Phantom Time Hypothesis

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🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The phantom time hypothesis is a historical conspiracy theory asserted by Heribert Illig. First published in 1991, it hypothesizes a conspiracy by the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, Pope Sylvester II, and possibly the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII, to fabricate the Anno Domini dating system retroactively, in order to place them at the special year of AD 1000, and to rewrite history^[1] to legitimize Otto's claim to the Holy Roman Empire. Illig believed that this was achieved through the alteration, misrepresentation and forgery of documentary and physical evidence.^[2] According to this scenario, the entire Carolingian period, including the figure of Charlemagne, is a fabrication, with a "phantom time" of 297 years (AD 614–911) added to the Early Middle Ages.

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0:00.0	Well, that's funny.
0:02.0	No, well, usually walks in with me from the parking lot so we can do like a pop culture
0:06.4	commentary thing.
0:07.5	Must be running late.
0:09.5	You better really wanted to talk about Squid Game, man.
0:14.1	And perfect.
0:15.1	Oh, Jesus, what did you do?
0:17.1	What just happened?
0:18.5	Or do you mean when did I do, Cecil?
0:21.5	No, I did not mean that.
0:23.7	No, I didn't mean that.
0:25.1	Well, okay, Cecil, if you must ask, I didn't.
0:28.1	This week's episode is about the phantom time hypothesis.
0:31.3	So I sent everyone an email telling them that we're recording at a different time today.
0:37.6	But everyone got a different email, huh?
0:42.6	Why would anyone listen to that?
0:44.0	I send out the show schedule, man.
0:46.0	Oh, yeah, I know.
0:47.0	I didn't send it out as me.
0:48.0	I sent it from your email.
0:49.4	You guessed my password.
0:50.6	Oh, no, I answered your security questions.
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