Can we travel back and forth in time like we do in distance?

Many a time, we hear stories from people, or watch documentaries on how someone traveled through time, either forward or backward. It has been a very popular concept for science fiction for many decades. This topic has been told and retold umpteen times in many forms of art and science. Most of the portrayals have looked ludicrous and pointless, but some have been mesmerizing. Though none of these seemed close to reality.

Yesterday, I came across this video broadcast on YouTube channel Paranormal Elite, of a man named Noah, who claims to have traveled back in time by 11 years by risking his life to warn people that such a technology exists. He claims to be suffering from depression and anorexia owing to years of time travel.

Though my first instinct was to call this hoax, I started reading further out of natural curiosity, and I ended up getting more puzzled over the authenticity of this video.

While tending to my curiosities, I came across believable, bizarre and peculiar stories of time travel, which are uncanny and at the same time pretty much captivating.

One of the stories I read was of a pilot Air Marshall Sir Robert Victor Goddard of British Royal Air Force. In 1935, while flying from Edinburgh, Scotland to Andover, England, he flew over an abandoned airfield at Drem. This airfield was overgrown with foliage and cows grazed where planes were parked. He continued to his destination, but faced a bizarre storm. He got caught in it and after averting from a terrible crash, found himself going back towards Drem. To his surprise, or rather shock, the storm disappeared and the abandoned airfield was now a fully functional airfield. He found three known biplanes and one was a monoplane which RAF did not have in 1935. The mechanics were dressed in blue overalls, while at the time of 1935, they used to dress in brown overalls. Another strange thing was that nobody noticed him fly over. On leaving the area, he encountered the storm again, but managed to reach Andover. The bizarre part was that in 1939, RAF enlisted the monoplane that Goddard saw and the uniforms of mechanics were switched to blue.

That makes me wonder if Goddard flew four years into the future for a brief period?

The most bizarre story I read was that of a doctor’s account of one of his patients. She had a serious case of hemiplegia, which is a case of paralysis of one side of the body. The eerie part of her story was the reason why half her body got paralyzed. She went exploring Markahausi, which is a stone forest located in Peru, along with friends. She came across a torch lit stone cabin and noticed people dancing inside. As she poked her head through an open door, she saw the people were clad in 17th century fashion. She tried to enter the room, but one of her friends pulled her out, resulting in one side of her body becoming paralyzed at that moment. Was it because her friend pulled her out at that moment? Was it because half of her body was caught in some temporal vortex? The doctor reported that the paralyzed part of her brain showed abnormal behavior and amount of electric waves.

Another queer story I read was set in 1901, when two professors from Oxford University, London were visiting the Palace of Versailles. Marie Antoinette was one of last royals who was executed in 1793. While walking the grounds of the palace, they were taken completely aback by the visual of Marie Antoinette sitting and sketching on a stool outside her private retreat, built for her by her husband Louis XVI, and all the other people 1780s period attire, while those people completely unaware by the presence of these two women. They were pulled into reality when a tour guide approached them. They also accounted their experience in a book, An Adventure. These two women were highly educated and well-respected, so they wouldm=n’t just make up a story. So the question that came to me was, whether their experience counts as a time travel mystery or just hallucination?

Not just these stories, many such stories make me wonder whether time travel is actually possible or is just an extended hallucination of people?

Point to ponder? Get mystified, Get Priya-fied!