Much has been said about time travel, but still few believe it is actually possible. Indeed, at first glance, there is no evidence that people or objects can instantly move from one time point to another. But this is only at first glance…
Mysterious newspapers
In 1912, the burgomaster of the Norwegian city of Ott Johan Nygard sealed a certain package with sealing wax, ordering to open it after 100 years. The envelope was kept for 80 years at the post office in Oslo, and for another 20 it was exhibited at the Gudbrandsdahl Museum. When it was finally opened, a huge surprise awaited everyone.
The opening of the package took place in a solemn atmosphere, with a large crowd of people, there were also TV journalists with cameras. However, at first, the contents were disappointing: inside there were some old documents of the city government, which were of no value, and a Norwegian flag. Among the papers were two newspapers from 1914. It looks like the burgomaster did open the envelope two years later to put them there. But why?
Meanwhile, experts determined that the package had never been opened since 1912, and Nigard did not have access to the postal storage in Oslo. Then where did the newspapers come from?
It remains to assume that either Nygard visited the future, in 1914, and brought newspapers with him from there, or they somehow fell into his hands. He decided not to tell about this to any of his contemporaries, but in such an extraordinary way to tell about an anomalous fact to distant descendants …
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This is not an isolated case. The Harsfeld family (Louisville, USA) has a greeting card received in the mid-1950s with a view of the German city of Frankfurt. Rita Harsfeld received it sometime from her grandfather, who died in 1959. But the fact is that the postcard itself was issued in 1983 and it contains buildings that were not yet built in the 1950s.
A certain resident of the Turkmen city of Chardzhou tells an even more amazing story.
For some reason, as a child, he was not accepted as a pioneer for a long time. The boy really wanted to read the newspaper Pionerskaya Pravda, but only members of the children's organization were allowed to subscribe to it. One summer night our hero went to bed in the yard. He could not sleep, and the schoolboy began to pray to God, whom his grandmother taught him to believe: "God, help me become a pioneer and read Pioneer Truth!"
A whirlwind of dust suddenly rose. And then the boy saw a newspaper circling in the air. He grabbed her, and the wind immediately died. It turned out to be Pioneer Truth. The next morning the boy began to read it and, to his amazement, found that the issue of the newspaper was dated … next year. Not realizing where Pionerskaya Pravda had come from, he decided that it was the newspaper of a neighbor's girl. But the neighbors denied everything …
The next year the little boy was accepted as a pioneer, and he wrote out "Pionerskaya Pravda". And then one day he received exactly the same issue of the newspaper as the one that the wind brought him a year ago. It turns out that that newspaper really came to him from the future?
Recently, you can find information about various paranormal phenomena associated with mobile communications and the Internet. So, they talk about strange SMS. Someone receives messages from 2023, someone from 2080 … They are all united by the fact that they are written in an unknown language that cannot be deciphered by computer means.
Anatoly Grishin is a student, the most common resident of Chelyabinsk. That is, he considered himself such until he began to receive mysterious SMS messages. The first of them came on the young man's birthday. The number was unfamiliar to him, the text consisted of hieroglyphs. Anatoly drew attention to the date - January 1, 2040. He thought that someone decided to just play a trick on him by setting the wrong date and encoding. But similar messages began to arrive every few days. And all of them had 2040.
This made the guy think about it. Just in case, he saved all the messages and tried to decipher them with a computer, but only a few characters were recognized.
Having called his mobile operator, Tolya found out that mysterious SMS did not get through the database, that is, it turned out that he did not receive them at all … He was offered to change the number. After that, nothing came for a month, and then another text message came, this time not only with hieroglyphs, but also with numbers, dated as early as 2042.
Having tried to punch through the phone number from which the messages came, Grishin found out that he was not assigned to any operator. The mysterious number did not seem to exist in nature! And soon the student noticed that after receiving each message, some kind of trouble happens to him. For example, having received one of them, he had an accident.
Alarmed already seriously, Anatoly turned to a psychic for advice. The lady said that there was nothing paranormal in the messages he received: they were written by a man, and some otherworldly entities had nothing to do with it. Most likely, they come from … the future, and the author is one of Grishin's friends or relatives. Or maybe he himself.
The clairvoyant put forward the following hypothesis. The person who writes the messages somehow found out the future of Anatoly and is now trying to warn him about the coming troubles and troubles. But for some reason, he cannot do it directly or does not have technical conditions: messages reach the addressee only in "encoded" form …
Several years ago, computer scientists noticed an ominous black banner that from time to time appeared on one or another web page. Clicking on it did not lead anywhere, and after a while the banner itself disappeared.
At first, the programmers feared that a new virus was disguised as a black banner. But then on those servers where the "glitch" was noticed, completely inexplicable things began to happen. For example, NASA physicist Michael Dodjenson reports:
- When analyzing DNS servers, 102 links were found leading to nonexistent resources, in other words, to nowhere. Moreover, all these links have dates of creation in the period 2030-2070.
In late 2000, a man calling himself John Titor began posting predictions for the near future on the Web. John claimed to be … from 2036.
Taitor posted messages on various sites and forums. Sometimes he used the pseudonym TimeTravel_0. The prophecies made by this mysterious person look rather grim. This man talked about the outbreak of a civil war in the United States, which would split the country into five regions with the capital in Omaha.
In 2016, the Third World War awaits us, as a result of which three billion people will die. And in 2036, a global virus will destroy the entire computer network, which will be a disaster for the rest of humanity on the planet.
John Tytor told his readers that his mission is to return to 1975 and take over from there an IBM 5100 computer, which should have programs to fight the future virus.
So how did Titor end up in 2000? He really wanted to meet himself at the age of three, he explained. That is how many years he was that year. Whether this venture succeeded is unknown. As you know, the theory of time travel denies the possibility of meeting with a loved one from the past.
Many, of course, reacted with skepticism to Taitor's posts. But there were also those who were interested in his information. For four months, Taitor answered in great detail all the questions that curious people asked him. Moreover, he described future events in a poetic style, like Nostradamus.
Among other things, the mysterious stranger wrote that there are many realities and his own reality may not be related to ours. That is, the future in which he lives may not be related to our past and present.
However, he urged to prepare for a negative turn of events - in particular, to learn to provide first aid and not eat beef, since in his reality such a disease as mad cow disease has become a serious threat to humanity.
Taitor also spoke about some of the technical aspects of time travel and even posted photos of the device on which he allegedly arrived in the past on the Web, however, the pictures were not very high quality.
Taitor last went online on March 24, 2001 to give his fans advice in case of the end of the world: "Take a gas can with you when you leave your car on the side of the road." After that, he closed all his accounts, and no one else heard anything about him.
Irina SHLIONSKAYA