Time Travel Urban Legends
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Odd Corners
Time Glitches Out And Legends Are Born In Jack Finney’s “I’m Scared”
If you’re looking for some time slip fiction, Jack Finney’s 1951 short story “I’m Scared” is a pretty good ride.…
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Digital Folklore
Looking Back: Canadian Museum Attempts To Unravel 1941’s ‘Time Traveling Hipster’
A long, long time ago, the Internet was ablaze with viral images of would-be time travelers and out-of-place artifacts. Do…
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Digital Folklore
TikTok Time Traveler Says We’re About to Find a Cloned Earth
According to a post by the Daily Star, a TikTok time traveler claims astronauts are about to find human life…
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Digital Folklore
Tempus Edax Rerum
Tempus Edax Rerum is a Latin phrase which translates to “time devours all things.” Tangentially related to the alleged time…
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Digital Folklore
Origin Year 8100: An Alien Message from the Future?
“Origin Year 8100” is the final line in the translated binary code allegedly received by Sergeant Jim Penniston during the…
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Digital Folklore
A (New) Look At John Titor’s Predictions
As I wrote nearly eight years ago, “John Titor’s story was painted in the dulcet, midnight colors of Coast to…
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Digital Folklore
John Titor: The Time Traveler from the Year 2036
John Titor was an alleged time traveler from the year 2036, who shared detailed information about his time machine, mission,…
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Digital Folklore
What Is Alter Vu?
Alter vu is a term that describes the feeling of remembering something differently, or experiencing visions or dreams of events…
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Digital Folklore
Time Travelers At Work: Strange Missions Into the Past
There’s always a mission. Whether it be John Titor and his quest to retrieve the IBM 5100, or Project Pegasus…
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Digital Folklore
The Strange Tale of a YouTube Time Traveler
In the future, there will be artificially intelligent governments. That’s according to yet another alleged YouTube time traveler, who was…