1 00:00:02,042 --> 00:00:03,167 SHATNER: Secret military programs, 2 00:00:03,292 --> 00:00:05,958 warping space and time. 3 00:00:06,875 --> 00:00:09,500 A mysterious device, with the power 4 00:00:09,667 --> 00:00:12,000 to peer into history. 5 00:00:12,125 --> 00:00:15,833 And places on our planet where the past, 6 00:00:16,042 --> 00:00:20,083 present and future exist all at once. 7 00:00:21,083 --> 00:00:24,500 For thousands of years, humanity has been captivated 8 00:00:24,667 --> 00:00:28,667 by the idea that man might one day travel through time. 9 00:00:28,833 --> 00:00:31,625 Some of the world's greatest scientists firmly believe 10 00:00:31,792 --> 00:00:36,500 that this extraordinary feat is theoretically possible. 11 00:00:37,500 --> 00:00:40,833 But what if time travel is not just a theory 12 00:00:41,042 --> 00:00:42,792 but has already happened? 13 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,000 Is it really too far-fetched to think 14 00:00:46,167 --> 00:00:48,458 that certain people have managed to journey 15 00:00:48,583 --> 00:00:52,083 through the fabric of time, whether by design 16 00:00:52,208 --> 00:00:54,583 or perhaps by accident? 17 00:00:54,750 --> 00:00:59,667 Well, that is what we'll try and find out. 18 00:00:59,875 --> 00:01:01,792 ♪ ♪ 19 00:01:14,375 --> 00:01:18,500 Human beings experience time moment by moment. 20 00:01:18,667 --> 00:01:21,625 We spend our lives following the steady, 21 00:01:21,792 --> 00:01:23,833 one-way march of the clock 22 00:01:24,042 --> 00:01:26,583 as we make our journey from birth to death. 23 00:01:26,750 --> 00:01:29,292 But what if it's possible 24 00:01:29,417 --> 00:01:32,792 to take a different path through time? 25 00:01:35,125 --> 00:01:39,000 The great mystery of time is that time and space 26 00:01:39,208 --> 00:01:41,125 exist independently of us, 27 00:01:41,292 --> 00:01:45,083 but we view it in social and cultural terms. 28 00:01:46,208 --> 00:01:48,292 For example, we divide our day up 29 00:01:48,458 --> 00:01:51,958 into work time and leisure time. 30 00:01:52,125 --> 00:01:54,292 And we have transportation systems 31 00:01:54,458 --> 00:01:59,583 which have embedded timetables and time zones in our head. 32 00:01:59,750 --> 00:02:04,167 And so the notion of time travel has always been popular 33 00:02:04,333 --> 00:02:07,375 because the idea of escaping time, 34 00:02:07,542 --> 00:02:10,333 of being able to step outside of time, 35 00:02:10,458 --> 00:02:12,750 is hugely attractive. 36 00:02:12,917 --> 00:02:16,000 SHATNER: The tantalizing prospect of traveling through time 37 00:02:16,167 --> 00:02:18,500 has long captured the public's imagination, 38 00:02:18,708 --> 00:02:23,125 making it a frequent subject in pop culture and entertainment. 39 00:02:23,292 --> 00:02:25,792 Our modern fascination with time travel 40 00:02:25,875 --> 00:02:29,333 can be traced back to the work of author H.G. Wells, 41 00:02:29,542 --> 00:02:33,625 and his groundbreaking novel The Time Machine. 42 00:02:34,958 --> 00:02:38,667 In 1895, the book The Time Machine 43 00:02:38,792 --> 00:02:40,667 by H.G. Wells was published. 44 00:02:40,875 --> 00:02:45,167 And the impact that this had on Victorian society 45 00:02:45,333 --> 00:02:47,375 was incredibly deep, 46 00:02:47,542 --> 00:02:51,167 because it gave the scientific world 47 00:02:51,375 --> 00:02:56,500 the idea that we could indeed travel through time. 48 00:02:56,667 --> 00:03:01,167 RONALD MALLET: What makes H.G. Wells' story, The Time Machine, unique 49 00:03:01,292 --> 00:03:04,125 is that he had a mechanism, a machine, 50 00:03:04,250 --> 00:03:07,000 that you actually constructed, it could control time. 51 00:03:07,208 --> 00:03:09,667 That was different from all of the other stories. 52 00:03:10,708 --> 00:03:13,667 SHATNER: Ten years after the publication of The Time Machine, 53 00:03:13,833 --> 00:03:18,292 in 1905, physicist Albert Einstein shocked the world, 54 00:03:18,458 --> 00:03:21,250 when he published a revolutionary theory, 55 00:03:21,417 --> 00:03:26,250 which suggested that time travel is scientifically possible. 56 00:03:26,417 --> 00:03:29,125 What Einstein said is that we all think of ourselves 57 00:03:29,292 --> 00:03:30,500 as moving along a straight line of time 58 00:03:30,708 --> 00:03:33,167 from the past, present to the future. 59 00:03:33,333 --> 00:03:37,292 However, Einstein's special theory 60 00:03:37,417 --> 00:03:40,417 can allow this straight line of time to become twisted 61 00:03:40,625 --> 00:03:44,542 into a loop and cause time to be bent. 62 00:03:44,708 --> 00:03:47,542 And so that allows us with the possibility of time travel. 63 00:03:47,708 --> 00:03:51,167 SHATNER: Could the laws of physics really allow us to travel 64 00:03:51,375 --> 00:03:54,583 to any point in the past or future? 65 00:03:54,750 --> 00:03:59,125 And if so, is it possible that a real-life time machine 66 00:03:59,292 --> 00:04:01,750 may have already been invented? 67 00:04:07,125 --> 00:04:09,292 At the height of World War II, 68 00:04:09,458 --> 00:04:12,292 the Atlantic Ocean was a dangerous battleground, 69 00:04:12,417 --> 00:04:14,792 where German submarines frequently 70 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:16,333 targeted American ships. 71 00:04:16,542 --> 00:04:19,458 To help protect Allied vessels, 72 00:04:19,583 --> 00:04:22,458 the United States Navy reportedly initiated 73 00:04:22,667 --> 00:04:25,333 a top secret program that became known 74 00:04:25,458 --> 00:04:29,417 as the Philadelphia Experiment. 75 00:04:31,708 --> 00:04:36,792 The Philadelphia Experiment is a series of 76 00:04:36,875 --> 00:04:39,000 secret military projects 77 00:04:39,167 --> 00:04:42,083 which took place in 1943 78 00:04:42,292 --> 00:04:44,292 in a Philadelphia shipyard. 79 00:04:45,375 --> 00:04:47,708 At that time, the Navy was really interested 80 00:04:47,875 --> 00:04:50,208 in camouflaging its ships. 81 00:04:50,375 --> 00:04:52,833 The original idea that the Navy had 82 00:04:53,042 --> 00:04:58,125 was to actually make the ship radar invisible. 83 00:04:58,208 --> 00:05:04,292 The Philadelphia Experiment involved a U.S. Navy destroyer 84 00:05:04,458 --> 00:05:08,167 that underwent the most strangest of experiments, 85 00:05:08,375 --> 00:05:11,500 with the concept being 86 00:05:11,667 --> 00:05:16,500 that if the ship were surrounded by incredibly intense 87 00:05:16,625 --> 00:05:19,000 electromagnetic fields, 88 00:05:19,208 --> 00:05:24,125 could it distort our vision of it enough 89 00:05:24,292 --> 00:05:26,208 that it became invisible? 90 00:05:26,375 --> 00:05:30,292 SHATNER: As the story goes, on October 28, 1943, 91 00:05:30,417 --> 00:05:33,708 government scientists wrapped a fully crewed ship 92 00:05:33,875 --> 00:05:36,083 named the USS Eldridge 93 00:05:36,208 --> 00:05:39,875 in a cage of electrified copper wire 94 00:05:40,042 --> 00:05:43,125 and began the experiment. 95 00:05:43,292 --> 00:05:46,333 But then, everything went terribly wrong. 96 00:05:47,375 --> 00:05:50,042 SWARTZ: Supposedly, after the switch was thrown... 97 00:05:50,208 --> 00:05:51,958 (whirring) 98 00:05:52,042 --> 00:05:53,292 ...all hell broke loose. 99 00:05:53,500 --> 00:05:55,875 The ship was encased in fog. 100 00:05:56,042 --> 00:05:58,375 -(screaming) -Everyone was running around the decks, 101 00:05:58,542 --> 00:06:01,292 screaming in panic mode. 102 00:06:01,417 --> 00:06:03,625 No one knew what was happening. 103 00:06:03,708 --> 00:06:08,792 At that point, the USS Eldridge vanished in green mist, 104 00:06:08,958 --> 00:06:14,292 only to reappear in the Norfolk, Virginia shipyard, 105 00:06:14,458 --> 00:06:17,833 disappear again, then about three hours later, 106 00:06:18,042 --> 00:06:20,667 reappear in Philadelphia. 107 00:06:20,875 --> 00:06:24,750 This was witnessed by a merchant mariner called Carl M. Allen, 108 00:06:24,917 --> 00:06:30,625 who claims that he saw it vanish in a green mist 109 00:06:30,792 --> 00:06:33,792 before returning to the same spot. 110 00:06:33,958 --> 00:06:37,542 And then, in Virginia, some people witnessed the ship 111 00:06:37,708 --> 00:06:39,375 appear there and vanish there as well. 112 00:06:39,542 --> 00:06:41,500 So, what is going on here? 113 00:06:41,667 --> 00:06:45,292 SHATNER: Even more astonishing than the ship's vanishing act 114 00:06:45,458 --> 00:06:47,625 is that when it returned to Philadelphia, 115 00:06:47,750 --> 00:06:51,542 the crew appeared to have sustained devastating injuries. 116 00:06:51,708 --> 00:06:54,500 -(screaming) -SWARTZ: When the ship was boarded, 117 00:06:54,625 --> 00:06:58,417 it was found that the sailors were in horrible condition. 118 00:06:58,542 --> 00:06:59,958 Many were dead 119 00:07:00,125 --> 00:07:02,000 and others were found to be 120 00:07:02,167 --> 00:07:06,292 embedded in the bulkhead of the ship, still alive. 121 00:07:06,458 --> 00:07:11,208 COLLINS: Some of the crew seemed to be almost frozen in time 122 00:07:11,375 --> 00:07:14,375 or stuck within parts of the ship 123 00:07:14,583 --> 00:07:17,000 and unable to actually get out, 124 00:07:17,208 --> 00:07:21,833 which seems to suggest the alleged teleportation, 125 00:07:22,042 --> 00:07:24,333 involved with the Philadelphia Experiment, 126 00:07:24,542 --> 00:07:27,333 that it had actually warped space-time itself. 127 00:07:27,542 --> 00:07:29,708 SHATNER: According to reports that surfaced 128 00:07:29,875 --> 00:07:32,167 years after the catastrophic experiment, 129 00:07:32,333 --> 00:07:34,917 the USS Eldridge was not only transported 130 00:07:35,125 --> 00:07:36,542 across hundreds of miles 131 00:07:36,708 --> 00:07:40,167 but it also seems to have somehow traveled 132 00:07:40,333 --> 00:07:42,417 decades into the future. 133 00:07:42,542 --> 00:07:47,000 Allegedly, the ship was actually catapulted 134 00:07:47,125 --> 00:07:48,250 through time and space, 135 00:07:48,417 --> 00:07:50,292 a completely unexpected result, 136 00:07:50,458 --> 00:07:53,667 appearing at various locations, 137 00:07:53,792 --> 00:07:57,667 like Chicago in 1969, 138 00:07:57,792 --> 00:08:01,083 and Lake Mead in 1983, 139 00:08:01,250 --> 00:08:04,833 only to disappear and to continue 140 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,375 across the time stream uncontrolled. 141 00:08:07,542 --> 00:08:11,833 The Eldridge just randomly skipped across time 142 00:08:12,042 --> 00:08:15,125 achieving a rough form of time travel. 143 00:08:15,250 --> 00:08:19,208 Some of the accounts of the Philadelphia Experiment 144 00:08:19,375 --> 00:08:22,750 actually came from some of the families of the sailors 145 00:08:22,958 --> 00:08:26,833 who had volunteered to be part of the initial experiments. 146 00:08:27,042 --> 00:08:29,875 What had happened was that afterwards 147 00:08:30,042 --> 00:08:33,667 these sailors had been declared dead-- missing in action. 148 00:08:33,833 --> 00:08:36,208 So it was a disaster all the way around. 149 00:08:37,250 --> 00:08:39,333 SHATNER: Did the U.S. Navy conduct an experiment 150 00:08:39,542 --> 00:08:43,667 that unexpectedly resulted in time travel? 151 00:08:43,875 --> 00:08:46,250 Some say the proof lies in a number of letters 152 00:08:46,458 --> 00:08:48,583 written by the key eyewitness of the event, 153 00:08:48,708 --> 00:08:53,083 merchant mariner, Carl M. Allen. 154 00:08:53,250 --> 00:08:56,250 SWARTZ: Carl Allen had written a series of letters 155 00:08:56,417 --> 00:08:59,500 to a author by the name of Morris Jessup. 156 00:08:59,708 --> 00:09:02,500 Allen wrote to Jessup talking about 157 00:09:02,708 --> 00:09:06,292 the Philadelphia Experiment, and Jessup included 158 00:09:06,417 --> 00:09:08,500 the series of letters in a book 159 00:09:08,667 --> 00:09:11,250 called The Case for the UFO. 160 00:09:11,417 --> 00:09:14,667 Afterwards, Jessup was contacted by 161 00:09:14,875 --> 00:09:17,667 the Navy, the Office of Naval Research, 162 00:09:17,833 --> 00:09:22,542 because somebody had sent them a copy of Jessup's book. 163 00:09:22,708 --> 00:09:27,042 And the Navy decided to cover it up completely 164 00:09:27,208 --> 00:09:31,500 and said that it was all a hoax, that nothing had ever happened. 165 00:09:31,667 --> 00:09:35,833 Jessup felt that this was a confirmation, 166 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,542 that the Philadelphia Experiment had actually happened. 167 00:09:40,583 --> 00:09:42,625 COLLINS: Now, of course, we certainly have 168 00:09:42,750 --> 00:09:48,042 no absolute knowledge about what the United States was up to 169 00:09:48,208 --> 00:09:50,208 relating to time travel. 170 00:09:50,375 --> 00:09:56,333 But the possibility should not be seen as science fiction. 171 00:09:56,500 --> 00:09:58,833 SHATNER: If the USS Eldridge 172 00:09:58,958 --> 00:10:01,792 really did travel through time in 1943, 173 00:10:01,958 --> 00:10:04,542 then the U.S. military clearly wants to keep it 174 00:10:04,708 --> 00:10:06,917 a closely guarded secret. 175 00:10:07,958 --> 00:10:10,750 And some claim that the government further experimented 176 00:10:10,917 --> 00:10:13,458 with time travel during the 1960s, 177 00:10:13,625 --> 00:10:15,667 as part of a top secret project 178 00:10:15,875 --> 00:10:20,250 that sent people back in time. 179 00:10:26,708 --> 00:10:30,000 SHATNER: 27 million people from around the globe 180 00:10:30,208 --> 00:10:33,167 flock to the city for the World's Fair. 181 00:10:33,292 --> 00:10:35,333 The exposition showcases 182 00:10:35,542 --> 00:10:37,542 a number of remarkable innovations, 183 00:10:37,750 --> 00:10:40,042 and the fairgrounds are illuminated 184 00:10:40,208 --> 00:10:42,500 with 100,000 light bulbs. 185 00:10:42,708 --> 00:10:46,833 The sea of glowing lights transforms night into day 186 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,917 and astonishes the public, most of whom have never 187 00:10:50,083 --> 00:10:52,875 witnessed anything like it before. 188 00:10:53,042 --> 00:10:55,833 This dazzling spectacle was made possible 189 00:10:55,917 --> 00:10:59,875 by a new form of electricity called alternating current, 190 00:11:00,042 --> 00:11:03,500 which was one of the many important inventions 191 00:11:03,667 --> 00:11:09,042 developed by famed Serbian scientist, Nikola Tesla. 192 00:11:10,875 --> 00:11:13,458 This period around the end of the 19th century, 193 00:11:13,625 --> 00:11:15,042 beginning of the 20th century, 194 00:11:15,208 --> 00:11:18,250 was the zenith, really, of Tesla's career. 195 00:11:19,625 --> 00:11:21,958 He became famous. 196 00:11:22,125 --> 00:11:25,625 Tesla was the man who could see the future. 197 00:11:25,792 --> 00:11:27,750 He was "Mr. Electricity." 198 00:11:27,917 --> 00:11:30,875 Everything that Tesla did was directed towards 199 00:11:31,042 --> 00:11:35,250 this kind of overriding goal of spectacular new inventions 200 00:11:35,458 --> 00:11:38,208 for electrical transmission. 201 00:11:39,250 --> 00:11:41,583 SHATNER: Nikola Tesla is widely considered to be 202 00:11:41,750 --> 00:11:45,667 a scientific genius who changed the course of history. 203 00:11:45,833 --> 00:11:48,417 But there are those who believe that Tesla should 204 00:11:48,583 --> 00:11:53,458 also be credited with an even more extraordinary invention... 205 00:11:55,125 --> 00:11:57,417 ...a time machine. 206 00:11:57,583 --> 00:12:01,167 In 1943, Nikola Tesla died 207 00:12:01,333 --> 00:12:03,875 and left all his notes at the New Yorker Hotel. 208 00:12:04,042 --> 00:12:08,333 When he died, the FBI raided Tesla's rooms, 209 00:12:08,542 --> 00:12:09,917 took the notes, 210 00:12:10,042 --> 00:12:14,792 and in the notes was a whole series of 211 00:12:14,875 --> 00:12:17,917 speculative diagrams. 212 00:12:18,083 --> 00:12:22,333 Allegedly, the United States had access to time travel technology 213 00:12:22,500 --> 00:12:25,042 from a number of papers 214 00:12:25,208 --> 00:12:28,708 taken away from Tesla's apartment, 215 00:12:28,875 --> 00:12:32,333 which gave details on how to create 216 00:12:32,542 --> 00:12:34,167 a teleportation device, 217 00:12:34,375 --> 00:12:38,667 and with teleportation you could also have time travel. 218 00:12:38,875 --> 00:12:42,125 SHATNER: Did the U.S. government really seize plans 219 00:12:42,250 --> 00:12:45,875 for a teleportation device designed by Nikola Tesla? 220 00:12:46,042 --> 00:12:50,750 And if so, is it possible they used this information 221 00:12:50,917 --> 00:12:54,125 to build a working time machine? 222 00:12:59,375 --> 00:13:03,167 Young Andrew Basiago is taken by his father 223 00:13:03,333 --> 00:13:05,833 to visit a nearby manufacturing plant. 224 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:10,333 Little does Andrew know that this factory conceals 225 00:13:10,458 --> 00:13:13,625 something truly extraordinary. 226 00:13:13,792 --> 00:13:18,083 I was six years old in winter of 1968, 227 00:13:18,250 --> 00:13:21,750 when my father took me to building 68 228 00:13:21,958 --> 00:13:24,792 at Curtiss-Wright in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey, 229 00:13:24,917 --> 00:13:27,833 and there on the floor of building 68 230 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:29,500 was a Tesla teleporter. 231 00:13:29,708 --> 00:13:32,667 It was basically a large device. 232 00:13:32,833 --> 00:13:34,833 It went all the way up to the ceiling 233 00:13:35,042 --> 00:13:39,125 and had two booms that were roughly about eight feet high 234 00:13:39,333 --> 00:13:41,792 and ten feet across on the floor. 235 00:13:41,875 --> 00:13:43,917 They looked essentially like elephant tusks. 236 00:13:45,583 --> 00:13:47,208 Between them was a form of energy 237 00:13:47,375 --> 00:13:49,917 that was sort of cascading between the booms, 238 00:13:50,125 --> 00:13:52,042 or armatures, of the device. 239 00:13:52,208 --> 00:13:55,583 Jumping through that radiant energy caused 240 00:13:55,750 --> 00:13:58,167 a holographic white tunnel of light 241 00:13:58,375 --> 00:14:02,250 to open in time-space. 242 00:14:02,375 --> 00:14:05,083 They were testing the effect of Tesla teleportation. 243 00:14:06,458 --> 00:14:09,250 SHATNER: After witnessing the Tesla teleporter in action, 244 00:14:09,417 --> 00:14:12,917 Andrew Basiago claims that he was recruited by members of 245 00:14:13,083 --> 00:14:16,875 a shadowy military organization known as DARPA, 246 00:14:17,042 --> 00:14:20,375 to participate in a secret time travel program 247 00:14:20,542 --> 00:14:23,750 called Project Pegasus. 248 00:14:23,875 --> 00:14:27,083 Project Pegasus was a classified defense-related 249 00:14:27,292 --> 00:14:29,292 research and development program of DARPA. 250 00:14:29,458 --> 00:14:31,917 They were essentially training and testing 251 00:14:32,083 --> 00:14:35,792 American schoolchildren in eight modalities of time travel. 252 00:14:35,958 --> 00:14:39,500 There were 140 American schoolchildren of my age 253 00:14:39,667 --> 00:14:40,958 who were in the program. 254 00:14:41,083 --> 00:14:43,208 We were also trainees because we were expected 255 00:14:43,375 --> 00:14:45,458 to become America's first generation of chrononauts, 256 00:14:45,625 --> 00:14:46,833 or time travelers. 257 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:49,333 SHATNER: According to Andrew Basiago, 258 00:14:49,458 --> 00:14:54,833 the Tesla teleporter was used to send chrononauts back in time 259 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:59,542 to observe, and even influence, historical events. 260 00:15:01,292 --> 00:15:03,167 A chrononaut essentially was a time travel agent 261 00:15:03,375 --> 00:15:05,500 in the sense that I wasn't just involved 262 00:15:05,667 --> 00:15:06,750 in testing and training. 263 00:15:06,917 --> 00:15:10,167 I had missions when I went there. 264 00:15:10,333 --> 00:15:12,875 I was sent to Ford's Theatre to see, for example, 265 00:15:13,083 --> 00:15:14,917 who shot Lincoln, 266 00:15:15,042 --> 00:15:18,292 and I was also sent to meet General George Washington 267 00:15:18,375 --> 00:15:21,167 with the mission to urge him to immediately 268 00:15:21,375 --> 00:15:23,833 retreat his troops from New York Harbor. 269 00:15:24,042 --> 00:15:26,958 There was always sort of a very expert educational session 270 00:15:27,125 --> 00:15:29,167 where they would sort of acclimate us, 271 00:15:29,333 --> 00:15:31,667 so we'd understand what was gonna happen next. 272 00:15:33,208 --> 00:15:35,333 SHATNER: While some may find Andrew Basiago's story 273 00:15:35,500 --> 00:15:37,167 hard to believe, 274 00:15:37,375 --> 00:15:40,667 during the Cold War, the United States government 275 00:15:40,833 --> 00:15:43,917 conducted numerous bizarre experiments. 276 00:15:44,042 --> 00:15:47,500 These programs involved everything from mind control 277 00:15:47,667 --> 00:15:50,167 to remote viewing. 278 00:15:50,333 --> 00:15:53,375 What this story really plugs into is 279 00:15:53,542 --> 00:15:58,500 the widespread suspicion about the military-industrial complex. 280 00:15:58,708 --> 00:16:01,375 The idea that the military are 281 00:16:01,542 --> 00:16:04,000 conducting experiments behind our back, 282 00:16:04,167 --> 00:16:08,792 and it's a widely held view that governments around the world, 283 00:16:08,958 --> 00:16:10,542 particularly the United States, 284 00:16:10,750 --> 00:16:14,417 have been researching time travel for a long time. 285 00:16:15,708 --> 00:16:18,792 SHATNER: Andrew Basiago insists that his story is backed up 286 00:16:18,917 --> 00:16:20,958 by more than rumor and innuendo. 287 00:16:21,125 --> 00:16:24,833 He believes that there's photographic evidence 288 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,042 which shows that he traveled back in time 289 00:16:28,208 --> 00:16:31,167 to observe President Abraham Lincoln 290 00:16:31,333 --> 00:16:34,042 deliver the Gettysburg Address. 291 00:16:34,250 --> 00:16:37,125 BASIAGO: I traveled to Gettysburg on the day Lincoln gave 292 00:16:37,292 --> 00:16:38,625 his famous Gettysburg Address there, 293 00:16:38,792 --> 00:16:41,375 which was November 19 of 1863. 294 00:16:42,708 --> 00:16:44,292 My objective was essentially 295 00:16:44,375 --> 00:16:46,958 watching President Lincoln give the address. 296 00:16:47,125 --> 00:16:48,958 But I was getting so much attention by people 297 00:16:49,125 --> 00:16:50,542 right up against the dais-- 298 00:16:50,708 --> 00:16:52,417 some ladies from Gettysburg, 299 00:16:52,583 --> 00:16:55,458 several Union officers protecting Mr. Lincoln-- 300 00:16:55,583 --> 00:16:58,958 that I literally intentionally walked away from the dais 301 00:16:59,042 --> 00:17:01,333 and there I was photographed 302 00:17:01,542 --> 00:17:04,000 standing by Lincoln at Gettysburg. 303 00:17:04,208 --> 00:17:07,083 Lincoln can be seen a tiny, small image of him, 304 00:17:07,208 --> 00:17:12,000 a few pixels, over my right shoulder. 305 00:17:13,500 --> 00:17:15,667 Now, it's called the Josephine Cobb image, 306 00:17:15,750 --> 00:17:19,292 because that's the photo analyst at the Library of Congress, 307 00:17:19,458 --> 00:17:23,083 Josephine Cobb, who took a magnifying glass 308 00:17:23,250 --> 00:17:26,458 and found Lincoln in the photograph. 309 00:17:26,625 --> 00:17:29,500 But the paradox of time travel is such that 310 00:17:29,625 --> 00:17:31,167 that photo was discovered 311 00:17:31,292 --> 00:17:33,458 ten years before I was born in 1961. 312 00:17:34,542 --> 00:17:37,458 So when I left to go to the Gettysburg Address 313 00:17:37,667 --> 00:17:41,208 of Abraham Lincoln, that photo of me in Gettysburg 314 00:17:41,375 --> 00:17:44,667 in 1863 already existed. 315 00:17:44,833 --> 00:17:47,167 So that's a proof of Pegasus, and there have been many. 316 00:17:48,583 --> 00:17:49,875 Time travel technology, 317 00:17:50,042 --> 00:17:52,250 the best I know because of my experiences, 318 00:17:52,458 --> 00:17:55,083 is presently controlled by the United States government. 319 00:17:55,250 --> 00:17:57,375 It's not a tall story or some kind of urban legend. 320 00:17:57,542 --> 00:18:00,167 It's part of American history that's been forgotten. 321 00:18:03,125 --> 00:18:04,958 So, what do you think? 322 00:18:05,167 --> 00:18:08,417 Is the boy in that photograph a time traveler? 323 00:18:08,583 --> 00:18:11,125 And if time travel technology really exists, 324 00:18:11,250 --> 00:18:15,792 then how has the government kept it hidden for so long? 325 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:18,667 Perhaps clues can be found by examining 326 00:18:18,875 --> 00:18:21,000 another secret time machine, 327 00:18:21,125 --> 00:18:22,958 one that is said to be locked away 328 00:18:23,083 --> 00:18:25,833 deep within the Vatican Archives. 329 00:18:32,792 --> 00:18:34,333 SHATNER: Beneath the heart of the Catholic Church 330 00:18:34,542 --> 00:18:36,833 lies one of the most secure vaults in the world, 331 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:41,333 the Archivum Apostolicum Vaticanum, 332 00:18:41,500 --> 00:18:43,958 or as it's more commonly known: 333 00:18:44,167 --> 00:18:47,417 the Vatican Secret Archives. 334 00:18:47,542 --> 00:18:49,333 GENTILE: Underneath the Vatican is 335 00:18:49,458 --> 00:18:51,583 a fortress that's climate controlled 336 00:18:51,750 --> 00:18:54,000 with state-of-the-art security and technology. 337 00:18:54,167 --> 00:18:58,417 In those archives are over 50 miles of shelves. 338 00:18:59,542 --> 00:19:04,958 Within those archives are books, documents and artifacts. 339 00:19:05,125 --> 00:19:07,333 But also rumored to be down there are 340 00:19:07,542 --> 00:19:10,083 the most mysterious relics in history. 341 00:19:10,250 --> 00:19:12,792 The Ark of the Covenant is alleged to be down there. 342 00:19:12,917 --> 00:19:15,708 The original Menorah could be down in the archives. 343 00:19:15,875 --> 00:19:18,833 The Spear of Destiny is rumored to be down there. 344 00:19:19,042 --> 00:19:21,000 And these are just parts of the legend 345 00:19:21,167 --> 00:19:22,708 that have kind of accumulated over the years. 346 00:19:22,875 --> 00:19:25,583 SHATNER: Whether or not the Vatican Secret Archives 347 00:19:25,708 --> 00:19:29,167 really contains lost treasures, like the Ark of the Covenant 348 00:19:29,333 --> 00:19:32,417 or the Spear of Destiny, is a matter of debate. 349 00:19:32,583 --> 00:19:35,333 But there is another item supposedly hidden 350 00:19:35,542 --> 00:19:37,958 within the archives that some researchers believe 351 00:19:38,125 --> 00:19:41,125 is just as extraordinary. 352 00:19:41,208 --> 00:19:44,958 It's a time machine, developed in the 1950s, 353 00:19:45,125 --> 00:19:48,292 known as the chronovisor. 354 00:19:48,458 --> 00:19:52,917 GENTILE: The chronovisor is described as a machine. 355 00:19:53,083 --> 00:19:55,375 You've got "chrono" which means "time," 356 00:19:55,542 --> 00:19:57,750 and you've got "visor" which means "vision." 357 00:19:57,917 --> 00:20:00,875 So this is a device that allows you to see through time. 358 00:20:01,042 --> 00:20:04,500 SWARTZ: The scientific principle behind the chronovisor, 359 00:20:04,708 --> 00:20:08,625 is that this is a device that you could actually see, 360 00:20:08,792 --> 00:20:13,667 sort of like with a hologram or a television screen, 361 00:20:13,833 --> 00:20:16,500 past or even future events. 362 00:20:16,667 --> 00:20:20,208 So, rather than risking a person's life 363 00:20:20,375 --> 00:20:22,375 sending them into the past or the future, 364 00:20:22,542 --> 00:20:25,000 you could turn this device on 365 00:20:25,208 --> 00:20:29,167 and see what had actually happened. 366 00:20:30,500 --> 00:20:33,125 SHATNER: Could there really be a time machine 367 00:20:33,292 --> 00:20:36,208 hidden within the Vatican Secret Archives? 368 00:20:36,417 --> 00:20:40,458 The story was exposed on May 2, 1972, 369 00:20:40,625 --> 00:20:45,917 in an Italian newspaper called La Domenica del Corriere. 370 00:20:46,042 --> 00:20:50,583 Journalist Vincenzo Maddaloni wrote about both the existence 371 00:20:50,708 --> 00:20:54,083 of the chronovisor and the grand architect 372 00:20:54,250 --> 00:20:56,333 of this astonishing machine. 373 00:20:57,375 --> 00:20:59,833 The original idea for the chronovisor came from 374 00:21:00,042 --> 00:21:05,375 a Benedictine monk by the name of Pellegrino Ernetti. 375 00:21:06,417 --> 00:21:12,792 This was a gentleman who was a scholar of archaic music. 376 00:21:12,958 --> 00:21:14,625 He was also a physicist. 377 00:21:15,583 --> 00:21:17,083 Ernetti developed the chronovisor 378 00:21:17,250 --> 00:21:19,250 sort of on accident. 379 00:21:19,375 --> 00:21:22,417 According to Father Ernetti, he had been working 380 00:21:22,583 --> 00:21:24,625 for the president of the Pontifical Academy 381 00:21:24,708 --> 00:21:28,500 of Sciences, Father Agostino Gemelli. 382 00:21:28,625 --> 00:21:30,500 They were working on a project 383 00:21:30,667 --> 00:21:33,708 to go through, restore and archive old audio recordings, 384 00:21:33,875 --> 00:21:37,000 -um, mostly of Gregorian chants. -(Gregorian chants playing) 385 00:21:37,125 --> 00:21:39,542 So, one day he's going through recordings of the chants, 386 00:21:39,708 --> 00:21:43,458 and Father Gemelli swears he can hear a voice 387 00:21:43,625 --> 00:21:46,500 on the recording, so they isolate the voice. 388 00:21:46,708 --> 00:21:51,208 -(chanting) -(man speaking Italian) 389 00:21:51,375 --> 00:21:54,500 GENTILE: And Father Gemelli could swear that it's his father's voice, 390 00:21:54,708 --> 00:21:57,208 but his father had been dead at the time of this recording. 391 00:21:57,375 --> 00:21:59,667 Now, Father Gemelli thinks it's a miracle. 392 00:21:59,833 --> 00:22:04,500 The voice under the chant from beyond, it's a gift from God. 393 00:22:04,667 --> 00:22:06,792 Father Ernetti's more scientific, he's more grounded. 394 00:22:06,958 --> 00:22:10,750 He wants to see if maybe there's a way to extract 395 00:22:10,917 --> 00:22:15,042 old information out of electromagnetic recordings. 396 00:22:15,208 --> 00:22:18,667 -(whispering voices) -Father Ernetti gets 12 physicists and scientists 397 00:22:18,833 --> 00:22:21,333 together to help him work on this project to see 398 00:22:21,458 --> 00:22:23,167 if they can replicate this phenomenon, 399 00:22:23,375 --> 00:22:24,667 and they built the device. 400 00:22:26,125 --> 00:22:29,333 SHATNER: Rumors about the Vatican's secret time vision technology 401 00:22:29,500 --> 00:22:33,875 were a strange curiosity in Italian newspapers for decades. 402 00:22:34,042 --> 00:22:36,208 But then in the year 2000, 403 00:22:36,375 --> 00:22:38,917 the story was exposed to the wider world 404 00:22:39,042 --> 00:22:43,708 in an explosive book titled Father Ernetti's Chronovisor. 405 00:22:43,875 --> 00:22:45,708 The book included firsthand accounts 406 00:22:45,875 --> 00:22:48,542 from Father Ernetti in which he revealed 407 00:22:48,667 --> 00:22:51,500 how the device worked. 408 00:22:51,708 --> 00:22:54,208 Father Ernetti said that the chronovisor consists of 409 00:22:54,375 --> 00:22:55,792 metal of different alloys. 410 00:22:55,917 --> 00:22:59,000 Some rare metals, some expensive, some exotic. 411 00:22:59,208 --> 00:23:01,667 And these metals are designed to tune into different frequencies 412 00:23:01,875 --> 00:23:04,708 that pick up this residual electromagnetic energy, 413 00:23:04,917 --> 00:23:08,917 that sense conversations and can see images anywhere in time. 414 00:23:09,083 --> 00:23:15,083 SWARTZ: The theory was that energy never completely disappears, 415 00:23:15,208 --> 00:23:18,250 that the past-- the frequencies 416 00:23:18,417 --> 00:23:20,917 are still floating around out there somewhere. 417 00:23:21,042 --> 00:23:25,625 And with the proper tuning, you could actually pull in 418 00:23:25,792 --> 00:23:29,708 the sights and sounds of past events. 419 00:23:30,750 --> 00:23:33,417 SHATNER: After building the chronovisor, Father Ernetti claimed 420 00:23:33,583 --> 00:23:36,667 he first tested its abilities by watching speeches 421 00:23:36,833 --> 00:23:40,167 delivered by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini 422 00:23:40,333 --> 00:23:44,333 just a decade earlier in the 1940s. 423 00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:46,667 When that test was successful, 424 00:23:46,875 --> 00:23:50,333 Ernetti reportedly scanned back to 1797... 425 00:23:50,500 --> 00:23:54,125 -(gunfire) -...to watch Napoleon conquer Italy 426 00:23:54,250 --> 00:23:55,583 during the French Revolution. 427 00:23:55,750 --> 00:23:58,625 And despite intense scrutiny, 428 00:23:58,792 --> 00:24:02,625 Father Ernetti never changed his story. 429 00:24:02,750 --> 00:24:05,333 Father Ernetti passed away in 1994. 430 00:24:05,542 --> 00:24:08,792 And to his dying day, he said the chronovisor exists. 431 00:24:08,917 --> 00:24:11,792 Over the years, the Vatican has been questioned 432 00:24:11,917 --> 00:24:14,500 about the chronovisor, and their standard answer is: 433 00:24:14,583 --> 00:24:17,750 it's fantasy, it doesn't exist. 434 00:24:17,917 --> 00:24:21,667 But in 1988, allegedly, there was a decree given 435 00:24:21,833 --> 00:24:23,833 by the Church, which was very, very strange. 436 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:25,792 And it said something to the effect of 437 00:24:25,917 --> 00:24:30,458 anyone using technology to listen to or peer through time 438 00:24:30,625 --> 00:24:32,042 would be excommunicated. 439 00:24:33,083 --> 00:24:36,458 SHATNER: Why would the Vatican make this declaration 440 00:24:36,625 --> 00:24:39,000 if the chronovisor doesn't exist? 441 00:24:39,167 --> 00:24:40,583 And if the Vatican possesses 442 00:24:40,750 --> 00:24:42,667 such an incredible piece of technology, 443 00:24:42,875 --> 00:24:47,792 then why are they hiding it in the Secret Archives? 444 00:24:47,917 --> 00:24:52,208 If you could turn on a device and look any place, 445 00:24:52,375 --> 00:24:54,083 any time in the past, 446 00:24:54,250 --> 00:24:57,500 history would unfold before us. 447 00:24:57,625 --> 00:24:59,625 All mysteries would be revealed. 448 00:24:59,792 --> 00:25:05,250 However, such a device would also eliminate all secrets. 449 00:25:05,417 --> 00:25:09,292 Would our society be mature enough to accept 450 00:25:09,458 --> 00:25:11,083 the loss of our secrets? 451 00:25:11,250 --> 00:25:12,583 I don't think so. 452 00:25:16,583 --> 00:25:19,250 If the claims about the chronovisor are true, 453 00:25:19,417 --> 00:25:21,958 then maybe it's best to keep it locked away. 454 00:25:22,042 --> 00:25:26,875 But with reports of numerous time machines circulating, 455 00:25:27,042 --> 00:25:29,750 perhaps the more important question is, 456 00:25:29,917 --> 00:25:32,333 what's the science behind them? 457 00:25:32,500 --> 00:25:34,667 The answer may lie 458 00:25:34,792 --> 00:25:38,375 in the story of a renowned Italian physicist, 459 00:25:38,542 --> 00:25:41,375 who made a major discovery related to time travel 460 00:25:41,542 --> 00:25:46,250 in 1937, and then mysteriously... 461 00:25:46,375 --> 00:25:49,042 vanished without a trace. 462 00:25:55,167 --> 00:25:59,208 SHATNER: Scientists at the CERN Large Hadron Collider 463 00:25:59,375 --> 00:26:01,167 announce a remarkable discovery. 464 00:26:02,667 --> 00:26:04,708 After firing subatomic particles 465 00:26:04,875 --> 00:26:07,125 through the 17-mile length of the collider, 466 00:26:07,250 --> 00:26:11,792 they observed that certain particles, known as neutrinos, 467 00:26:11,958 --> 00:26:18,000 moved faster than had ever been measured before. 468 00:26:18,208 --> 00:26:19,833 At the microscopic level, 469 00:26:20,042 --> 00:26:23,000 neutrinos, very exotic particles, 470 00:26:23,208 --> 00:26:26,833 were clocked traveling faster than the speed of light. 471 00:26:27,042 --> 00:26:29,500 Now, if you could go faster than the speed of light, 472 00:26:29,667 --> 00:26:31,375 time travel may be possible. 473 00:26:31,542 --> 00:26:34,042 But is it possible in principle, 474 00:26:34,208 --> 00:26:37,375 to have these things happen for large objects like us? 475 00:26:37,542 --> 00:26:39,125 And the answer is, theoretically, yes. 476 00:26:39,250 --> 00:26:42,583 SHATNER: Could studying high-speed neutrinos 477 00:26:42,792 --> 00:26:45,917 be the key to understanding how humans can move 478 00:26:46,042 --> 00:26:48,083 faster than the speed of light, 479 00:26:48,208 --> 00:26:51,958 and potentially even travel through time? 480 00:26:55,042 --> 00:26:58,208 Well, some say that the answer may lie with 481 00:26:58,417 --> 00:27:02,667 the peculiar disappearance of a scientist in the 1930s 482 00:27:02,875 --> 00:27:05,583 named Ettore Majorana. 483 00:27:05,708 --> 00:27:09,375 Who came up with this theory of neutrinos 484 00:27:09,542 --> 00:27:10,500 that are being studied? 485 00:27:10,667 --> 00:27:12,833 It was Ettore Majorana. 486 00:27:13,833 --> 00:27:18,250 In 1937, this genius, he wrote the first paper 487 00:27:18,375 --> 00:27:22,917 on neutrinos, which we're now studying decades later. 488 00:27:23,083 --> 00:27:26,458 So because of Majorana, we have a much richer 489 00:27:26,625 --> 00:27:29,000 understanding of subatomic particles. 490 00:27:30,042 --> 00:27:33,917 McMAHON: Ettore Majorana was living and working in Italy 491 00:27:34,083 --> 00:27:37,500 under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini 492 00:27:37,667 --> 00:27:39,917 in the lead-up to the Second World War. 493 00:27:40,083 --> 00:27:45,375 His work on neutrinos was completely groundbreaking, 494 00:27:45,542 --> 00:27:48,125 and then he just vanishes. 495 00:27:49,833 --> 00:27:54,833 The fate of Ettore Majorana is a complete mystery to this day. 496 00:27:55,042 --> 00:27:58,042 He was, uh, on the island of Sicily. 497 00:27:59,417 --> 00:28:03,667 And this was in 1938. 498 00:28:03,875 --> 00:28:06,833 He had a ticket of a boat trip to Naples, 499 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:11,042 which it would seem as if he actually got on this boat, 500 00:28:11,208 --> 00:28:13,583 and then he just disappears completely. 501 00:28:13,750 --> 00:28:17,542 McMAHON: Many believed that suicide was a rational explanation, 502 00:28:17,708 --> 00:28:20,625 but there was no proof. 503 00:28:20,792 --> 00:28:23,667 It seems inexplicable that a man like Majorana, 504 00:28:23,833 --> 00:28:25,708 very much at the top of his game, 505 00:28:25,875 --> 00:28:29,708 recognized as one of the world's top physicists, 506 00:28:29,833 --> 00:28:33,417 why would he suddenly choose to end his own life? 507 00:28:34,667 --> 00:28:37,167 Others believe that he went to a monastery, 508 00:28:37,375 --> 00:28:39,583 that he secluded himself away, 509 00:28:39,750 --> 00:28:42,500 because he'd also withdrawn a huge amount of money 510 00:28:42,667 --> 00:28:44,708 from the bank. 511 00:28:44,917 --> 00:28:48,000 But more intriguingly is the notion that, 512 00:28:48,125 --> 00:28:50,500 some people believe, that the discovery of neutrinos 513 00:28:50,708 --> 00:28:53,125 by Majorana also permitted him 514 00:28:53,292 --> 00:28:56,792 to entertain the notion of time travel. 515 00:28:56,958 --> 00:29:00,500 SHATNER: Is it possible that Ettore Majorana didn't 516 00:29:00,667 --> 00:29:05,167 merely disappear but actually used his knowledge of neutrinos 517 00:29:05,375 --> 00:29:07,333 to travel through time? 518 00:29:08,375 --> 00:29:13,708 Majorana left behind a letter that may offer a clue. 519 00:29:13,875 --> 00:29:15,958 Before his disappearance, 520 00:29:16,125 --> 00:29:18,833 Majorana wrote a series of letters. 521 00:29:19,042 --> 00:29:23,250 And there's one particularly intriguing letter 522 00:29:23,417 --> 00:29:26,333 where he says that he will keep 523 00:29:26,417 --> 00:29:28,958 a fond memory of his colleagues 524 00:29:29,125 --> 00:29:32,250 "until 11:00 p.m. tonight," 525 00:29:32,417 --> 00:29:34,667 and possibly later. 526 00:29:34,833 --> 00:29:39,167 And the tone and, more importantly, the tense 527 00:29:39,333 --> 00:29:41,958 in which he was writing those letters 528 00:29:42,125 --> 00:29:45,833 seemed to be very vague in terms of time. 529 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,167 SHATNER: While skeptics have questioned 530 00:29:48,375 --> 00:29:50,667 whether Ettore Majorana's disappearance 531 00:29:50,833 --> 00:29:53,417 involved time travel, in the 1950s, 532 00:29:53,542 --> 00:29:55,708 surprising evidence emerged 533 00:29:55,875 --> 00:29:59,375 which suggests that it could be true. 534 00:30:01,792 --> 00:30:04,667 COLLINS: In 1955, somebody actually meets a man 535 00:30:04,875 --> 00:30:07,292 in Buenos Aires in Argentina, 536 00:30:07,458 --> 00:30:10,625 that claims to be, um, Ettore. 537 00:30:10,833 --> 00:30:14,542 So, with this, what are we to conclude? 538 00:30:14,750 --> 00:30:17,042 DONNELLY: After Majorana's disappearance 539 00:30:17,208 --> 00:30:20,500 there were frequent Majorana sightings. 540 00:30:20,708 --> 00:30:23,542 People coming forward to say, "Oh, I think I saw somebody 541 00:30:23,708 --> 00:30:24,917 who looks a little bit like him." 542 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:29,625 And then a photo surfaced from 1955 543 00:30:29,792 --> 00:30:32,542 taken in Valencia, in Venezuela. 544 00:30:32,708 --> 00:30:38,458 In this photo, there is a man who is most likely Majorana. 545 00:30:39,500 --> 00:30:40,875 SHATNER: Further analysis of the photograph 546 00:30:41,083 --> 00:30:42,667 revealed a bizarre twist. 547 00:30:42,875 --> 00:30:46,792 Majorana was 32 years old when he disappeared. 548 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,250 In 1955, he would've been 49, 549 00:30:50,375 --> 00:30:55,125 but the man in the photograph looks closer to 70. 550 00:30:55,292 --> 00:31:01,792 So, where and when was Majorana all that time? 551 00:31:01,917 --> 00:31:05,167 Now, if that photo was of Majorana, 552 00:31:05,375 --> 00:31:09,333 it suggests not only that he survived the ferry trip 553 00:31:09,542 --> 00:31:10,875 between Naples and Palermo 554 00:31:11,042 --> 00:31:14,167 but that he engaged in some kind of travel. 555 00:31:15,208 --> 00:31:20,875 Travel across space but also possibly travel through time. 556 00:31:21,917 --> 00:31:26,333 Did the man who unlocked the secrets of the atom 557 00:31:26,458 --> 00:31:29,250 also discover the key to time travel? 558 00:31:29,375 --> 00:31:32,208 It's unclear, but some researchers believe 559 00:31:32,375 --> 00:31:35,000 that you don't need to be a brilliant scientist 560 00:31:35,125 --> 00:31:36,625 to travel through time. 561 00:31:36,792 --> 00:31:39,917 Instead, they argue that there are certain locations 562 00:31:40,042 --> 00:31:43,333 on our planet in which strange energy 563 00:31:43,500 --> 00:31:46,667 can transform an ordinary person into a time traveler 564 00:31:46,833 --> 00:31:50,042 by sheer accident. 565 00:31:56,375 --> 00:31:58,583 SHATNER: This historic port city is famously known 566 00:31:58,750 --> 00:32:00,792 as the hometown of The Beatles. 567 00:32:00,958 --> 00:32:03,500 But over the years, it has gained 568 00:32:03,667 --> 00:32:06,167 a much stranger reputation. 569 00:32:07,125 --> 00:32:09,500 It's said that in Liverpool 570 00:32:09,667 --> 00:32:13,625 time moves in mysterious ways. 571 00:32:14,708 --> 00:32:17,167 And it's become ground zero for a phenomenon 572 00:32:17,292 --> 00:32:20,375 known as "time slips," 573 00:32:20,542 --> 00:32:24,417 which are a kind of accidental time travel. 574 00:32:25,458 --> 00:32:28,333 McMAHON: In Liverpool, there's a shopping street called 575 00:32:28,542 --> 00:32:33,458 Bold Street, which has become infamous for time slips. 576 00:32:35,167 --> 00:32:39,000 One of these time slips involved a police officer 577 00:32:39,167 --> 00:32:41,250 called Frank, who was out shopping 578 00:32:41,417 --> 00:32:44,833 with his wife Carol, in July 1996. 579 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,667 And Carol went to the Dillons bookstore, 580 00:32:48,875 --> 00:32:51,417 and he went to a shop to buy a CD-- 581 00:32:51,583 --> 00:32:55,625 a compact disc-- 1990s technology. 582 00:32:55,833 --> 00:32:59,833 Now, he then returned to meet up with his wife, 583 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,542 but the bookstore where his wife was, 584 00:33:02,750 --> 00:33:06,083 Dillons, had now become Cripps 585 00:33:06,208 --> 00:33:09,625 and was selling women's clothing and handbags. 586 00:33:09,792 --> 00:33:13,333 Now, this confused Frank, who then looked around and found 587 00:33:13,542 --> 00:33:15,792 that everybody around him was dressed inexplicably 588 00:33:15,875 --> 00:33:20,208 in 1940s, 1950s fashion, 589 00:33:20,375 --> 00:33:22,042 and he became rapidly aware 590 00:33:22,250 --> 00:33:25,167 that he was no longer in the 1990s. 591 00:33:25,333 --> 00:33:27,792 He was somewhere very, very different. 592 00:33:27,958 --> 00:33:32,500 COLLINS: And everything then just changes back to how it should be. 593 00:33:32,625 --> 00:33:35,250 The bookshop is there, 594 00:33:35,375 --> 00:33:37,167 which he knows to be Dillons, 595 00:33:37,333 --> 00:33:40,375 but he remembered the name of that shop and it was Cripps. 596 00:33:41,375 --> 00:33:45,333 And there was, indeed, a shop in the 1950s 597 00:33:45,458 --> 00:33:49,125 at that location by the name of Cripps. 598 00:33:49,208 --> 00:33:52,583 Is it possible that there are places in this world 599 00:33:52,708 --> 00:33:58,083 where space-time works differently to anywhere else? 600 00:33:58,208 --> 00:34:03,042 SHATNER: While Liverpool has become known for time slips, 601 00:34:03,208 --> 00:34:05,833 this unique phenomenon has been experienced 602 00:34:06,042 --> 00:34:09,500 and reported all over the world. 603 00:34:09,708 --> 00:34:14,333 Recently, time slips have been entering the news. 604 00:34:14,500 --> 00:34:17,333 The fact that here you are at one point in space, 605 00:34:17,458 --> 00:34:21,042 and then suddenly time has a mistake in it 606 00:34:21,208 --> 00:34:24,750 which allows you to slip right through a crack 607 00:34:24,917 --> 00:34:27,917 in the fabric of space and time. 608 00:34:28,042 --> 00:34:30,958 DONNELLY: There is a big difference between a time slip 609 00:34:31,083 --> 00:34:33,042 and the use of a time machine. 610 00:34:33,208 --> 00:34:35,000 In a time machine, you have control 611 00:34:35,167 --> 00:34:38,667 over your comings and goings along the timeline. 612 00:34:38,833 --> 00:34:43,333 With a time slip, one ends up in the future, 613 00:34:43,500 --> 00:34:46,792 or possibly the past, without any idea 614 00:34:46,917 --> 00:34:51,833 of how you got there or any control of being there. 615 00:34:53,375 --> 00:34:56,500 SHATNER: Curiously, time slips have also been reported 616 00:34:56,708 --> 00:35:00,333 on the sites of historic battlegrounds. 617 00:35:01,833 --> 00:35:05,083 Another very interesting account of a time slip 618 00:35:05,208 --> 00:35:07,667 occurs in 1932. 619 00:35:07,875 --> 00:35:13,417 When two journalists went to the Hamburg shipyard 620 00:35:13,625 --> 00:35:15,292 to cover a story-- 621 00:35:15,417 --> 00:35:18,458 a gentleman by the name of J. Bernard Hutton 622 00:35:18,625 --> 00:35:21,875 and another gentleman by the name of Brandt-- 623 00:35:22,042 --> 00:35:24,167 nothing out of the ordinary took place, 624 00:35:24,375 --> 00:35:28,375 until suddenly they found themselves in the midst 625 00:35:28,542 --> 00:35:31,833 of bombs being dropped all around them. 626 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,167 They could see, actually, bombs falling out of the sky. 627 00:35:35,292 --> 00:35:38,417 And obviously this was something that terrified them, 628 00:35:38,583 --> 00:35:41,042 and they got out of there quickly. 629 00:35:42,083 --> 00:35:45,875 McMAHON: When they looked back from Hamburg to the shipyards, 630 00:35:46,042 --> 00:35:49,667 they appear to be intact and unharmed. 631 00:35:49,833 --> 00:35:52,417 And when Brandt's photographs were developed, 632 00:35:52,625 --> 00:35:55,833 again, there was no damage to the shipyards. 633 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:57,917 Fast-forward to 1943, 634 00:35:58,042 --> 00:36:01,458 and Hutton was living in Britain during the Second World War. 635 00:36:01,583 --> 00:36:06,625 He read a report of an RAF raid on that shipyard, 636 00:36:06,750 --> 00:36:10,167 a bombing raid by the Royal Air Force, 637 00:36:10,375 --> 00:36:14,500 and the description in the newspaper matched exactly 638 00:36:14,583 --> 00:36:19,083 what he'd seen on that day in 1932 639 00:36:19,250 --> 00:36:21,625 and chilled him to the bone. 640 00:36:22,875 --> 00:36:26,333 SHATNER: If there is some truth to these time slip reports, 641 00:36:26,458 --> 00:36:28,958 then what could be causing them? 642 00:36:30,375 --> 00:36:33,667 Well, according to physicists, the answer could be 643 00:36:33,833 --> 00:36:36,292 that we're living in what's referred to 644 00:36:36,458 --> 00:36:38,458 as the multiverse. 645 00:36:39,417 --> 00:36:42,708 The idea of the multiverse comes from the quantum theory. 646 00:36:42,875 --> 00:36:45,000 You know, when we were children, we were told that 647 00:36:45,208 --> 00:36:47,375 you cannot be two places at the same time. 648 00:36:47,542 --> 00:36:51,458 That's just common sense, right? Well, we lied to you. 649 00:36:51,583 --> 00:36:54,833 In the quantum theory, electrons can, in fact, 650 00:36:54,958 --> 00:36:56,667 be two places at the same time. 651 00:36:56,875 --> 00:36:59,833 Therefore, we have this scenario where the past, 652 00:37:00,042 --> 00:37:02,500 the present, the future are all mixed up into one. 653 00:37:02,667 --> 00:37:05,667 So in principle, the theory allows you 654 00:37:05,875 --> 00:37:09,500 to simultaneously exist with somebody from the past. 655 00:37:10,542 --> 00:37:14,000 COLLINS: What are we to make of people coming forward 656 00:37:14,208 --> 00:37:16,500 and claiming these time slips, 657 00:37:16,708 --> 00:37:21,000 whether they be into the past or into the future? 658 00:37:21,167 --> 00:37:25,000 And I think what we can say is that there are so many 659 00:37:25,208 --> 00:37:29,583 of these stories that there must be some kind of truth to them. 660 00:37:29,750 --> 00:37:34,833 SHATNER: But if numerous people have been transported to another time, 661 00:37:35,042 --> 00:37:37,542 then where is the proof? 662 00:37:37,708 --> 00:37:42,167 The answer may lie in examining old photographs 663 00:37:42,375 --> 00:37:45,083 that curiously appear to show people 664 00:37:45,250 --> 00:37:46,542 from the future. 665 00:37:53,625 --> 00:37:56,083 SHATNER: The Virtual Museum of Canada releases a collection 666 00:37:56,250 --> 00:37:59,667 of historic images on its website. 667 00:37:59,833 --> 00:38:03,250 One particular photo, taken in 1941, 668 00:38:03,458 --> 00:38:06,958 sparks intense curiosity, 669 00:38:07,083 --> 00:38:08,875 because it appears to show a man 670 00:38:09,042 --> 00:38:11,500 from the future. 671 00:38:11,667 --> 00:38:16,167 In this image from 1941, here we have a group of people 672 00:38:16,375 --> 00:38:18,500 at the opening of the South Fork Bridge 673 00:38:18,625 --> 00:38:20,667 in British Columbia that year. 674 00:38:20,833 --> 00:38:23,875 And this young man just shouldn't be there. 675 00:38:24,958 --> 00:38:28,458 Now, they all look like typical 1940s people, 676 00:38:28,625 --> 00:38:32,875 except for this chap here with the dark shades. 677 00:38:33,042 --> 00:38:36,625 He looks like a kind of hipster from our time. 678 00:38:36,792 --> 00:38:39,667 He's got his great, cool sunglasses. 679 00:38:39,792 --> 00:38:43,167 He's got what seems to be a modern T-shirt on 680 00:38:43,292 --> 00:38:45,958 and this little box camera. 681 00:38:46,083 --> 00:38:50,750 There is no reason for him to be standing there in 1941. 682 00:38:50,917 --> 00:38:54,667 SHATNER: The bizarre photo quickly went viral on the Internet, 683 00:38:54,833 --> 00:38:58,250 and many have wondered whether the strangely dressed man 684 00:38:58,417 --> 00:39:01,083 could possibly be a time traveler. 685 00:39:02,125 --> 00:39:04,333 But according to some researchers, the best evidence 686 00:39:04,542 --> 00:39:07,000 of modern people traveling back in time 687 00:39:07,167 --> 00:39:12,042 is not a picture but rather a mysterious artifact. 688 00:39:13,833 --> 00:39:17,667 An archaeological report came out in 2008 689 00:39:17,875 --> 00:39:20,417 regarding a very, very strange discovery 690 00:39:20,583 --> 00:39:25,250 in a Ming dynasty tomb in Shanxi, China. 691 00:39:25,375 --> 00:39:27,833 Now, this tomb is at least 400 years old, 692 00:39:27,917 --> 00:39:30,583 and it was fully sealed, hermetically sealed, 693 00:39:30,750 --> 00:39:33,833 so no one had been in it for 400 years. 694 00:39:34,042 --> 00:39:36,458 But when they cracked open this bit of rock 695 00:39:36,625 --> 00:39:40,333 that had hardened over time, this ring came out. 696 00:39:40,458 --> 00:39:42,375 Just a few centimeters wide. 697 00:39:42,542 --> 00:39:46,125 And on it, it looked exactly like a watch. 698 00:39:46,292 --> 00:39:48,208 It even had the hands of the watch 699 00:39:48,375 --> 00:39:51,458 and the 12 hours around the edge, 700 00:39:51,625 --> 00:39:55,458 which caused a sensation because this couldn't have existed. 701 00:39:55,625 --> 00:39:57,042 There was no watches at this time. 702 00:39:57,208 --> 00:39:58,917 So how could this be? 703 00:39:59,083 --> 00:40:02,875 How could this anomalous ring end up in a Ming dynasty tomb? 704 00:40:03,042 --> 00:40:06,667 SHATNER: While skeptics dismiss the unusual artifact 705 00:40:06,875 --> 00:40:08,333 as a mere hoax, 706 00:40:08,542 --> 00:40:11,042 others are thrilled by the idea that time travelers 707 00:40:11,208 --> 00:40:15,667 may be leaving tangible evidence of their journeys to the past. 708 00:40:18,042 --> 00:40:20,500 And yet, experts warn that even though time travel is 709 00:40:20,667 --> 00:40:23,792 a fun and fascinating concept, 710 00:40:23,958 --> 00:40:27,792 it's also cause for grave concern. 711 00:40:29,208 --> 00:40:33,167 MALLET: We have to realize that if we can travel back into the past, 712 00:40:33,333 --> 00:40:37,333 the worst-case scenario is that governments could use it 713 00:40:37,458 --> 00:40:39,750 to attack their enemy by going to the past. 714 00:40:39,917 --> 00:40:43,000 Imagine, for example, going back to 715 00:40:43,167 --> 00:40:44,917 to the Revolutionary War 716 00:40:45,042 --> 00:40:48,833 and making sure that you eliminated George Washington. 717 00:40:48,958 --> 00:40:50,917 These are problems that could happen. 718 00:40:51,042 --> 00:40:56,917 This sort of technology would be a very powerful thing to have. 719 00:40:57,083 --> 00:40:59,958 For over 100 years, we have been debating 720 00:41:00,125 --> 00:41:03,333 whether or not time travel, especially to the past, 721 00:41:03,500 --> 00:41:05,875 is beneficial or dangerous. 722 00:41:06,042 --> 00:41:10,708 But, of course, the dilemma for us is, there's a conundrum here. 723 00:41:10,875 --> 00:41:15,708 Because if there are people time traveling and altering the past, 724 00:41:15,917 --> 00:41:17,917 they will know what they've done, 725 00:41:18,083 --> 00:41:20,208 but we won't know because we're living here, 726 00:41:20,333 --> 00:41:21,458 and we haven't traveled back. 727 00:41:21,625 --> 00:41:23,667 We're prisoners of time. 728 00:41:23,833 --> 00:41:27,042 And, of course, that's very unnerving. 729 00:41:29,042 --> 00:41:31,708 The stories of supposed real-life time travel 730 00:41:31,875 --> 00:41:34,167 are tantalizing, provocative, 731 00:41:34,333 --> 00:41:36,833 and in some cases dangerous. 732 00:41:37,042 --> 00:41:39,667 They all teeter on the edge of science fiction 733 00:41:39,792 --> 00:41:42,583 and science fact. 734 00:41:42,750 --> 00:41:45,500 Will we one day uncover indisputable evidence 735 00:41:45,667 --> 00:41:47,500 which proves that these incredible tales 736 00:41:47,625 --> 00:41:49,250 are actually true? 737 00:41:49,375 --> 00:41:52,667 It seems that only time will tell. 738 00:41:52,833 --> 00:41:57,208 But until then, these mysteries will remain... 739 00:41:59,042 --> 00:42:00,417 ...unexplained. 740 00:42:00,583 --> 00:42:02,542 CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY A+E NETWORKS