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Time Travelers
TimeTraveler
An alleged photo taken in 1938
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Type Being
Continent All
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One-Time? No
Theories  · Hoax
 · Time traveler

The Time Travelers are a type of being who manifest in usually older photographs as individuals wearing clothing and sometimes utilizing technology that had yet to be invented when the photograph was taken.

Appearance[]

Time Travelers appear as humans wearing clothing and using technology that had yet to be invented when the photograph was taken.

Possible Explanations[]

There are several explanations as to what the phenomenon could be. Theories include:

  • A hoax
  • A time traveler

Notable Encounters[]

Back in 1938 seems to have finally been solved. Black and white footage of a young female chatting into a wireless handset - said to have been filmed at a factory in the United States in the 30s - has attracted over 300,000 plays on YouTube.

Conspiracy theorists hailed the clip as proof of time travel, citing it alongside other instances of old films that appear to show imagery of modern technology existing years before it was invented. The brief clip of the woman, captioned 'Time traveler in 1938 film' shows a young woman dressed in a stylish 30s dress walking alongside a crowd of people who are also dressed in outfits from the same period. She seems to be chatting animatedly into a device held to her ear, which she then lowers. As she brings her arm down it can be seen as being the same size and shape as a modern cell phone. The footage is claimed to have been shot at a factory owned by US industrial giant Dupont.

It was first posted online a year ago and was widely reported on by various blogs around the web. But in recent days a user called 'planetcheck' has come forward, claiming to have solved the mystery. Planetcheck said: 'The lady you see is my great grandmother Gertrude Jones. She was 17 years old. I asked her about this video and she remembers it quite clearly. She says Dupont had a telephone communications section in the factory. They were experimenting with wireless telephones. Gertrude and five other women were given these wireless phones to test out for a week. Gertrude is talking to one of the scientists holding another wireless phone who is off to her right as she walks by.

So far there has been no independent verification of planetcheck's post, but another YouTube user who says he knows someone else who worked at the factory has vowed to make further inquiries. The 1938 clip is the second piece of footage said to show a mobile phone seeming to exist before the devices were invented.

In October 2010, Northern Irish filmmaker George Clarke uploaded a video clip entitled "Chaplin's Time Traveller" to YouTube. The clip analyzes bonus material in a DVD of the Charlie Chaplin film The Circus. Included in the DVD is footage from the film's Los Angeles premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in 1928. At one point, a woman is seen walking by, holding up an object to her ear. Clarke said that, on closer examination, she was talking into a thin, black device that had appeared to be a "phone". Clarke concluded that the woman was possibly a time traveller. The clip received millions of hits and was the subject of televised news stories. Nicholas Jackson, associate editor for The Atlantic, says the most likely answer is that she was using a portable hearing aid, a technology that was just being developed at the time. Philip Skroska, an archivist at the Bernard Becker Medical Library of Washington University School of Medicine, thought that the woman might have been holding a rectangular ear trumpet. New York Daily News writer Michael Sheridan said the device was probably an early hearing aid, perhaps an Acousticon manufactured by Miller Reese Hutchison.

Trivia[]

  • It is very possible that some of these photos are merely Photoshop.
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