From teleporting a huge ship to using a cellphone in 1928, here are the 11 most mysterious cases
of time travel!
11.
Andrew Carlssin Andrew Carlssin was a self-proclaimed time
traveller who got busted for insider trading.
When an unknown trader on Wall Street turned his $800 investment into $350 million in just
two weeks, the SEC immediately got involved.
Carlssin made 126 high-risk trades that profited every single time.
He was arrested in 2003, and investigated by the FBI.
Carlssin greatly surprised the investigators with what he had to say in his defense.
He claimed that he was actually from the future, the year 2256.
He said that he had come here with a time machine and offered to give the FBI the location
of Osama bin Laden, the exact date of the invasion of Iraq, as well as the cure for
aids in exchange for leniency in his trial.
He had chosen to come back to this time because of the volatile financial markets.
Carlssin would not disclose the location of the machine because there was too much fear
that the time machine could end up in the wrong hands, and cause total annihilation.
There was no record of his existence anywhere prior to the year 2002 and Carlssin was released
on bail.
Soon after he disappeared and was never heard from again.
This story was printed in the Weekly World News which was famous for being a sensational,
fictional magazine.
However, the story continues to be circulated and many people wonder, who was Andrew Carlssin?
10.
Airfield from the Future In 1935, Air Marshall Robert Victor Goddard
was on his way to inspect an airfield in Edinburgh.
After finishing his task, Goddard went back in his plane.
But the weather was so bad, that he couldn’t get very far, and he had to return to the
airfield and make a forced landing.
But, as Goddard was approaching the airstrip, he witnessed something from another world.
All of a sudden, the clouds dispersed, and the sun was shining bright.
In the airfield, Goddard saw four yellow airplanes on the ground, with mechanics around them.
One of those four planes was completely new to Goddard, and he couldn’t recognize the
model.
Keep in minds this man was a trained Air Force Officer, so it was practically impossible
for him not to recognize an airplane model.
Goddard couldn’t believe it!
He thought he was hallucinating, and considered the occurrence a mirage.
However, when he came back to the same airfield four years later – he saw those exact four
yellow planes, with mechanics running around them.
And he was also able to recognize the fourth plane – it was a Miles Magister.
It was first made in 1937, two years after Goddard had witnessed the supernatural occurrence.
Had Goddard had a vision of the future?
9.
Time Travelling Hipster Perhaps the most famous image that went viral
was the picture of a man dressed like a hipster surrounded by people who are much more formally
dressed.
He doesn’t seem to fit in at all!
This photo is considered an authentic photo of a re-opening of the South Fork Bridge in
British Columbia.
It was claimed that there is no way that someone wearing a hoodie, a printed t-shirt and sunglasses
belongs in the 1940s.
If you take a closer look you could argue the man is wearing a sweater with a sewn-on
emblem and that style of sunglasses have existed since the 1920s.
In any case he looks much more informal than everyone else and there is much debate as
to whether this actually is a time traveller or, if the picture has been photoshopped in
any way.
8.
Mysterious Air Raid When Joachim Brandt, a photographer, and J.
Bernard Hutton, a journalist, were sent to write a story about the Hamburg shipyard – all
of a sudden bombs started falling out of the sky!
The two men were completely caught off guard, and they started running away from the area
in a panic.
But they also managed to take a couple of photos during their escape.
Once they were far away from the incident, in the center of Hamburg, they tried to tell
people what had happened, but no one wanted to believe them.
After all, if there had been an air raid, someone would have heard all the noise, but
there was nothing.
Determined to convince people their story was true, Brandt and Hutton took the photos
they had made and developed them, hoping to prove they indeed had experienced a dreadful
event.
To their surprise and shock, there was nothing on the developed photos!
As if the air raid had never happened.
When Hutton was reading a newspaper some eleven years later, he saw an article about Operation
Gomorrah, which was a codename for an air raid on Hamburg in 1943.
And the photos of the air raid looked just like those Hutton and Brandt had tried to
take in 1932.
7.
Policeman in a Time Warp
In July of 1996, a policeman named Frank and his wife Carol were shopping in Liverpool.
They decided to split up, and go in two separate shops.
Carol went into a bookshop, and her husband went into a music shop.
As Frank was slowly walking away from the place where he and his wife had split up,
he noticed how everything had gotten quiet.
All the noise of an urban city had gone, and it was very peaceful.
When Frank started looking around, he noticed that the houses, the shops and the people
looked different, as if it wasn’t the present day.
Everyone was dressed like they were from the 1950s.
Frank was both confused and frightened, and decided to go back to the bookstore and find
his wife.
To his surprise, the bookstore was gone!
In the place of the bookstore, there was Cripps – a women’s clothes shop.
He just couldn’t believe it.
He knew that that was where the bookshop was supposed to be and so he decided to enter
the clothes shop.
But the minute Frank walked through the door of the clothes shop – he found himself in
the bookshop and back to his normal life.
6.
The Passenger from Taured
In 1954, a man wanted to enter Japan, but he had some problems at customs.
Apparently, the man had his passport with him, but he couldn’t enter because – the
passport came from a country no one had heard of.
The man claimed to be from a country called Taured, and he said that it was located between
France and Spain.
The customs officials were confused, because the only country that existed in the region
between France and Spain was Andorra.
They opened a map, and showed Andorra to the man, asking him if that was the country he
came from.
The man was completely insulted by this.
He said that the location on the map was correct, but the name of the country is wrong – it’s
Taured, and it had existed for more than one thousand years.
And he’d never even heard of some country named Andorra.
The man was given a hotel room, to spend the night there until officials investigated the
problem.
And although they placed a guard in front of his room, the strange man from Taured was
gone in the morning, along with his passport.
Is this possibly a parallel universe?
Or an urban legend?
5.
Two Couples This happened in 1979, when two married couples
were travelling through France.
They were driving when they realized it was getting dark, so they decided to find a hotel
and stay there for the night.
When they finally found one, it looked very unique and the cost of staying for the night
was just 19 francs.
Compared to 200 francs, which was the average price at the time, this seemed like the ultimate
bargain.
When the two couples were having breakfast the next morning, they saw two policemen in
old-fashioned uniforms.
But since they were the police, they didn’t ask any questions, to avoid looking suspicious.
A few years later, they wanted to visit the same hotel again, but they couldn’t find
it!
The location of the hotel was completely empty, without a trace of any building.
And when the four people researched those police uniforms, they found out that those
uniforms had been the exact design for the French police, but in 1905.
4.
The Philadelphia Experiment Survivor The Philadelphia Experiment is an event that
took place in the autumn of 1943, when the ship USS Eldridge was allegedly teleported
from Pennsylvania to Virginia, after it was made invisible.
Of course, there is very little chance that this event ever happened, because there is
no evidence of it whatsoever.
The whole operation was probably a military attempt to disguise the ship and make it invisible
to radar, but not physically – teleport it.
However, a man named Alfred Bielek claimed that the Philadelphia Experiment actually
did take place, and that he was the only survivor.
According to Bielek, he was born in 1916 as Ed Cameron.
He was recruited in 1940 for a secret government project, and then he was sent to outer space,
where aliens interrogated him, and then decided to return him to Earth, but back in time.
He was sent back to 1927, as a one-year-old child named Al Bielek.
So, he managed to blend two things into one – to be both a time traveller and an interstellar
passenger.
3.
The Man from Laxaria In 1850, a man was found in Germany, in a
town near Frankfurt.
The man was named Jophar Vorin, and he spoke broken German.
He was a stranger in the town, because no one could recognize him.
When he was taken to the mayor’s office to be questioned, he claimed to have come
from a country named Laxaria – and that it was located in the region of “Sakaria”.
The man couldn’t understand any other European language, but he could read and write the
languages he called Laxarian and Abramian.
He also claimed that his country practiced some form of Christianity, and that it was
very far away from Europe, separated by huge oceans.
When presented with the maps of the world, Vorin was completely shocked.
He couldn’t recognize a single part of the world and, thus, there was no way of knowing
where his homeland was.
Many people argued that he must have come from a parallel universe.
2.
Moberly–Jourdain Incident
In 1901, Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain, two professors from Oxford, England
were visiting the famous Palace of Versailles, the royal home of French kings until 1792.
The last Queen to have lived in Versailles was Queen Marie Antoinette, before she was
executed.
When the two professors were walking around the grounds to the Palace of Trianon, they
started seeing men and women dressed in 18th century clothing and hearing phantom sounds.
They began speaking to people in old French and seeing things as if they were doing them
from memory.
Somehow, they felt like they were in a time loop, and they remembered crossing bridges
and climbing staircases that no longer existed.
Chaos was everywhere and they were there when a page came to warn Marie Antoinette before
the revolutionaries came.
They wrote a book, called An Adventure describing the event in full detail, and they published
it in 1911.
The events the two professors witnessed remains a mystery and the book was highly ridiculed.
1.
1920’s Cellphone
Another famous image comes from bonus material in Charlie Chaplin’s film The Circus from
1928.
At one point a woman, or a man dressed like a woman, walks by and it looks like she is
holding a cellphone up to her ear!
The video clip can be found on YouTube and of course, went viral!
The Irish filmmaker analyzing the film said that the only conclusion was that it had to
be a time traveller from the future!!
Now, the most popular theory to explain this image is that she is holding an early hearing
aid, technology that was just being developed around that time.
Otherwise, who else would she be talking to?
It’s not like there were other people with a cellphone...You can decide for yourself,
of course!
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