Ladies and gentlemen, we have a problem.
This is an old post on time travel I wrote back in 2012. It’s since been updated and expanded, and the new version can be found over at Time Travel Proof: The Mounting Evidence Of A Broken Timeline. Try not to take it too seriously. However, I wanted to put this original post back up because of all the amazing comments I’ve received on it over the years.
You’ll find them below. But just to give this post at least some remaining content, let’s take a brief look back at the old pictures I shared here.
Evidence of time travel in Chinese tomb?
This time travel claim dates back to at least 2008, when it was featured in a very short and vague article by the Daily Mail. The original images were actually found on some old backwater message board, but the story was that a group of archaeologists uncovered a “watch” in a 400-year-old tomb.
Now, I don’t know about you, but that doesn’t look like a watch so much as a miniature replica of a watch. Was it actually discovered in a tomb? Where is it now, and why’s it so tiny? The universe is mysterious indeed!
Oh no it’s a bridge
I go over this one in detail over in my post Looking Back: Canadian Museum Attempts To Unravel 1941’s ‘Time Traveling Hipster.’ It’s an interesting story if you’re curious about how urban legends get started online, check it out!
The Circus
Someone holds up something to their ear during a behind-the-scenes featurette on the DVD version of Charlie Chaplin’s film The Circus. Therefore, time travel.
You can’t just hold things to your ear
It’s a sure sign of time travel.
Andrew D. Basiago’s Trip To Gettysburg
I go over this particular photograph over in my post Andrew Basiago’s 1863 Gettysburg Time Travel Photo. Long story short, the picture is real, the story whatever you make of it!
Rudolph Fentz, The Storybook Time Traveler
This is a picture of some guy. However, the story of Rudolph Fentz is often told in support of real time travel claims, despite the whole thing originally appearing in Jack Finney’s short story compilation About Time: 12 Short Stories.
John Titor
The above was claimed to be part of a schematic describing John Titor’s time machine. Read more about John Titor over in the encyclopedia entry or the John Titor tag.
It’s a box
A painting from the 1800s shows a box, which some claim might be a CD box. If someone shows up with a CD box today, are they also a time traveler? Maybe!
HDR
The Hyper Dimensional Resonator is said to enable time travel or astral projection through the use of interdimensional vortices (possible like the vile vortices).
I drew the above picture for some reason, probably because I couldn’t find a decent photo to use. Head on over to my post The “Real” Time Machine for more (information, not drawings).
Time Travel Proof Under the Kitchen Sink?
This was from a television commercial, but some claims it was proof of actual time travel. My post Did This Man Find A Wormhole Under His Kitchen Sink? goes over more.
Safety Not Guaranteed
A classified ad popped up in a 1997 issue of Backwoods Home Magazine. It stated the following:
“WANTED: Somebody to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. P.O. Box 322, Oakview, CA 93022. You’ll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before.”
This led to an entire film based on the ad called, well, Safety Not Guaranteed.
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Okay, well. Perhaps the space-time continuum is safe, after all.
Is time travel possible? At the end of the day, it’s all just a bunch of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey…stuff. Like I said, this post exists mostly for posterity, but check out the comments below!
