Time Travel Unravel

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