Ten People Who Claimed To Be Time Travelers

These people claimed they have traveled from the future, or into the past. Which among them has the most compelling testimony?

Rudolph Fentz

His story tells of a man dressed in 19th-century apparel. He got situated in the middle of 1951 Times Square before being hit by a car and killed. While inspecting the belongings that he had with him, the objects certainly looked like they were in fact from the previous century. This suggests that he had, perhaps involuntarily, time traveled into the present.

The story of Rudolph Fentz has been repeated occasionally since. With the prevalence of the time machine craze and due to the spread of the Internet in the 90s, it has been cited as one of the most popular proofs for the existence of time travel.

Charlotte Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain

Upon visiting the Palace of Versailles on August 10, 1901, these 2 women of untainted reputation claimed to have experienced a time slip in which they were able to meet people who died in an incident that happened more than 100 years earlier– a massacre and monarchy abolition took place in that palace.

Their story which is dubbed as the “Ghosts of Petit Trianon” became one of the hottest time-travel stories depicted in numerous print media as well as in radio and TV specials. Their story retained its hold on the public imagination for half a century.

Andrew Basiago

He said that in one of his time travel exploits, he was there when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated though he never truly witnessed the event. Publicly, he claimed that he participated in a government program that worked on teleportation and time travel under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Project Pegasus, as the project was called, made him a human guinea pig at the age of 7 to 12 to test the mental and physical effects of time travel on kids. He is a lawyer which makes it harder for people to either believe or refute his claims.

Ali Razeghi

“It will not take you into the future, it will bring the future to you.” – Such was his claim when he invented “The Aryayek Time Traveling Machine.” Though it can’t physically transport you through time, Razeghi declared that his invention can foresee 5 to 8 years into the future with 98% accuracy.

This means Iran’s government can predict the possibility of a military confrontation with a foreign country. He was criticized by both friends and enemies because of this, but he is as proud as a father could be for a very accomplished offspring.

John Titor

He claims to be a soldier from 2036 who was tasked by the government to retrieve a computer from 1975. For some personal reasons, he made a stopover in the year 2000. He gave some compelling predictions about nuclear war and the dissolution of the US into 5 smaller nations. Though his face and true identity were never really confirmed, his emergence caught large media attention which remains a hot topic today whenever time travel is mentioned.

Bob White/Tim Jones

The internet is really a great tool for communication that even time travelers use it to obtain parts for their broken time machines. That’s what Bob White or Tim Jones (or whatever his real name is) did, which brought him some considerable media attention. Amazingly, some people responded to his requests for reasons that we can never truly discern.

It is said that the real person behind this time traveler whose face and identity is still a mystery, may have had severe mental problems and that people who went along with his deceptions may just have been preying on his psychological problems for the sake of amusement.

Andrew Carlssin

On January 28, 2003, a man with that name was known to receive a petition by the SEC’s FBI (Security and Exchange Commission) to be questioned on suspicion of insider trading or Insider-trading. Suspicions began when the SEC learned that Carlssin inexplicably increased his assets in cash for an initial value of 800 dollars to 350 million dollars in just two weeks!

As it turned out, the Andrew Carlssin story seems to have originated in a now-defunct tabloid newspaper called The World Weekly News, which specialized in bizarre and outrageous claims. The story was fictional but was picked up by several other sources which removed elements of it that would have made it apparent to readers that the story was fictional.

Michael Macintosh

The terms “time traveler” and “aliens” are among the most mentioned ones whenever conspiracy theories are talked about. But what if a time traveler claims to be also someone who lived on another planet. Mr. Macintosh believes he has seen a future timeline where he is the commander-in-chief of the United States.

By showing that bizarre claim in a video, Michael claimed he has been to Mars as well when he was just a kid and if that’s not enough, he also claims to have numerous psychic abilities. The supposed time traveler claimed to have even worked alongside former US President Barack Obama on a top-secret time travel operation as well.

Håkan Nordkvist

Some claims of time travel are so bizarre while some are just plain funny. For instance, A video uploaded in 2006 shows this Swedish guy who claimed that he accidentally time-traveled to the year 2046 when attempting to fix the sink in his kitchen. In the future, he immediately met someone who revealed and proved to be the 70- year old version of himself.

Nordkvist went on to babble about how he and his “older doppelganger” had a really great time. In a video, he was depicted to be smiling and hugging with that guy, showing the tattoo they had on their right arms. As it turned out, the story was actually just a marketing campaign promoting the pension plans of an insurance company.

Samuel Polginster

During the year 2000, a guy sprouted from Sweden, claiming to be from the future, who critics think is just someone who wants to break through the noise of those doomsday prophets, in a different way. The image of the man appeared on an internet group chat or something and claimed to be from the 2075 timeline, and that the world in that era has just recovered from near-annihilation.

They didn't believe him at first, but gradually what he told started to make sense, at least from the perspective of the interviewers. It is a case in which conspiracy theory seemed to be real because of the biases that the interviewers are hooked into.