The Clock That Ran Backwards: Investigating the Bélmez Faces Timeloop
In 1971, a concrete floor in Bélmez, Spain began spontaneously producing human faces—faces that seemed to age, change expressions, and according to some researchers, depict people from centuries past....
25 Sep 17min
Hollywood vs. Einstein: When the Movies Got Time Travel Wrong (and Right)
From Back to the Future's DeLorean to Interstellar's black hole, Hollywood has been bending time for over a century. But which movies accidentally nailed the science, and which ones made physicists cr...
10 Sep 14min
7 Time Travelers Caught on Camera (That Nobody Can Explain)
From the hipster at a 1940s bridge opening to the woman with a cell phone in a 1928 Chaplin film, some photographs contain figures that seem impossibly out of place. We're counting down seven of the m...
26 Aug 13min
The Moberly-Jourdain Incident: Two Women Who Walked Into 1789
In August 1901, two respected English academics took a wrong turn in the gardens of Versailles and found themselves surrounded by people in 18th-century dress. What began as a strange afternoon walk t...
11 Aug 13min
H.G. Wells vs. Mark Twain: The Original Time Travel Rivalry
In 1889, Mark Twain sent a Connecticut Yankee backward to King Arthur's court. In 1895, H.G. Wells launched his Time Traveller 800,000 years into the future. These two literary giants created the blue...
19 Jul 14min
5 Real Objects That Shouldn't Exist in Their Time Period
From ancient batteries to impossibly precise mechanisms, history is littered with objects that seem wildly out of place in their time periods. We're counting down five authenticated artifacts that hav...
14 Jun 16min
The Man Who Received Letters From Himself
In the year 2000, someone calling themselves John Titor appeared on internet forums claiming to be a soldier from 2036 sent back to retrieve an IBM 5100 computer. For five months, he posted detailed d...
29 Mai 15min
Ground Hogs Day
Looping years
7 Jan 10min
