Geniuses or liars? 7 people who claimed to have traveled through time

Dreams of time travel have haunted mankind since ancient times. The opportunity to see with your own eyes the events that changed history or to correct a fatal mistake made many years ago, haunted the best minds of different eras. It is still unknown to science whether it is possible to move to the past or the future, but despite this, there are always people who claim that they succeeded.

It's hard to even imagine how the "wheel of history" would work if a person could rotate it at his discretion. Help young Adolf Hitler enroll in art school? You are welcome! Turn the wheel of the Titanic a few minutes before the disaster? Easily! To see if the politician will fulfill his long-term promises… No, this is too much.

Science fiction writers have long felt at home in the space-time continuum, but everyone knows well that their travels to different epochs are just a dream. We will introduce you to several characters who persistently claimed that they were able to make a time transition, while they all used different ways of moving.

Being a Benedictine monk, Ernetti could not boast of a bright and eventful life. While living in a monastery on the island of San Giorgio, he spent his time doing exorcism and reading esoteric books. But the holy father also had an unusual hobby — in his spare time from the treb and psalms in his cramped cell, he designed a device that was not entirely pleasing to God, to which he gave the name chronovisor.

The goal pursued by the monk was quite mercantile — he longed to attend the premiere of the play "Trieste", which he was late for a good 2 millennia. The play was given in Ancient Rome in 169 before Christmas, and he had a stunning success with his contemporaries.

The work took almost 40 years and, as Pelligrino claimed, was crowned with success. A friend of the inventor monk, priest Francois Brun, was presented as a witness to the triumph. The Holy Father in his book vividly described how, with the help of a chronovisor, he was present at the crucifixion of Jesus and applauded the speeches of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Brun's book was called "Chronoprojection Apparatus — the new secret of the Vatican" and it can be considered a classic example of Catholic fiction or notes of a time traveler — as you like. The most interesting thing is that in 1972 the clergy presented proof of their movements into the past — strange low-quality photographs, which allegedly depicted Jesus in the last moments of his life.

Smiling, Santa-like Swiss Billy Meyer did not travel in time himself, but, as they say, he knew one guy who did it more than once. The man claims that since early childhood he has been communicating with alien guests arriving on Earth from the constellation of the Pleiades, who treated him as their own son.

Guests from outer space willingly told Billy about their travels to the future and the past, and also willingly warned about wars and catastrophes, however, not quite accurately naming the date. According to the Swiss, the Third World War was supposed to begin in 2006, then in 2008 and finally in 2010.

In addition to valuable information for humanity, Meyer has repeatedly presented photos of his friends from another Galaxy, interesting, but not too convincing.

Two teachers from Paris dispensed with sophisticated equipment and alien races — they just went for a walk in Versailles, got lost in its dense squares and came out of the bushes not in their 1901, but in 1792.

According to the ladies, they saw with their own eyes Marie Antoinette having fun painting in front of her palace. The events took place on the eve of the revolution, there was unrest in the residence, and Eleanor and Ann decided to return to their XX century.

Upon arrival home, the teachers engaged in literary activities and soon published an autobiographical novel with the unpretentious title "Adventure". Critics did not particularly like the opus, and they made women laugh. As it turned out, the descriptions of Versailles of the XVIII century in the book were not at all convincing, and the fact that two centuries ago the gardens of the palace looked different, Ann and Eleanor obviously didn't know.

A man with an extremely confusing, almost detective biography and, again, without real evidence of his words. John appeared on English-language Internet forums in 2000 and entertained their visitors with stories about his arrival from the distant 2036. Taytor claimed that he was heading to 1975 to get a rare IBM 5100 personal computer in the future, capable of saving humanity from a destructive computer virus.

When a young man was asked what made him make a stop in 2000, he replied that he had arrived to visit his relatives, whom he warned about the impending nuclear war of the United States with Russia. In general, John Titor's behavior was very peculiar, but since no one saw the hero live, many suspected him of being an Internet troll.

Another virtual character who showed himself only on the web. In 2003, strange spam began to appear in the electronic mailboxes of users around the world. A certain Bob White asked for help in creating an incomprehensible device, which he characterized as a dimensional deformation module with an induction motor and a generator set.

In his long messages, Bob described a very unusual theory of time travel and the benefits that humanity would receive from the introduction of his machine. The story ended with the fact that the genius announced a gathering of like-minded people in one of the small towns of Massachusetts on July 9, 2003. As expected, except for a few curious people, no one showed up for the meeting, and more letters from Users did not receive White.

The Marshal of the British Air Force, Sir Victor Goddard, was simply haunted by temporary anomalies. He first encountered time travel in 1935 during a training flight on a biplane. Goddard's plane got into a zone of turbulence and, trying to level the aircraft, the marshal saw an airfield below, which had been abandoned for many years.

To the officer's surprise, planes were parked in the parking lots and near the hangars, and people in strange blue uniforms were bustling around them. Who better than the air marshal to know that the airfield is not working, and the color of the uniform of the entire flight crew of the Kingdom is brown? Four years later, Victor was surprised once again when the blue color was adopted for the new pilots' uniforms.

In 1975, while retired, Goddard found in a group photograph of 1919 from the funeral of one of the pilots, the hero of the occasion, who, as if nothing had happened, got mixed up among his colleagues in the aviation regiment and looked cheerful and rested. According to the old soldier, the picture could not be a fake, as it is the official photo chronicle of those years.

Journalists of one of the popular German newspapers, sent to cover some event at the Hamburg shipyards, returned from a trip extremely excited. According to them, as soon as they started work, the sky over the port city was filled with menacingly rumbling bombers and hundreds of bombs rained down on the ground. With a camera, reporters even filmed the attack and its aftermath on film.

Alas, after the development of the photographic material, it turned out that all the frames were empty, as if they were listening with a camera with the lens lid closed. Journalists were given a strict suggestion and recommended to be careful with alcohol on business trips.

After only 11 years, a strange case was recalled when the Allies dropped more than 600 bombs on Hamburg, which killed 40,000 people.

There are several dozen stories similar to those described. Unfortunately, no traveler in time has yet presented plausible evidence of his story and the question of their veracity, as well as the adequacy of the author, remains open.