The past is gone, the present is fleeting, and the future is unknown.? Or so we think. It is mind-boggling to think about time travel. What if you went back in time to change events on a whim?? The idea of being able to travel through time, before returning to your own is something that has always fascinated us. But has it already happened? Some people among us have already claimed to belong to another age.
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The story goes that in 1954, a man arrived at Haneda Airport in Tokyo after disembarking from a plane originating in Europe. Upon arriving at the customs checkpoint the man presented a passport indicating he is from Taured. The catch was that officials said they did not recognise such a place, while he insisted that he hailed from a place that's over 1,000 years old situated on the border between Spain and France. He was taken to a hotel while the authorities investigated the matter and two guards watched over the door. The next morning he had simply vanished, along with all of his personal documents.
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in 1932, Journalist J. Bernard Hutton and photographer Joachim Brandt were sent by a German newspaper to cover a story at the Hamburg shipyard. There was nothing significant about the project they set off for, until bombs began raining down. They? realized they were caught in the middle of an air raid. Back home people refused to believe their story and strangely the photos they developed also showed no? signs of an air raid.
Fast forward 11 years after the strange event ¨C Hutton opened up a newspaper and saw a story about? Operation Gomorrah, an air raid on Hamburg. We was left shell-shocked, because that's exactly what he and his friend experienced.?
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Time travel is not a modern phenomenon and there are accounts that date back to the 12th century. It's? when two children that appeared on the edge of a field in the village of Woolpit in England.? The young girl and boy had green-hued skin and spoke an unknown language.? In just a few days after being discovered,? they became sick and the boy died, but the girl recovered and over the years came to learn English.
The girl later shared the story of their strange origin, about a underground place called St. Martin's Land and that she and her brother were taking care of their father's sheep one day when they found a cave. No one knows of any place of the one narrated by the girl, but many believe they could have come from the future.
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On a sunny Saturday afternoon in July of 1996, a man named? Frank and his wife, Carol were visiting? a shopping area in Liverpool. The couple decided to run their own errands and Carol went to a bookstore, while Frank went to HMV to look for a CD he wanted.? As he walked down the street he? entered a strange "oasis of quietness."?
Suddenly, a small box van that looked like something out of the 1950s sped across his path, honking as it sped by narrowly missing him. When he looked down, he found he was standing in the middle of the road. The off-duty policeman crossed the road and saw that the book store now had "Cripps" over its entrance. Moreover the shop was not selling books, but women's handbags and shoes.?
Looking around, Frank realised that people were dressed in clothes that appeared to be from the 1950s. Suddenly, he spotted a young girl in her early 20s dressed in a lime-coloured sleeveless top. The handbag she was carrying had a popular brand name on it, which reassured the policeman that maybe he was still partly in 1996.?
In the realm of strange phenomenon, Frank's experience is termed as a time slip.?
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Last year,? a man named Bryant Johnson, from central Wyoming, in the US,? wanted to warn the people of? Wyoming that aliens will arrive next year, and that they should leave as soon as possible.? According to police, the man told them he was only able to time travel because aliens filled his body with alcohol. He told police that, Ą°The aliens were coming next year and we needed to make sure to leave as fast as possible.Ąą He also claimed he stood on a Ą°giant padĄą which then transported him back in time. How strange does that sound!?
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In his book Time Travel: A New Perspective, J. H. Brennan tells a curious story of a time slip experience that happened to Air-Marshal Sir Victor Goddard. He writes,? Ą°In 1935, while still a Wing Commander, he was sent to inspect a disused airfield near Edinburgh at a place called Drem. He found it in a very dilapidated state with cattle grazing on grass that had forced through cracks in the tarmac.
Later that day, he ran into trouble while flying his biplane in heavy rain and decided to fly back to Drem to get his bearings. As he approached the airfield, the torrential rain abruptly changed to bright sunlight. When he looked down he saw the airfield had been completely renovated and was now in use and people in blue clothes.? Completely baffled by what the hell was going on, Goddard got the shock of his life four years after. Europe was war torn and he happened to visit Drem again. But this time, he saw everything he saw four years back in 1935 and? the same people in blue overalls servicing yellow planes.
In 2006, a? 36-year-old? man name? H?kan Nordkvist came back home to find his kitchen flooded with water. He crawled under the sink to fix the problem. But when he crawled inside the cabinet, he noticed that it seemed endless and so he decided to explore the space. He kept crawling further until he stopped right at the end of the tunnel. When he got out, Nordkvist realised that he had landed up in the future, in 2042!
He even met himself in the future, his 72-year-old self. And wait for it, they even took a selfie together.? Cannot get weirder than this!?
Back in? 1850, a man named Jophar Vorin was found in Frankfurt, Germany, and detained for interrogation.? He said he was from Laxaria, and spoke the languages of Laxarian and Abramian. He claimed to be looking for his brother, but was shipwrecked on the way to his destination.
When he was presented a map of the globe, Vorin? didn't understand head nor tail, in his view, the world had five sections: Sakria, Aflar, Aslar, Auslar, and Euplar.? Vorin was taken to Berlin to be questioned and studied. Vorin did exist, but claimed to be from a different world,? one we still don't know of.?
In? 1979, Geoff and Pauline Simpson and Len and Cynthia Gisby were traveling through France. It was almost midnight when they decided to look for a place to camp. They finally found a strange place, which? had heavy metal latches, no lock and windows only had thick wood shutters.?
After breakfast, they bumped into two armed French policemen who were dressed in uniforms from the year 1905. When they came back again after a trip to Spain, the hotel they stayed in was nowhere to be found.??
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In 1935, Dr. EG Moon was leaving the home of one of his patients in Kent, England when he realised his car was not where he had left it.?
The? driveway and the road seemed a lot rougher than he remembered. Dr. Moon spotted a man walking by the house, and he realised that the man was wearing several capes and carrying a long-barelled gun. He looked like a person from way back in time.
?Moon turned to go back to the house his car was once again parked and all of it vanished within seconds.??
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Back in 2000, a man named? John Titor claimed to have come from the year 2036. He said he was a soldier based in Tampa, FL, from the year 2036. The government, he claimed, sent him back in time to 1975 to retrieve an IBM computer, which they needed in order to debug some computer programs
He hopped off his time machine in 2000 for personal reasons, and, since he was already there, he figured, why not warn everyone about the dangerous future. His posts about time travel were so detailed, the description of its mechanics and his machine so thorough, that it seemed almost impossible that he wasn't telling the truth.?