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🗓️ 3 April 2024
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0:00.0 | On April 23rd, 2006, a man in his early 20s was seen in Kiev Ukraine staring at a high-rise apartment |
0:08.1 | building. Witnesses described him as looking confused and anxious. They thought he might have been a lost tourist. The man approached |
0:15.6 | to police officers and nervously asked for directions to a place that no longer existed. The officers |
0:22.1 | asked the young man for identification. There were two problems |
0:26.1 | with his ID. One, his documents were issued by the Soviet Union, which no longer existed. |
0:32.4 | The second problem? According to his birth date, this young man |
0:36.8 | was born in 1932. In 2011 a Russian documentary called The Time Traveler told the story of Sergei Panamaranco, |
0:55.6 | who seemed to be slipping in and out of time. |
0:58.4 | I witness first saw Panamaranco standing at an intersection in Kiev, |
1:02.4 | looking confused and a little frightened. |
1:05.0 | He was described as being in his early 20s and wearing clothes that looked new but were 50 years out of fashion. |
1:12.0 | Potter Maranko was asking everyone he met. but were 50 years out of fashion. |
1:12.6 | Potamaranco was asking everyone he met |
1:14.9 | how to get to Pestanaya Street, |
1:16.7 | but nobody had ever heard of it. |
1:18.6 | His strange behavior caught the attention |
1:20.6 | of police officer Sergei Anapenko and his partner who approached him. |
1:25.0 | Again, Panamarenko wanted directions to Pestinaya Street. When he tried to find the street on a map, |
1:30.9 | all that was there was a landfill. Officer Onapenko now noticed Sergei's |
1:36.0 | vintage clothing which looked brand new. He also noticed that Sergei was wearing an |
1:41.2 | antique camera around his neck, which also looked new. |
1:45.0 | But what really caught the police officer's attention was Sergei's identification. |
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