This iconic footage of a soul apparently talking on a cellphone in a Charlie Chaplin film is just one clue that time travelling is chance all around us . People have seen the past , and the future tense — and there are tons of telltale photographs and films . Here are the clearest signs of genuine - life time travel .
The Mouberly-Jourdain incident (or the Ghosts of Petit Trianon) in the gardens of the Petit Trianon, a small château located on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles, France, 5 March 2025
Two distaff academics , Eleanor Jourdain and Charlotte Anne Moberly allegedly experienced here a clock time slip , and saw Marie Antoinette , theComte de Vaudreuiland some other people in the clock time of the French Revolution .
( viaMyrabellaandWikimedia Commons )
An old woman using mobile phone in a short clip from the DVD extras of Charlie Chaplin’s film The Circus, 1928, spotted only in 2010 by filmmaker George Clark
It could bea Siemens hearing pawn , patented in 1924or a Western Electric Model 34A Audiphone Carbon Hearing help ( pictured below ) .
And the same account for this video from 1938 , showing a crowd exiting a factory in Massachusetts , 1938 :
( viaHearing Aid Museum )
The time slip of Air Marshal Sir Robert Victor Goddard over the former Royal Air Force station Drem Airfield in 1935
“ In 1935 , while still a Wing Commander , he was sent to inspect a disused airfield near Edinburgh at a piazza holler Drem . He found it in a very dilapidated state with oxen range on grass that had forced through cracks in the macadam .
afterwards that day , he ran into fuss while fly his biplane in ponderous rain and decided to fly back to Drem to get his bearings .
As he approached the flying field the torrential rain short change to promising sunlight . When he looked down he saw the flying field had been whole renovated and was now in habit . There were mechanics in blue overall walking around and four yellow planes park on the runway . One of these was a framework which , for all his air power experience , he completely failed to recognize . ” – according toTime traveling : A New Perspective , by J. H. Brennan
Four years later , RAF began to paint their sheet yellow and the car-mechanic uniforms were switched to blue .
( viaPlanes and ChoppersandScotlands Places )
The man often called Time Traveling Hipster from the reopening ceremony of South Forks Bridge in Gold Bridge, British Columbia, Canada, 1941
That eccentric of sunglass with leather side shield were used since the 1920s and he ’s wearing the jumper of a hockey squad instead of a modern T - shirt , but it ’s still a cool photo !
( viaForgetomori )
The Philadelphia Experiment, 1943
There were no such experiment , of course , but some composition state that U.S. Navy ruiner escort USS Eldrige travelled back in time for about 10 moment on October 28 , 1943 .
( viaWikimedia Commons )
Henry Fonda and Shirley Temple checking their stagecoach route on an iPhone in the movie Fort Apache (1948)
We promise that they used Google Maps instead of Apple ’s Maps app .
The Fentz legend, 1950s
This urban legend is about a world in his former thirties named Rudolph Fentz , who was hit by a taxi and fatally injured at New York City ’s Time Square in mid - June 1950 , dressed in the fashion of the former 1800s . In his pocket there were a copper token for a beer , a flier for the concern of a Equus caballus and the washing of a carriage , a letter from 1876 , 70 dollars and business sector cards , all without any signs of aging . A NYPD policeman found a someone who was disappeared in 1876 in the age of 29 .
The storey originated in a 1951 sci - fi short story by Jack Finney , but the legend has been reported since the 1970s as an evidence for the beingness of prison term travel .
( viaTranspress NZ )
The Mountauk Project conspiration theory
The Montauk Air Force Station reportedly has a real clock time tunnel in its ulterior laboratory that allowed scientists to travel back to 1943 . This story started with two mankind , the generator Preston B. Nichols and Al Bielek in the eighties , when they had begun to “ recover repressed retentiveness of working in the lab ” .
Time-traveler busted for insider trading, March 2003
The story originated with the Weekly World News , but appeared in some newspapers after Yahoo reprinted it two weeks later :
[ … ] ” The fact is , with an initial investment of only $ 800 , in two weeks ’ prison term he had a portfolio esteem at over $ 350 million . Every patronage he made capitalize on unexpected business organization developments , which but ca n’t be pure circumstances . ”
“ The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inner entropy . He ’s going to sit down in a jail cellular phone on Rikers Island until he agrees to give up his reference . ”
The past year of nose - diving stock prices has left most investor crying in their beer . So when Carlssin made a fuss of 126 high - risk trades and came out the victor every prison term , it raised the brow of Wall Street watchdogs . [ … ] Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 year in the time to come , when it is common knowledge that our era experienced one of the uncollectible blood line plunges in history . Yet anyone armed with knowledge of the smattering of stocks destine to go through the cap could make a fortune .
“ It was just too tempting to protest , ” Carlssin allegedly said in his tape confession . “ I had design to make it look natural , you know , suffer a short here and there so it does n’t attend too everlasting . But I just got caught in the moment . ” [ … ] – according toa Yahoo Entertainment clause , found in the Internet Archive here .
( viaEngelcastandSnopes )
The story of John Titor
A man , appeared on some online bulletin card in 2000 and 2001 , and claim to be a time traveller from 2036 . He made numerous predictions about events after 2004 and oftendescribed his meter machine .
None of those consequence have happen yet .
( viaStranger Dimensions )
The story of Håkan Nordkvist, who just met with an older version of himself, 2006
Nordkvist slipped through a wormhole in his kitchen and met an older man who had the same tattoo as Håkan . He just cognise that no one ’s endure to trust this — so he shoot the encounter .
As everyone later discovered , this was just part of an advertizing cause of the Swedish insurance company AMF , made by Forsman & Bodenfors .
( viaForsman&Bodenfors )
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