The guy with the dark glasses has raised the suspicion of millions of Internet users. Skeptics, however, see that his camera could be quite ancient.
An ordinary photograph from the Bralorne Pioneer Museum in British Columbia, Canada, blew up the Internet. By the beginning of May, the number of links to it approached one and a half million. And this is just a month after the discovery of the photo by curious citizens
The original photograph, which has become almost the most replicated in the world, is posted on the museum's website as an exhibit in the virtual exhibition Their Past Lives Here ("Their past lives here"). What is depicted? The event is supposedly 1941 - the opening of the provincial bridge (South Fork Bridge), which was built to replace the one washed away by the flood. A young man stands among the others. Actually, he attracted the attention of the Internet community. With its unusual appearance. It, the community, not all, of course, but the majority decided that this guy is clearly not from the time in which others are. And from the future. And it is given away by a haircut, a T-shirt with a printed logo, a fashionable sweater, a portable camera and sunglasses of the 21st century model. Like, such an outfit 70 years ago in Canada was definitely not.
For added credibility, the newspapers even printed portraits of "a millionaire from the future."
The picture was examined by experts. Subjected to a computer analysis, which, by comparing the background and the suspicious object, makes it possible to identify whether Photoshop was used. No traces of "imprinting" were found. That is, the "foreign body" is genuine. And this very young man was indeed among the crowd at the time of the shooting. Which, in the opinion of enthusiasts, indicates only one thing: time travel is possible. And this is encouraging.
While some were speculating on what time machine the guest had arrived, from what year, and, most importantly, why, others expressed doubt. Distrustful skeptics began to examine the young man with a magnifying glass, still trying to find signs of compliance with 1940. Camera? Firm "Kodak", for example, already produced at that time quite portable models - folding, in which the lens was extended by an accordion. It seems that the "traveler" is holding something similar. But what exactly is impossible to see.
A sweater could be knitted by mom or grandmother. At that time, many were knitting. Assessing the cut - how modern it really is - is again difficult. The entire silhouette is not visible.
Sunglasses … Of course, men hardly wore them 70 years ago. And if they did, they were not like that. Look at the rest of the crowd - not a single other person wearing dark glasses.
But the model itself … The "suspect" has glasses with leather overlays on the arms - with triangular elements that cover the eyes from the wind and side beams. Experts assure that climbers already had such designs at the end of the 30s of the last century. By the way, they are climbers - and they respected knitted sweaters.
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An insurmountable difficulty was a T-shirt - clearly cotton and with a printed emblem. No analogues were found at that time. There were only sweaters, again knitted and with emblems sewn on.
Bottom line: of those who saw the mysterious photo and responded on the forums, about 60 percent believe that the guy is from the future. About 20 percent do not see anything supernatural in him. Although they admit that the suspect looks like an eccentric. The rest do not know what to believe.
I AM FROM 2256
In December 2002, FBI agents arrested a 44-year-old man in New York on suspicion of fraud. Like, playing on the stock exchange, he used insider information. That is, having entered into a criminal conspiracy with managers of companies trading in shares, he received commercial information from them. Thanks to which he had a major financial success.
Owning "initial capital" of only 800 dollars, the suspect earned as much as 350 million in two weeks. He made 126 trades - very risky, but in the end turned out to be incredibly profitable. This aroused the suspicion of the US Securities Market Commission (SEC).
The arrested person identified himself as Andrew Carlssin. He denied conspiracy charges. And he said that he worked alone. And he received information from … the future. Where, in fact, came to us in a time machine. Started in 2256.
This is, in a nutshell, the story of a “millionaire from the future,” which first appeared in mid-March 2003. The tabloid Weekly World News (WWN) wrote about him. And he even quoted the words of one of the researchers. He said that, of course, he did not believe the fables about the time machine. But his attempts to find references to a man named Andrew Karlsin were unsuccessful. Like, there is no information that it existed before December 2002 …
Then the story got to the news portal Yahoo. And I went for a walk on thousands of sites and blogs without mentioning the original source. Numerous forums were full of responses. Including from brokers from Wall Street. Their essence boiled down to the fact that, even with insider information, it is unrealistic to earn so much. This means that Karlsin is not lying that he came from the future.
Most likely, WWN just made up this whole story. Actually, the publication is famous for such jokes. But those who believed in the reality of Andrew Karlsin did not know about it. And they considered news sites as the primary source.
By the way, the story continues. But WWN has nothing to do with it. Someone else says that a million dollar bail was paid for the arrested person. He was released from prison and, of course, disappeared. And now, you will not believe, he is hiding in Canada - in the very province in which the "guy from the future" got in the photo.
And here's something else strange: there is no trace of Andrew Karlsin on the Weekly World News website. It is not listed on Yahoo News. All details remained only in copies. And this gives rise to a terrible suspicion: what if the tabloid did not lie? This happened to him …
And I AM FROM 2036
The name of John Titor has been known since November 2, 2000. Then he first appeared on the Time Travel Institute, a forum for time travel enthusiasts and theorists. I went under the nickname TimeTravel_0. And he wrote until March 2001. Then he disappeared.
John said that in 2000 he was passing through. Stopped to see relatives on the way "home" - in 2036.
John Titor occasionally accompanied Internet access with photographs.
Here is his time machine (military model) …
Titor identified himself as an American soldier involved in a military time travel project. He said that he was sent in 1975 for a computer IBM 5100. Like, he was needed in the future to decipher computer codes, since it supported the programming languages APL and BASIC.
Titor's time machine is of a military type. First it was installed on a 1967 Chevrolet Corvette, then on a 1987 jeep.
The "American soldier" poured physical terms related to time travel at the posts, answered questions. And he reported that significant happened in the future he had already lived.
He "remembered" that in 2004 a civil war began in the United States. And it ended in a world nuclear war. In 2015, Russia launched the attack and defeated everyone, including the European Union and China. Then peace came. And instead of the USA, the AFI appeared - the American Federal Empire.
It seems that John has gone one hundred percent. But those who believed in its "non-modern" origin justified even such a mess. They say that there can be many time lines. In the one connected with John, events developed exactly as he told. We just took a different line.
And the traveler's information about the IBM 5100 turned out to be accurate. Experts say that the details about this car, which Titor reported in 2000, became known only in 2007. This strengthens the position of the "soldier". And it destroys what he rashly said, as if in 2036 cameras were not digital, but film.
Nevertheless, thousands of Internet users believed Titor when they corresponded with him. Many people still believe. What? Indeed, there are a lot of people who want to make time travel a reality.