Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

What a year this week has been.

Is a popular saying these days.

The speed at which news and information happens tends to skew our perception of time.

Yet no matter how much occurs, the passage of time doesn't really change.

It doesn't move faster simply because more is happening.

But Hariburt Illig didn't agree.

He didn't think that time moved differently.

He thought that it had been changed on purpose.

Illig was born in Bavaria in 1947 and followed the teachings of Immanuel Velikovsky.

Velikovsky believed that the Earth had been shaped by a short but violent worldwide phenomena

in a philosophy known as catastrophism.

Illig and Velikovsky didn't describe to gradualism the idea that small incremental changes

created the world's geography.

As he became more active in the revisionist historical community, Illig began publishing

his own theories about time.

First and foremost, he believed the Middle Ages never happened.

Despite the existence of numerous texts and other artifacts from the period, the years

614-911-AD never occurred.

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