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“The distinction between the past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent.” – Albert Einstein
Even today, esteemed physicists like Stephen Hawking are starting to accept that time travel could be within the realm of possibility. But has it already occurred? These individuals claim it has.
10. A Journey to Mars with Barack Obama
Seattle lawyer Andrew Basiago asserts that as a child, he and William Stillings were 'chrononauts' in a covert U.S. government time travel project called Project Pegasus. The program’s goals were threefold: safeguarding Earth from space threats, establishing sovereignty over Mars, and helping Martian humanoids and animals adapt to humans' presence.
The most intriguing part of Basiago and Stillings’ story is that one of their fellow time travelers was none other than a 19-year-old Barack Obama, known at the time as 'Barry Soetero.' In 1980, the trio, along with seven other young participants from their 'Mars training class' at California’s College of the Siskiyous (a real institution), journeyed to Mars through a secret teleportation 'jump room' inspired by technical documents discovered in Nikola Tesla’s apartment after his passing. They leapt through a field of radiant energy into a tunnel, and when the tunnel closed, they found themselves on Mars.
The White House has officially rejected the claim that Obama ever traveled to Mars.
9. A Soldier from America’s Future
In late 2000, mysterious posts appeared on the Internet from someone who claimed to be an American soldier from the year 2036. Known as John Titor, he said he was on a mission back to 1975—using a 1987 Chevy Suburban equipped with a time-travel device—to retrieve an IBM 5100 computer, which was essential for fighting a computer virus that would devastate the world. Titor spoke of a world torn by conflicts, ultimately leading to Russian nuclear strikes in 2015 that would wipe out nearly three billion people.
Titor’s posts stopped suddenly in 2001, but the legend of Titor endured. In 2003, a hardcover edition of Titor’s 151 message board posts was released under the title John Titor: A Time Traveler’s Tale. Though it’s no longer in print, copies are available—new ones for a staggering $1,775, or used ones for a more reasonable $150. The book was published by the John Titor Foundation, a for-profit entity led by Florida entertainment lawyer Lawrence Haber. The Foundation also holds the copyright for the supposed insignia of Titor’s military unit, the Fighting Diamondbacks, which bears a quote from Ovid: tempus edax rerum, meaning 'time devours all things.'
Except, apparently, for the legend of John Titor.
8. Christ's Personal Photographer
Father Pellegrino Ernetti, a Benedictine monk and expert in ancient music, also claimed to have been part of a team that invented the 'chronovisor.' This device, which resembled a television, was said to have the ability to tune into events from the past. Ernetti’s team included notable figures such as Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi and German rocket scientist Werner von Braun.
Ernetti claimed that he had witnessed key historical events through the chronovisor, including the Last Supper, Christ’s crucifixion, and moments with figures like Napoleon and Cicero. However, the team later chose to dismantle the device, fearing that in the wrong hands, it could lead to 'the most fearsome dictatorship the world has ever seen.' Ernetti said the idea was inspired by Nostradamus, who had personally revealed the potential of such a device.
When challenged for proof, Ernetti presented a photo that he claimed showed Christ on the cross, taken through the chronovisor. But when the image was found to closely resemble a sculpture by Cullot Valera, Ernetti was forced to admit that it was a forgery. Despite this, he maintained that the chronovisor itself was real.
7. The Pilot Who Entered A Parallel Dimension
In 1935, Sir Victor Goddard, a wing commander in the Royal Air Force, was flying his open-cockpit biplane from Scotland to England on weekend leave. During his flight, he passed over Drem Airfield near Edinburgh, a site built during World War I. The airfield was in ruins with tarmac damaged, four hangars in disrepair, and barbed wire sectioning off the field, now used for grazing cattle. A day later, while returning, Goddard encountered a violent storm that caused him to lose control of his plane. After a near-death downward spiral, he regained control just a few feet above a rocky beach.
As Goddard ascended through the fog and rain, the sky suddenly cleared, and sunlight flooded in. Below him was Drem Airfield—except this time, the farm was gone, and the hangars appeared newly restored. At the end of the runway, four bright yellow planes sat on pristine tarmac, one of which was an unfamiliar monoplane. Around them were mechanics in blue overalls, a significant detail to Goddard since RAF mechanics traditionally wore brown.
Was Goddard, a founder of the RAF, simply mistaken about his location, as some skeptics suggest? Or had he experienced a glimpse into the future? Goddard passed away in 1987, leaving the mystery unsolved—unless, perhaps, he returns from the past to share the truth.
6. The Sole Survivor Of The Philadelphia Experiment
In the fall of 1943, the USS Eldridge was reportedly rendered invisible and teleported from Pennsylvania to Virginia in an event now known as the Philadelphia Experiment. While the incident was never proven to have occurred, Alfred Bielek became infamous as the supposed sole survivor of the event. His memories were 'repressed' until he saw the film The Philadelphia Experiment in 1988, which triggered his recollection of being born in 1916 as Ed Cameron.
As Ed Cameron, he claimed to have been enlisted in 1940 for a secret Navy project called Project Rainbow, designed to discover how to render ships invisible. For unclear reasons, Cameron was later sent through a portal at the Pentagon to Alpha Centauri One, where he was interrogated by aliens before being 'physically regressed' into the one-year-old Al Bielek in 1927. Bielek later asserted he became the director of mind control for the Montauk Project, where, in the 1980s, team members traveled through a time vortex to alter the outcomes of various wars. Upon returning to their time, they evaluated whether their interventions had improved history; if not, they simply restored the timeline.
5. Håkan Nordkvist Encounters His Future Self
On August 30, 2006, 36-year-old Håkan Nordkvist returned home to find water on his kitchen floor. Believing there was a leak, he grabbed his tools and crawled under the sink but couldn't reach the pipes. He later described what happened next: 'I had to crawl inside the cabinet, and as I did, I found that it just kept going. So I kept crawling further and further. Eventually, I reached a light, and when I got there, I realized I was in the future.'
The year 2042, to be specific, where Nordkvist encountered his 72-year-old self. To his amazement, future Nordkvist knew details that only he could have known, such as where he had hidden secret items in first grade. Both versions of him even had matching tattoos, though the future version's was slightly faded. The two took a selfie using the younger Nordkvist's phone, and the photo—which was the only one Nordkvist thought to take in 2042—showed that he had some physical changes to look forward to, including growing a few inches over the next 36 years.
4. The Women Who Encountered the Memories of a Queen
On August 10, 1901, Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain, both scholars at St. Hugh's College in Oxford, were visiting Versailles. While searching for the Petit Trianon, they became disoriented. They started to feel a strange, oppressive atmosphere. Two men dressed in long green coats and three-cornered hats guided them across a bridge, where Moberly noticed a woman dressed in 18th-century attire, sitting on a stool and sketching.
Once back in England, the women began to investigate the mystery. Neither of them had any knowledge of 18th-century France, so they were astonished when they came across a portrait of Marie Antoinette and realized that it was the queen whom Moberly had seen sketching. The queen had been sitting outside the Petit Trianon at the exact moment when she received the news that a mob from Paris was headed toward Versailles.
The women were convinced they had experienced a trace of Marie Antoinette's memories. Under the pseudonyms Miss Morison and Miss Lamont, they published an account of their experience titled An Adventure, which became a bestseller. It wasn’t until 1950, after both Jourdain and Moberly had passed away, that an investigation of their correspondence with the Society for Psychical Research revealed that the women had added several details to their story only after conducting further research.
3. Space Barbie
Valeria Lykyanova, often referred to as a 'real-life Barbie' because of her petite waist, exaggerated bust, and doll-like features, claims to be an alien time-traveler sent to Earth with a mission: to rescue humanity from its obsession with superficiality. The Ukrainian-born Lykyanova, who also goes by the name Amatue, became an Internet sensation in 2012 with her 20-minute video, 'Space Barbie,' where she declared her purpose to be guiding humanity from the role of a 'human consumer' to that of a 'human demi-god.'
Lykyanova revealed that she began seeing spirits from 'other dimensions' when she was around 12 or 13 and later discovered she had the ability to travel outside of her body, visiting other planets and universes. Rather than speaking, she communicates with these otherworldly entities in 'the language of light.' Although she has already written a book about her astral travels, her ultimate aspiration is to achieve fame as a pop star.
And the Grammy for best performance in the language of light goes to... Amatue!
Jackie, a former journalist and Huffington Post blogger, has a deep interest in word origins and medieval history. She runs a blog called 'Nothing Too Trivial (Interesting Things for Interested People)' which can be found at jackiefox1976.wordpress.com.
2. The Individuals Who Predicted the Firebombing of Hamburg
In 1932, German journalist J. Bernard Hutton and photographer Joachim Brandt were reportedly at the Hamburg shipyard conducting interviews for a story. As they were leaving, the sound of aircraft engines filled the air. When they looked up, they saw the sky packed with bombers. Moments later, bombs began to drop, and soon, the area was consumed by fire.
Brandt captured photos of the destruction, and the two made their way back to Hamburg. However, when they developed the film, there was no trace of the attack. Their editor accused them of being intoxicated and dismissed their report. Later, Hutton relocated to London, where, in 1943, he came across a newspaper article detailing a Royal Air Force raid on Hamburg. The images in the report depicted the shipyard, identical to what he and Brandt had witnessed over a decade earlier.
Indeed, the RAF had carried out the bombing of Hamburg in 1943. In a series of attacks known as Operation Gomorrah, roughly 550–600 bombs ravaged the city, creating a firestorm that claimed 40,000 lives. This event marked World War II’s first large-scale destruction of a major city—and it would be the last anyone heard of Hutton and Brandt.
1. The Extraterrestrial Military That Kidnaps Babies
Michael and Stephanie Relfe claim that aliens, utilizing fractal time technology, abducted them and ‘took’ their two-month premature daughter. However, the most terrifying part, as stated on their website, is that this could happen to anyone of us!
We can avert this fate, though, by praying and being aware of the signs of abduction: fatigue, bruising, missing time, and body areas that glow under black light. The Relfes don’t provide much detail on what actually occurs after an abduction, but their grasp of the technology involved is remarkably detailed. The aliens—supported by the US military—employ jump gates, teleporters, wormholes, dimensional travel, fractal resonance, and even magic to navigate through time and space.
Additional nefarious actions attributed to the aliens include vaccines, fluoride, and genetically altered food, all of which supposedly impair our metaphysical powers and prevent us from resisting the “invasion attempts by the predatory hyperdimensional species”—or at least hinder our comprehension of what the Relfes are actually saying.
