In this post I will present some of the most mysterious and inexplicable cases associated with space-time anomalies, officially documented at different times.
Scientists have been able to prove that it is possible to travel through time... Thus, according to the research of Israeli scientist Amos Ori, time travel is scientifically substantiated. And at present, world science already has the necessary theoretical knowledge to be able to claim that in theory it is possible to create a time machine. The mathematical calculations of the Israeli scientist were published in one of the specialized publications. Ory concludes that to create a time machine, gigantic gravitational forces must be present. The scientist based his research on the conclusions made back in 1947 by his colleague, Kurt Gödel, the essence of which is that the theory of relativity does not deny the existence of certain models of space and time. According to Ori's calculations, the ability to travel into the past arises if a curved space-time structure is shaped into a funnel or ring. Moreover, each new turn of this structure will take a person further into the past. In addition, according to the scientist, the gravitational forces necessary for such temporary travel are probably located near the so-called black holes, the first mention of which dates back to the 18th century. One of the scientists (Pierre Simon Laplace) put forward a theory about the existence of cosmic bodies that are invisible to the human eye, but have such high gravity that not a single light ray is reflected from them. The beam must overcome the speed of light in order to be reflected from such a cosmic body, but it is known that it is impossible to overcome it. The boundaries of black holes are called event horizons. Every object that reaches it falls inside, and from the outside it is not visible what is happening inside the hole. Probably, the laws of physics cease to apply in it, time and space coordinates change places. Thus, spatial travel turns into time travel. Despite this very detailed and significant research, there is no evidence that time travel is real. However, no one has been able to prove that this is just a fiction. At the same time, over the entire history of mankind, a huge amount of facts have been accumulated that indicate that time travel is still real. Thus, in the ancient chronicles of the era of the pharaohs, the Middle Ages, and then the French Revolution and world wars, the appearance of strange machines, people and mechanisms was recorded.
In 1897, a very unusual incident occurred on the streets of the Siberian town of Tobolsk. At the end of August, a man of strange appearance and equally strange behavior was detained there. The man's last name is Krapivin. When he was taken to the police station and began to be interrogated, everyone was quite surprised by the information that the man shared: according to him, he was born in 1965 in Angarsk, and worked as a PC operator. The man could not explain his appearance in the city in any way, but according to him, shortly before he felt a severe headache, after which he lost consciousness. When he woke up, Krapivin saw an unfamiliar town. A doctor was called to the police station to examine the strange man and diagnosed him with “silent insanity.” After this, Krapivin was placed in a local insane asylum.
In May 1828, a teenager was caught in Nuremberg. Despite a thorough investigation and 49 volumes of the case, as well as portraits sent throughout Europe, it turned out to be impossible to find out his identity, just like the places where the boy came from. He was given the name Kaspar Hauser, and he had incredible abilities and habits: the boy saw perfectly in the dark, but did not know what fire or milk was. He died from an assassin's bullet, and his identity remained a mystery. However, there were suggestions that before appearing in Germany, the boy lived in a completely different world.
In 1901, two Englishwomen went to Paris for the Easter holidays. The women were delighted with the architecture. During a tour of the Palace of Versailles, they decided to independently explore the most secluded corners, and in particular, Marie Antoinette’s house, which is located on the territory of the palace. But since the women did not have a detailed plan, they simply got lost. Soon they met two men who were dressed in 18th century costumes. The tourists asked for directions, but instead of helping, the men looked at them strangely and pointed in an uncertain direction. After some time, the women met strange people again. This time it was a young woman and a girl, also dressed in old-fashioned clothes. This time the women did not suspect anything unusual until they came across another group of people dressed in ancient clothes. These people spoke an unfamiliar dialect of French. Soon the women realized that their own appearance caused amazement and bewilderment of those present. However, one of the men pointed them in the right direction. When the tourists reached their destination, they were amazed not by the house itself, but by the appearance of the lady who was sitting next to it and making sketches in an album. She was very beautiful, wearing a powdered wig and a long dress, the kind worn by aristocrats of the 18th century. And only then did the English women finally realize that they had gone back in time. Soon the landscape changed, the vision disappeared, and the women swore to each other not to tell anyone about their journey. However, later, in 1911, they jointly wrote a book about their experience.
In 1930, a country doctor named Edward Moon was returning home after visiting his patient, Lord Edward Carson, who lived in Kent. The lord was very ill, so the doctor visited him daily and knew the area very well. One day, Moon, going outside the estate of his patient, noticed that the area looked a little different than before. Instead of a road there was a dirt path that led through deserted meadows. While the doctor was trying to understand what happened, he met a strange man who was walking a little ahead. He was dressed somewhat old-fashioned and carried an antique musket. The man also noticed the doctor and stopped, clearly in amazement. When Moon turned to look at the estate, the mysterious wanderer had disappeared and the entire landscape had returned to normal.
During the battles for the liberation of Estonia, which were fought throughout 1944, near the Gulf of Finland, a tank reconnaissance battalion commanded by Troshin came across a strange group of cavalrymen dressed in historical uniforms in the forest. When the cavalrymen saw the tanks, they fled. As a result of the pursuit, one of the strange people was detained. He spoke exclusively French, so he was mistaken for a soldier of the allied army. The cavalryman was taken to headquarters, but everything he told shocked both the translator and the officers. The cavalryman claimed that he was a cuirassier of the Napoleonic army, and that its remnants were trying to get out of encirclement after retreating from Moscow. The soldier also said that he was born in 1772. The next day, the mysterious cavalryman was taken away by special department officers...
One NATO pilot told reporters about a strange story that happened to him. It all happened in May 1999. The plane took off from a NATO base in Holland on a mission to monitor the actions of parties conflicting in the Yugoslav war. As the plane flew over Germany, the pilot suddenly saw a group of fighters heading straight towards him. But they were all somehow strange. Having flown closer, the pilot saw that it was a German Messerschmitt. The pilot did not know what to do, because his plane was not equipped with weapons. However, he soon saw that the German fighter was targeted by a Soviet fighter. The vision lasted a few seconds, then everything disappeared. There is other evidence of penetrations into the past that occurred in the air.
Thus, in 1976, the Soviet pilot V. Orlov said that he personally saw ground military operations being conducted under the wing of the MiG-25 aircraft he piloted. If the pilot's descriptions are to be believed, he was an eyewitness to the battle that took place in 1863 near Gettysburg.
In 1985, one of the NATO pilots, taking off from a NATO base located in Africa, saw a very strange picture: below, instead of a desert, he saw savannahs with a lot of trees and dinosaurs grazing on the lawns. Soon the vision disappeared.
In 1986, the Soviet pilot A. Ustimov, during a mission, discovered that he was over Ancient Egypt. According to him, he saw one pyramid that was completely built, as well as the foundations of others, around which many people were swarming.
At the end of the 80s of the last century, captain of the second rank, military sailor Ivan Zalygin found himself in a very interesting and mysterious story. It all started when his diesel submarine was caught in a severe thunderstorm. The captain decided to surface, but as soon as the ship took the surface position, the watchman reported that an unidentified craft was directly ahead. It turned out to be a rescue boat, in which Soviet sailors found a military man in the uniform of a Japanese sailor from the Second World War. During a search of this man, documents were found that were issued back in 1940. As soon as the incident was reported, the captain received an order to proceed to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, where counterintelligence representatives were already waiting for the Japanese sailor. The team members signed a non-disclosure agreement for a period of ten years.
A mysterious story happened in 1952 in New York. In November, an unknown man was hit and killed on Broadway. His body was taken to the morgue. The police were surprised that the young man was dressed in antique clothes, and in his trouser pocket they found the same antique watch and a knife made at the beginning of the century. However, the surprise of the police knew no bounds when they saw a certificate issued about 8 decades ago, as well as business cards indicating the profession (travelling salesman). After checking the address, it was possible to establish that the street indicated in the documents has not existed for about half a century. As a result of the investigation, it was possible to find out that the deceased was the father of one of the centenarians of New York, who disappeared about 70 years ago during a regular walk. To prove her words, the woman presented a photo: it had the date on it - 1884, and the photo itself depicted a man in the same strange suit who died under the wheels of a car.
In 1954, after civil unrest in Japan, a man was detained during passport control. All his documents were in order, except that they were issued by the non-existent state of Tuared. The man himself claimed that his country is located on the African continent between French Sudan and Mauritania. Moreover, he was amazed when he saw that Algeria was in the place of his Tuared. True, the Tuareg tribe did live there, but it never had sovereignty.
In 1980, a young man disappeared in Paris after his car was covered in a bright glowing ball of fog. A week later he appeared in the same place where he had disappeared, but at the same time he thought that he had been absent for only a few minutes.
In 1985, on the first day of the new school year, second-grader Vlad Heineman played war with his friends during recess. To throw the “enemy” off the scent, he dived into the nearest gateway. However, when the boy jumped out a few seconds later, he did not recognize the school yard - it was completely empty. The boy rushed to the school, but was stopped by his stepfather, who had been looking for him for a long time to take him home. As it turned out, more than an hour and a half had passed since the moment he decided to hide. But Vlad himself did not remember what happened to him during this time.
An equally strange story happened with the Englishman Peter Williams. According to him, he found himself in some strange place during a thunderstorm. After being struck by lightning, he lost consciousness, and when he came to, he discovered that he was lost. Walking along a narrow road, he managed to stop the car and ask for help. The man was taken to the hospital. After some time, the young man’s health improved, and he could already go for a walk. But since his clothes were completely ruined, his roommate lent him his. When Peter went out into the garden, he realized that he was in the place where the thunderstorm had overtaken him. Williams wanted to thank the medical staff and a kind neighbor. He managed to find a hospital, but no one there recognized him, and all the clinic staff looked much older. There were no records of Peter’s admission in the registration book, nor was there any roommate. When the man remembered the trousers, he was told that they were an outdated model that had not been produced for more than 20 years!
In 1991, one railway worker saw that from the side of the old branch, where there were not even rails left, a train was coming: a steam locomotive and three cars. It was very strange-looking, and clearly not made in Russia. The train passed the worker and went in the direction in which Sevastopol was located. Information about this incident was even published in one of the publications in 1992. It contained information that back in 1911, a pleasure train left Rome with a large number of passengers. He walked into thick fog and then drove into a tunnel. He was never seen again. The tunnel itself was blocked with stones. Perhaps this would have been forgotten if the train had not appeared in the Poltava region. Many scientists then put forward the version that this train somehow managed to pass through time. Some of them associate this ability with the fact that almost at the same time as the train set off, a powerful earthquake occurred in Italy, as a result of which large cracks appeared not only on the surface of the earth, but also in the chronal field.
In 1994, a ten-month-old girl was discovered in the northern Atlantic waters by the crew of a Norwegian fishing vessel. She was very cold, but she was alive. The girl was tied to a lifebuoy that had the inscription “Titanic” on it. It is worth noting that the baby was found exactly where the famous ship sank in 1912. Of course, it was simply impossible to believe in the reality of what was happening, but when they raised the documents, they actually found a 10-month-old child on the Titanic passenger list. There is other evidence associated with this ship. Thus, some sailors claimed that they saw the ghost of the sinking Titanic. According to some scientists, the ship fell into a so-called time trap, in which people can disappear without a trace and then appear in a completely unexpected place. The list of disappearances can be continued for a very, very long time.
In medieval Europe, those places where space-time anomalies occurred were called “devil’s traps.” So, on the road leading to Dresden, there is a large boulder, in the middle of which there was a large hole. Outwardly, this stone resembled a gate. And if you believe the Dresden Chronicles, which claim that any traveler who passed through this hole in the stone disappeared without a trace, then it is quite possible to assume that this is the “Gate of Time”. In 1546, the city magistrate decided to dig a large hole next to this boulder, after which the stone was dumped into this hole and covered with earth. But that didn't help either. And although the stone was no longer there, people periodically disappeared in its place. Sicilian chronicles for 1753 tell that in the small settlement of Tacona, in the courtyard of an abandoned castle, an artisan named Alberto Gordoni literally disappeared into thin air. Moreover, this happened in front of astonished witnesses. Almost three decades later, the man appeared in the same place where he disappeared. He was extremely surprised by people’s questions, but said that he found himself in some strange white tunnel, at the end of which a bright light was visible, and the man followed this light. And, as it seemed to the artisan himself, literally after a few minutes he managed to get back to the castle courtyard. The man was examined by doctors, and they came to the conclusion that the man was not crazy, but he was not lying either. Then local residents decided to check the veracity of Gordoni's words. When they all arrived at the place of disappearance, the artisan took another step and disappeared. But no one saw him again. Then the priest ordered to fence off the cursed place with a high stone wall, and then sprinkled it with holy water.
There is a belief that the gates of time open exclusively under the influence of natural elements - thunderstorms, earthquakes, storms and tsunamis. One of the first written mentions of this anomaly dates back to the 12th century. It is contained in the “Pantheon” of the Italian Bishop Godfrey of Viterbsk. In his work, the priest described one story that happened to the monks of the Abbey of Saint-Mathieu. The monks on the ship were heading to the Pillars of Hercules, but they were caught in a terrible storm. When the storm subsided, the passengers and crew of the ship saw that the ship was off the coast of some island. On the island there was a fortress made of pure gold, and all the paths were lined with gold tiles. Already when the day was setting, the monks met two elders. But they met the strangers very unfriendly and, after listening to the monks’ stories about their misadventures, told them to go back, since one day on the island is equal to three hundred years on Earth. The monks listened to the advice of the elders, quickly boarded the ship and sailed home. Three weeks later, the monks arrived in their home harbor, but it was very different from the place they left several months ago. In addition, the people who surrounded them were dressed very strangely and unusually. When the traveling monks arrived at their native monastery, they did not recognize either the abbot or the inhabitants. When the abbot listened to the story of the monks, he looked through the archives, in which he found the names of all the travelers. But it turned out that the note about their sailing was made three hundred years ago. By the end of that day, all the monks who had endured such a strange journey died.
Leningrad region. In September 1990, a simple Soviet engineer named Nikolai went into the forest to pick mushrooms. In the forest he was enveloped in a thick bluish fog. Afraid of getting lost, he went back to the road where he had left his old “Cossack”, but when he got out onto the road he did not recognize a familiar place. Instead of a broken dirt road, there was an asphalt highway along which unusual cars were driving. There was a parked car nearby, and next to it was a man and a woman. Nikolai approached them to say that he was lost and ask for directions. The woman took out an atlas from the car on the title page of which it was written in large numbers “2022 map of the Leningrad region.” The man took out of his pocket a small black flat device on which a map was also visible. After a long conversation, it turned out that he was in the right place but ended up in the future in 2024, that the Soviet Union collapsed, that difficult times would come, but then everything would work out. The man persistently invited him to stay. Nikolai replied that he had a family and two children and he wanted to go back to 1990. The strange couple then suggested that he quickly return to the fog before it dissipates. Nikolai ran with all his might back into the forest. Having found an unusual fog, he passed through it and after a while, having gotten a little lost, he came out to his “Cossack”.
The list of disappearances can be continued for a very, very long time. There is no point in mentioning all of them, because most of them are similar to each other. Almost always, time travel is irreversible, but sometimes it turns out that people who have disappeared for some time then return safely. Unfortunately, many of them end up in insane asylums, because no one wants to believe their stories, and they themselves do not really understand whether what happened to them is true.
Scientists have been trying to solve the problem of temporary movements for several centuries. It may well happen that soon this problem will become an objective reality, and not the plot of science fiction books and films.
The debate over whether time travel is real has raged for years. It used to be that such stories were the lot of fans of conspiracy theories, but in 2017 Popular Mechanics published material with interviews with theoretical physicists who called time travel potentially possible. In addition, we should not forget about strange, inexplicable facts, each of which (albeit indirectly) confirms the existence of time travel.
This strange experiment was once even reported on the BBC. From 1943 to 1983, near the small town of Montauk, the US military conducted a series of tests, influencing the brains of experimental subjects with radio pulses. Most of the unfortunates went crazy from such experiences, but there were also those who talked about traveling to the near future. We wrote more about the Montauk project here.
Hipster traveler
Fans of conspiracy theories are very fond of this photo, calling it “indisputable proof of the existence of a time machine.” The photo was taken in 1941: a man in fashionable glasses and a modern T-shirt really looks significantly different from the people in the crowd. Maybe he really was looking from the future.
Clock from the future
Further evidence of the existence of time travel was discovered by Chinese archaeologists who opened the tomb of Emperor Xi Qing in 2008. No one went down into these catacombs for a hundred years and, nevertheless, during the excavations, real Swiss watches were discovered. This find cannot yet be explained.
Indians and smartphone
Humberto Romano painted Mr. Pynchon and the Springfield Settlement in 1937. The artist showed the historical meeting of Indians and English colonists in the 17th century: look closely at the figure in the foreground - the man is holding something that suspiciously resembles a modern smartphone.
Flight of Victor Goddard
RAF Marshal Victor Goddard was caught in a severe storm over Scotland in 1935. The wind threw him into the area above an abandoned airfield, where he was surprised to see unusually painted biplanes and mechanics in blue overalls. Returning to the base, Goddard shared a strange story with his colleagues, but no one believed him. But four years later, British biplanes actually began to be painted yellow, and mechanics received new blue overalls. Exactly the same ones Goddard saw in the storm.
CD from the past
Compact discs appeared only in the 20th century, and gramophone records of the familiar form were invented only at the end of the 18th century. However, the painting, dating from the early 18th century, shows a group of people looking in surprise at something that looks suspiciously like a CD.
Strange accident
New York, 1950. A strange man dressed in 19th-century fashion gets run over by a car. On the body of the unfortunate man, the police found a letter dated 1876, 70 dollars from the same time and copper coins that were not issued after 1872. No one ever found out where this strange man came from.
Charlie Chaplin with a telephone
Director George Clarke was watching footage of Chaplin's old film The Circus when he suddenly noticed a woman holding a small device to her head. Now we would immediately assume that she is talking on a mobile phone. But Chaplin's film was shot back in 1928 - where did a smartphone even come from at that time?
The topic of time travel excites minds. Admit it, have you also fantasized about this topic? Where would you like to visit, past or future? There are suspicions that such travel is available to some people, in any case, we know stories that are difficult to explain otherwise.
Several years ago, a certain Andrew Karlsin was arrested in New York on charges of fraud. Having invested less than a thousand dollars in shares, after 2 weeks he earned 350 million bucks on the stock exchange.
It is noteworthy that the trading operations he carried out initially did not promise winning at all. State authorities accused Karlsin of obtaining information that was profitable for himself through illegal means, since they found no other reasons for such an astonishing result.
Although all experts agree that even with complete information about the companies where he invested money, it is impossible to earn so much and in such a period. However, during interrogation, Karlsin unexpectedly stated that he allegedly appeared from 2256 and, having information about all banking transactions over the past years, decided to enrich himself.
He categorically refused to show his time machine, but made a tempting offer for the authorities - to inform several upcoming important events that will happen soon in the world... including the whereabouts of Bin Laden and the invention of a cure for AIDS... According to unverified information, someone posted bail for him a million dollars to get him out of prison, after which Karlsin disappeared, apparently forever...
2. Old lady
A strange incident occurred in a small California town in the summer of 1936. A frightened old woman, unknown to anyone, appeared on his street, dressed in an old-fashioned way. She literally shied away from passers-by offering her help. Her unusual outfit and strange behavior attracted curious people: after all, everyone in this town knew each other, and the appearance of such a colorful figure did not go unnoticed. When the old woman saw people gathering around her, she looked around in despair and confusion and suddenly disappeared in front of dozens of eyewitnesses.
3. Submarine
Time plays nasty tricks not only on individuals; it can also play tricks on very impressive objects. American parapsychologists claim that the Pentagon has classified a striking incident that occurred with one of the submarines. The submarine was in the waters of the notorious Bermuda Triangle when it suddenly disappeared, literally moments later a signal from it was received from... the Indian Ocean. However, this incident with the submarine was not limited to just moving it in space over a huge distance; there was also quite a significant time travel: the crew of the submarine literally aged 20 years in tens of seconds
4. Airplane from the past
And sometimes worse things happen to airplanes. In 1997, W magazine W. News spoke about a mysterious DC-4 plane that landed in Caracas (Venezuela) in 1992. This plane was seen by airport employees, although it did not give any mark on the radar. Soon we managed to contact the pilot. In a surprised and even frightened voice, the pilot announced that he was operating charter flight 914 from New York to Miami with 54 passengers on board and was scheduled to land at 9:55 a.m. on June 2, 1955, at the end he asked: “Where are we?”
Stunned by the pilot's message, the air traffic controllers told him that he was over the airport in Caracas and gave him permission to land. The pilot did not answer, but during landing everyone heard his surprised exclamation: “Jimmy! What the hell is this! The American pilot was clearly surprised by the jet plane taking off at that time...
The mysterious plane landed safely, its pilot was breathing heavily, and finally he said, “Something is wrong here.” When informed that he had landed on May 21, 1992, the pilot exclaimed, “Oh God!” They tried to calm him down and said that a ground team was already heading towards him. However, seeing airport employees next to the plane, the pilot shouted: “Don’t come closer! We're flying out of here!"
The ground crew saw the astonished faces of the passengers through the windows, and the DC-4 pilot cracked open the window in his cockpit and waved a magazine at them, demanding that they not approach the plane.
He started the engines, the plane took off and disappeared. Did he manage to get there in due time? Unfortunately, the further fate of the crew and passengers of the plane is unknown, since the magazine did not report any historical investigation into this case. As evidence of this unusual incident, a recording of conversations with DC-4 and a calendar for 1955, which fell out of the magazine that the pilot was waving, remained at the Caracas airport...
5. Japanese military
A resident of Sevastopol, retired naval sailor Ivan Pavlovich Zalygin has been studying the problem of time travel for the last fifteen years. The captain of the second rank became interested in this phenomenon after a very curious and mysterious incident that happened to him in the late 80s of the last century in the Pacific Ocean, while serving as deputy commander of a diesel submarine.
During one of the training trips in the La Perouse Strait area, the boat was caught in a severe thunderstorm. The submarine commander decided to take a surface position. As soon as the ship surfaced, the sailor on watch reported that he saw an unidentified aircraft straight ahead.
You will soon find out that a Soviet submarine stumbled upon a rescue boat located in international waters, in which the submariners found a half-dead frostbitten man in... the uniform of a Japanese naval sailor from the Second World War. When examining the personal belongings of the rescued man, an award parabellum was found, as well as documents issued on September 14, 1940. After the report to the base command, the boat was ordered to go to the port of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, where counterintelligence was already waiting for the Japanese naval sailor. GRU officers signed a non-disclosure agreement to not disclose this fact for the next ten years.
6. Story six
In 1966, three brothers were walking early on New Year's morning along a Glasgow street. Suddenly, 19-year-old Alex disappeared in front of his older brothers. All attempts to find him were unsuccessful. Alex disappeared without a trace and was never seen again.
7. Story seven
Photo in the Bralorne Pioneer Museum virtual museum with the rather boring title “Reopening of the South Fork Bridge after flood in Nov. 1940. 1941 (?)” became a minor sensation. The public claims that it shows a time traveler. The reason for this was some features of his clothes and a portable camera in his hands: he is wearing sunglasses, which were not worn in the 40s, a T-shirt with an advertising logo, a sweater in the fashion of the 21st century, a hairstyle that was not done in those days and portable camera.
8. Time Traveler
John Titor is a man from the future who has appeared on the Internet on forums, blogs and various websites since 2000. John claimed that he was a time traveler and arrived here from 2036. He was originally sent in 1975 to collect information about the IBM-5100 computer, as his grandfather worked on the creation of this computer and programmed on it, but he stopped in 2000 for personal reasons.
On forums he talked about future events. Some of them have already happened: the war in Iraq, the conflict in the US presidential elections of 2004 and 2008. He also talked about the third world war. This is the bleak future of our planet: a second civil war will split America into 5 factions with the new capital in Omaha. In 2015, the Third World War will break out, resulting in losses of three billion people.
Then, to top it all off, there will be a computer crash that will destroy the world as we know it. That is, it will be so unless a brave time traveler crosses the space-time continuum to change the course of history. This was at the end of 2000.
The poster on various forums took on the online aliases “TimeTravel_0” and “John Titor,” and claimed to be a soldier sent from the year 2036, the year a computer virus destroyed the world. His mission was to return to 1975 to find and capture the IBM 5100 computer, which had everything he needed to fight the virus (and he went to 2000 to meet his 3-year-old self, ignoring the paradox of the very fabric of time from the stories about time travel).
Over the next four months, Titor answered all the questions that the other participants had, describing future events in the spirit of poetic phrases, and always pointing out that there are other realities and our reality may not be his own. In between grim calls to learn first aid and not eat beef - in his reality, mad cow disease was a serious threat - Titor, using extremely difficult algorithms, revealed some technical aspects about how time travel works and provided grainy photographs of his time machine.
On March 24, 2001, Titor gave his last piece of advice (“Take a gas can with you when you abandon your car on the side of the road”), logged out forever, and headed back. Since then he has not appeared again. Today, everything posted online is viewed with a healthy dose of skepticism.
Titor's story is from a time when we were all so innocent, a time less than 15 years ago, just before everything started to change. And the legend of Titor persists partly because no one has ever claimed to be its creator. Since the mystery has not been solved, the legend continues. "The John Titor story is popular because some stories just get popular," says writer and producer Brian Denning, who specializes in the Titor story.
Among all the stories about ghosts, demonic voices, hoaxes or rumors floating around the Internet, something is becoming popular. Why shouldn't the story about Titor become so popular? Although there is (tiny, almost scientifically impossible) another possibility.
“One of the keys to unlocking Titor,” Temporal Recon wrote in an email, “is accepting the possibility that time travel may be true.” The great thing about time travel is that history cannot be disproved. If events do not happen as the time traveler said, it is because he changed the course of history.
And yet...if this man John Titor wanted to promote himself, then why did he disappear forever?! Whether the special services took him away or whether he went back is a mystery. If all the previous described cases can somehow be suspected of unreliability, exaggeration or delusion, then the facts mentioned below cannot in any way be classified as such. We are talking about the so-called chronal artifacts - things, objects clearly made by man, found during archaeological excavations and in geological layers dating back to a time where neither man nor the things themselves should have existed.
9. Ninth story
In the 80s of the 19th century, while drilling a well in one of the US states, a metal object, clearly of artificial origin, was discovered. The age of the find was about 400 thousand years. It was a coin of an unknown alloy and with hieroglyphs on both sides that could not be deciphered. It is known that modern man appeared on our planet about one hundred thousand years ago, and on the American continent even later.
10. Tenth story
Around the same time, an elegant ceramic sculpture of a woman was found at great depths in Idaho. Its age was about two million years.
11. Incident on the train
Five years ago, Mexican newspapers described a mysterious story that happened on a train traveling from Mexico City to Acapulco. In the compartment where there were a young surgeon and a woman with a child, a disheveled, deathly frightened man, dressed in a long camisole, suddenly appeared. On his head was a powdered wig. In one hand he held a quill pen, in the other a large leather wallet.
“I am Minister Jorge de Balenciaga,” he shouted, trembling with fear. - Where I am? The surgeon ran after the conductor. Returning to the compartment, he saw that the man who called himself the minister had disappeared. The conductor decided that they wanted to play a joke on him and was indignant for a long time that he was being taken away from his work, until material evidence was found on the floor - a pen and a wallet.
The surgeon picked up both objects and showed them to historians, who determined that they belonged to the 18th century. In the archives we managed to find documents with a curious note from the then bishop, from which it followed that Minister de Balenciaga, already an elderly man, allegedly falling into madness, told everyone how one day, returning home late at night, he saw an iron one right in front of him. long, like a snake, “the devil’s carriage,” bursting with fire and smoke.
Then, according to the minister, he inexplicably found himself inside a monstrous vehicle, where strangely dressed people were sitting, whom he mistook for the minions of Satan. Seriously frightened, de Balenciaga read a prayer to the Lord, calling on Him for help. Suddenly he found himself again on one of the streets of Mexico City. Despite the fact that the devil was repeatedly cast out of him, he did not return to sanity until his death.
12. Road accident in Tokyo
An equally mysterious incident occurred in 1988 on one of the streets of Tokyo, where a car hit an unknown man who died on the spot. The driver and witnesses claimed that the victim “appeared on the road suddenly, as if he had fallen from the sky.” The police noticed that the deceased was wearing a suit that was clearly of an antique cut. They were even more surprised by the passport issued... exactly 100 years ago. In the man's pocket, they also found business cards indicating his profession - artist of the Tokyo Imperial Theater. It turned out that the street in question has not existed for more than 70 years.
The police interviewed all residents of Tokyo with the same surname. After days of searching, they found an old woman who reported that her father had disappeared under mysterious circumstances. He went to a friend's house to play a game of GO and did not return. The woman showed the police a photograph in which a young man, remarkably similar to the man who was hit by the car, was holding a little girl in his arms. There was a date on the photo. May 1902.
13. See Paris and...
Last week, Pierre Dupre, a resident of Rouen, received a call from his sick aunt living in Paris and asked him to urgently come to her. The nephew did not force himself to ask twice and, getting into the car, rushed to her. He absolutely did not recognize the road, besides, for some reason the lights were not on, and the asphalt suddenly changed to gravel. He was also surprised by the fact that he did not meet a single car along the way. Pierre decided that he was lost, and, seeing a two-story building, stopped to ask how he could get to Paris. An elderly man with a candle in his hand opened the door for him. Staring at Pierre, he asked what he needed. Pierre explained. Two women (apparently the man’s wife and daughter) ran out of the house and, calling him a hillbilly, replied that he was in Paris itself.
Only then Pierre noticed that his interlocutors were dressed in medieval clothes. They, in turn, looked at his leather jacket and jeans with amazement. Suddenly the clatter of hooves was heard. Catholics,” the man shouted. We need to save ourselves, and turning to Pierre, he expressed the hope that he was a Huguenot. Pierre realized with horror that he had fallen into a time loop, which he had previously only known about by hearsay.
He was always interested in the past, but the last thing he wanted was to go back to the era of the famous religious wars. Without hesitation, he pushed his casual acquaintances into the car and pressed the gas. Pierre brought the Huguenot family to his home in Rouen. Numb with fear, they did not react to anything. After spending the night with Pierre, they left in the morning without even waking him up, and disappeared from his life forever.
14. Old lady
Last year, 48-year-old Giovanna Cavolini, together with her daughter Loretta, walking along the street of her native Palermo, noticed an old woman walking, having difficulty moving her legs. The women wanted to help her cross the road. However, for some reason she was frightened and, as best she could, quickened her pace. The mother and daughter were struck not only by her clothes - a long dress, made in the fashion of the 19th century, and a large black hat - but also by her snow-white face with skin tight to the skull, on which huge blue eyes stood out.
Crooked fingers adorned with ancient gold rings, delicate facial features and an arrogant look spoke of her high origins. The old woman limped towards the alley, then looked around helplessly - apparently not knowing where to go. Seeing that a crowd of townspeople were watching her, she stopped in confusion and immediately disappeared.
15. Future of the Earth
There are many known cases of our contemporaries penetrating into the future. In April 1992, Italian Bruno Leone went for a walk with his wife and disappeared into thin air right before her eyes. When she reported the incident to the police, she was advised to see a psychiatrist. However, two days later Bruno returned home safely. True, he looked confused. According to him, he found himself in the 25th century. Outlandish people in identical clothes looked at him like an exotic animal. When they heard that he arrived from Italy, they rolled their eyes in surprise, claiming that a country with that name had disappeared from the face of the earth in the 21st century.
What surprised him was that, walking around the city of the future, he did not see a single 20th-century building or a single tree. The “descendants” kindly took Bruno, who was hungry, to a cafe where only one dish was served - a colorless, cloudy jelly that resembled a melted jellyfish. It tasted disgusting, but it instantly satisfied my hunger. Having warned him about the coming cataclysms, the hospitable hosts opened a geographical map to show places where he could be saved, but as soon as they pointed a finger at Mongolia, Bruno suddenly found himself at home.
16. 2245
Last summer, 17-year-old Frenchwoman Florence Dunoy was returning from a disco at 3 am. There were only 50 meters left to the house when she turned the corner and found herself on a completely unfamiliar street, on which identical houses of a bizarre cone shape rose in even rows. There were no passers-by at such a late hour, and she felt scared. Finally noticing the two guys, Florence rushed to them in the hope of salvation. After carefully examining her fashionable, chic toilet, they asked which museum she stole her junk from.
They themselves were dressed in gray, rubber-like sweaters and tight-fitting pants. Her questions puzzled the young people, since this was the first time they had heard the name of the street where the stranger lived. And when the girl asked where she could get a taxi, they almost fell over laughing. “You apparently came from afar,” said one of the guys. Would you like to come with us? Florence was incredibly tired, and she really wanted to go to the toilet, so she accepted the invitation. There was no furniture in the room where they brought her, except for a soft mattress that covered the entire floor.
Light was shining through from under the lamp built into the ceiling. Next to it, also on the ceiling, a green flashing light illuminated a clock - a calendar showing September 23, 2245... The guys, having heard from which century Florais came to them, handed her a clock that had appeared from somewhere. glass with bluish liquid. An unfamiliar acrid smell hit the girl’s nostrils, but after drinking one sip, she lost consciousness...
When she came to, the boys were not around. Looking at the clock and calendar, she found out that she had slept for three days, her lower abdomen hurt. Rising from the floor, she wandered towards the doors, which swung open by themselves. Obeying a thought that suddenly dawned on her, she walked along the road that led her to that wonderful neighborhood, turned the “fatal” corner and... found herself on the very street along which she was returning from the disco.
Soon, Florence lost her period and was craving salty foods, which she was extremely surprised by, since she had not had sexual intercourse with anyone for six months. Then she remembered how much her lower abdomen hurt after she woke up in a 23rd century apartment, and realized that the guys who had sheltered her had knocked her unconscious and then raped her. The doctor who examined Florence confirmed the pregnancy. To her parents, tired of proving anything, she began to say that she had sinned with an alien. A month and a half later, Florence had an abortion...
17. Gluttonous old lady
People of the future are also not immune to falling into the “time corridor” and sometimes visit their distant ancestors. In January, an elderly, completely bald woman, her face disfigured by deep scars and ulcers, and dressed in a translucent plastic suit, walked into a summer café in Cape Town. The gluttonous old lady ate a dozen cups of ice cream, drank two liter bottles of Coca-Cola and devoured a hefty bunch of grapes. Having refreshed herself, she got ready to leave without showing the slightest desire to pay.
When the waiter caught her at the exit of the cafe, she stared at him as if he were crazy, and... Scolding with the last words, she promised to complain to the International Committee, the old woman, called by phone to the police, explained that all survivors of the nuclear disaster that broke out 30 years ago enjoy the right to free food in all cafes and restaurants in the world. Sweet Tooth presented a phosphorescent card with her holographic photograph. On it was the year of her birth - 2198. To find out the circumstances of the appearance of a guest from the future, the police invited the old woman to go with them. However, heading to the car, the granny disappeared into thin air.
18. Clock through time
One of the archaeological finds confirming time travel took place in China. In 2008, archaeologists working on a burial site in Guangxi Province hoped to discover the remains of a Chinese Ming Dynasty emperor. whose reign was at the turn of the 15th century. Sealed 400 years ago, the tomb is being opened for the first time. With utmost care, scientists remove the fossilized layers of soil and get to the tombstone. And then their first discovery awaits them. As soon as they begin to remove dust from the stove, a strange object breaks off from it, looking like a ring.
But having cleared away the traces of time, rust and fossils, archaeologists freeze. In front of them are real Swiss watches! The back cover contains Swiss engraving. It is quite clear that in the 15th century there were no Swiss watches, and there was no technology for making wristwatches. A strange artifact, and there is no other way to call it, is sent to Beijing for study. Where the authenticity of the origin of the watch is established. And according to the serial number and date of manufacture, a hundred years ago.
The results of the study are somewhat shocking to the researchers. How could a watch end up in a tomb that was sealed four hundred years before it appeared! This find baffles researchers. It is impossible to explain this from the point of view of our usual science. At first it was assumed that the watch was placed in the tomb along with other jewelry. But the reign of the Ming Dynasty was between the 14th and 16th centuries. Whereas watchmakers began to create wristwatches only towards the end of the 17th century.
According to scientists, only one version can explain the appearance of the clock in the tomb, several centuries before its manufacture. The watch has traveled back in time! But then, we must admit the fact that someone owns the technology of time travel.
Is time travel possible? Science does not give a clear answer. But the world has accumulated a lot of, to put it mildly, strange facts that no one can explain. Here are some of them.
This photo was taken in 1941 at the opening of the South Fork Bridge in British Columbia, Canada. The shot captured a man who clearly stood out from the crowd with his extraordinary appearance. Short hair, dark glasses, a knitted sweater with a wide neckline over a T-shirt with some kind of symbol, and a massive camera in his hands. Agree, the appearance is quite familiar for our days, but not for the early 40s! And he completely stands out among others. This photo was investigated. We found a participant in these events. But he could not remember this person at all.
Looking at old photographs, one married couple noticed a young man captured in 1917 in clothes unusual for that time.
Basically, they were confused by the fact that every respected person of that time wore a hat; going out without a hat was considered the same as appearing in public without pants. And the T-shirt he’s wearing doesn’t fit into the fashion of that time, it looks too modern.
In June 1936, during excavation work in the vicinity of Baghdad, builders discovered an ancient burial place from the era of the Parthian Kingdom (250s BC - 220s AD). Among the objects found in the tomb, a clay vessel about 14 centimeters high attracted particular attention. Its neck turned out to be filled with bitumen, through which a metal rod with traces of corrosion passed. The second end of the rod was in a copper cylinder hidden inside the vessel. The unusual find was shown to the Austrian archaeologist Wilhelm Koenig, who worked in the archaeological museum of the Iraqi capital. The puzzled scientist suggested that it was nothing more than an ancient battery.
Later his assumption was confirmed by Professor J.B. Perchinski from the University of North Carolina. The professor even managed to create an exact working copy of the “Parthian battery.” He filled it with five percent wine vinegar and obtained a voltage of 0.5 volts. German Egyptologist Arne Eggebrecht went even further. Using 10 of these batteries and a gold salt solution, he covered a figurine of Osiris with a layer of precious metal in a few hours. Thus, the scientist proved that the Parthians knew the secret of galvanization
In June 1934, in the rocks near the Texas town of London, archaeologists found an ordinary-looking hammer - 15 centimeters in length, three in diameter. It would seem, what's wrong with that? But this find literally grew into the limestone. The wooden handle of the hammer was petrified on the outside, and completely turned into coal on the inside. It turns out that this object is older than the rock formed around it. This means that its age is about 140 million years! Upon closer examination, it turned out that the hammer itself was made of high-quality metal, which even modern metallurgists could not obtain.
In 1974, Romanian workers were digging a trench near the town of Ayud and came across three objects at a depth of 10 meters. Two of them turned out to be the bones of a prehistoric elephant, which are about 2.5 million years old.
But the most interesting was the third object: an aluminum wedge. This find puzzled researchers, since aluminum was discovered only in 1808, and the age of the wedge, given that it was in the same layer with the remains of an extinct animal, cannot be less than 11 thousand years.
Ufologists immediately declared this artifact to be direct evidence of visits to Earth by “little green men.” Whether this is true or not, hardly anyone can say with complete certainty.
This item, discovered in a Ming Dynasty tomb, has puzzled researchers. The tomb was opened in 2008 in the Guangxi region (PRC) during the filming of a documentary film. To the surprise of archaeologists and journalists. in the burial there were... Swiss watches!
“When we were removing the soil, a piece of rock suddenly jumped off the surface of the coffin and hit the floor with a metallic sound,” said Jiang Yanyu, a former curator at the Guangxi Museum who participated in the excavation. — We picked up the item. It turned out to be a ring. But, having cleared it from the ground, we were shocked - a miniature dial was discovered on its surface.”
Inside the ring was an engraved inscription “Swiss” (Switzerland). The Ming Dynasty ruled China until 1644. It is out of the question that such a miniature mechanism could have been created in the 17th century. But Chinese experts claim that the tomb has never been opened in the last 400 years.
In 1900, off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera, located between the Peloponnese peninsula and the island of Crete, sponge catchers discovered the remains of a Roman trading ship. Presumably, the ship sank in the 80s BC. on the way from the island of Rhodes to R. From a depth of about 60 meters, many gold jewelry, marble and bronze figurines, amphorae, ceramics and other antique objects were recovered. And along with them - parts of a strange mechanism.
For the first time, archaeologist Valerios Stais took a closer look at this find. While sorting precious exhibits in 1902, he noticed that some bronze objects closely resembled watch gears. The largest is 10-12 centimeters in diameter, two are five to seven centimeters each, and many more smaller ones. The scientist suggested that all of these were parts of some kind of astronomical instrument. But Stais’s colleagues laughed at him. The objects were dated to 150-100 BC, while gears were invented only 14 centuries later.
They returned to Stais's theory only in the late 50s. British historian from Yale University Derek de Solla Price, having studied in detail the gears from Antikythera, proved that they are all truly fragments of one mechanism. The parts were most likely housed in a wooden box measuring 31.5 x 19 x 10 centimeters, which fell apart over time. Price even sketched out a rough diagram of this device. In 1971, a more detailed diagram was drawn up, and British watchmaker John Gleave managed to assemble a working copy of the mysterious machine. The device consisted of 32 parts and simulated the movement of the Sun and Moon, displaying the results on two dials.
But the story didn't end there. In 2002, Michael Wright, a specialist at the London Science Museum, made another discovery. It turns out that the ancient mechanism is also capable of simulating the movement of the five then known planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. And after another three years, using modern X-ray techniques, scientists were able to examine about two thousand Greek symbols on the gears. The missing parts of the mechanism were also recreated. Now the device could perform addition, subtraction and division operations, maintain an astronomical calendar of 365 days, making a leap day correction every four years, and count according to the calendar systems of several ancient peoples. The Antikythera mechanism was rightly dubbed the antique computer.
On the remote Kamchatka peninsula, 200 km from the village of Tigil, strange fossils have been discovered by the University of Archeology of St. Petersburg. The authenticity of the find was certified.
According to archaeologist Yuri Golubev, the discovery surprised scientists by its nature, it is capable of changing the course of history (or prehistory). This is not the first time that ancient artifacts have been found in this region. But, at first glance, this find is inlaid in the rock (which is understandable, since there are numerous volcanoes on the peninsula). Analysis revealed that the mechanism is made of metal parts that appear to combine to form a mechanism that could be something like a watch or computer. The most amazing thing is that all the pieces were dated at 400 million!
In May 2008, archaeologists from the University of Bristol, conducting excavations on the territory of the Chateau-Gaillard castle (France), made a sensational discovery. At a depth of two and a half meters, a complex of iron objects was discovered that made up the warrior’s protective armor. Nearby, archaeologists discovered a second burial, a well-preserved skeleton of a horse. Also found in the excavation were denier tournois coins, a French type of denarius minted by Philip II Augustus (1180-1223), as well as coins from the Duchy of Aquitaine with the name of Richard, suggesting that the armor found belongs to during the reign of Richard I the Lionheart (1189-1199). What struck scientists as unusual about this find was the very location of the iron armor fragments. From above they resembled the outline of a bicycle.
The “Reports of the Academy of Sciences” for 1995 tells how geologists in Syktyvkar investigated strange finds during the exploration of gold-bearing rocks. They made pits and pulled out buckets of sand on a rope. Tungsten springs were discovered in taiga corners untouched by civilization at depths of 6-12 meters. And this corresponds to the Upper Pleistocene, or one hundred thousand years BC!.. “Technogenic contamination of the samples is excluded, since metal tungsten and its alloys were not part of any of the mechanisms, equipment and instruments used during drilling, and the search area itself is located in many kilometers away from any industrial enterprises. At the same time, it is known that metal tungsten, alloyed with rare earths... is used in plasma engines of space rockets.”
So, the artifacts are clearly of artificial origin; they could not have been brought to the Urals over the past 40 years along with the debris of current spacecraft; quite a lot of springs were discovered in three different places.
The conclusion that suggests itself in this case is that the artifacts did not arrive from anywhere. Someone or something scattered them on the earth about 100 thousand years ago. Considering that the Urals region is rich in mineral resources, we can assume: in these places many millennia ago there was either some kind of metallurgical complex associated with rocket technology, or a cosmodrome (or maybe something similar)...
British video editor Stuart Humphreys posted a photograph from 1943 showing English workers going to the beach on a sunny day. However, users saw a man in the very center of the picture looking at something in his hands. Immediately, assumptions arose that the person was checking his smartphone. Apparently, there is nothing else for the worker to look at in this particular position. Apart from the incomprehensible object in his hands, nothing else stands out about the person in the photograph. He is dressed in the fashion of those years, no one pays attention to him.
"British workers escaped to the beach - this photo was taken on a certain Cornish beach in 1943 (it will be great if any of you know what exactly this place is)," - wrote Humphreys.Users began to convince the video editor that the mysterious worker was disguised, but in fact, he was a time traveler. Humphreys quite reasonably noted that a person can simply roll a cigarette. "Time Traveler" from the beginning of the 21st century in 1940 In a Canadian museum in 2012, a photograph appeared at an exhibition that was taken in 1941. On it, people came to the opening of the bridge in Vancouver. However, among those dressed in the fashion of those years, a man in modern black glasses and a cardigan is noticeable. He is much more reminiscent of a modern resident of a metropolis, but certainly not a hard worker from 1941. Specialists took the photograph and studied it for a long time for editing. But they came to the conclusion that it was impossible to fake it. Scientists have not yet been able to explain this phenomenon. Flight into the future by Victor Goddard Mr Goddard was an English pilot who was sent to fly over an abandoned airfield near Edinburgh in 1935. When he returned from the mission, he told a story that was not believed for another four years. He flew over and was about to head for the home airfield when he suddenly fell into a cloudy yellow cloud. When Goddard managed to emerge from it, an amazing picture opened up to him: the takeoff field had been repaired, for some reason there were yellow cars standing near the new hangars, and mechanics in blue overalls were wandering between them. Neither such colors of aircraft nor similar uniforms had ever been seen in the British Royal Air Force. But in 1939, Goddard’s “prophecy” came true - airplanes actually began to be painted yellow, and mechanics were given blue overalls. And the airfield near Edinburgh was put in order. Swiss clock from the tomb In 2008, Chinese archaeologists discovered in the tomb of Emperor Xi Qing an unusual thing that could not have gotten there in the 15th century - a Swiss watch.
Their hands froze at 10:06. On the back cover one could even see an inscription stating that this watch was made in Switzerland. So far, scientists have not been able to explain how they got into the untouched tomb.