Three Cases of Real-Life Time Travellers

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Many of us first encountered the concept of Time Travel with the famous Delorean automobile that Doc Brown turned into a time-traveling device and together with Marty McFly traveled "Back To the Future".

Science fiction is often using the topic of time travel and we have witnessed some astonishing films and series and read quite a lot of amazing novels regarding this topic.

From H.G Wells that popularized time travel in the 19th century, and Doctor Who (the six-decade long-standing British TV-Series), to the Terminator franchise and the "12 Monkeys" movie, time travel has always been a fascinating topic.

Invitation to time-travellers by Professor Hawking

Theoretically, time travel is possible, since Albert Einstein concluded that with the Theory of Relativity. However, it is based on the hypothesis wormholes exist, something that we can't verify.

What we know today is that time travel to the future exists. It is not certain though if time travel to the past is or will ever be possible.

Iconic scientist Steven Hawking was so certain that time travel to the past will become reality in the future that decided to invite time-travelers to a party at the University of Cambridge in 2009. We are not sure of the result but probably no time traveler accepted the invitation, since Hawkins was the only one that attended.

However, we can't be sure about some occurrences that were captured by camera throughout the years and while they don't prove time travelers are real, still they leave way too many questions and possibilities open.

Let's charge our flux capacitor and examine three cases of possible time-travelers having already visited us in our timeline!

The Time Traveller Hipster!

This photo was taken during a bridge re-opening in Canada, in 1940. It is a real photograph that belongs to the "Bralorne Pioneer Museum" and researchers have validated this by visiting the museum and presented their findings on this YouTube video.

The image is black and white and it is just a crowd of people attending the event of the reopening of a bridge.

However, if we look carefully, there is one person that stands out from the rest.

Who is this guy? Everything about him is quite odd.

He is wearing modern sunglasses, he has a different haircut for that era, and his clothes seem to be out of place and time! He is wearing a t-shirt with the letter "M", which is an unrecognizable brand name, a cardigan, and possibly a hoodie.

He seems completely out of place and he is also holding a device in his hands that is probably a camera.

This is the case of the person the internet labeled "The Time Traveler Hippie" and his looks and clothes has left everyone puzzled. Can this man be a time traveler as the internet thinks or simply a guy that just looks too "cool" for his era?

Woman on Cell Phone, in 1938!

This one is caught on tape and it is very interesting to watch:

Looks like the shift is over and the employees are happily exiting the office or factory building going back home.

Wait though, what is this woman holding? It certainly looks like a mobile communications device!

It certainly looks like she is holding a device resembling a cell phone and talking with someone! Mobile telephony was available in the '90s so this film from the 30s certainly raises questions.

Woman holding mobile phone in 1938

Any such device seems to be out of time and place, and this video has sparked a heated debate online for more than a decade.

Could this be someone holding a wireless telecommunication device in the 30s and could this be a time-traveler from the future? What do you think?

John Titor - A Legendary Time Traveller

Steins;Gate

John Titor was not captured on camera but was a forum and bulletin board writer in the 2000s who managed to create a captivating mystery.

Reality or not the story John Titor unfolded with each of his publications had a huge effect on internet users around the world and even led to an investigation in the US for the whereabouts of John Titor.

Moreover, the story of the time traveler John Titor was the main influence behind one of the most wonderful and successful anime series of all time: "The Steins;Gate".

The story begins with Titor claiming he was a time traveler from the year 2036 that traveled back in time to obtain a certain model of an IBM computer.

He also presented a dystopic scenario for the future, as in his time the world was ravaged by a nuclear war, disorder and corruption.

Sounds absurd already but this is where the story gets interesting.

IBM 5100

The computer model that Titor was looking for was a 1975 IBM 5100.

This model according to Titor possessed certain capabilities that were suppressed by IBM under the fear that competition would be able to use them to their advantage.

We need the system to “debug” various legacy computer programs in 2036. UNIX has a problem in 2038.

-John Titor

Not wanting to get technical, Titor basically explained that this IBM model was the only one able to debug "legacy computer programs". 

The technology of the future was hanging by his mission to bring this model back to the future, as there was none to be found in his timeline.

Wikipedia explains that this is a possible reference to the UNIX year 2038 problem or Y2k38, which is similar to the Y2K bug, but in the year 2038.

This information was actually valid and also confidential.

This IBM model could support both BASIC and APL programming languages.

Bob Dubke, one of the designers of the IBM 5100 model explained that this fact was hidden “because of worries about how [IBM’s] competition might use it.” (Source: ComputerMystery).

John Titor wasn't someone that was randomly saying stuff to make an impression. This raised interest in this character even more since he was explaining technical issues that almost nobody but only a few tech experts at that time understood and knew.

If he was not a time traveler from 2036, then he was probably someone having a real interest in computers since very early, and perhaps someone involved with the programming and creation of such models, like the IBM 5100.

But it wasn't just that. In a series of posts, John Titor was giving information about everything someone might ask.

First of all, he said he didn't want anyone to believe him, but he was going to explain everything, probably in a futile attempt for our future not to become like his own.

Come to think of it, if there was the slightest chance someone living a dystopian nightmare, with a nuclear war having ravaged his world, and with a chance to visit the past, before everything collapsed, wouldn't he had that duty, to at least try and warn?

And one way to do it would be by catching the attention of the most intelligent people working in the technology field. He did exactly that.

And how would anyone explain himself in his position? When you try to force something, it just won't work. He knew that probably nobody was going to believe him, and this was a futile attempt had to be made, thus he started like this:

"Perhaps it would be better if you just considered me a fraud."

It is reverse psychology and it works way more than often, but frankly, I don't expect someone who has all this information this person had with him, to begin like that in case he was a fraud.

John Titor's Time Machine

I don't know many having all this time in the world to try and create this kind of designs and begin a yearly campaign on the internet.

I will leave links below for further research as this story requires at least 10-20 pages to explain everything.

Titor stopped posting on forums in March 2001 but the mystery kept growing especially after Steins;Gate was released and the popularity it enjoyed between anime fans.

I think it deserves a place in the top time traveler mysteries since it was probably the most complete story ever told, and contained information that was so strange, unreal, and convincing at the same time.

If this was a hoax, it was a remarkable one, and if it was all real then John Titor possibly saved our timeline from the worse.

Find more about John Titor on these links:

Conclusion

Are these time travelers real or just a figment of our imagination?

The internet is no strange place for mystery. There are plenty of videos and images with various candidates as time travelers. Most though, come out of the imagination of mystery enthusiasts, and perhaps some narrators will take it to a great extent to convince with deceptive methods.

Pictures and some videos from very old days usually have bad resolution and leave a lot to the imagination of the viewer.

Usually, this is the case with the time travelers that appear online, however, the mysteries will continue to baffle the internet. Moreover, the scientific community is still divided and always leaves a window open for time travel to be possible.

As Professor Hawking explains:

Maybe one day someone living in the future will find the information and use a wormhole time machine to come back to my party, proving that time travel will, one day, be possible.

- Steven Hawking


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I think time traveling is possible

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3 years ago

It possible there is a time travel. I hope so, if there is that would be awesome, they can be warned us if what is the tremendous disaster might coming in the future, it would be nice if there is hopefully they will show us or they have a prof to assure thing what the really happen ahead of the word. That would be interesting.

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3 years ago

I think time traveling is possible since there are certain people and evidences provides. There's one reason why time travellers don't want to reveal themselves, it is to protect their identity and don't want to be caught by government. I have also a good topic I recommend to you sir, why don't you try to write about Parallel Universe, it has also the same concept as time traveling but the person can travel in alternate realities.❤

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3 years ago

Thanks, I've looked into this topic (parallel universies) years ago. I will try to look into it again, but it is mostly sci fi for the time being. I'll look again though as there might be cases of real-life mysteries that could be described by this theory.

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3 years ago

yeah there are certain evidences about this theory, I've already read about it but I want to know more.

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3 years ago

All stories that talk about time travel are exciting. The films that are made in relation to this aspect attract my attention. Why couldn't it happen? I believe that everything is possible because man's imagination has no limits.

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3 years ago

Thanks gertu! Do you find any of these candidates I presented as believable to be time travellers?

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3 years ago

My friend, I just believe that in these times everything is believed. The fact that we don't know how things happen doesn't mean that they are not possible. This guy with dark glasses, flannel with different colors and other details in the way he presents himself could be one of two things: either a guy with a unique personality for his time and has created both glasses and clothing for the future. Or why not? a traveler. What do I know, I love the diatribe that forms around these details.

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3 years ago

Time travel something so wonderful in my thoughts, why with that probability I could share more commissions loved ones, or fix THINGS THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED, but the type is linear of being able to travel the type would only be in a direction towards a future timeline a theme I love.

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3 years ago

Hi, my friend.

The greatest success with this series of interesting articles that you have started. In fact, count me among your readers.

Travels in the time? Fascinating and theoretically possible according to current scientific speculation. In addition, science fiction is based on real hypotheses.

The photographs presented, as well as the case of John Titor arouse controversy and ignite the imagination.

Additional elements that can give content to a new article in this line, are the objects found out of time, even fossilized.

Perhaps some item lost by a time traveler from the future. Well, the most feverish minds could come up with alternative theories to blow up the existing consensus about our remote past.

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3 years ago

I am truly left in awe just with the picture above and if the picture is known to be true then the guy must have time travelled. The truth is that a lot of people who are trying to convince others to believe in time travelling are now using deceptive methods and it has caused a lot of people to grow cold feet when issues of time travelling come up.

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3 years ago

It certainly looks that this guy is completely different from the rest. Can happen though and it could be someone that was just trying to look fashionable. I tried looking for sun-glasses from that era and it seems they were all round, and didn't find this kind of model he was wearing. However, it could be a rare model and this guy wanted to look more cool than the rest. His whole appearance is not compatible with that era at all.

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3 years ago

That is true and I believe whoever took the picture felt the same way.

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3 years ago

The very first picture in the samples intrigued me so much. Tht guy really does not fit it the picture! I mean his clothes and his overall style. I thought it could be some product of an editing, but like you said, it has been verified. I would like to meet someone who time travels, if ever there is one. Hmm. I am not sure what to say, but as long as I don't see myself the products of this time traveling stuff, I will stay at 50-50.

Time traveling is really a controversial topic that never grows old. I watch a lot of anime that has this s one of the themes. I love it.

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3 years ago

When you find time watch Steins;Gate! It is amazing.

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3 years ago

Will do. Thanks for the recommendation.

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3 years ago

Wow! Very interesting.. I love it. A time traveler can make us changes. We discover a new things then make us a realization and said this is it. More articles and God bless.😇

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3 years ago

Waaaahh!!! It is so interesting. Since I was a child, I used to think of time machine. Maybe I was influenced by the movies. Nevertheless, I think, it would be really cool to have a time machine.

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3 years ago

Hehe! I agree, I'm always fascinated by these movies. Of course we distance ourselves but there is still a possibility that time travel will become real. Check the part about John Titor!

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3 years ago

Yaaah, I've read that part. If ever time machine really existed, where will you prefer to travel? Past or future?

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3 years ago

Most probably to the future. I've watched many seasons of Doctor Who, and the episodes I've enjoyed most were those where he travelled to the future.

We have some knowledge of our past, but I find it more fascinating thinking how the future of our race will be after a century or more.

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3 years ago

Yeaah. Same! I also prefer travelling to future. I wanted to know who and where am I, 20 years from now.

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3 years ago

Truly time travels, there are lots of prediction for the next decade, the one we are have began to bring into reality some innovations of the past.

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3 years ago

Yes. In the future technological evolution will keep increasing it's pace. We can't imagine how the future will look like after 20-30 years.

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