PEOPLE WHO CLAIM THEY’VE ACTUALLY TIME TRAVELED: True Stories and Urban Legends

When a mother heard her own voice from five hours earlier coming through her baby monitor, she realized she was witnessing something that shouldn't be possible—a tear in time itself. What would you do if you walked into a movie theater and suddenly jumped three hours forward, or if your car transported 20 miles in an instant to escape a traffic stop? A Victorian man appears in 1950s Times Square, two women slip back to Marie Antoinette's era, and a father and son lose an entire day in five minutes. These people swear they've experienced time slips, dimensional rifts, and impossible jumps through time—and their stories might make you question reality itself.

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IN THIS EPISODE: Time travel, time slips, lost time, traveling to other dimensions and realities. They are all science fiction tropes that have reached the point of being cliché. But then what do you tell someone who says they have truly done those things? We’re going to look at some fascinating stories of people who claim to have somehow traveled through time or to another dimension. Some stories are decades old, others more than a century old, and some have happe
CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = Show Open (partial) and “I’m Scared” by Jack Finney (Short Fiction)
00:36:33.061 = Show Open (full)
00:38:20.072 = Stories of Time Travelers, Part 1
00:58:49.499 = Stories of Time Travelers, Part 2
01:13:16.999 = Time Travel Urban Legends
01:22:48.961 = Show Close

SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
BOOK: “The Ghosts of Trianon” by Moberly and Jourdain: https://amzn.to/3gvLn2x
BOOK: “Flight Towards Reality” by Sir Victor Goddard: https://tinyurl.com/y3fwrpaw
BOOK: “Father Ernetti's Chronovisor: The Creation and Disappearance of the World's First Time Machine” by Peter Krassa: https://amzn.to/3j9fqPt
Stephen Wagner for LiveAbout.com: https://tinyurl.com/y6ep8jv9
Lucia Peters from Bustle.com: https://tinyurl.com/y5dw83f4
Olivia Muenter from Bustle.com: https://tinyurl.com/yxmjo267
Christopher McFadden for InterestingEngineering.com: https://tinyurl.com/y54s3lmt
The story, “I’m Scared” which I read at the beginning of the episode, was written by Jack Finney: https://tinyurl.com/y3kf7ksj
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