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00:00 Is time travel possible? Does it already exist? Do intrepid travelers walk among us today?
00:07 For decades, even centuries, the idea of time travel has offered unparalleled mystique and
00:12 allure, and any claim that it's real can very quickly take the world by storm. This
00:18 is Unveiled, and today we're taking a closer look at 25 time travel stories to make you
00:23 question reality.
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00:35 In this video, we're covering the best, most convincing, most well-known, and most
00:40 bizarre claims of time travel. So let's get into it!
00:44 25. 1860s iPhone
00:47 This picture has become a well-known piece of art, but mostly because of something in
00:51 it that looks more than a little out of place. The painting, titled "Der Warte" or "The
00:57 Expected One," and by the Austrian artist Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller, shows a young
01:02 woman at the center of the image. She appears to be holding an object that's strangely
01:06 similar to a modern smartphone. Take a look and let us know what you think! Art historians
01:11 counter that she's merely holding a prayer book, with some suggesting a pocket watch,
01:16 but the resemblance has sparked theories about anachronistic technology. The figure is clearly
01:21 somewhat distracted by whatever it is she's holding, and seemingly completely unaware
01:25 of another character in the foreground. Some claim there's even a phone screen-like light
01:31 that illuminates the girl's face.
01:33 24. The Dottleston Messages
01:36 In 1984, when Ken Webster and his partner Debbie began renovating an 18th-century cottage
01:42 in an until then unknown English village, you may not have guessed that their story
01:46 would become famous. However, when Ken reportedly borrowed an old-style BBC microcomputer from
01:52 his work and brought it home, he quickly found himself embroiled in a long series of "time
01:58 messages." The Dottleston Messages are so named after Dottleston, the village in which
02:02 they were received. They're a series of typed notes sent to Webster, mostly from someone
02:08 known as Lucas, who claims to be from the year 1546. Among other things, Lucas commented
02:14 on Ken's "horseless cart" – his car – and seemingly chastised him, Ken, for taking the
02:20 house that he, Lucas, used to live in.
02:22 Over the course of almost two years, multiple messages are said to have been exchanged,
02:27 and at one stage, Ken is also said to have communicated with another figure, through
02:31 the same computer, this time a voice from the future, who claims to be in the year 2109.
02:37 Ultimately, Webster wrote about and published his story in the 1989 book, The Vertical Plane.
02:44 23. Charlie Chaplin's Extra
02:47 Although a silent movie icon first and foremost, Charlie Chaplin also has his own potential
02:52 link to possible time travel. It's buried pretty deep in the actor's cinematic history
02:56 and may have been missed by some, but ever since it was spotted, it's been a constant
03:00 talking point for time travel sleuths. The key moment features during a bonus section
03:05 on the DVD release of Chaplin's 1928 film The Circus. The footage is said to be from
03:10 the premiere of the movie, and it shows what appears to be a woman talking on a mobile
03:15 phone. The most popular counter-argument says that the woman was more likely hard of hearing
03:20 and was using an early hearing aid device. She's clearly holding something up to the
03:25 side of her head. What do you see?
03:28 22. Rudolf Fentz
03:31 Although he's at the centre of one of the earliest widespread time travel claims of
03:34 all time, the story of Rudolf Fentz is perhaps one of the sketchier examples out there. It
03:40 typically goes that Fentz mysteriously appeared in Times Square, New York in the summer of
03:45 1951, but dressed more like he belonged in the late 1800s. It's said that he was spotted
03:51 by a small number of people, looking dazed and confused, before he was unfortunately
03:56 hit and killed by a passing car. After some investigation, it's alleged that it was revealed
04:01 that the same Rudolf Fentz had disappeared without a trace in 1876. The sudden death
04:07 of an unidentified man in the 1950s was supposedly proof of some kind of time slip between there
04:13 and the 1870s. The problem is that the entire story has been largely written off as just
04:19 an elaborate urban legend; a tall tale but generally considered to be a work of fiction.
04:25 However, there are those who continue to believe that it could be genuine, and proof not only
04:29 of the existence of time travel but of the dangers it carries as well.
04:34 21. Satoshi Nakamoto
04:37 In the ever-shady world of Bitcoin, perhaps it's no surprise that there's a rumoured
04:41 link to time travel. What we know is that in 2008, an individual or group, going by
04:47 the name Satoshi Nakamoto, released a white paper outlining the general concept of Bitcoin;
04:53 a decentralised digital currency that has since garnered headlines the world over. What
04:58 we don't know for certain, however, is who Nakamoto is, or indeed, if they even exist
05:03 at all. Nevertheless, there's some speculation that Nakamoto could be a time traveller; one
05:09 who travelled from the future back to our present day, to introduce a revolutionary
05:14 technology. The argument goes that Bitcoin, when it did arrive, appeared as if out of
05:19 nowhere, and that such a disruptive product can be better explained if we accept that
05:23 it came from a time after now. For sure, it's a claim that isn't widely supported, although
05:30 the notion that Nakamoto could be a group adds another interesting dimension to the
05:33 theory; one in which time travel isn't just one AWOL renegade, but a clear, deliberate
05:39 and organised infiltration of the present day.
05:42 20. John Titor
05:45 Cast your minds back to the early days of the internet, and John Titor might be considered
05:49 one of the first figures to "go viral". During the early 2000s, various online forums
05:55 were flooded with messages from an individual claiming to be a time traveller from the year
05:59 2036, going first by "TimeTraveler_0" and then "John Titor". Titor claims to be US
06:08 military personnel, who had originally been sent back even further in time, to the 1970s,
06:14 to retrieve a specific IBM 5100 computer which he said was needed to fix technical issues
06:20 in the future. His appearance in the 2000s was explained as a "stopover" on his way
06:25 home. Over many months, Titor shared detailed information about future events, including
06:31 claims of a coming civil war in America, and even posted a checklist and instructions for
06:36 how to build his supposed time machine. Over time, his appearance has come to be dismissed
06:41 as just an elaborate hoax, particularly as many of Titor's supposed predictions failed
06:46 to come true. And yet his name remains one of the most famous ever to be connected to
06:51 time travel.
06:53 19. Dimensional Warp Generator
06:56 In a case that drew a lot of parallels with John Titor at the time, Bob White, otherwise
07:01 known as "Tim Jones" and real name "Robbie Todino", was the trigger for another internet-based
07:07 time travel conspiracy between 2001 and 2003. It started when White posted a series of requests
07:14 online, looking for someone to provide him with a "dimensional warp generator", the
07:19 reason being that he claimed to need one in order to complete a time machine. The story
07:24 got particularly strange, however, when many of those online responded, and some even set
07:29 up stores from which you could purchase the generator and other parts. One person even
07:34 reportedly charged large sums of money for time travel "courses", seemingly as a way
07:38 to vet White as the real deal. As it was revealed, however, the man behind the posts, again real
07:45 name "Robbie Todino", had been diagnosed with schizophrenia in the past, and that those
07:51 seeking money from him had merely been preying on his state of mind. This one was less a
07:55 case of leaving you to question reality, and more to question humanity.
08:00 18. Paul Dianock's Coma
08:03 Here the question of time travel ties into debates around consciousness and the soul.
08:08 In 1921, Paul Amadeus Dianock, a Swiss-Austrian teacher and otherwise ordinary guy, fell into
08:16 a coma after suffering from encephalitis lethargica. His comatose state lasted for a year, but
08:23 while he appeared unresponsive to doctors and visitors back then, he claims that during
08:28 that time, he was actually transported to the body of another man called Andrew Northman
08:34 in the year 3906. Dianock didn't immediately tell everyone this, but instead recorded all
08:40 that had happened to him in his diary. Just a couple of years later, and Dianock's health
08:45 was still bad, he moved to Italy in a bid to get well, but unfortunately died in 1924.
08:51 Before then, though, he had given his diaries to a student, leaving them to him to translate.
08:57 Which he did, and Dianock's story became known. In general, the claims made by Dianock
09:02 are at times criticized for being short on detail. Unlike with others, they aren't
09:07 a long list of predictions that he made. Nevertheless, he does say in his diaries that those in 3906
09:15 realized that Andrew Northman's body was playing host to someone else's consciousness
09:18 – his consciousness – suggesting that at this future time, such a situation would
09:23 be much less surprising than it would be today.
09:27 17. Everyday Chemistry Theories on time travel vary in exactly the
09:32 mechanics behind making it happen. But one of the most popular possibilities in recent
09:37 times is surely through parallel universes, and in particular, the many-worlds interpretation.
09:43 Many-worlds was first put forward in the 1950s by the US physicist Hugh Everett III. In short,
09:48 it suggests that every time any kind of decision or event occurs, reality splits into two or
09:54 many so that all possible outcomes of that decision or event are created. Say you could
09:59 move across this now-inevitable web of realities, then, and you could quite easily find yourself
10:04 not just at a different place, but also in a different time… along a different timeline.
10:10 Some say that that's what may have happened to one James Richards, who claimed that in
10:15 2009 he stumbled into a parallel universe in which the iconic British rock band, The
10:19 Beatles, never broke up. According to Richards, while in the parallel world, he spoke with
10:25 someone named Jonas, and at the end of their meeting, he was able to steal a cassette tape
10:29 containing a Beatles album that was never released. Not in this reality, anyway. And
10:34 having jumped back into this timeline, he hit the internet to tell the world. His claims
10:40 are widely doubted. The album, apparently called "Everyday Chemistry",
10:45 includes many seeming mash-ups of other Beatles songs, as well as past solo material from
10:50 members of the band. But still, it's a story that opens up all new opportunities for potential
10:55 time travel.
10:56 #16. Time-travelling celebs
10:59 Given that celebrities are constantly photographed, it's perhaps unsurprising that their likenesses
11:04 should be spotted in other images. But occasionally, the similarities between today's famous
11:09 people and random folks of the past is genuinely uncanny. Among the most well-known and convincing,
11:15 are the actress Jennifer Lawrence, who's said to look a lot like the 1960s and 70s
11:20 Egyptian actress Zubaydah Therwat; Keanu Reeves, who's been likened to the late 19th century,
11:26 early 20th century French actor Paul Monnet; and Nicolas Cage, who has been labelled by
11:32 the internet as both a time traveller and a "vampire" due to his passing resemblance
11:37 to a man in a US Civil War era photograph. Shortly after that story broke in 2011, Cage
11:43 even commented to deny his supposedly "vampiric" past. But what do you think? Are Nick Cage's
11:48 counterclaims enough to convince you? Or is that just what he would say if he were a traveller?
11:53 Clearly, these kinds of stories should be very much taken with a proverbial pinch of
11:57 salt. But then again, they do look very alike.
12:02 #15. The Philadelphia Experiment
12:05 Of all the alleged government cover-ups ever made, the Philadelphia Experiment surely goes
12:09 down as one of the most bizarre. It takes us back to late October, 1943, when it's
12:15 said that the US Navy conducted a monumental experiment in one of its shipyards, to make
12:20 an entire warship, a destroyer escort, the USS Eldridge, completely disappear. In some
12:27 versions of the event, the boat then suddenly showed up around 200 miles further south down
12:32 the US coastline, without any significant time gap between the sightings. Most of the
12:37 story comes from the accounts of one Carl M. Allen, a merchant mariner who claimed to
12:42 have witnessed the boat disappear as if into thin air, in Philadelphia. And while Allen's
12:47 recollections have mostly been written off as a hoax, elements of them have continually
12:51 come under further scrutiny. For one, it's said that many of the crew on the Eldridge
12:56 did suffer from unspecified mental conditions, seemingly as the result of tests they may
13:01 have been put under. But for another, there's always been a little inexplicability around
13:07 the impossible things. If the ship really was sighted 200 miles away, then that journey
13:12 should have been traceable, and should have taken hours. However, there are no records,
13:17 and there are said to have been just minutes between the sightings. For some, the only
13:21 explanation is time travel.
13:24 #14. Lost and missing time. In ufology circles, the phenomenon of missing time or lost time
13:31 is weird and widespread. In general, it's the name given to any period of time during
13:36 an alleged UFO encounter, in which the person experiencing it loses all or almost all memory
13:42 of what happened to them. After missing time, that person may well "wake up" in a wholly
13:48 unknown place, with no idea how they got there. Naturally, there are a number of possible
13:52 explanations put forward, including that the person claiming a UFO was intoxicated, or
13:58 that they suffered some kind of brain injury. Failing that, and within the accounts themselves,
14:03 missing time has also been linked to seeming extraterrestrial memory wipe devices. But
14:08 if all that fails, then there's always the suggestion of time travel to fall back on.
14:13 Whitley Strieber is an American writer predominantly known for the horror genre. But one of his
14:17 most successful works came in 1987, when he published the non-fiction book, Communion.
14:23 A great deal of the alleged alien encounter it covers is underpinned by missing time,
14:29 which has, in the past, led Strieber to highlight the potential for time travel as well.
14:35 #13. The Chronovisor Here we head right to the heart of the Catholic
14:39 Church, for arguably the most famous time machine legend ever. The Chronovisor is a
14:44 supposedly real-world device, described by the Italian priest and scientist, Pellegrino
14:50 Ernetti. According to Ernetti, it was capable of viewing events from the past or future
14:55 through a kind of "television-like screen". Most famously, the Chronovisor has allegedly
15:01 been used to witness the actual crucifixion of Jesus Christ, as well as various other
15:05 scenes from real-life ancient Rome. Significantly, the Chronovisor no longer exists, as it was
15:12 reportedly dismantled due to safety concerns sometime in the mid-to-late 20th century.
15:17 One of the finer details surrounding its legend is that it was originally designed and built
15:21 in part by the esteemed physicist Enrico Fermi, so the story goes. And given the power it's
15:27 said to have granted its user, it's no stretch to say that the Chronovisor could have changed
15:31 the world. As a result, some believe that it may still be out there, just under seriously
15:37 strict lock and key. But what's your verdict?
15:40 #12. Flight to the Future Sir Victor Goddard was a high-ranking and
15:45 highly regarded figure in the British Royal Air Force. An all-around trusted voice, which
15:50 is why his central role in not one but two apparently clairvoyant episodes is still so
15:55 widely discussed by time-traveller enthusiasts. First, in 1935, Goddard was flying an otherwise
16:02 routine mission to inspect an airfield in Scotland. The then-decommissioned airfield
16:07 was fully expected to be empty and lifeless… but when Goddard flew over, he found it bustling
16:12 with activity. A couple of key details were that some of the planes were painted yellow,
16:17 and that the servicemen working on them were wearing blue overalls. While this wasn't
16:21 the norm at the time, yellow planes and blue uniforms would become the norm in later years,
16:27 when Goddard's airfield also would be in use again. As a result, what the pilot saw
16:32 that strange day in the mid-1930s is considered by many to have been a time slip. For the
16:37 briefest of moments, he travelled forward in time and saw the literal future.
16:42 Second, and this time Goddard was seemingly lucky to get out alive. In January 1946, he
16:49 had been in China, due to fly to Japan later that same day. Before then, though, when speaking
16:54 with his colleagues, he learned that another RAF officer had recently had a dream in which
17:00 Goddard died in a plane crash. In the dream, the plane had been carrying Goddard plus three
17:05 others, two men and a woman, and the crash had happened on a pebbled beach with mountains
17:10 in the background. Then, just before flying to Tokyo, Goddard learned he would have three
17:16 passengers, two men and a woman. And, partway through the journey, the plane did crash,
17:22 on a pebbled beach with mountains in the background. The only difference was that thankfully, along
17:27 this timeline at least, nobody died.
17:30 11. Time-travelling hipster In 2010, a now-famous photograph surfaced
17:36 showing a man dressed in apparently modern clothing standing nonchalantly amidst a crowd
17:41 in 1941, at the reopening of South Fork Bridge in Canada. Immediately, the man stands out
17:47 thanks to his sunglasses and seemingly printed t-shirt. He's also holding a modern-looking
17:52 camera. Some, therefore, have speculated that this photograph is solid proof of time travel
17:57 in action, or of parallel universes momentarily intersecting. Ultimately, and upon further
18:03 research, it seems that most of the seeming strangeness of the image can in fact be explained.
18:09 Sunglasses of that style were available at the time, cameras of that size also had been
18:13 released shortly before the date of the photo, and the printed t-shirt may actually be a
18:18 knitted sweater linking to an ice hockey team of the time, the Montreal Maroons.
18:23 Perhaps the "hipster" part of the man's more recent description is the most accurate, then,
18:28 because even if he isn't or wasn't a time traveller, he certainly bucks the trend for
18:32 more formal fashion in the 40s, and he's already got his hands on some of the latest tech with
18:37 the camera.
18:38 Number Ten - The Montauk Project
18:40 If you thought the Philadelphia Experiment was already massive enough, consider that
18:44 it's said to have been just one part of this, the wider initiative. The Montauk Project
18:50 ranks as one of the most dramatic conspiracy theories in US history, purely due to the
18:55 sheer scale of what's alleged to have happened. It's a claimed series of secret government
19:01 experiments conducted in Montauk at Camp Hero on Long Island, New York, during the
19:06 1980s. The experiments supposedly involved mind control and teleportation, and were often
19:12 held using unsuspecting subjects, including young children and homeless people taken from
19:17 nearby. With time travel in particular, though, the centrepiece was a supposed time "tunnel"
19:23 opened up during the project, possibly deep underground. The tunnel is described as having
19:28 linked this reality and the present day to all other points in hyperspace, to the past
19:34 and the future.
19:35 Much of the mystique around Montauk has been created by a series of science fiction books
19:39 written by Preston B. Nichols and Peter Moon, starting in the early 1990s. Nichols claims
19:45 to have repressed memories of his involvement in the Montauk Project, as a subsequently
19:50 brainwashed participant. In the modern day, whatever it was that happened or didn't
19:56 happen at Camp Hero, it's had a surge in publicity in recent times as it also inspired
20:01 the Netflix hit show, Stranger Things.
20:04 Number 9. Nikola Tesla
20:07 Think of the archetypal mad scientist character in books and films, and you soon realise that
20:11 this man provided quite a lot of the inspiration for it. In his time, Tesla was something of
20:17 a maverick and a showman, world-renowned for his crazy ideas, many of which worked. In
20:22 the decades since, he's been shown to have been ahead of his time in many ways, and a
20:26 pioneering inventor. But for some, his story goes beyond just being unconventional. His
20:32 work in electromagnetism, and the wireless transmission of energy in particular, led
20:37 many then and increasingly now to suggest Tesla was dabbling in time. Most of the rumours
20:43 centre on Wardenclyffe Tower, an unfinished communications tower built between 1901 and
20:49 1902, again on Long Island, New York. Much of what Tesla achieved at Wardenclyffe is
20:55 unknown, although there have long been rumours of him experimenting by passing electrical
21:00 energy through his own body, and in some cases, such shocks are said to have warped his sense
21:05 of time and space. Ultimately, Tesla ran into a series of financial issues, many of his
21:11 benefactors fell away, and Wardenclyffe was first abandoned and then demolished. It became
21:17 known as Tesla's "million-dollar mistake". But, conspiracy theorists claim that it never
21:23 really "went wrong"; instead, it was shut down due to the power potential it had.
21:29 8. HÃ¥kan Nordqvist In 2006, a Swedish man named HÃ¥kan Nordqvist
21:35 claimed to have travelled back in time. His story became famous after a video was posted
21:40 about it onto YouTube, and was watched millions of times. In the years since, it has circled
21:45 back into and out of public consciousness, and has been shared across various other social
21:49 media platforms. Nordqvist says that his brush with time travel happened during an otherwise
21:54 routine day. Having noticed a leak in his kitchen, he set about fixing the pipes in
22:00 the cupboard under the sink. Only the cupboard transformed into something like a wormhole,
22:05 which he freely walked through. On the other side, he met an older version of himself,
22:10 complete with matching tattoo, before returning back to the present day. Luckily, he also
22:15 had the presence of mind to film the encounter on his phone. Now, in this case, the strength
22:21 of the story is considerably damaged, as it was later revealed to have been part of an
22:25 elaborate marketing campaign for a Swedish pension fund. However, there are those who
22:30 simply refuse to accept that, claiming that the pension explanation is a cover-up, and
22:35 Nordqvist is the real deal.
22:38 Number 7. Bold Street, Liverpool.
22:41 At first glance, Bold Street in Liverpool, in the UK, is a thriving hub in the city that
22:46 famously produced The Beatles; a place where shoppers and diners, tourists and locals all
22:51 mingle together. Unlike with the mystery of everyday chemistry, however, the Fab Four
22:56 aren't directly linked to this, Liverpool's second major claim to time travel. Over the
23:01 years, there have been multiple stories about supposed "time slips" occurring along this
23:06 particular road. Unsuspecting people are busily going about their day, when suddenly, everything
23:11 changes and they're transported, usually backwards, through time. One woman reportedly witnessed
23:17 her surroundings instantly change into something akin to the 1950s, complete with old-style
23:23 cars and with everyone around her dressed in the fashion of that era. Meanwhile, another
23:28 oft-repeated story says that an off-duty police officer once entered a bookshop along Bold
23:34 Street, only to find that it had momentarily altered to become a mid-20th century clothing
23:40 store.
23:41 Number 6. Ronald Mallet's Time Machine.
23:44 Perhaps the one thing that lets many a time travel allegation down is that the one making
23:49 it is rarely sure exactly how their experience happened. With Montauk, there's the hazy
23:54 notion of a time tunnel. In the life of Nikola Tesla, there's his unknowable work in Wardenclyffe
24:00 Tower. But then, every so often, there is a seemingly more concrete proposal for a true
24:06 time machine… and, very occasionally, it threatens to enter the mainstream. That's
24:11 the case with the plans and prototypes of the University of Connecticut professor, Ronald
24:15 Mallet.
24:16 Mallet has dedicated his career to researching the potential for time travel, establishing
24:21 himself as a national expert on black holes and general relativity. Starting in the year
24:26 2000, he brought his astrophysical know-how back down to Earth in a big way, suggesting
24:31 that a real time machine could be built using ring lasers, continuously circulating cylinders
24:37 of light. Arranged in such a way, Mallet believes that the energy produced should distort gravity
24:43 enough to make it possible to move back through time.
24:47 To date, while his ideas have received coverage, there is not yet a working Mallet machine
24:52 in public use. But could it be that his ideas will one day make time travel possible?
24:58 Number 5. The Vanishing Hotel
25:01 If you like your holidays to have a little bit of possible time travel thrown in for
25:04 good measure, then France is seemingly the place to go. And French hotels are the accommodation
25:10 type you should choose. First, there's the age-old urban legend of the Vanishing Lady
25:15 in Paris. And then, there's perhaps the much more convincing tale of two couples on
25:19 a European road trip in 1979.
25:22 Over the years, there have been many different versions of the story of the Vanishing Lady.
25:27 But in general, it's said that two women, usually told as mother and daughter, travel
25:31 to the French capital for the Paris Exposition of either 1889 or 1900. Upon arriving, the
25:38 mother is taken ill, and so the daughter checks her into a hotel and leaves to find medicine.
25:44 Only when she returns, her mother and her mother's room have disappeared, and no one
25:50 in the hotel has any recollection of ever having met either of them. While not directly
25:54 time travel related, there are seeming links between it and another now-infamous story,
26:00 many decades later.
26:02 In the late 70s, it's said that two British couples embarked on a road trip from the UK
26:07 through France and into Spain. During the French leg of their journey, however, they
26:11 stopped off at a hotel, accessed down an old-world cobbled street. Their one-night stay is said
26:17 to have been good, but the main takeaway was just how old-fashioned the place was. The
26:23 decor, the food, even the other guests, all seems to be a throwback to a bygone age. And
26:29 it was an incredibly cheap place when it came to settling the bill as well. Upon leaving,
26:34 the couples posed for a photo outside the hotel and went on their way. Fast forward
26:39 a few days, and they're making their way back home from Spain, again through France
26:43 and onto the UK. They decide to stay at the same French hotel, and are sure they drive
26:48 to the same location. Everything else is unchanged, but the hotel itself is no longer there. It
26:55 has seemingly vanished, and none of the locals that the couples ask know anything about it
26:59 either. The final mystery is that, a couple of weeks after returning home, the holiday
27:04 makers received their photographs back from the developers. They had taken three outside
27:09 the hotel shortly before they left, but all three come back faulty, and the hotel can't
27:14 be seen in any of them. In the time since, the so-called "vanishing" or "phantom"
27:20 hotel has been put forward as an example of time displacement. It was there, and then
27:25 it was gone, perhaps as timelines and eras briefly overlapped.
27:30 Number 4. Project Pegasus If time travel does exist, then many believe
27:35 that it goes right to the very top of world governments. And in Project Pegasus, we have
27:40 probably the most famous claim ever made that not only are time travellers, or "chrononauts",
27:46 real, but that at least one former US President is one of them. One Andrew Bishago is the
27:52 leading voice behind the Pegasus story. He claims to have been part of a highly classified
27:57 US programme that ran through the 1960s, 70s and 80s. It allegedly involved teleportation
28:03 and time travel, as well as wider-reaching applications for such technology, including
28:09 long-distance space travel. Bishago says that the initiative was run by the Defence Advanced
28:14 Research Projects Agency, DARPA, and that he was just a child when he participated.
28:20 He says that most of it was built around what was known as "the jump room", from which
28:24 people could dematerialise to rematerialise somewhere else and in some time else.
28:31 Probably the most bizarre aspect of Bishago's claims, though, is that he says that ex-President
28:35 Barack Obama was part of Pegasus, too. Back then, Obama reportedly went by the name "Barry"
28:42 and was even sent to Mars on multiple occasions, all via the jump room. The White House has,
28:49 unsurprisingly, denied that any of that is true.
28:52 3. Future Bombs If you were to unexpectedly find yourself
28:57 propelled into the future, you might at least expect to be taken to a place you'd want
29:01 to be at, or to somewhere where you weren't in immediate danger. But that wasn't the
29:05 case in 1932, when a German reporter, J. Bernard Hutton, and photographer, Joachim Brandt,
29:12 travelled to a shipyard in Hamburg. So it goes, the pair were quietly researching an
29:17 otherwise routine story when, wholly unexpectedly, bombs started raining down all around them.
29:24 Out of nowhere, the shipyard was under attack, and their normal day had been turned into
29:28 a nightmarish hellscape. Their journalistic instincts didn't fail them, though, as they
29:33 snapped a few photos before hereditarily escaping. The problem was that nobody believed what
29:38 had happened to them, and there had been no other witnesses. What's more, when looking
29:42 at their photos afterwards, Hutton and Brandt found that, inexplicably, they didn't capture
29:48 anything of the bombing. For more than a decade, it went entirely unexplained. But then, in
29:54 1943, in the midst of the Second World War, the same Hamburg shipyard actually was attacked.
30:00 And when the story was covered in various newspapers, Hutton claimed that the pictures
30:04 were exactly as he had already seen them all those years ago.
30:09 Number 2. Andrew Carlson. As with so many other time travel stories, the details around
30:15 this one are both difficult to pin down and widely debated. For many, the tale of Andrew
30:20 Carlson is the product of hearsay only. But for some, it's one of the surest examples
30:25 of a time traveller on Earth that we've ever seen. It's said that in 2003, an individual
30:31 named Andrew Carlson was arrested for insider trading after making a long series of incredibly
30:36 accurate stock market predictions, all of which resulted in him making massive financial
30:41 gains over just a couple of days. In most versions of the story, Carlson managed to
30:46 turn an $800 initial investment into $350 million with ease. During his interrogation,
30:54 it's claimed that Carlson revealed his true identity as a time traveller from the future,
30:59 explaining that he knew what to back simply because the patterns of our present-day stock
31:03 market were, to him, ancient history. He then bargained for his freedom by giving the authorities
31:08 details about his future life, as well as key information for the here and now. Supposedly,
31:14 the only thing that he wouldn't reveal was how to make the time machine that had sent
31:18 him here. Nevertheless, after his bail was reportedly posted, Carlson never showed up
31:23 at court and was never seen again.
31:26 1. The Moberly-Jordan Incident
31:30 Clearly, France has quite the history of reported brushes with time travel. But none strikes
31:35 quite as mysteriously as what happened on August 10th, 1901, to Charlotte Anne Moberly
31:41 and Eleanor Jourdan. The pair of respected Oxford academics were paying a visit to the
31:46 Palace of Versailles in France. The trip was as planned until they decided to explore the
31:51 gardens and apparently fell backwards in time. Both reported a sudden feeling of unease,
31:58 and shortly afterwards, both came to have witnessed scenes and people which, and who,
32:03 they believed to be not of the present day. They estimated the characters they encountered
32:08 to be from around the late 18th century, about 120 years in the past. One figure in particular,
32:15 a lady said to be sketching in the middle of a cut lawn, was even deemed to be Marie
32:20 Antoinette. Upon returning to the UK, Moberly and Jourdan didn't immediately speak to
32:26 each other about what had happened to them. But, after a couple of weeks, they opted to
32:30 write down their accounts and compare notes. These notes were then published under pseudonyms
32:35 in the 1911 book, An Adventure. And while some explain away what happened to them as
32:41 perhaps a shared hallucination, it remains one of the most intriguing examples of unexplained
32:46 time travel phenomena on record. So, what do you think? Which of these stories,
32:52 examples, ideas, and theories are you most on board with? And which, if any, do you suspect
32:57 could be false? Let us know in the comments! And if you've ever had a time travel experience
33:02 of your own, then be sure to tell us all about that as well!
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