So guy wearing an old coat and muttonchops goes for a walk in 1876, then gets zapped forward through time and flattened by a cab in 1950s New York. This is the tale of Rudolph Fentz, which originally appeared in a 1951 short story called “I’m Scared” by Jack Finney. Rudolph Fentz’s Time Travel Legend … Continue reading Fentz’s Folly: How a SciFi Short Became a Time Travel Legend