovisor Here we head right into the heart
of the Catholic Church, for arguably the most famous time machine legend ever. The
Chronovisor is a supposedly real world device described by the Italian priest and scientist,
Pellegrino Ernetti. According to Ernetti, it was capable of viewing events from the past
or future through a kind of "television-like" screen. Most famously, the Chronovisor
has allegedly been used to witness the actual crucifixion of Jesus Christ… as well as
various other scenes from real life Ancient Rome. Significantly, the Chronovisor no longer exists,
as it was reportedly dismantled due to safety concerns, sometime in the mid-to-late twentieth
century. One of the finer details surrounding its legend is that it was originally designed and
built (in part) by the esteemed physicist, Enrico Fermi - so the story goes. And, given the power
that it’s said to have granted its user, it’s no stretch to say that the Chronovisor could have
changed the world. As a result, some believe that it may still be out there, just under seriously
strict lock and key. But, what’s your verdict? #12: Flight to the Future Sir Victor Goddard was a high-ranking and
highly regarded figure in the British Royal Air Force. An all round trusted voice. Which
is why his central role in not one but two apparently clairvoyant episodes is still so
widely discussed by time travel enthusiasts. First, in 1935, Goddard was flying an otherwise
routine mission to inspect an airfield in Scotland. The then-decommissioned airfield was
fully expected to be empty and lifeless. But, when Goddard flew over, he found it bustling
with activity. A couple of key details were that some of the planes were painted yellow, and
the servicemen working on them were wearing blue overalls. While this wasn’t the norm at the
time, yellow planes and blue uniforms would become the norm in later years - when Goddard’s
airfield also would be in use again. As a result, what the pilot saw that strange day in the mid
1930s is considered by many to have been a time slip. For the briefest of moments he traveled
forward in time… and saw the literal future. Second, and this time Goddard was seemingly
lucky to get out alive. In January 1946, he had been in China, due to fly to Japan
later the same day. Before then, though, when speaking with colleagues, he learned
that another RAF officer had recently had a dream in which Goddard died
in a plane crash. In the dream, the plane had been carrying Goddard plus three
others (two men and a woman) and the crash had happened on a pebbled beach with mountains in the
background. Then, just before flying to Tokyo, Goddard learnt he would have three passengers
(two men and a woman)... and, partway through the journey, the plane did crash on a pebbled
beach with mountains in the background. The only difference was that, thankfully,
along this timeline at least, nobody died. #11: Time-Traveling Hipster In 2010, a now-famous photograph
surfaced showing a man dressed in apparently modern clothing standing
nonchalantly amidst a crowd in 1941, at the reopening of South Fork Bridge in Canada.
Immediately, the man stands out thanks to his sunglasses and seemingly printed T-shirt.
He’s also holding a modern-looking camera. Some therefore have speculated that this
photograph is solid proof of time travel in action. Or of parallel universes
momentarily intersecting. Ultimately, and upon further research, it seems that most
of the seeming strangeness of the image can in fact be explained. Sunglasses of that style
were available at that time; cameras of that size also had been released shortly before the
date of the photo; and the printed t-shirt may actually be a knitted sweater linking to an ice
hockey team of the time, the Montreal Maroons. Perhaps the “hipster” part of the man’s more
recent description is the most accurate, then. Because, even if he isn’t
(or wasn’t) a time traveler, he certainly bucks the trend for
more formal fashion in the ‘40s. And he’s already got his hands on some
of the latest tech, with the camera. #10: The Montauk Project If you thought the Philadelphia
Experiment was already massive enough, consider that it’s said to have been just
one part of this, the wider initiative. The Montauk Project ranks as one of the most
dramatic conspiracy theories in US history, purely due to the sheer scale of
what’s alleged to have happened. It’s a claimed series of secret government
experiments conducted in Montauk, at Camp Hero, on Long Island in New York, during the 1980s. The
experiments supposedly involved mind control and teleportation, and were often held using
unsuspecting subjects - including young children and homeless people taken from
nearby. With time travel in particular, though, the centerpiece was a supposed
time tunnel opened up during the Project, possibly deep underground. The tunnel is
described as having linked this reality (and the present day) to all other points
in hyperspace; to the past and the future. Much of the mystique around Montauk has
been created by a series of science fiction books written by Preston B. Nichols and
Peter Moon, starting in the early 1990s. Nichols claims to have repressed memories
of his involvement in the Montauk Project, as a subsequently brainwashed
participant. In the modern day, whatever it was that happened (or didn’t
happen) at Camp Hero, it’s had a surge in publicity in recent times as it also inspired
the Netflix hit show “Stranger Things”. #9: Nikola Tesla Think of the archetypal “mad scientist” character
in books and films, and you soon realize that this man provided quite a lot of the inspiration for
it. In his time, Tesla was something of a maverick and a showman. World-renowned for his crazy ideas
- many of which worked. In the decades since, he’s been shown to have been ahead of his
time in many ways, and a pioneering inventor. But, for some, his story goes beyond just being
unconventional. His work in electromagnetism and the wireless transmission of energy, in
particular, led many then and (increasingly) now to suggest Tesla was dabbling in time. Most
of the rumors center on Wardenclyffe Tower, an unfinished communications tower built
between 1901 and 1902, again on Long Island, New York. Much of what Tesla achieved at
Wardenclyffe is unknown, although there have long been rumors of him experimenting by passing
electrical energy through his own body - and, in some cases, such shocks are said to
have warped his sense of time and space. Ultimately, Tesla ran into a series of financial
issues, many of his benefactors fell away, and Wardenclyffe was first abandoned
and then demolished. It became known as Tesla’s million dollar mistake. But,
conspiracy theorists claim that it never really went wrong… instead, it was shut
down due to the power potential it had. #8: Håkan Nordkvist In 2006, a Swedish man named Håkan
Nordkvist claimed to have traveled back in time. His story became famous after
a video was posted about it onto YouTube, and was watched millions of times. In the years
since, it has circled back into (and out of) public consciousness, and has been shared
across various other social media platforms. Nordkvist says that his brush with time travel
happened during an otherwise routine day. Having noticed a leak in his kitchen,
he set about fixing the pipes in the cupboard under his sink. Only, the cupboard
transformed into something like a wormhole, which he freely walked through. On the
other side, he met an older version of himself (complete with matching tattoo) before
returning back to the present day. Luckily, he also had the presence of mind to
film the encounter on his phone. Now, in this case, the strength of the
story is considerably damaged as it was later revealed to have been part of an elaborate
marketing campaign for a Swedish pension fund. However, there are those who
simply refuse to accept that, claiming that the pension explanation is a
cover up… and Nordkvist is the real deal. #7: Bold Street, Liverpool At first glance, Bold Street in Liverpool,
in the UK, is a thriving hub in the city that famously produced the Beatles.
A place where shoppers and diners, tourists and locals all mingle together. Unlike
with the mystery of “Everyday Chemistry”, however, the Fab Four aren’t directly linked to this,
Liverpool’s second major claim to time travel. Over the years there have been multiple
stories about supposed time slips occurring along this particular road. Unsuspecting
people are busily going about their day, when suddenly everything changes and they’re
transported (usually backwards) through time. One woman reportedly witnessed her surroundings
instantly change into something akin to the 1950s, complete with old-style cars and
with everyone around her dressed in the fashion of that era. Meanwhile,
another oft-repeated story says that an off-duty police officer once entered a
bookshop along Bold Street only to find that it had momentarily altered to become
a mid-twentieth century clothing store. #6: Ronald Mallett’s Time Machine Perhaps the one thing that lets many a
time travel allegation down is that the one making it is rarely sure exactly how
their experience happened. With Montauk, there’s the hazy notion of a time tunnel. In the
life of Nikola Tesla, there’s his unknowable work in Wardenclyffe Tower. But then, every so often
there is a seemingly more concrete proposal for a true time machine… and, very occasionally,
it threatens to enter the mainstream. That’s the case with the plans and prototypes
of the University of Connecticut professor, Ronald Mallett. Mallett has dedicated his career
to researching the potential for time travel, establishing himself as a national expert on
black holes and general relativity. Starting in the year 2000, he brought his astrophysical
knowhow back down to Earth in a big way, suggesting that a real time machine could
be built using ring lasers - continuously circulating cylinders of light. Arranged
in such a way, Mallett believes that the energy produced should distort gravity enough
to make it possible to move back through time. To date, while his ideas have received coverage,
there is not yet a working “Mallet Machine” in public use. But could it be that his ideas
will one day make time travel possible? #5: The Vanishing Hotel If you like your holidays to have a little bit of
possible time travel thrown in for good measure, then France is seemingly the place to go. And
French hotels are the accommodation type you should choose. First, there’s the age-old urban
legend of the Vanishing Lady in Paris. And then, there’s the perhaps much more convincing tale
of two couples on a European road trip, in 1979. Over the years, there have been many different
versions of the story of the Vanishing Lady. But, in general, it’s said that two women (usually
told as mother and daughter) travel to the French capital for the Paris Exposition of either 1889
or 1900. Upon arriving, the mother is taken ill, and so the daughter checks her into a hotel and
leaves to find medicine. Only, when she returns, her mother and her mother’s room have
disappeared - and no one in the hotel has any recollection of ever having met either
of them. While not directly time travel related, there are seeming links between it and another
now infamous story, many decades later. In the late ‘70s, it’s said that two British
couples embarked on a road trip from the UK, through France and into Spain. During
the French leg of their journey, however, they stopped off at a hotel, accessed down an
old-world cobbled street. Their one night stay is said to have been good, but the main takeaway was
just how old fashioned the place was. The decor, the food, even the other guests, all
seemed to be a throwback to a bygone age. And it was an incredibly cheap
place when it came to settling the bill, as well. Upon leaving, the couples posed for a
photo outside the hotel and went on their way. Fast forward a few days, and they’re making their
way back home from Spain, again through France, and onto the UK. They decide to stay at the same
French hotel and are sure they drive to the same location. Everything else is unchanged, but
the hotel itself is no longer there. It has seemingly vanished, and none of the locals that
the couples ask know anything about it, either. The final mystery is that, a couple of weeks
after returning home, the holidaymakers receive their photographs back from the developers. They
had taken three outside the hotel, shortly before they left… but all three come back faulty,
and the hotel can’t be seen in any of them. In the time since, the so-called
vanishing (or phantom) hotel has been put forward as an example of
time displacement. It was there, and it was gone… perhaps as timelines
and eras briefly overlapped. #4: Project Pegasus If time travel does exist, then many believe that it goes right to the very top of world
governments. And, in Project Pegasus, we have probably the most famous claim
ever made that not only are time travelers (or chrononauts) real… but that at least
one former US President is one of them. One Andrew Basiago is the leading voice
behind the Pegasus story. He claims to have been part of a highly classified
US program that ran through the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s. It allegedly involved
teleportation and time travel, as well as wider reaching applications for such technology
- including long-distance space travel. Basiago says that the initiative was run by
the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and that he was just a child when
he participated. He says that most of it was built around what was known as the jump room, from
which people could dematerialise to rematerialise somewhere else and some time else. Easily the
most bizarre aspect of Basiago’s claims, though, is that he says that ex-President Barack
Obama was part of Pegasus, too. Back then, Obama reportedly went by the name Barry, and
was even sent to Mars on multiple occasions, all via the jump room. The White House has,
unsurprisingly, denied that any of that is true. #3: Future Bombs If you were to unexpectedly find
yourself propelled into the future, you might at least expect to be taken to a
place you’d want to be at. Or to somewhere where you weren’t in immediate danger. But that
wasn’t the case in 1932, when a German reporter, J. Bernard Hutton, and photographer, Joachim
Brandt, traveled to a shipyard in Hamburg. So it goes, the pair were quietly researching an
otherwise routine story when, wholly unexpectedly, bombs started raining down all around them.
Out of nowhere, the shipyard was under attack, and their normal day had been turned into
a nightmarish hellscape. Their journalistic instincts didn’t fail them, though,
as they snapped a few photos before hurriedly escaping. The problem was that
nobody believed what had happened to them, and there had been no other witnesses. What’s
more, when looking at their photos afterwards, Hutton & Brandt found that, inexplicably,
they didn’t capture anything of the bombing. For more than a decade, it went
entirely unexplained. But then, in 1943, in the midst of the Second World
War, the same Hamburg shipyard actually was attacked. And, when the story
was covered in various newspapers, Hutton claimed that the pictures were exactly as
he had already seen them, all those years ago. #2: Andrew Carlssin As with so many other time travel stories, the
details around this one are both difficult to pin down… and widely debated. For many, the tale
of Andrew Carlssin is the product of hearsay only. But, for some, it’s one of the surest examples
of a time traveler on Earth that we’ve ever seen. It’s said that in 2003, an individual named
Andrew Carlssin was arrested for insider trading after making a long series of incredibly accurate
stock market predictions, all of which resulted in him making massive financial gains over just
a couple of days. In most versions of the story, Carlssin managed to turn an $800 initial
investment into $350 million… with ease. During his interrogation, it’s claimed that
Carlssin revealed his true identity as a time traveler from the future, explaining that
he knew what to back simply because the patterns of our present day stock market
were, to him, ancient history. He then bargained for his freedom by giving the
authorities details about his future life, as well as key information for the here and
now. Supposedly, the only thing he wouldn’t reveal was how to make the time machine that
had sent him here. Nevertheless, after his bail was reportedly posted, Carlssin never
showed up at court, and was never seen again. #1: The Moberly-Jourdain Incident Clearly, France has quite the history
of reported brushes with time travel. But none strikes quite as mysteriously
as what happened on August 10th, 1901, to Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor
Jourdain. The pair of respected Oxford academics were paying a visit to the Palace of
Versailles in France. The trip went as planned until they decided to explore the gardens,
and apparently fell backwards in time. Both reported a sudden feeling of unease. And shortly afterwards, both claim to have
witnessed scenes and people which (and who) they believed to be not of the present day. They
estimated the characters they encountered to be from around the late eighteenth century, about
120 years in the past. One figure in particular, a lady said to be sketching in the middle of a
cut lawn, was even deemed to be Marie Antoinette. Upon returning to the UK, Moberly and
Jourdain didn’t immediately speak to each other about what had happened to
them. But, after a couple of weeks, they opted to write down their accounts
and compare notes. These notes were then published (under pseudonyms) in
the 1911 book, “An Adventure”. And, while some explain away what happened to
them as perhaps a shared hallucination, it remains one of the most intriguing examples
of unexplained time travel phenomena on record. So, what do you think? Which of these stories,
examples, ideas and theories are you most on board with? And which (if any) do you suspect could be
false? Let us know in the comments! And, if you’ve ever had a time travel experience of your own,
then be sure to tell us all about that, as well! What do you think? Is there anything we missed?
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