Imagine being able to see and hear into the past. Any event from world history that you can think of.

Imagine actually being able to be there to watch it happen, the sights, the sounds, the

smells.

Sound like science fiction?

Well, according to one 20th century Benedictine monk, there was actually a way to do this, for real,

using an amazing device he constructed called the Kronovizer.

And that's coming up today on Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid. I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

Looking back on the Kronovizer.

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science from pseudoscience, real history from fake history,

and helps us all make better life decisions by knowing what's real and what's not.

In 1972, an incredible news story broke in the Italian press.

A Benedictine monk by the name of Father Pellegrino Erneti

agreed to meet with a reporter to share news of a discovery to which he had

been alluding at conferences for a number of years.

The construction of a device which allowed the user to see and hear events from hundreds, even

thousands of years ago. It was called the Kronovizer and Ernietti showed

the reporter a photograph of Jesus Christ dying on the cross, which he had taken using the device.

For years, Erneti explained, he had worked with a team of 12 physicists to construct the chronovizer and it had been completed

in the 1950s.

Since then, Ernietti had used it to view historical events such as the trial and crucifixion of Jesus, speeches by Napoleon,

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