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Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

S1 Ep19: Time Travelers: Two People from the Future

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan

Society & Culture, Science, True Crime

4.010.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Do you believe time travel is possible? That it's possible for people from the future can slip back into our time either on purpose or by accident? This week we bring you two stores of people who did just that. A man hands over his travel documents at a busy international airport only to be told his country doesn't exist. And another man in the early 2000s who started posting on message boards that he was from the near future. Nobody believed him, until his predictions started coming true. 

Transcript

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0:35.0

If you could go back in time, where would you go?

0:38.0

Back to a point in your own life? Back to ancient times?

0:42.0

Would you try not to interfere with anything so you wouldn't affect the future?

0:46.0

Would just the fact of your being there affect the future anyway?

0:50.0

Would there even be a you anymore when you got back to the present?

0:55.0

Welcome to Strange and Unexplained with me, Daisy Egan, who wrote this episode in the present,

1:00.0

which will be the past when in the future I record it, which I'm doing now,

1:05.0

which will be in the past when you're listening to this in the future, which will be your present.

1:11.0

So I have effectively time-traveled, right? That's how it works.

1:17.0

This week I'll tell you two stories of people who claim to have shown up from an impossible place,

1:23.0

possibly traveling through time to get there.

1:35.0

In July of 1954, as passengers filed through customs at Tokyo International Airport,

1:42.0

a middle-aged white man stepped up to a customs agent and handed over his documents.

1:46.0

His passport from the country of Torrid looked official enough

1:50.0

if slightly different than other country's passports.

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