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If you'd like to support the podcast, please visit sQP.com slash Give. You're listening to episode 299 of Jimmy Yakin's mysterious world, where we look

at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason. In this episode we're talking about the

Kronovizer. I'm Dom Bettinelli and joining me today is Jimmy Aiken.

Hey Jimmy! Adi Dam. In 1972 the Italian public was shocked when the

respected newspaper La Domenica del Coriera or the Courier, carried a story announcing the invention of a time machine.

This machine had been invented by a Benedictine monk named Father Pelagrino Erneti and a team of scientists.

Known as the Kronovizer, it allowed one to view any point in the history of the world.

And to prove it, the paper carried a photograph of the face of Jesus Christ as he hung on the cross.

What should we make of this story?

Was the coronavizer real?

And if so, who has it now?

Well, that's what we'll be talking about on this episode of Jimmy Yakin's mysterious world.

Now, Jimmy, this isn't the first time that we've mentioned the chronavizer on the program is it?

No we actually mentioned it way back in episode 147 on the Vatican secret

archives. In that episode we read a list of 10 things that the Vatican is rumored to have in the secret

archives now known as the Vatican Apostolic Archives and one of them was the Kronovizer.

As you said, it's a machine that reportedly lets you view moments in the past, like

Dr. Who's space time visualizer from the TV story, The Chase. But it's basically a time television that would let you see and hear what people did in the past.

At the time, I dismissed the idea that it was in the Vatican Secret Archives for two reasons.

First, because the Secret Archives is an archive for

documents. It's basically a library and thus not the place for storing inventions.

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