This Paranormal Life - #182 Pictures of REAL Time Travellers

Episode Date: October 6, 2020

Ever since Marty McFly went back in time to make out with his own mom, mankind has debated endlessly whether or not time travel is truly possible... and once again, Rory and Kit throw their uneducated hats in the ring.Support us on Patreon.com/ThisParanormalLife to get access to weekly bonus episodes!Buy Official TPL Merch! - thisparanormallife.com/storeFollow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTubeJoin our Secret Society Facebook CommunityAdvertise on This Paranormal Life via Gumball.fmResearch by Amy GrisdaleEdited by Louis BlatherwickIntro music by www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why is a cactus so prickly? What's it trying to keep us away from? What happens if I eat glass? All of these questions you can find the answer to on This Paranormal Life! Hey-o! Welcome everyone to This Paranormal Life, the comedy paranormal podcast

where every week we investigate a brand new paranormal tale, case, claim, beast, man, woman, child, and come to a conclusion as to whether or not they them it are truly paranormal my name is rory powers i'm going to be your host for this week and sitting across from me in this dark mysterious cave is kit greer malvena how you doing kit i'm doing great i think you know i actually i think i i I'm done with Kit. I think I need a more dark name to go with our dark lair. Yeah, because I didn't want to say it, but Rory Powers,

it's a pretty good name for a paranormal investigator. Okay. Where are you going with this? Kit Greer? I don't know. Can I check out a book, Mr. Librarian? You know, it doesn't look pretty. Really, Librarian?

I would have thought more like, I think it's a pretty cool, like maybe like a surfer name, like a guy who might be, you know it doesn't really librarian i would have thought more like i think it's a pretty cool like maybe like a surfer name like a guy who might be you know like we're talking like long flowing blonde hair maybe he's hanging out by the beach yeah maybe surf the pages of the world wide web at 3 a.m in your mother's basement but well there's something maybe like a little cooler maybe like i told you that in confidence my friend uh how about uh obsidian yeah now we're cooking all right obsidian kit greer no dude no we have to lose the kit greer lose my identity even that could probably go so i think obsidian yeah void void obsidian void yeah i don't know if that gels with rory powers though what rory powers and obsidian void yeah i don't know i think it ramps up in the last half there

it sounds like a um cop show where two unlikely partners have to team up one is a rugged cop who doesn't do things by the books, and the other is a black hole, a void of endless darkness. Just the first cop has depression, I think, is the point of that story. It's like, Chief, I don't want to work with him. And the other cop goes, It's just endless darkness. And that's the rest of the 25 mins of the episode.

Pretty much. Well, look, we dilly-dallied a little bit there, making some lighthearted jokes, but time is actually pretty important in this week's episode. Actually, f*** it. It's the opposite of important. It doesn't matter because time is irrelevant. Okay, I'm getting mixed signals here, but I'm excited to see where this goes. Well-worded obsidian. Well, let's dive into today's case.

Our story today begins on June 28th, 2009. World-famous theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking is sitting alone in a large room at the University of Cambridge. He's surrounded by plates of delicious food, bottles of champagne, and yet he's completely alone. No one had turned up to his party. But that wasn't because he was a nerd and people hated him. It was because he hadn't sent out the invitations yet. Are you inferring that people hate him because he's a nerd? I think he's pretty celebrated. Is that just something you think? I'm just saying that's usually the reason. Well, that's why people didn't turn up to my high school parties so i was just assuming the same thing right but that wasn't on the on account of you

being like some brilliant physicist that was well i was pretty good at guitar hero not that that mattered yeah people didn't want to show up for my parties even though i was actually pretty cool but apparently they don't show up for anyone's parties yeah i think you didn't want to show up for my parties, even though it was actually pretty cool. But apparently they don't show up for anyone's parties. Yeah, I think you didn't actually throw a birthday party. You just threw a Guitar Hero tournament and everyone knew they had no hope of beating you, so they didn't go. I said that on the invite. You have no hope of beating me. Please come, Rory.

Cake provided. No one had turned up to his party because the invitations hadn't been sent yet. Just behind Hawking's was a huge golden banner that said, Welcome, Time Travelers. Wow, this is mind-bending already. Yeah, by hosting the party in secret, then sending out the invites, the theoretical physicist had thrown a party that could only have been known about in the future meaning the only attendees would in fact be time travelers wow this was a real thing

that stephen hawking did i will say that is some nerd shit but that is pretty cool it's a pretty cool story but his plan wasn't to trap time travelers, how to catch a predator style, but more so to prove to the world that time travel really isn't possible. Hawking went on to say, shoots him in the knees hawking went on to say i threw a party for time travelers but i didn't send out the invitations until after i sat there a long time but no one came he truly is the smartest man to ever live it's pretty baller i mean not only uh is this a really fun and interesting kind of scientific experiment it's also probably the saddest experiment that's ever been conducted where the outcome just is an elderly wheelchair bound man alone in a room at a party that no one turned up to i don't know that's pretty sad i don't know what it says about

me though i'm kind of like that's pretty awesome he got to have cake he got to have the champagne it's actually i might do that for my next birthday that's oh leave the invitation so after the fact could you imagine being the staff though like serving the food and you just look in and it's just him alone in the chair that's a sad experiment that's right up there with like putting shampoo in a monkey's eyes to see if it blinds them or not i'm just not imagining okay i'm just imagining that yeah like you say in this maybe business maybe a cleaner or someone who's like walking by looks in and takes pity and is like you know what that sad old man i'm gonna show him the best damn birthday ever they walk in he's like you came where where did you come from they're like uh the canteen is that what they call your planet in the future yeah i think this is a really uh fun

light-hearted experiment that that does serve to prove a point as well at the same time this is why physics is so fascinating a topic for people like us paranormal investigators because seemingly just the laws of science themselves are paranormal very true and stephen hawking has talked a lot about time travel in his works whether it's possible whether it's science fiction but in last book, he went as far as to write that rapid space travel and travel back in time can't be ruled out. Right on. So you're saying we can do it. Tonight on the pod. I think that's what he's saying. I have a DeLorean parked outside.

Come on, Obsidian. Let's go. It can't be ruled out, Kit. The wise words that will guide us today as we explore the world of time travel. Now already I can feel the listeners getting ready to turn off the pod. Kit's grabbing the microphone. He's ready to leave because the problem with doing an investigation into time travel is evidence specifically the lack of it i can't show you the birth certificate of a time traveler if the mother hasn't been born yet and unfortunately we spent a lot of time and moolah looking into the dmod time machine but it didn't provide the evidence goods we needed. Unfortunately not.

That time machine might actually make a little appearance at the end of the episode. So stay tuned for that, folks. Interesting. But luckily, Kit, this week, for once, it is all about the evidence. I have three pictures today with me that prove categorically that time travel not only is possible but time travelers have existed and been captured in photographs in the past wow so you're saying that one of the smartest men to ever live stephen hawking he's written books on things like time travel and you're saying that he could have skipped all the book writing if he had simply printed three jpegs found on the internet commonly available he could have skipped the years of research and just gone straight to the buzzfeed

article i found at 3 a.m so what's the name of the genius physicist that printed this article and changed history? It doesn't matter who originally it was because it's about to be Rory Powers. Today we're going to be talking about a lot of pictures. And I realize that's quite contradictory to have the main focus of an audio medium to be photographs. But luckily... Use your imagination, you bunch of cheap assholes. I was dancing around it, but that's basically what we're going to be doing today. Through the power of storytelling and the incredible talent of our audio engineer, Kami,

we will take you to these locations. So hopefully right now, we're about to paint a really cool audioscape. Is that what they're called cool audioscape is that what they're called audioscape soundscape you're gonna feel like you're immersed in this photograph hell yeah let's go our first picture today comes from 1962 we're at the Estadio Nacional in Santiago where Czechoslovakia take on Brazil in the 1962 World Cup. When the game was done and the buzzer went, Brazil emerged victorious, 3-1. The Brazilian team gathered round in celebration.

One player lifted the trophy above the crowd, and a famous picture was snapped. But this picture isn't famous because of Brazil's win. It's famous because of what you can see in the bottom center of the frame. In the picture, you can clearly see a man snapping a photo of the event on a mobile phone. There's no way, clearly, because it's 1962, you said. Exactly. But Kit, I have the evidence right here. So Rory is passing me the image. If you just look closely at the bottom center of the picture. Now this is an old picture, folks.

We're talking black and white, very worn. So yeah, we've got a Brazilian star holding up the trophy. A bunch of people standing around with lots of different cameras. I don't know what I'm looking at here. We've got someone holding up, granted granted what appears to be a camera granted the situation would indeed call for a camera he's standing in front of this brazilian football player and he's holding it like you would hold a mobile phone for sure it's strange because there are other kind of like cameras in the picture. Yeah.

But they very much fit the time period in which the picture was taken. This person we're talking about is holding, let's not dance around it, a Motorola Razr flip phone. Okay, well, it's a bit bigger than that. This is like a steampunk mobile phone. It's like, I'm very confused. It's large for a mobile phone. We're not talking an iPhone 6 here. No.

But it's generally the proportions, and he's holding it the same way. The weirdest part as well is, like, it's taken with such detail that it looks like you can even see the image of what he's pointing the camera at on the screen of the phone. Right. Like it looks like you can almost kind of see him in the screen of the telephone. I see what you're saying. Yeah, yeah. Now we will be talking about a couple of these different examples.

I did say I had three, so we don't have to come to any conclusion as to whether or not time travel is truly possible until the end of the show. I feel like you're just trying to nip it in the bud that I don't come down too hard on any of these images. Well, if this says anything about how the rest of the show is going to go, that was the weakest example to prove that time travel is real. It's only going to get more intense, folks. Hey, this is intriguing. I'm on board to see where we go next. Well, I'll tell you where we're going next we're going to 2008 only 12 years ago the world cup my friend in japan the forward striker was hit by a blast from a laser gun what seems to be the same phone

by the same time traveler slightly slightly clearer picture this time. into the tomb. Inside lay a large coffin wrapped in layers of soil. As the archaeologist began to remove the layers of the coffin to see what was inside, a small piece of rock fell off the top, but when it hit the ground, it made a metallic sound. After closer examination, it wasn't a rock, but a ring that had been sealed in the tomb for over 400 years. Now, usually, that wouldn't be a strange discovery. You know, rings have been around since the days of Mordor. That's not a modern invention. Sure.

But this ring was carved in the shape of a wristwatch. It was carved with such detail that you could see the time was set to 10.06am, and it even had the word Swiss carved into the back of it. No, it didn't. Ladies and gentlemen, the drip was hard. This was an iced out rolly. Not only were watches like this not used 400 years ago, but during the time of the Ming dynasty, Switzerland didn't even exist as a great point. I would love to see an image of this ring. Picture number two. Listeners at home, I will say that very often people uh laughter to mask their fear when confronted with

such dangerous paranormal facts i mean i don't really see what is dangerous about an archaeologist dirty hands what i'm looking at is through a kind of magnifying glass in between the archaeologist fingers is indeed a very small ring which which is, I have to admit, precisely the shape and proportions of some kind of Casio metal watch. Yeah. With hands, with little markers for the times of day, and with links on the wristband. This is most bizarre.

It's so weird, isn't it? wristband this is most bizarre so weird isn't it and as far as i can tell there was no reason for anyone to assume that this tomb had been entered prior to the date that it was originally sealed even weirder for someone if they had to go in there and drop off this tiny little wristwatch ring yeah i mean it seems even more bizarre because those don't really exist what the f**k is that an earring who would have who would have a ring of a watch you could someone who really doesn't like wearing watches i guess you can only really assume that what happened was a time traveler went back to the date of the ming dynasty wearing a swiss wristwatch a time traveling borrower which which obviously uh who everyone was buried in this tomb assumed it was some magical future time piece true and uh almost

as a tribute to it carved the exact shape of the watch including the swiss um engravement in the back to form jewelry okay that's a crucial point which i was too stupid to get to but we're not actually looking at uh the watch of a time traveler but rather ancient proof that a time traveler encountered someone in the ming dynasty who this. If in fact the tomb has remained sealed for 400 years, there is no way that it could be in here unless this watch existed 400 years ago. This is pretty intriguing stuff, ladies and gentlemen. And we're only on picture number two. I've saved...

I actually just remembered I got four pictures. What? So we're about to overdo it this case. That's 33% more facts. Our next piece of evidence takes us back to 1941, to British Columbia. This might be my favorite picture of them all. Crowds gather to celebrate the grand reopening for the South Fork Bridge, an important day for a local small town.

Children play and parents watch as the ribbon is cut and the bridge is officially reopened. And at that moment, a photographer innocently snapped a picture of the crowd. Now, nothing about this picture really seemed strange until it was made available to the public in 2004, being featured in a museum exhibit. in 2004 being featured in a museum exhibit. And that's when people noticed, wait a minute, that man in the crowd, that can't be real. That's right. Eagle-eyed viewers spotted a man that looked out of time and place. I'm going to show you the photograph of the crowd who was there at the bridge reopening. Kit, tell me if you can see the person you think that they're talking about in this picture i'm not even going to point out the time traveler in this

to show you how damning this evidence is i'm looking at the image so you really can't miss this one guys um we have a group of around 50 people standing in and amongst their cars they're very huddled together the outfits of the day are incredibly specific it's what you're imagining very bugsy malone stuff trilby hats and suits and ties then there appears to be some slacklining college freshman looking guy wearing borderline a Superman t-shirt with a cardigan and sunglasses. The sunglasses really do it for me. He's not even trying to blend in. No. for me he's not even trying to blend in no i feel like if he if he's someone who got the power or authority to time travel he should at least have the moral obligation to try and blend into the past yeah i mean it's time travel should be like going to a fancy restaurant they're like hey we

reserve the right to refuse you if you're wearing the wrong shit this person cares so little that the contrast between him and the crowd is basically the same as a man going all the way back to the age of medieval peasants and knights in three quarter lengths sliders a backwards hat ripping a bong as he runs through the Battle of Hastings. Zero effort. It could have been more incriminating if he had AirPods in. That would have really sealed the deal. It's mind-blowing.

And this isn't the only time an unknown stranger has been caught on camera looking severely out of place. stranger has been caught on camera looking severely out of place. In fact, in an image that dates back over a hundred years ago, there's a man sitting on a hillside along with a crowd of other smartly dressed Canadians, but he's just wearing a t-shirt and shorts. Again, photo number four. Why are these all in Canada? You said the last one was in Canada, right? Maybe something crazy happens in Canada in the future. And they're like, we've got to go back and see what it was like in the past. I mean, I can't imagine what that would be. I mean, unless an asteroid destroys everything that isn't Canada in the future. Okay, I see what you're saying here.

Okay, yeah, very similar setup. Super old-timey clothes, lots of bonnets, lots of hats. And then seemingly a guy with shaggy mid-length hair and a suspiciously kind of modern, youthful looking T-shirt and what looks like jean shorts. I'm pretty sure the T-shirt says Thrasher Magazine on it. It doesn't even look like it's a good outfit to wear in that weather yeah like the way everyone else is dressed he should definitely not be in shorts i mean it does like raise i guess a pertinent question i mean yes back then people

all wore one style of thing you know what if some leonardo da vinci inventor said okay i'm gonna cut off the bottom of these trousers cut off the sleeves from this pajama top and grow my hair out and not wear a hat he would look pretty damn modern you know it's like did they have shorts did they have t-shirts did they have cardigans and sunglasses i don't know i think those inventors were mostly burned for being wizards yeah for witches they're like they're like kanye being attacked for presenting new ideas i think it's just so bizarre because of the context of these pictures yeah to just have people that stand out so boldly because it's's a pretty small sample size, you know, in a good way. Like we've got a really small amount of people.

It seems incredibly unlikely that someone would stand out as much as this. Yeah, if there was like a crowd of them all with like fanny packs and like little disposable cameras that then disappeared in the next frame of the shot, that would be a little bit more suspicious. I kind of saw the exact opposite of this situation the other day in London, which is probably realistically not that unusual a sight. I saw a guy who he looked like he could have been Indiana Jones' companion.

He had the tiny little vintage reading glasses. Oh, cool. The clothes that look like they've been dyed yellow uh from like decades of use you know the trousers that come up to his nipples the boots the like the hundred year old satchel bag i was like you know fair play for committing to that look um at the same time i didn't think he was literally a time traveler yeah there's i think there's a really that's such a fine line i think there's a very cool way to do that to have like you know the beaten shirt maybe like a henley rolled up sleeve messy hair tiny

glasses maybe you carry around a notepad with like a quill and you write in it you know that's pretty cool i mean it helps if you look like henry cavill but if you're a skinny little nerd like this guy was like i would look in that you can't just walk up to a lady and be like i make my own butter you're not she tases you in the throat what is this wizardry i have not seen before a candle in thine pocket just take a little butter it'd be so funny as well if uh if you were talking to a girl and it did work and she was like i actually find this really charming and it's like do you do you want my number number you mean bird

call for i shall send a pigeon to your door she's like like, never mind. No, I have an iPhone. It's sure. Give me the digits. Just get, hold on a second. I'm trying to type. I got butter on my fingers. Now we've looked into time travel in a number of different episodes of this podcast.

Sure. And how or if it would be possible. Each method raising its own problems for sure. The popular scientific opinion is that if time travel be possible. Each method raising its own problems, for sure. The popular scientific opinion is that if time travel were possible, it would be by humans being capable of traveling through a wormhole. Sure. Now that doesn't sound too bad. A hole for a worm?

I'm at least three times as strong as a worm and twice as smart. I'd obviously be able to survive it. But being bombarded with gravitational waves and getting blasted with the same energy that you'd find if you jumped into the f***ing sun means your chances of survival are slim and none. Yeah, yeah, it turns out the worms have some advantages over us humans. I told the guys at NASA, I was like, look, I can do like 12 push-ups without stopping. You telling me that I wouldn't be able to survive a wormhole? You did leave that voicemail and never heard back.

Never heard back, which is actually pretty rude. But, you know, they got busy things to do. It's fine. Now, I'm sure longtime listeners of the podcast will remember that in our quest to try and find evidence that time travel was possible, we came across a little company called the Dimension 7 Organization that along with flying cars and exoskeletons were also selling the D7D mode time machine. This might be one of my favorite episodes of the podcast yet. I don't have the time or care to provide you with the full list of what the d7d mode time machine is capable of it would take more time than we have uh but to paraphrase it would let

you travel through time yeah visit other dimensions and of course psycho dive whatever the that means and all of it could be yours for only 750 000 that's so much more pricey than i remember yeah fair is it pricey though it's actually kind of cheap when you consider that it's the only known device that can psycho dive seeing as i'm going to use the machine to go back in time beat him up and take my money back i mean all you have to do is go back to when the dollar was invented take one of those to now and i think the way inflation works you're a quadrillionaire the dollar's massive now i don't quite know how inflation works but i think it's huge it's like when you leave a freaking haribo gummy bear in a glass of water have you ever done this before

no if borderline comes to life if you take a curl me leave one of those little dinosaurs if you take uh this is a little experiment you can do in the commune if you take a gummy bear from a bag of haribo put it in a cup of water right and leave it in there it will absorb so much water it only doesn't become bigger because you run out of water i think if you put it in the ocean we die we die we'd be jelly civilization yeah the only problem is it it becomes very weak and it falls apart it's kind of like the contents of the Ark of the Covenant. Sure. This beautiful, treacherous gummy bear

that if you try and pick up, it just melts in your hands. Wow, I can't believe I've never come across this. I need to try it. It's pretty cool. I'm not gonna lie, it's pretty cool. Speaking on the D7 Demo Time Machine and Dimension 7 organization, when I was researching this case, I went back to visit the website and it's gone.

Everything's gone. All that's left is their LinkedIn page. What do they need, a job? I don't know. Why do they have a LinkedIn page? You can travel. Jesus Christ. I hope if you can travel through time, you don't need a LinkedIn page anymore.

Yeah. If I had a time traveling machine, I would at least hope that I would travel to a time beyond LinkedIn being necessary. Whether that's the future or the past. Yeah. If it means feudal Japan, fine. They've got their own version of it, presumably. I'm a really good samurai. A samurai LinkedIn.

I've been a samurai for three years, farmer for two years. I'm pretty sure actually, yeah, the feudal system's a lot worse than LinkedIn. With the D7 organization likely shut down for fraud or having time traveled to the future, I was sort of at a lost end for a good way to lead into today's conclusion. And that's when I saw a news report that had just been posted literally 30 minutes before writing this episode out. I see what you're saying here.

Saying that Australian scientists have solved a logical paradox proving that time travel is theoretically possible. Really? Now, Kit, are you going to sit there and tell me that it's just a coincidence? I'm not inside here. That I won't hear another word of it. You're going to actually say to me? I'm not. I told you I'm not.

You're going to say, oh,'m not i told you i'm not you're gonna you're gonna say oh you piece of shit rory you little dirty little rat boy you're gonna say you're like the rest of them never believed i want to hear it i think that someone from the future wrote that article sent it to the past to arrive right when i needed it to. I don't even know how that would happen. Did they, does the time traveler work for the newspaper? Doubting per usual, but me when I get my ass. How do you send a story to the past? It's called scheduling.

You schedule the post. You can't schedule an email for like the 1900s. We've never tried to be fair. To be fair. I'm going to send one to the dinosaurs watch out i did read the article and even though it did not bring us really any closer to discovering how we would travel back in time uh it did solve uh one of the most heated and debated paradoxes um regarding time travel as to why a lot of people believe it would be impossible. So that was very interesting. And it was just reassuring to know that some of the

smartest people out there in the world are still investing their time and energy into researching time travel in this day and age. And that just warmed my little heart. That warms my dumb little brain because I would love to work in these problems i would love to work on time travel but um i just wasn't blessed with the iq so i'm glad that people out there who have um the brains big enough to work on this are for the dummies out there yeah i i really like that you know 2020 has been a pretty difficult year there's a lot for scientists to be getting on with uh in terms of cures for things yeah and ways to make the world better you know climate change of course an ongoing global pandemic

but i still like that at the meetings they're like well we can't we gotta have someone on time travel you know because there's like sure there's like a 0.4 chance that it's possible but if it is it pretty much can solve all of this shit there are like some like international conference of thousands of of scientists like so if we could just get one volunteer just honestly just to keep the project moving every hand goes up no no no guys let's be real here we've got very pressing issues this year people are coming back from the future to volunteer shit was fun want to do it again i actually missed out on the first time uh this guy got it the last time you must know the cure

to coronavirus like nah i don't remember mostly time travel stuff we just went far enough forward that it didn't matter also linkedin is gone that's sweet. And that just about rounds up our case today in our investigation into time travel. Thank you. Thank you. I hope that episode kind of came out okay. I know it's a different kind of structure than what we usually do in terms of, you know, one big story to tackle. We kind of broke it down into individual pictures. So let us know whether you enjoyed this one or not.

Hey, I love it. You know, we go right to the heart of the evidence and just like, let's just get into it. Let's talk about it. And let's do that right now. Kit, I've shown you four pictures. It's all bullshit. Okay, that was...

Maybe I could go back and rephrase the question in a way that would give me a double yes. No, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to cut you off. You were kit today i showed you four pictures four pictures that you know i say go a long way into proving that time travel is not only possible but has happened it's not often in a case where evidence makes up the entirety of the case from start to finish so where's your head at you must be not used to this at all. You're getting some shock here.

Listen, I'm very sympathetic to this cause. I love it. The cool thing about this kind of story is that it kind of bleeds and extends into other stories that we've even kind of talked about in the past. Whenever we've looked at, say, Atlantis, you know, there's evidence of kind of civilizations that seem kind of too far ahead in history for where they should have been uh you know they find

something that looks like a computer underneath the ocean or whatever yeah and it leaves you with a couple of different options and one that we didn't really talk about was the possibility that time travelers were involved i mean for one well there are maps that are several hundred years old that feature islands, locations, landmasses that no one discovered until maybe 50, 100 years ago. And it just doesn't add up, and it raises more questions than it answers. And that's what makes this fascinating. I think the hang-up I have is a bit like I alluded to to earlier is that if we're coming down to particularly the last two images um what we're coming down to here is dress code and it may be one thing if someone was wearing like a uniclo raincoat that those materials literally didn't exist at that time but these guys are

kind of wearing the materials that did exist they're wearing seemingly cotton uh just in a style that wasn't common um so that's kind of hard it's kind of hard to make the leap that this is definitely time travel instead of just a weird style. Yeah, it is kind of damning that, I mean, these time travelers, one of the reasons they look out of place is because they're wearing clothes that not even are from the future, but the clothes we're wearing now, which really doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Because we don't have time machines now.

The person who was taking a picture of the brazilian world cup on a flip phone was using a phone so old that it doesn't no one would even use it nowadays yeah it's so it's it yeah it doesn't really make sense unless we get super back into flip phones in the future i can't really see that happening yeah i didn't even think of that exactly but or maybe they're so far in the future that they're like all right i'm they do so little research on the time they're going back to they're like f**k it i'll put on some old-timey clothes sunglasses a superman shirt and i'll take a flip phone with me and they go back to medieval times close enough that's fine i'm using a first gen iphone it's totally

fine i know it's like hey can i get your phone number oh no you guys probably use blackberry messenger right can i get your bbm code it's like a medieval peasant sitting in a mud puddle what doesn't even speak english yet that's low-key a pretty interesting hypothesis i think if we had a time machine now, we would not be able to correctly judge the customs of the time we go back to. Yeah. The way we analyze history is in hundreds of years, not like, you know, one or two years.

I mean, Christ, if someone came from the future back to now, dressed like the 80s, we would be like, what the f*** are you doing? Yeah. to now dressed like the 80s we would be like what the f**k are you doing yeah i mean even if you told me to like go back to caveman days i would be like uh okay put some like animal fur on my body maybe grab like a little stone axe or something and head back and i could show up there and all the cavemen would be like you have stone what the f**k is that what have you got on your club and like i don't even know that i'm out of place at all because all i know about cavemen is you know they have like old-timey weapons and that's it you don't know how much you stand out uh if you don't you haven't like hyper focused on that exact period of time that you're

going to so true we've actually looped ron to proving the time traveler theory these poor time travelers didn't know what they were getting into yeah i definitely didn't see us being on the side of the time travelers yeah we're basically like anyone could make that mistake it's not their fault but i think personally this is whilst pretty cool evidence is maybe not the extraordinary evidence that we would need some kind of like proof in writing some digital digitally signed documents from somewhere in the future something a little more concrete than you know shorts or someone holding a camera that maybe looks a little bit too modern.

Yeah, I gotta say the weirdest one for me is probably the Swiss watch. Yeah. That has so many layers to it that it kind of hurts my brain if I want to try and comprehend how a 400-year-old Swiss watch ring got sealed in a tomb. I don't know how that happened or has to happen the only thing that i can think of is like i know in i don't know what it's like in china but i know in egypt it's super depressing how few tombs uh have not been raided right over the last 2000 years tomb raiders are pretty good at their damn job. Lara Croft isn't, like,

Lara Croft and Indiana Jones aren't the best in the biz. People have been doing that for thousands of years. Yeah, even calling them Tomb Raiders implies the existence of some sort of tomb patrol, which there is not. I'm pretty sure it's free game. Yeah. There's not, like, armed, it's not like a museum heist,

where you have to be like, all right, you know what we're going to do're gonna ride on camels in the middle of the night and we'll we'll shimmy on our little bellies like snakes up the back of the pyramids and i'll use my laser wristwatch to cut a hole in tootin common's sarcophagus taking his little mummy skull out and then you friggin mission impossible me up through the vents of this pyramid it's not what happens you get a big hammer and you smash the front door down and you come back every day for five years until you get the golden crown it's less of a midnight moonlit operation and more of a SWAT team breach into a terrorist's freaking condo there's like c4 on the roof you basically destroy all the treasures on the way in

and as we've covered on the podcast in the past the only defense system was a bit of writing on the wall that said please please don't come in. Maybe some snakes. I don't know how fabricated that is. I actually found, this is a total tangent, but just because we talked about an ancient Chinese undiscovered tomb, I did read about in the last episode, I mentioned the terracotta soldiers kind of place.

Yeah, that's right. I think it's in the same area that there's supposed to be some kind of like king's burial chamber that they've never uncovered yet because it's so delicate if they were to dig into it in any way the whole thing would collapse so there's a whole ancient king's chamber there that no one's been into but a really cool side of the story is the ancient scriptures say that the tomb is guarded by a moat filled with instead of water liquid mercury whoa so like because it's so poisonous to humans it's like water isn't good enough to keep people out we need a river of pure metal flowing underground. And they used to think it was bullshit, but they tested the soil above the site

and they found like elevated mercury levels. So they think there could be this moat of liquid mercury. Can you even imagine what that would look like? Pretty cool. I'm telling you guys, we need to bring back more old school security measures for our modern day homes yeah i'm sick of this you know cctv cameras locks i want to just keep my front door open with a little sign at the top that says beware of the snakes yeah if you open the front door

of my hallway they're not even booby trapped i've just set a bunch of snakes out in my halls and they're hungry because i don't feed them and they're angry because i hit them and they bite me but i'm immune because i've been bitten so many times i've built up a tolerance to their abuse yeah they're more of the lord of the house than i am now i'm actually hoping people can make it past the snakes to feed me i'm just ordering u Uber Eats after Uber Eats after Uber Eats. And there's men with bags of chicken nuggets trying to get through my hallway. They don't make it more than two feet before the snakes devour them and the nuggets. Snakes can eat a lot.

They can eat a lot of nuggets. They'll eat the Uber Eats driver and the Uber Eats delivery. And now that they've got my phone, they're just supplying themselves they're ordering the most expensive local delivery to my credit card yeah and these are already the uber eats drivers they can make it past the mercury lake all right i think we've kind of danced around the um the conclusion long enough let's let's do it time is ironically of the essence uh what do we think today kit with the pictures that i supplied you are you any closer to believing that time travel let's not

even say that it's time travel possible let's say do any of these pictures contain evidence that time travel has happened for me it's going to be a hard pass i don't think i think we've got some pretty intriguing images there but i don't think we've got enough to say that something that the greatest minds of our generation have been working on and not proven is real i'm gonna say also i don't believe that any of this evidence is convincing enough um even though as you said a lot of these clothes are out of place there was some myth busting on the internet where it was kind of like for example the guy wearing sunglasses here we go okay all right all right all right they were just saying that even though this is super weird um you know that those like steampunk ass goggles did exist at the time sure it was just the equivalent of as we say in today uh just someone having a very quirky dress sense

yeah and that's more or less what it was. It's just so weird how closely it mimics the dress sense of the future. For sure. Now, I will say we have come down on a double no. And even though we are not right now, this podcast will one day be one of the most important artifacts in the human existence.

So everyone will hear it, including men, women, and children in the future so uh right now would be a good chance for time travelers to come back and strangle us to prove that it is real why strangle us to change that so they can like sit down and replace us with two hosts that say that it is real don't i mean don't speak it into existence bud i don't want to get replaced i don't see anyone coming back i think we're in the clear okay so thank you for oh my god it's all real they're not even convincing replicas they had all these years to plan it out it's all real obsidian has returned to the podcast

remember to live long look at things and die very very childishly it's a double no this week time travelers were not proven to be real from those photographs but thank you so much for listening i hope you enjoyed this week's episode of This Paranormal Life. If you want to check out some of the pictures that we talked about today, the best place to do so is over on YouTube, where every week we upload clips from your weekly episode. Do you want to see what a tiny Swiss ring looks like? Do you want to see pictures of all these weird time travelers? The way to do it is to go to YouTube. And you can do that pretty easily, actually, because the YouTube is in the description of this podcast on your phone. So you can just click the button and it'll take you right there. And we've got tons of fun clips. So

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by traveling back and forward in time. Just, I don't even get out of the machine i just hold my hand out while we travel and see what i can grab out the windows it's a bit like going to the fridge for a cold beer you just reach into the d mode and grab a new cron jewel but if you do enjoy the show and you want to support it while also getting a little bit extra, you can do all of that on patreon.com. Over there, we have bonus episodes. We have merchandise. Check it out.

It's the only way to support the show and help this thing stay running. And if you do support us on Patreon, we like to give you a very special little shout out right here on the podcast. So thank you to Luke O'Green. Luke always wants to go green we're talking wind farms solar energy and all of those power his machine that crunches coal into a big oven yeah it's a little contradictory at the end there because he was on the right path um but then it's all about just burning coal which is kind of weird And that machine just powers the solar plant.

Jesus. So he's kind of stuck in a loop here. He just wants to watch the world burn, I think. Literally. Thank you to Bob Smith. Bob Smith, home of Bob's Riffs. If you need any kind of jingle, theme tune of any sort, you go down to Bob's Riffs. Nice.

I love your surprisingly famous ones. We're talking the Seinfeld bass line. It's pretty cool, man. Anything you want. Is that it? Yeah, actually. He did the Seinfeld bass line and that was it? I think, yeah, actually.

Actually, you can't even hire him anyway. He retired on that. So knocked it out of the park and won. Well done, Bob. I'm like, Bob my my uh my daughter's birthday on sunday could you like you know have to do like a birthday jingle yeah sure uh happy boom boom boom boom boom boom birthday boom boom boom bob it's like that's the you're doing the seinfeld jingle again oh really oh sorry about that aren't you gonna do another one nah nah

you and me both know it would be the Seinfeld jingle again thank you to Jesse Waldorf Jesse Waldorf's house is Waldorf from the rest of their community talk about an old school security system went right past the snakes went right past the mercury river

and just built a big wall around their house it's a mile high wow yeah how do they get out they don't okay it's more it's a home slash tomb they wait for birds to die at the top of the wall and then they fall down they eat the birds like golem thank you to tyra tyra the tyrant tyra actually ran a series of illegitimate south american political regimes in the 80s um pretty bad person to have supporting the podcast um but you know you know hey we recognize you know we like to think that we're pretty um bad rulers as well of the commune so we could no no i don't know where that came

from i didn't know you could teach us some of those tricks about how to kind of control a population absolutely not you know enforce martial law those are all words we're trying to there's negative connotations here the very happy commune thank you to brandy s brandy hands down makes the best candy nice it's really good stuff she lives like out in the woods. The whole house is made of candy. You come in, it's like candy walls, candy like living rooms. This is sounding a little familiar. She lives alone. I think like, well, not alone because I saw like two kids go in there the other day. Actually, I haven't seen the kids.

Yeah, I think Brandy's eating. Hansel and Gretel, I think were their names. Okay, Brandy's eating the kids. If I brandy's hansel and gretel i think with their names okay if i wasn't getting the message clear to you so you know what the message is you're beating around the bush an awful lot hansel and gretel for their names thank you to james sheffield james sheffield owns a death field what that doesn't sound good he's a corn harvester and he's pretty protective of the corn he stands out there with an ancient japanese samurai sword and if you so much as look at the corn okay you you're it's like anime style you look at the corn and then you're like oh why is the corn splitting in like two directions you don't realize you've at the corn and then you're like oh why is the corn splitting in like two

directions you don't realize you've already been cut and your head is sliding in two is that a scarecrow why does that scarecrow have a tokugawa era hairstyle thank you to i wendell i went dill their house to actually thank i wendell in person but But I don't know how to say this. It's not easy to say this, but they looked at the corn. They absolutely... No, they did not. I think they were driving by.

They were hungry. They stopped at a side where they thought, this farmer is probably a nice guy. Won't miss a single ear of corn. Nice, fresh, delicious corn. It's called the death field. He's gonna mind. Thank you to Skye. That's actually how we

start, uh, the morning grace-giving before every feast at the Paranormal Commune is, thank you to Skye, thank you to Dirt, thank you for shoes, thank you for shirt. And then for shoes. Thank you for shirt.

And then we all begin eating mounds and mounds of stolen corn. We have multiple watchmen on guard. You know, you really bring it in with the shoes and the shirt. I was like, how can shoes possibly follow sky and dirt as the third most important thing? I was like, all right shirt shirt off your back cool we don't have many things in the commune thank you to ray ray you are a ray of sunshine in my life you hurt me when i look at you and yet me you skin damage and yet without you i could not see which is kind of ironic isn't it because he stole your glasses he did yeah but he gives them back sometimes when i have to do the pod thank you to

kevin grindstaff mr grindstaff is not a very nice manager to have it's kind of there in the name yeah he works him to the bone sounds like the owner of a medieval strip club mr grindstaff where witches come to shake their booty atop their witch's broom in exchange for medieval coins shake their booty and drink that broody thank you to devin mchenry devin will give you to the count of seven to get the hell away from his corn field surely not that's right another very protective corn farmer is this some premium corn it's not even that good it's he has so much and so little gets eaten that it's borderline rotting in the fields but if you so much as look at that rotten corn you're getting a katana in between your eyes thank you also to zach chat away zach's always trying to just chat away chat chat chat he will

chat your ear off because he is a cryptid whose power is chatting and whose victim is ears he will literally chat the ears off of your head you can mostly find him uh at sort of university parties standing around the communal punch bowl yeah just because those intoxicated youths are the perfect victims for his chat and it's like low hanging fruit he's like hey have you guys seen breaking bad everyone's seen it of course what about this meme charlie bit my finger you guys heard that gangdom style song this is why are all your references from like 2009 this is so yeah but he just any chat at all he chatted all. I could do Alex Herring. Alex Herring is pretty daring. They actually, last I heard, were attempting a pretty incredible stunt.

Double backflip off Niagara Falls. That's pretty ballsy. Pretty ballsy. Sadly, a lot of daring, a lot of balls, and not a lot of skill. Has he ever backflipped before? No. And that was actuallyflipped before? No. And that was actually the last time they were seen. Okay.

They disappeared over that edge. Did more than a double backflip. There was probably six or seven. And then... What a way to go. That was edge sent to the mist. I'd like to think they're just fine. Thank you to Doniel Leonardis.

Doniel Leonardis, don't yell in my tardis i'm traveling through time very quickly and you screaming in my ear telling me to slow down because we missed the dinosaurs isn't gonna help me turn this thing around you don't think i know that we're at the big bang of course we missed it the paradox is we started the universe we're god apparently thank you to lauren champion lauren champion was a boring champion what she was a boring champion whatever she does she's a winner at anything that's cool that's cool i get that well like fishing um snowboarding cooking whatever okay she can catch a fish on a snowboard and cook it before she crosses the finish line i mean that's not even just being a champion that's

being a wizard it's not an olympic sport but um unfortunately no it's pretty cool nonetheless thank you to erica larson erica larson committed arson um seems like a pretty serious crime um it really wasn't their fault i mean look she it was like a kitchen fire it burned down this like little doll's house it was like it didn't burn down even a real house it was a doll's house unfortunately the dolls had a great lawyer. They got Erica put away for life. The doll? How did that happen? It was a Ken doll lawyer edition.

He knew every goddamn law inside out. One of those really intense ones as well that can like blink, shit, poop, pee. It's basically human. It passed the New York barrister exam, unfortunately, and got her put away. Thank you to Justine Dalton. Well, if it isn't Rusty Justine, a robot from the future sent back in time to save humanity, but landed face down in a puddle, rusted over in seconds. Geez.

Unable to even stand up. Just stuck here in the past as a little rust bucket. They really should have thought of that before sending a robot that cannot stand water back through time to no point in particular. To a

watery place. Thank you, lastly, but not leastly, to Heather New. Heather knew that she couldn't take that corn but that didn't stop her from trying she showed up with a full samurai armor kit she's getting beaten by swords head over heels and she's grabbing as many ears of corn as she can i'm gonna say she actually made it out with a couple of them wow and to be honest it was the worst corn she'd ever had in her life

mostly rotten out of date just cause they're protective doesn't mean they're good farmers yeah it turns out a lot of it was wheat can't even eat it straight away so thank you to everyone that we just shouted out again if you'd like to see how

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