In the first few months of 2018, a lot of news from time travelers appeared on the Internet. These guys almost never give their names or show their faces. They fly in from the future to tell about the time that our descendants will see, warn against mistakes and show how humanity will live in thousands of years. Many netizens believe that these people are fake and that time travel is impossible with scientific point vision. However, there are those who believe their every word and prepare for the events that were told about by "people from the future" on YouTube. So what future did the time travelers predict for us? Let's try to figure it out.

World War III

Michael Phillips, who was born in 2043. According to him, already in 2019, a nuclear conflict will break out between the United States and North Korea, culminating in the bombing of the DPRK and the assassination of Kim Jong-un. A destructive but quick war will lead to an economic and migration crisis on a global scale, due to which the situation in the world will escalate and the Third World War will break out.

In 2020, Russia and China will create a bloc against the US, the UK and a number of other countries. Hundreds of millions of people will die during a bloody war using nuclear weapons.

Judging by other messages from time travelers, this war will be the bloodiest and the last of its kind for mankind. It will unite peoples and nations, as a result of which peace will reign on the planet for thousands of years, with the exception of some regional conflicts.

Cities and life

Time travelers claim that the cities of the future will be radically different from those we see now. The buildings will be incredibly tall, and you can get from one end to the other in a matter of minutes thanks to high-speed public transport.

Many people will live carefree lives and become happier. Robots will do the work instead. They will clean the house, perform surgeries and walk pets there. Each person will have their own stable standard income, and additional income can only be obtained through innovation and work in the field of science. Thus, the poor class will disappear as such, and technology will develop at an incredible pace.

People will stop shopping - instead, according to a schedule, the necessary things and products will be delivered to their homes by a certain time. Women and men will devote more time to themselves and become completely equal. The concept of homosexuality, inequality and so on will disappear. People will walk with robots and. In addition, humanity will actively communicate with aliens.

The medicine

Within a few decades, medicine will take a long step forward. Diseases like cancer will take no longer to heal than the flu. And in a few hundred years, people will forget about such a thing as childbirth. A person will be "grown" in special capsules from a spermatozoon and an egg. At the same time, parents will be able to choose the color and type of hair or eyes, skin color and talents. Travelers claim that by 2030, mankind will have learned to change the DNA of people, preventing most diseases in the future, but the constant use of such technologies in practice will come into use no earlier than 2200. A man who arrived from the year 4000 claims that thanks to the development of technology, people will live up to 600 years.

In the next 2,000 years, people will face several epidemics of serious diseases that, with the current development of technology, would be difficult to defeat. However, in the future, such problems will be solved within a few hours: immediately after the outbreak, the systems will select the necessary components to neutralize viruses or other diseases in the body.

Future technologies

Of the upcoming events that people from the future predicted will be a trip to Mars. Michael Phillips claims that by the mid-2020s, when Michael McIntosh becomes the new US president, SpaceX will reach the Red Planet.

In the year 4000, the car manufacturer Zucar will be popular on Earth. Cars will fly, and advanced safety technologies will virtually eliminate the possibility of accidents. The co-founder of Zucar, who arrived from the future, that people will get to the right places much faster by air, and advanced systems will allow even a beginner to safely drive a flying car.

Global catastrophes

James Oliver on our planet and in our time. By occupation, he is a futuristic archaeologist - he travels to different time periods to study them and collect various artifacts. The guy argues that people should now pay close attention to the Yellowstone caldera.

A guest from the future said that humanity is waiting for the eruption of a supervolcano, the mouth of which measures 55 by 72 kilometers. A new catastrophe will not only deal a terrible blow to the United States, but will also lead to the fact that a huge amount of ash and ash will be in the atmosphere. This will provoke a global collapse and a long, harsh winter because the sunlight will not penetrate through the dense black veil.

Oliver claims that it will take at least five years to minimize the effects of a volcanic eruption. Throughout this time, the United States will be a barren territory in which it will not be possible to engage in agriculture. All this will happen in the next 200 years.

Another traveler named that in the next thousand years, humanity will still be dismissive of environment because of which as a result global warming ice caps melt. Sea levels will rise sharply and almost all land will be flooded - people will have to survive under water. To prove his words, the guy showed a photo of the flooded Los Angeles, where people continue to live.

dark time

A man who arrived from 3300 said that after 12 centuries. There will be almost no trees and animals left, and humanity will get involved in a war with out-of-control artificial intelligence and robots.

The person who told about this was born on December 1, 2058 in the European Empire. At the age of 18, he joined the army, went to the future and took part in the war with robots that filled the planet and are subject to powerful artificial intelligence. The war with them began on September 21, 3300. On the side of people fought the inhabitants of other planets and galaxies. However, the result was a foregone conclusion: artificial intelligence easily beat people and their allies, tracking them through numerous sensors and cameras installed in cities. Billions of people died, leaving only about 8 hundred resistance fighters who hid in the ruins.

How the traveler was able to get out of there and ended up in our era is hard to say. He claims that he has a mission to prevent such a development of events and change the future. Apparently, the guy succeeded, because we have already seen guests from the 4000s and 5000s, and everything was fine there.

Secrets of the past

Time travelers told not only about what will happen in the future, but also revealed some secrets of the past. For example, about the tragedy of September 11, when one of the worst terrorist attacks in modern history took place.

A time traveler named Titor from the year 2038 to stage the largest terrorist attack in history on US soil. At the same time, Michael Phillips claims that the latter was driven by good intentions.

It turns out that at that time the country was on the verge of the second civil war in US history, which was supposed to break out in 2008. The attack on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, which killed 3,000 people, allowed American society to rally around a common enemy, which was international terrorism. The threat of civil war, the causes of which were not explained, was over.

Approximately such a future is drawn to us by travelers from the future. However, skeptics argue that the time machine violates the second law of thermodynamics, which states that all processes in nature occur with an increase in entropy. A simplified illustration of this thesis is the famous "butterfly effect": any action in the past committed by "guests from the future" has an unpredictable impact on subsequent events. In other words, if at least one tenth of the time travelers' words are true, the events they tell will never happen again.

Sensational photographs, videos and eyewitness accounts surface again and again on the Internet, which are immediately accepted as irrefutable evidence the existence of time travelers. The ten most ridiculous arguments of those who are trying to justify the possibility of traveling to the past and the future are collected in this article.

On the back cover of this "watch" supposedly there is an engraving "Swiss"

In December 2008, Chinese archaeologists discovered an ancient tomb. The tomb in Shanxi province, they believe, remained untouched for 400 years.

Before the archaeologists could open the coffin, a strange metal object resembling a ring was discovered in the ground next to it. Upon closer examination, it turned out that it was a tiny gold clock, the frozen hands of which indicated five past ten. The case back was engraved with the word "Swiss" ("Made in Switzerland"). A watch of this model cannot possibly be more than a hundred years old. So how did they end up in the ground above a sealed tomb during the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644)? Is there really a traveler from the future involved here?

Perhaps the Chinese archaeologists just wanted to draw a little attention to their hard and underestimated work, and just in time they found an ordinary ring that has a funny resemblance to modern watches. It remains only to take a couple of photos, carefully avoiding the angle from which the coveted back cover with the “Swiss” engraving will be visible, and trumpet about the sensational find of the media.

Moberly-Jourdain incident

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France from 1774 to 1792, met by time travelers from 1901

Time travel reports are, of course, not limited to the modern era. Descriptions of such cases periodically occur over the course of many decades. One of them is dated August 10, 1901.

Two English teachers, Charlotte Mauberly and Eleanor Jourdain, who were on vacation in France, decided to visit the Petit Trianon castle, but were not familiar with the surroundings of Versailles. Having gone astray, they finally reached their destination... 112 years earlier.

Travelers recall seeing a woman shaking a white tablecloth out of a window and an abandoned farm in the distance before something strange began to happen.

“Everything around suddenly became unnatural, unpleasant,” writes Jourdain. - Even the trees have become as if flat and lifeless, like a pattern on a carpet. There was no light, no shadow, and the air was perfectly still."

After a while, Moberly and Jourdain ran into a group of people dressed in fashion. late XVIII century, which showed them the way to the palace. And on the steps of the palace they met the French queen herself, Marie Antoinette.

Somehow, the travelers managed to return to their 1901 rented apartment. Taking pseudonyms, they wrote a book about their adventure, which was received very ambiguously by the public. Someone considered their story a hoax, someone - a hallucination or a meeting with ghosts.

There are also more mundane versions: Mauberly and Jourdain witnessed a historical reconstruction, or simply wrote a fantastic story inspired by H. G. Wells' Time Machine, published in 1895.

Pilot's journey to Scotland of the future

Illustration for the film "The Night I Die", in which an official predicts a plane crash

RAF Marshal Victor Goddard's life was full of strange unexplained cases. For example, one day his plane crashed exactly as in a dream that one of his acquaintances told him about shortly before. This incident formed the basis of the film The Night I Die. And in 1975, Goddard published a photo in which you can allegedly see a ghost.

Long before the release of the film and gaining fame among fans of mysticism, Goddard was an ordinary Air Force pilot who went through the First and Second World Wars. He has also lectured in engineering at Jesus College, Cambridge and Imperial College London. In 1935 he was appointed Deputy Director of Intelligence for the RAF. Apparently, the British government considered Goddard to be a completely sane person without the slightest hint of paranormality, but popular culture has a different opinion.

In his book Time Travel: New Perspectives, the Irish writer D. H. Brennan recounts a strange incident that supposedly happened to Goddard while inspecting an abandoned airfield near Edinburgh in 1935. The airfield was dilapidated and dilapidated; Grass was breaking out from under the asphalt, which was chewed by local cows. On the way home, Goddard got into a storm and was forced to return. On approaching the abandoned airfield, he was surprised to find that the storm suddenly stopped, and the sun came out, and the airfield itself was completely transformed. It was repaired, mechanics in blue overalls scurried along it, and four yellow aircraft of an unknown model to Goddard stood on the runway. The pilot did not land and did not tell anyone about what he saw. Four years later, the RAF began painting planes yellow and mechanics began to wear blue uniforms, just like in his vision.

It is a pity, after all, that Goddard did not land at the airfield of the future and did not bring any artifact from there. Then, perhaps, there would be at least some reason for believing his words.

An unknown artist's fantasy of what the secret Philadelphia experiment might have looked like

The US Navy is known for its interest in dangerous futuristic technology, from mind control and psychological weapons to robots and time travel. The legend of the Philadelphia Experiment says that on October 28, 1943, they conducted a secret experiment, codenamed "Project Rainbow", during which the destroyer Eldridge was supposed to become invisible to enemy radars, but instead went 10 seconds into the past.

Reports of this experiment are somewhat vague and the US Navy has never confirmed that it actually took place, but of course no one believes the US government and the rumors continue to circulate.

Some argue that the ship experiment is based on the unified field theory developed by Albert Einstein. Allegedly, in accordance with this theory, a special electromagnetic field was created around the ship, which caused the "bending" of light, and with it the entire space-time continuum, due to which the ship became invisible and moved in time. But for some reason, everyone forgot about this amazing technology immediately after the experiment. Including the sailors who served on that destroyer, unanimously claiming that some crazy person invented this whole story.

Montauk Project

Frightening-looking radar in Montauk leads locals to believe that secret experiments are being carried out somewhere nearby.

And again about the secrets of the American government, the distrust of which among the people has only increased in recent years because of the story of Edward Snowden. Project Montac, like Rainbow, is highly classified and involves electromagnetic fields. Frightening experiments, including time travel, are allegedly being conducted at the Camp Hero air station in the city of Montauk near New York.

The founder of the legend is the American writer Preston Nichols, who claims that he managed to restore his memory, which was erased after his participation in time travel experiments. According to his own words, Nichols holds a degree in parapsychology. He dedicated a YouTube video to his experience of time travel, and it must be said that it is rather strange.

Let's try to be as unbiased as possible given the above facts. Nichols claims that the U.S. government is conducting secret mind control experiments, and this may be true if you think about Project MK Ultra, a secret CIA program aimed at finding ways to manipulate the human mind with the help of psychotropic drugs.

That's just one thing drugs and interrogation methods and quite another - electromagnetic fields and time travel. The influence of electromagnetic fields on human consciousness or the space-time continuum has not yet been proven anywhere and by anyone.

The Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider is a particle accelerator built on the border between France and Switzerland.

There are very few real experts at the Hadron Collider. Why, most people can't even pronounce its name correctly. And yet everyone has their own opinion about what researchers at CERN do. Some are convinced that they are building a time machine - what else can all these complex devices be needed for, if not to fulfill our fantasies inspired by science fiction films?

To date, the LHC is the most complex experimental facility in the world. It is located at a depth of 175 meters above the ground. In the “ring” of the accelerator, which is almost 27 thousand meters long, protons collide at a speed close to the speed of light. Both scientists and the press are concerned that the operation of the collider could create black holes. However, after several launches of the installation, nothing of the kind has happened yet, but in 2012 the Higgs boson was discovered. It was because of him that the rumor began that the LHC was the first step towards building a time machine.

Physicists Tom Weiler and Chui Meng Ho of Vanderbilt University suggest that in the future it will be possible to detect another particle - the Higgs singlet, which has incredible properties that violate causal relationships. According to the hypothesis of scientists, this particle is able to move into the fifth dimension and move in time in any direction, into the past and into the future. "Our theory may seem presumptuous," Weiler says, "but it doesn't defy the laws of physics."

Unfortunately, ordinary person, far from physics, it is difficult to check whether this is really the case. We have to take the word of the authors of the theory.

Mobile phones in old movies

It seems that this elderly woman, who can be seen in additional materials to Charlie Chaplin's film "The Circus", talking on a mobile phone (1928)

The Internet user community is the greatest detective mind in history. Reddit users have been investigating the Boston bombing in 2013, another group of volunteers are looking for scammers online, and everyone else is busy looking for evidence of time travel in the most unlikely places. For example, attentive detectives found an interesting fragment on the DVD edition of Charlie Chaplin's film "The Circus", which they immediately uploaded to YouTube. When the film's extras show the crowd gathered for the opening night at Grauman's Chinese Theater in 1928, a woman can be seen in the background talking on a mobile phone.

Or rather, with this quality of the video, we can only say with certainty that she really holds something near her ear. Historians cooled the general ardor, saying that this may be one of the first models of the Siemens hearing aid, but this version did not seem convincing enough to conspiracy theorists. They found another video, this one from 1938, of a girl talking on a mobile phone, who would hardly need a hearing aid. Still, it's not very convincing. Maybe we need more old videos of people holding something to their ear and talking.

And in the following excerpt from the 1948 film, our contemporaries stubbornly see the iPhone at 18 seconds. Have you ever wondered how people traveled in carriages without GPS? It turns out they had to use smartphones! In fact, the actor in the video is holding an ordinary notebook, and Internet detectives should look for something more convincing.

Immortal Nicolas Cage

Double Nicolas Cage from the XIX century

It's hard to imagine anyone taking this seriously, but it's quite popular on the internet to search for vintage photographs and portraits of people who look like modern-day celebrities. Here, for example, is a copy of Nicolas Cage from the 19th century. The uninformed compilers of the textbook in which the photo appeared claim that it depicts Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico. How could they not notice such a striking resemblance to the actor from National Treasure and Ghost Rider?

Of course, this case is far from the first and not the only one. Widely known portraits of Keanu Reeves in 1570 and 1875 and a photograph of John Travolta from 1860.

Keanu Reeves with a "double" from the past

John Travolta - Vampire or Time Traveler?

Opinions differ regarding such coincidences. Someone claims that all these actors are immortal vampires, and someone considers them to be time travelers. Cage himself on the David Letterman show denied the version of his vampirism, so only the second option remains.

Apparently, Hollywood has a secret time machine at its disposal specifically to help actors better prepare for roles in historical films. But irresponsible actors perceive it as an additional vacation: they take pictures, they rule Mexico ... Well, what kind of people.

John Titor

One of the drawings of John Titor, with which he tried to explain the device of his time machine

It turns out that on the Internet you can find not only evidence of time travel, but also the travelers themselves. Today, however, we all fall into this category: one has only to look at the news feed for five minutes, and three hours are gone.

At the beginning of the noughties social media weren't that popular. In those days, people communicated on the so-called boards - forums that look rather unusual for us today. To start a conversation, one had to start new topic. The author of one of the popular themes was a certain John Titor, who claimed that he arrived from the year 2036, and cited a number of predictions to support his words.

Some of them were rather vague, some more specific. Titor claimed that America of the future was on the verge of destruction due to a nuclear attack, after which it broke up into five regions. Most other countries have ceased to exist. He also posted blueprints for his time machine, but no one ever tried to build something from them. None of his predictions have come true so far.

What can I say, on the Internet you can really be anyone. I wonder why no one pretends to be a time traveler today? Is pretending to be a celebrity more interesting?

Leakage of information from the future

The researcher is waiting for the appearance of messages from the future on the Internet

And again about the Internet. John Titor and others like him simply could not leave the people of science indifferent.

Robert Nemirov and Teresa Wilson from Michigan technological university for several years they have been exploring the network for traces that time travelers could leave. To do this, they use special Google magic to look for references to certain events that are dated earlier than these events actually happened, for example, information about the comet C / 2012 S1 that appeared before 2012, or the phrase "Pope Francis" that appeared somewhere or until March 2013, in which Francis was elected pope. It is assumed that if time travelers use the Internet to communicate, then somewhere their phrases must be found that do not correspond to their date. Agree, the idea is quite interesting. So what did the researchers find? - you ask.

Nothing. There are no information traces of time travelers on the Internet. As if comforting those whose hopes have been shattered, the scientists write: “Although the study did not confirm that there are time travelers from the future among us using the Internet to communicate, it is also possible that they simply cannot leave any traces of their stay in the past, even intangible . In addition, discovering information about them may be impossible for us, since this would be a violation of some of the laws of physics known today. Finally, time travelers may not want to be found and carefully cover their tracks.”

It turns out that time travelers exist, they are just invisible, hiding and cannot leave any traces! Very convincing, isn't it?

Time travel is not as mysterious as it seems. Theoretically, it is enough just to accelerate to a speed exceeding the speed of light, and you will find yourself in the future. But no one knows yet how to do it. There is another problem: you will not be able to return, because this would violate the causal relationship. Therefore, as Stephen Hawking said: "Time travel is possible, but useless."

Everyone, probably, would not mind being able to travel in time to fix something in the past or peep into the future. The only pity is that this is not possible. Or perhaps?

If the stories in this collection are to be believed - and they seem very realistic - some people have managed to cheat the laws of physics and logic and make jumps through time and space.

1. Rudolf Fentz

In 1951, a man in a traditional 19th-century outfit was seen in New York, who was genuinely surprised at the cars driving around the city. As it turned out later, this same man went missing in 1876. The "belonging" of the stranger to the last century was confirmed by the contents of his pockets. But even this did not convince some scientists who believe that the story of Rudolf Fentz is nothing more than a legend.

2. Chronovisor

In one of his books, Father François Brun, a French priest, told that his colleague Pellegrino Ernetti, who was also a scientist, developed a kind of machine that allows him to see through time and space. Such statements made a lot of noise, but there was no official confirmation of the existence of the chronovisor.

3. Ettore Majorana

On March 27, 1938, the Italian scientist Ettore Majorana disappeared on his boat in the waters between Palermo and Naples. The disappearance became a sensation. Majorana was searched for by all authorities, but even a trace of the scientist could not be found. Only in 1955, a man was found in Argentina, like two drops of water similar to Ettore. An analysis of the photos of the two men confirmed the high probability that they depict the same person. And since, after almost two decades, Majorana has not changed at all, many have decided that he simply invented a time machine and traveled with it.

4. Nicolas Cage

Tentatively, this photo of "Nicolas Cage from the past" was taken in 1870. Although no one knows for sure who exactly is depicted in the picture, it was sold on eBay for a million dollars.

5. Charlotte Mauberly and Eleanor Jourdain

In 1911, a pair of these English scientists and writers published The Adventure under the pseudonyms Elizabeth Morison and Frances Lamont. Women claimed that they managed to return to the past, and also talked about their meeting with the ghost of Marie Antoinette. Reading, I must say, turned out not too convincing and caused a lot of indignation.

6. Hakan Nordqvist

Swede Hakan Nordqvist has uploaded a video to YouTube in which he allegedly met himself from the future from the present. The author assured that he got into 2042 thanks to the bedside table under the sink, where the portal was located - the guy found it when he undertook to repair the pipe. However, as it turned out later, this video was nothing more than an advertisement for one insurance company.

7. "Philadelphia experiment"

This is the name of the tests of the US Navy, conducted during the Second World War, during which the destroyer "Eldridge" bounced back in time by 10 seconds and due to this became invisible to radars. Alas, many experts consider this story an ordinary fiction.

Swiss Meyer claims that he communicated with aliens. The latter allegedly kidnapped him and brought him back to the past, where he took several photos of dinosaurs, which, unfortunately, did not convince critics of the veracity of Billy's story.

9. Iranian time traveler

In 2003 the Iranian information Agency"Fars" spread the news that the 27-year-old scientist managed to develop a time machine with which people could see the future. But a few days later, a refutation of this amazing story followed.

10. Andrew Karlssin

In January 2003, he was arrested on suspicion of financial fraud. Andrew made 126 very risky trades, and all of them were successful. His starting capital was only $800. After the transactions, Karlssin's fortune increased to 350 million. Later in the reports, he stated that he had simply been in the future and even knew where Osama bin Laden was hiding.

11. "A man handing a letter to a woman in the hall of the house"

That was the name of the painting that Tim Cook admired while at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Is it a coincidence that the letter depicted on the canvas is shaped very much like an iPhone? The similarity surprised Cook, who says that he always knew the dates of the invention of the smartphone from Apple, but now he began to doubt his knowledge ...

12 Chaplin Time Travel

In 2010, director George Clark posted on the Internet a video cut of stills from the films of Charlie Chaplin. At some point, a woman appears on the screen, talking on a mobile phone. At least her posture strongly indicates this. But since we are talking about the footage edited in 1928, many critics, skeptics and scientists have come to the conclusion that most likely the heroine of the movie is simply holding a hearing aid in her hands or straightening her hair.

13. "Fort Apache"

The film was made in 1948. During a stagecoach ride, the hero of actor Henry Fonda took out something resembling an iPhone in order to get directions. Seeing this, the audience made a real commotion - where did the modern gadget come from in the picture of the 48th. But the experts hurried to reassure everyone and assured that this was something in the hands of the Foundation - just a notebook.

14. Eugene Helton

A rather eccentric man who calls himself VonHelton and shows himself in photos from different periods of history. In his opinion, this proves his ability to travel through time. But do not forget that Eugene sometimes calls himself a vampire and periodically asks NASA for the coordinates of the "space fleet".

15. CD box

In the 1800s painting in the hands, some people could see the CD case. And it really looks like it!

16. Montauk Project

One of the US Air Force experiments related to time travel, which, like the Philadelphia experiment, is not taken seriously by scientists.

17. Mike Tyson vs. Peter Mac Neely

At the 1995 fight, a man was seen in the stands holding an object very similar to a smartphone. A photo " unidentified object” was the subject of heated debate, but in the end, the debaters came to the conclusion that it was just an old digital camera.

18 DuPont Factory Worker

In the crowd of workers leaving the factory after a day's work, one woman catches the eye, who seems to be talking on a mobile phone. And a certain lady, who claims to be the granddaughter of the lady in the photo, confirmed that her relative was indeed testing the new wireless machine.

19. John Titor

From 2000 to 2001, the name of a certain Internet user, John Titor, was rumored, who claimed that he had arrived from the future - 2036 - on a military mission. The “Messiah” assured that in 2008 the United States would be destroyed during a civil war, and after that, in 2015, the world would be subjected to a nuclear attack. After his predictions did not come true, John Titor disappeared from all radars and did not make any more predictions.

20. Film about civil defense of the 50s

In the video, the blackboard reads "Game 2 Giants 9 Rangers 0" along with the words "C", "No", "Warning". American football fans quickly realized that this was a real account of the second game of the 2010 World Series, in which the Giants and Rangers met.

21. Andrew Basiago and William Stillings

In 2004, Basiago, an American lawyer, claimed that he was part of a time travel experiment that the government conducted in the 70s. According to Andrew, he visited civil war and even visited Mars. Soon Basiago's words were confirmed by several other people, among whom was William Stillings. All of them stated that they also participated in the experiments, during which the United States sent to secret base There are about 100 thousand people on Mars, of which only 7 thousand managed to survive.

22. Tim Jones

In the early 2000s, a man calling himself Tim Jones sent out emails asking recipients for a "dimensional warp generator." In the end, it turned out that these were the tricks of the spammer Robert Jay. Todino, who actually believes he is capable of time travel.

23. A man from the future at the opening of the bridge

He earned the nickname "the time-traveling hipster". He was spotted in a photo from the opening of a bridge in British Columbia in 1941. The man caught my eye because he is wearing a printed T-shirt, dark glasses, and he also holds a camera in his hands, which did not exist in those days. But skeptics, of course, argue that this is not a time traveler, but all questionable things could easily be bought in many stores already in 1941.

It turns out that Nicolas Cage is not the only time-traveling actor. John Travolta, for example, also visited the past. Around 1860. Oddly enough, the photo of the "actor" was also put up for sale on eBay. But the fact that the seller asks for a picture of only 50 thousand dollars is strange.

25. Unknown Time Traveler

According to the theory of relativity, fast motion greatly slows down the passage of time. That is, if you go into space at a speed close to the speed of light, you can eventually return to Earth in about 100 years. This means that, in principle, travel to the future, from a physical point of view, is permissible. But science does not know how to return to the past. And even if someone did manage to break the space-time continuum, we will not know the result of the experiment - sending a message is problematic!

The mysterious world in which we live has an unusually complex properties, has not yet been fully explored. Can time change its direction, allowing us to penetrate into the past or the future? Do time travelers really exist? Can they change the past and then return to their era? On the this moment many facts have been found that testify to what is real. This article describes some of them.

Mobile phone in 1928

The video, filmed on the day of the premiere of the film "The Circus", in which the main role was played by Charlie Chaplin, recorded an unusual woman. Judging by the material, she is holding something resembling a modern mobile phone near her ear. Now this does not surprise anyone, but in those days no one even heard of cell phones. It could be assumed that the woman made a journey into the past.

George Clark, who first noticed this in a year of studying the material, did not find a convincing explanation. A version was put forward that this is not a phone, but a hearing aid. Although in those days there could not be hearing aids of such a small size either.

Opening of the South Fork Bridge

It happened in 1941. The picture showed people watching the opening of the bridge in. Among them was an unusual-looking man, as if he had traveled into the past. He was dressed in a university T-shirt, which had no analogues at that time, as well as a fashionable sweater. Sunglasses young man were modern model. In addition, the camera that this man had with him was very different from the 1940 models.

The photo was carefully examined, during which it turned out that it had not been subjected to any processing, that is, it recorded a real event with real people. Isn't this proof that time travelers exist?

Swiss clock in the tomb

They were discovered in China while filming a documentary in a tomb that had been empty for four centuries. The case back of the watch was engraved with "Swiss". Which time travelers left Swiss watches in ancient tomb, has not yet been established. The fact that in the 17th century a similar clock mechanism of such miniature dimensions could be created is out of the question.

in France

There is another story about time travel. In 2008, archaeologists from the University of Bristol conducted excavations at the French castle of Château Gaillard, during which they discovered something unusual.

At a depth of 2.5 meters, iron objects were found, which are the protective armor of a warrior. A buried skeleton of a horse was found nearby. Coins found in the same place indicated that these finds date back to the reign of Richard I the Lionheart.

Archaeologists were shocked after the fragments were carefully removed and cleaned from the soil. It turned out that the metal elements are parts of a knight's bicycle, which had been in the ground for almost nine centuries.

All fragments are well preserved, this is explained by the fact that before burial they were processed with melted wax. In addition, it was found that the bicycle parts are made of steel.

programmer from the future

Another case that could be proof that time travelers exist. In 1897, a man was detained in a Siberian town; he alerted the law enforcement officers with his unusual outfit. During the interrogation, Sergei Krapivin told about himself, which surprised everyone present a lot. It turned out that his year of birth is 1965. He was born in the city of Angarsk. The profession of a PC operator was not familiar to anyone around.

Krapivin could not tell anything about his appearance here. He only noted that before the arrest he felt severe pain in his head, which led to loss of consciousness. When he woke up, he saw around him an unfamiliar area.

It was not possible to establish how this person ended up in the past. The doctor, who was called to the station, considered Krapivin crazy and sent him to a lunatic asylum.

Case after the storm

A mysterious incident happened to a resident of Sevastopol, a retired military sailor Ivan Zalygin, after which he began to study the facts that help a person make a journey into the depths of time.

This story took place at the end of the 80s of the last century, Zalygin at that time served as deputy commander of a diesel submarine. One of the training trips ended with the fact that the boat was in the maelstrom of a lightning storm.

After the command to take the surface position, the sailor on duty discovered a rescue boat, in which there was a barely alive frostbitten man. He was dressed in the uniform of a Japanese military sailor during the Second World War. In addition, documents issued in 1940 were found with him.

The incident was reported to the base command. By order, the boat headed for the port of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, where counterintelligence was waiting for the rescued person. All crew members took this event for 10 years.

Zalygin described another amazing incident that happened in the Carpathians. Chaban and his fifteen-year-old son were in the summer camp. One evening, the father suddenly disappeared right in front of his son, who immediately began to call for help. But in less than a minute, the father appeared in the same place, as if out of thin air. As it turned out, a bright flash arose in front of the man, from which he lost consciousness. Waking up, the man found himself in an unfamiliar area with huge houses and cars scurrying through the air. The shepherd became ill again, and he ended up in the same place where he had disappeared from.

Guest from the Titanic

In 1990, in the North Atlantic, the crew of a Norwegian fishing trawler spotted a human figure on an iceberg. Rescuers took on board a young lady who was wet and very cold.

As it turned out, the woman's name is Winnie Coates, and she ended up in the middle of the ocean after the crash of the ship on which she traveled. The victim said that it is urgent to save the people who survived. This story surprised the captain very much, since there were no reports of a ship that was in distress.
In response to a question about the name of the ship, the woman showed the remains of a wet ticket from Southampton to New York. It had the date 1912 on it, and the ship was called the Titanic.

First of all, the captain thought that the woman had suffered severe stress and is just delirious. In Oslo, a team of doctors was called to her, the victim was placed in a psychiatric hospital. But after all the studies, it turned out that the victim is mentally absolutely healthy and adequate, she has a well-developed intellect, memory and attention.

During her stay at the clinic, some more details came to light. Winnie Coates, 29, was traveling with her two sons, her husband was supposed to meet them in New York, but the ship sank, and she ended up on an iceberg.

The woman's story has been carefully documented. It turned out that her ticket was genuine, and her clothes corresponded to the fashion of the early twentieth century. Somewhat later, her name was found in the list of passengers of the sunken ship. At the time when Vinnie Coates was discovered, she should have been 107 years old.

For ten years, the woman was monitored by psychiatrists who could not classify her condition as a mental illness and logically explain her behavior.

For a long time, scientists have been trying to solve the problem of time travel, but perhaps someday fantastic stories from films and books will turn into everyday reality for us.

In the history of mankind, there are many documented facts that testify to the real existence of such a phenomenon as the movement of living and inanimate objects in time. About appearance strange people, mechanisms and machines tell the ancient Egyptian annals and chronicles of the Middle Ages, documents of modern and recent times.

The Tobolsk archives contain the case of a certain Sergei Dmitrievich Krapivin, detained on the policeman's street. The guards seemed suspicious appearance and the unusual behavior of a middle-aged man. The detainee was immediately taken to the police station. During the interrogation that followed, the police were quite surprised by the information that Krapivin shared with them. According to him, it turned out that he was born on April 14, 1965. in the East Siberian city of Angarsk (the history of Angarsk began in 1945). It seemed very strange to the policeman and Krapivin's occupation - a PC operator. The detainee could not explain how he ended up in Tobolsk. According to the man, before that he had a severe headache, and then he lost consciousness. Waking up, Sergei Dmitrievich found himself in a completely unfamiliar place, near a small church.

A doctor was summoned to the suspicious man, who examined and listened to Krapivin, after which he admitted that he had a quiet insanity. At the insistence of Dr. Sergei Dmitrievich, they placed him in the city house of sorrow ...

Navy sailor in and legendary city Sevastopol Ivan Pavlovich Zalygin for fifteen recent years studies the phenomenon of movement in time. The captain of the second rank became interested in this phenomenon after one mysterious case, of which he became a witness and participant in the late 1980s. Then Ivan Pavlovich served on a diesel submarine as its deputy commander.

During the next training trip, the submarine, which was in the neutral waters of the La Perouse Strait, fell into a terrible thunderstorm. By order of the commander, she surfaced, and the sailor on duty immediately reported that he saw an unidentified floating craft right on the course. It turned out that this is a rescue boat, on board of which there was a half-dead frostbitten man, in the form of a Japanese military sailor from the Second World War. During the inspection of the personal belongings of the rescued, the submariners found an award parabellum and documents issued to the Japanese sailor on September 14, 1940 (esoreiter.ru).

All this was reported to the base, and the command ordered the boat to go to the South Sakhalin port, where counterintelligence officers were already waiting for it. The crew members of the submarine gave the GRU officers a non-disclosure agreement for the next ten years.

Soviet pilots who temporarily fell into the past

In 1976 Soviet Air Force pilot V. Orlov told that he saw military ground operations under the wing of his MiG-25, which seemed very strange to him. Scientists checked the descriptions of the pilot and realized that we are talking about the Battle of Gettysburg (USA), which took place in 1863.

In 1985, while flying over Africa, another military pilot saw instead of a desert savannah with many trees and grazing lawns ... dinosaurs.

In 1986 Soviet pilot A.Ustimov, performing the task, realized with amazement that he was flying over the territory ancient egypt!.. According to the pilot, he saw one completely built pyramid and the foundations of others with human figures swarming nearby.

Soviet tankers capture a Napoleonic soldier

In the card index of I.P. Zalygin there is an incident that occurred in 1944. next to the Gulf of Finland. A certain Vasily Troshev, who fought on the North-Western Front in the 3rd Panzer Army, told about him. There were battles for the liberation of Estonia. The reconnaissance tank division, commanded by Captain Troshev, accidentally stumbled upon a group of strangely dressed cavalrymen in the forest: such a uniform could only be seen in a history textbook. At the sight of the tanks, the unusual cavalrymen fled in panic. After a short pursuit, our fighters detained one of the horsemen, who, as it turned out, spoke French. Knowing about the Resistance movement, our tankers decided that in front of them was a member of this movement.

The cavalryman was taken to the army headquarters. Found an officer who once taught French to interrogate the "partisan". In the very first minutes of the conversation, both the translator and the staff officers were completely bewildered, since the man claimed that he was a cuirassier of the Napoleonic army. The remnants of his regiment retreat from Moscow for two weeks and try to get out of the encirclement, but a couple of days ago they got lost in heavy fog. The cuirassier confessed that he had a cold and was very hungry. When asked about the year of his birth, he said: 1772...

The next morning, the mysterious prisoner was taken away in an unknown direction by specially arrived special officers ...

How time travel works

IP Zalygin believes that there are a number of places on the planet where temporary displacements occur quite often. These places are located in areas of large geological faults, which are characterized by periodic and powerful energy emissions. The nature of these energies is not well understood today, but it is during their releases that space-time anomalies take place.

Temporary movements are by no means always irreversible. It happens that people who got into a different time manage to return back. In Zalygin's "collection" there is a case that happened in the early 1990s on the foothills of the Carpathian plateau with a local shepherd. The man and his fifteen-year-old son were then in the summer camp. One evening the shepherd suddenly disappeared right in front of his son. The frightened teenager began to scream, calling for help, but a minute later his father reappeared in the same place. He was very frightened and did not close his eyes until dawn. Only in the morning the shepherd decided to tell his son about his strange adventure. It turns out that at a certain moment he saw a bright flash in front of him and on a short time lost consciousness. The man woke up in some completely unfamiliar place: huge houses resembling pipes rose around him, incomprehensible fantastic machines scurried in the air. The shepherd even thought that he had died and ended up in afterlife, which in principle can look like anything. However, then the man became ill again - and after that, fortunately, he found himself in a familiar pasture ...

Russian scientists have been struggling to solve the problem of temporary displacements for a long time. Needless to say, learning to travel like this would be great. But first you need to scientifically substantiate this phenomenon and understand what time is after all ...

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