We’re all time travellers, in some respect. We  all move forwards from one moment to the next,  

to the next. But time travel like you see  in the movies just doesn’t happen every day…  

or does it? This is Unveiled,  

and today we’re exploring four time travel  stories that will make you question reality.

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Do you believe that time travel is possible? It’s  one of the most hotly debated concepts in all of  

science, as well as one of the most wished-for  hypothetical technologies on the planet.  

Given the chance, would you go forward or back  in time? It’s another deep-rooted question that  

has us all deeply divided. So, whenever there’s  even a sniff of a real-life time travel story,  

it usually attracts a lot of attention. And,  in this video, we’re going to look at four  

of the most compelling temporal tales, from  four different corners of the world map.  

First, and arguably the most famous time travel  story of modern times… John Titor. An alleged  

American soldier sent back from the year 2036,  he posted on a spate of internet forums in the  

early 2000s - originally under the name of  TimeTravel_0. At the time, Titor’s messages caused  

a stir because they appeared to place him across  three separate generations. According to him,  

he was first sent back to the year 1975… to regain  an early IBM 5100 computer. The retro machine was  

apparently needed to prevent computing problems  in the future, a reference that some of Titor’s  

audience took as relating to the Year 2038 Problem  - a predicted Y2K-style computer glitch, scheduled  

to happen two years after Titor’s original time. The seeming time traveller explained his  

appearance at the turn of the century, though,  as him simply stopping off on his way home. In  

his posts, Titor made various references to  an imminent civil war in America (between the  

years 2004 and 2015) and even to the outbreak  of World War Three shortly afterwards. Today,  

we know that that didn’t happen… but believers  claim there’s a readymade explanation at hand.  

Crucially, Titor also advocated the Many Worlds  Theory of Reality as being the correct one.  

It was something which he suggested was common  knowledge by 2036. And it’s an important part  

to the story because it effectively means that any  predictions Titor made that didn’t come true could  

be explained away by it. So the theory goes, his  reappearance in 2000 could have caused a split in  

the timeline and, fortunately for us, that split  meant that war in this world was avoided. So,  

what do you think? Did John Titor save the  world, or was it all just an elaborate hoax?  

For our second and perhaps even stranger  time travel claim, we’re heading across the  

Atlantic to Europe, and France. What’s come  to be known as the Moberly-Jourdain Incident  

also took place almost exactly 100 years before  John Titor took to his keyboard… and it does  

what all good time travel stories should do,  by adding ghosts into the fray as well!  

In 1901, Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor  Jourdain were two academics visiting Paris,  

shortly before they began working together  at Oxford University. As part of their trip,  

they took in the Palace of Versailles  where, while exploring the gardens,  

they took a wrong turn and became lost.  And right about now was when it got… weird.  

Both remembered walking along the outskirts of a  wood, when they alleged that the world around them  

subtly changed. The trees reportedly took on an  unreal quality, and they came across a variety  

of unusual characters dressed in old fashioned  clothing. One in particular caught the attention  

of Moberly; a woman in traditional dress, stood on  an open lawn apparently sketching the landscape.  

Eventually, Moberly and Jourdain found their  way back to the Palace and, a week later,  

traded notes on what they both suspected  had been a paranormal experience.  

The main idea was that wherever they had stumbled  upon had been haunted… but, also, that in being  

there they had travelled back in time. They would  spend the next ten years gathering more research  

before publishing (under pseudonyms) an account of  their experience in the 1911 book, “An Adventure”.  

Among the most noteworthy claims they made  in it were that they believed that they had  

travelled back to the late 1700s… and also that  the sketching woman had been Marie Antoinette!  

In the time since, the Moberly-Jourdain Incident  has been explained away by others as a number  

of things - including a shared delusion, and an  unknowing encounter with a period costume party.  

But, what’s your verdict? Could there  really be some kind of portal in the  

Palace of Versailles grounds, or were  these Oxford academics simply mistaken?  

From Paris to Rome, and more specifically the  Vatican City… where there are some serious claims  

that the Church has a secret (and ongoing) history  of dabbling with time travel, too. The Chronovisor  

is probably one of the craziest machines  ever said to have existed anywhere, anytime!  

According to those who claim it to be real, it’s  a bizarre, cabinet-like contraption packed with  

buttons, gadgets and gizmos - all designed to  totally reconstruct our experience of time.  

A Chronovisor user is said to be able to  view any past event through the machine,  

thanks to some spectacular technology that  can somehow convert electromagnetic radiation  

into effective backwards time travel.  Or, at least, convert it into a window  

through which you can revisit actual history. Records mostly come from one Father François  

Brune, a Catholic priest who wrote about the  Chronovisor in his 2002 book, “The New Mystery  

of the Vatican”. Broadly speaking, Brune  claims that the device was built by another  

priest named Pellegrino Ernetti, and allegedly  with the help of many of the world’s leading  

scientists in the twentieth century - including  Enrico Fermi, today famed for the Fermi Paradox.  

Father Ernetti is then said to have used the  Chronovisor to go back in time to observe  

the actual crucifixion of Jesus Christ. And while  Ernetti’s claims have been continually challenged,  

and even he himself reportedly admitted making  them up, proponents to the Chronovisor’s existence  

insist that it’s real. And that, now, after  Ernetti was allegedly forced into casting doubt  

over it, the machine is today used in secret by  a global elite to control world governments.  

Of course, if it does exist, then it’s something  unlike anything else ever built on Earth. Would  

it surprise you if there were a machine like  this, used by a select few to pull the strings  

of society? Our last time travel story is perhaps  a little more grounded, but strange all the same.  

And, this time, we’re heading for the UK! The city of Liverpool is famous for many  

things. The Cavern Club, the Beatles, Anfield…  but did you know there’s also a real life  

time warp there? Allegedly. Most of the reported  stories centre around Bold Street - an area full  

of shops and shoppers. And while most of the time  you can stroll around this part of town and stay  

firmly in the here and now, there have been  some occasions when people have reported  

suddenly being transported back to a bygone era. The most famous case involves a former policeman,  

who was out shopping in the year 1996. His  wife went to a nearby bookstore while he  

went to pass time elsewhere. But then, when  he went back to meet up with his wife again,  

he was confused to find that the bookstore  wasn’t there. In its place was a clothes shop,  

and it didn’t turn back into a bookstore until he  stepped through the door. Thankfully, husband and  

wife were swiftly reunited, and nobody was lost  in time forever… but when the former policeman  

came to realise that the same building had been  a clothes shop decades beforehand, in the 1960s,  

that’s when this particular tale took on a  whole new meaning. It was as though he had  

been briefly transported back in time and given  a glimpse of history, in a similar way to how  

Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain  had felt after their experience in Paris.  

Both Liverpool and Paris are fine European cities,  granted. But could they also have something truly  

incredible in common with one another? If these  stories are to be believed, then they both offer  

the unsuspecting visitor the possibility that  they might suddenly be plunged back into the past.  

Failing that, you could always visit the Vatican  to try to unearth the Chronovisor and at least  

be given the opportunity to observe times gone  by. Or else you can keep regular tabs on the  

internet’s time travel forums, in the hope that  one John Titor might make another appearance soon!  

Because those are four time travel  stories to make you question reality.

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