8 bizarre pictures and videos which ‘prove’ time travel exists

This image is from 1941. Why is there a modern hipster in it? (Picture Wikimedia Commons)

Time travel is a staple of science fiction – but there’s one big argument against the idea it’ll ever be invented.

Why aren’t time travellers already here?

Well, they actually might be, according to a list and video compiled by paranormal and UFO site Before It’s News.

We’re a pretty sceptical lot at Metro, but some of these strange events (like Charlie Chaplin’s mobile phone) really are a bit odd.

Others are clearly made up.

Nigel Watson, paranormal expert and author of the UFO Investigations Manual, ‘Would time travelers from the future really be using cell phones? Wouldn’t they use something more sophisticated and less visible? Then again Dr Who still uses a sonic screwdriver and that is so 20th Century…’

1. The woman on a mobile phone in a 1928 Charlie Chaplin film

Honestly, she’s on a mobile. Check it out.

This footage is part of a DVD extra, and sparked the kind of impassioned debate you can only find in YouTube comments.

Some suggest it’s an ear trumpet. Really? Do we buy that?

2. The nineteenth century CD

What the hell? (Picture YouTube)

This nineteenth century photo seems to show a bunch of people clustered round a CD.

Sadly, it’s at least a century before ‘Brothers in Arms’ by Dire Straits.

3. The time-travelling hipster

This image is from 1941. Whaaat? (Picture Wikimedia Commons)

This man – in a photo from 1941 – has come to be known as the ‘time-travelling hipster’.

4. The man who was run over by a car in 1950… but had pockets full of 19th Century money

The story of Rudolph Fentz is certainly pretty strange – he was run over in Time Square in New York, with pockets full of 19th Century money and documents.

Touted as a ‘proof’ that time travel exists, it’s all pretty convincing, until you learn it’s completely made up.

Hoaxes.org suggests that the idea came from a 1951 sci fi story, and Rudolph Fentz is, sadly, a fiction.

5. The ‘time tunnel’ in a U.S. Air Force base

Did American Air Force experiments lead to a ‘hole ripped in space and time’ in 1983?

Almost certainly not, but lots of maniacs believe that there were strange goings-on at Montauk Air Station – and that includes one worker who uncovered ‘repressed memories’ of a trip back to 1943.

6. The U.S. navy ship which travelled back in time

Did a U.S. Navy ship jump back in time in a botched teleportation experiment?

Well, no. But lots of people believe it.

7. The British Air Marshall who says he travelled in time

British Air Marshall Sir Victor Goddard claimed to have travelled forward in time in 1935 – seeing a vision of an airfield as it would be in the future.

It should be pointed out that Goddard, in later life, became a big UFO fan who lectured on the subject. Go figure.

8. The Swiss watch found in an ancient Chinese tomb

This one seems like it’s an absolute definite, ‘Gotcha’ moment – a Swiss watch found inside an undisturbed 400-year-old tomb rom the  Si Qing era.

Who else could have put it there BUT time travellers?

Sadly, it seems likely that the entire story was made up by mad people on the internet.