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<rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:podcast="https://podcastindex.org/namespace/1.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Time Slips &amp; Past Lives</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/time-slips-past-lives--7258662</link><description><![CDATA[Time Slips &amp; Past Lives explores strange stories that seem to challenge our ordinary understanding of time, memory, and identity. From people who claim to have stepped briefly into another century, to children who describe memories of lives they never lived, alleged travelers from the future, missing time, déjà vu, mysterious predictions, reincarnation cases, and unexplained encounters across history, each episode begins with a remarkable story and follows the evidence wherever it leads. Through historical records, psychology, science, witness testimony, and careful investigation, the podcast separates what is documented from what is disputed, embellished, misunderstood, or still unexplained. Are these experiences glitches in time, memories without an obvious source, extraordinary coincidences, or something we do not yet fully understand? Time Slips &amp; Past Lives explores the mystery without pretending the mystery is proof.]]></description><atom:link href="https://www.spreaker.com/show/7258662/episodes/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><language>en</language><category>Documentary</category><copyright>Copyright James Garner</copyright><image><url>https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/3c27433b176efb47ad153c43c1cb1bc3.jpg</url><title>Time Slips &amp; Past Lives</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/time-slips-past-lives--7258662</link></image><lastBuildDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 05:15:30 +0000</lastBuildDate><itunes:author>James Garner</itunes:author><itunes:owner><itunes:name>James Garner</itunes:name><itunes:email>feeds@spreaker.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/3c27433b176efb47ad153c43c1cb1bc3.jpg"/><itunes:subtitle>Time Slips &amp;amp; Past Lives explores strange stories that seem to challenge our ordinary understanding of time, memory, and identity. From people who claim to have stepped briefly into another century, to children who describe memories of lives they...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Time Slips &amp; Past Lives explores strange stories that seem to challenge our ordinary understanding of time, memory, and identity. From people who claim to have stepped briefly into another century, to children who describe memories of lives they never lived, alleged travelers from the future, missing time, déjà vu, mysterious predictions, reincarnation cases, and unexplained encounters across history, each episode begins with a remarkable story and follows the evidence wherever it leads. Through historical records, psychology, science, witness testimony, and careful investigation, the podcast separates what is documented from what is disputed, embellished, misunderstood, or still unexplained. Are these experiences glitches in time, memories without an obvious source, extraordinary coincidences, or something we do not yet fully understand? Time Slips &amp; Past Lives explores the mystery without pretending the mystery is proof.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:category text="Society &amp; Culture"><itunes:category text="Documentary"/></itunes:category><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><podcast:guid>8e5ee832-9093-5f52-87ad-8adfa9a1a96d</podcast:guid><itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type><item><title>The Twins Who Came Back</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-twins-who-came-back--76045046</link><description><![CDATA[On the fifth of May, 1957, Joanna and Jacqueline Pollock were killed by a car on their way to church in Hexham, England. Eighteen months later, their mother gave birth to identical twin girls, Gillian and Jennifer — and the twins knew things they had never been told. They claimed the dead girls' toys. They pointed out landmarks in a town they had never visited. They panicked at the place where the car had struck. Elena follows the case from the accident to Ian Stevenson's investigation, and asks the hardest question on this show: when the parents are the only witnesses, and the father prayed for exactly this, what can we still believe? Verdict: sincere but unsupported. Sources: Ian Stevenson, Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation (1966); Florence Pollock's diary; family interviews with Stevenson over 50+ years.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76045046</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2026 05:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/76045046/episode.mp3" length="5574565" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/d07e1238-6be7-42bc-954f-95ea75422bed/d07e1238-6be7-42bc-954f-95ea75422bed.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/d07e1238-6be7-42bc-954f-95ea75422bed/d07e1238-6be7-42bc-954f-95ea75422bed.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/d07e1238-6be7-42bc-954f-95ea75422bed/d07e1238-6be7-42bc-954f-95ea75422bed.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>James Garner</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>On the fifth of May, 1957, Joanna and Jacqueline Pollock were killed by a car on their way to church in Hexham, England. Eighteen months later, their mother gave birth to identical twin girls, Gillian and Jennifer — and the twins knew things they had...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[On the fifth of May, 1957, Joanna and Jacqueline Pollock were killed by a car on their way to church in Hexham, England. Eighteen months later, their mother gave birth to identical twin girls, Gillian and Jennifer — and the twins knew things they had never been told. They claimed the dead girls' toys. They pointed out landmarks in a town they had never visited. They panicked at the place where the car had struck. Elena follows the case from the accident to Ian Stevenson's investigation, and asks the hardest question on this show: when the parents are the only witnesses, and the father prayed for exactly this, what can we still believe? Verdict: sincere but unsupported. Sources: Ian Stevenson, Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation (1966); Florence Pollock's diary; family interviews with Stevenson over 50+ years.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>697</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>future travelers,historical anomalies,history podcast,hoaxes,identity,internet mysteries,missing time,mystery documentary,past lives,physics of time,precognition,psychology of memory,reincarnation,relativity,science podcast,temporal anomalies,time slips,time travel,unexplained stories,wormholes</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/d1025a54c5fb0dc4ae0c5a7e67dc2b70.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Village That Fell Silent</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-village-that-fell-silent--76045047</link><description><![CDATA[On a Sunday morning in October 1957, three fifteen-year-old Royal Navy cadets walked into the village of Kersey in Suffolk — and the world went quiet. The church bells stopped. The smoke disappeared. The birds fell silent. The church tower was gone. The houses were empty, the streets were dust, and the only sound was a nearby stream. James follows the case from the cadets' map-reading exercise to the village thirty-one years later, and asks the question that matters: when a story is told once, thirty-one years after the event, what can we still check? Verdict: the record is too weak. Sources: William Laing's account to Andrew MacKenzie, Society for Psychical Research (1988); MacKenzie's village fact-checks (butcher's shop a private dwelling in 1957; Kersey Street surfaced after WWII; the Bell Inn within 100 metres of the stream).]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76045047</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 05:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/76045047/episode.mp3" length="6135397" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/30165ad8-5a61-406d-9327-4179415da641/30165ad8-5a61-406d-9327-4179415da641.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/30165ad8-5a61-406d-9327-4179415da641/30165ad8-5a61-406d-9327-4179415da641.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/30165ad8-5a61-406d-9327-4179415da641/30165ad8-5a61-406d-9327-4179415da641.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>James Garner</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>On a Sunday morning in October 1957, three fifteen-year-old Royal Navy cadets walked into the village of Kersey in Suffolk — and the world went quiet. The church bells stopped. The smoke disappeared. The birds fell silent. The church tower was gone....</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[On a Sunday morning in October 1957, three fifteen-year-old Royal Navy cadets walked into the village of Kersey in Suffolk — and the world went quiet. The church bells stopped. The smoke disappeared. The birds fell silent. The church tower was gone. The houses were empty, the streets were dust, and the only sound was a nearby stream. James follows the case from the cadets' map-reading exercise to the village thirty-one years later, and asks the question that matters: when a story is told once, thirty-one years after the event, what can we still check? Verdict: the record is too weak. Sources: William Laing's account to Andrew MacKenzie, Society for Psychical Research (1988); MacKenzie's village fact-checks (butcher's shop a private dwelling in 1957; Kersey Street surfaced after WWII; the Bell Inn within 100 metres of the stream).]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>767</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>future travelers,historical anomalies,history podcast,hoaxes,identity,internet mysteries,missing time,mystery documentary,past lives,physics of time,precognition,psychology of memory,reincarnation,relativity,science podcast,temporal anomalies,time slips,time travel,unexplained stories,wormholes</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/66c5c01c4e6a00e20d92c8d4501fbc08.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why Time Only Moves Forward</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-time-only-moves-forward--76045048</link><description><![CDATA[Drop a glass, and it shatters. It never unshatters. Heat flows from hot to cold, never from cold to hot. You remember yesterday, but you cannot remember tomorrow. And yet the laws of physics do not care which way time runs. Elena follows the arrow of time from Boltzmann's tombstone in Vienna to the BaBar experiment at Stanford, which proved in 2012 that time itself is not symmetrical — and asks the question physics cannot answer: why did the universe begin in a low-entropy state? Verdict: the mechanism is demonstrated, but the origin is genuinely unexplained. Sources: Ludwig Boltzmann, S = k log W and the H-theorem; Josef Loschmidt's paradox (1876); CP violation in neutral kaon decays (Christenson et al., 1964); CPLEAR at CERN (1998); BaBar at SLAC (Lees et al., 2012); Andrei Sakharov (1967); Hafele-Keating (1972); Pound-Rebka (1959).]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76045048</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 05:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/76045048/episode.mp3" length="6692005" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/6ac8e267-ba2a-4425-9c02-6a55bb5b392d/6ac8e267-ba2a-4425-9c02-6a55bb5b392d.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/6ac8e267-ba2a-4425-9c02-6a55bb5b392d/6ac8e267-ba2a-4425-9c02-6a55bb5b392d.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/6ac8e267-ba2a-4425-9c02-6a55bb5b392d/6ac8e267-ba2a-4425-9c02-6a55bb5b392d.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>James Garner</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Drop a glass, and it shatters. It never unshatters. Heat flows from hot to cold, never from cold to hot. You remember yesterday, but you cannot remember tomorrow. And yet the laws of physics do not care which way time runs. Elena follows the arrow of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Drop a glass, and it shatters. It never unshatters. Heat flows from hot to cold, never from cold to hot. You remember yesterday, but you cannot remember tomorrow. And yet the laws of physics do not care which way time runs. Elena follows the arrow of time from Boltzmann's tombstone in Vienna to the BaBar experiment at Stanford, which proved in 2012 that time itself is not symmetrical — and asks the question physics cannot answer: why did the universe begin in a low-entropy state? Verdict: the mechanism is demonstrated, but the origin is genuinely unexplained. Sources: Ludwig Boltzmann, S = k log W and the H-theorem; Josef Loschmidt's paradox (1876); CP violation in neutral kaon decays (Christenson et al., 1964); CPLEAR at CERN (1998); BaBar at SLAC (Lees et al., 2012); Andrei Sakharov (1967); Hafele-Keating (1972); Pound-Rebka (1959).]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>837</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>future travelers,historical anomalies,history podcast,hoaxes,identity,internet mysteries,missing time,mystery documentary,past lives,physics of time,precognition,psychology of memory,reincarnation,relativity,science podcast,temporal anomalies,time slips,time travel,unexplained stories,wormholes</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/ee4f252304383bb9a32e61f5cbf57565.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Ship That Vanished</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-ship-that-vanished--76045044</link><description><![CDATA[On October 28, 1943, in the middle of the Second World War, the USS Eldridge was sitting in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard — and then, according to the story, it vanished. It became invisible. It teleported two hundred and fifty miles to Norfolk, Virginia, and back. Some of its crew died. Some were fused with the steel of the ship's hull. James follows the case from two letters sent to an astronomer in 1955 to the ship's own logs, which say plainly that none of it happened. Verdict: hoax — built by one man from a real technology, a real ship, and a real war. Sources: USS Eldridge deck log and WWII action report (microfilm); Office of Naval Research statement (September 1996); Morris K. Jessup, The Case for the UFO (1955); Jacques Vallée on degaussing.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76045044</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2026 05:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/76045044/episode.mp3" length="6056293" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/3e06653f-236a-46e2-9a11-fa69cb09c132/3e06653f-236a-46e2-9a11-fa69cb09c132.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/3e06653f-236a-46e2-9a11-fa69cb09c132/3e06653f-236a-46e2-9a11-fa69cb09c132.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/3e06653f-236a-46e2-9a11-fa69cb09c132/3e06653f-236a-46e2-9a11-fa69cb09c132.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>James Garner</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>On October 28, 1943, in the middle of the Second World War, the USS Eldridge was sitting in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard — and then, according to the story, it vanished. It became invisible. It teleported two hundred and fifty miles to Norfolk,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[On October 28, 1943, in the middle of the Second World War, the USS Eldridge was sitting in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard — and then, according to the story, it vanished. It became invisible. It teleported two hundred and fifty miles to Norfolk, Virginia, and back. Some of its crew died. Some were fused with the steel of the ship's hull. James follows the case from two letters sent to an astronomer in 1955 to the ship's own logs, which say plainly that none of it happened. Verdict: hoax — built by one man from a real technology, a real ship, and a real war. Sources: USS Eldridge deck log and WWII action report (microfilm); Office of Naval Research statement (September 1996); Morris K. Jessup, The Case for the UFO (1955); Jacques Vallée on degaussing.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>758</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>future travelers,historical anomalies,history podcast,hoaxes,identity,internet mysteries,missing time,mystery documentary,past lives,physics of time,precognition,psychology of memory,reincarnation,relativity,science podcast,temporal anomalies,time slips,time travel,unexplained stories,wormholes</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/8e68c705285f56685beb66ee81cb17fe.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Mother Who Came Back to Find Her Children</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-mother-who-came-back-to-find-her-children--76045031</link><description><![CDATA[She was three years old, and she was drawing maps of a village she had never visited, in a country she had never seen. When she was thirty-five, Jenny Cockell took those maps to Malahide, Ireland, and found the village, and the house, and the children — five of them, now in their seventies, who looked at her and said: you are our mother, come back. Elena follows the case of Jenny Cockell and Mary Sutton, who died in 1932 leaving eight children behind, and asks the hardest question on this show: when the evidence is moving and the people are sincere, what do we do when the evidence was gathered the wrong way? Verdict: sincere but unsupported. Sources: Society for Psychical Research, Psi Encyclopedia (Jenny Cockell / Mary Sutton case); Jenny Cockell, Yesterday's Children (1993); Jim Tucker, Return to Life (2013); BBC documentary.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76045031</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2026 05:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/76045031/episode.mp3" length="5981413" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/c3ad1697-e946-4ce4-af77-d057e5fb1004/c3ad1697-e946-4ce4-af77-d057e5fb1004.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/c3ad1697-e946-4ce4-af77-d057e5fb1004/c3ad1697-e946-4ce4-af77-d057e5fb1004.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/c3ad1697-e946-4ce4-af77-d057e5fb1004/c3ad1697-e946-4ce4-af77-d057e5fb1004.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>James Garner</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>She was three years old, and she was drawing maps of a village she had never visited, in a country she had never seen. When she was thirty-five, Jenny Cockell took those maps to Malahide, Ireland, and found the village, and the house, and the children...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[She was three years old, and she was drawing maps of a village she had never visited, in a country she had never seen. When she was thirty-five, Jenny Cockell took those maps to Malahide, Ireland, and found the village, and the house, and the children — five of them, now in their seventies, who looked at her and said: you are our mother, come back. Elena follows the case of Jenny Cockell and Mary Sutton, who died in 1932 leaving eight children behind, and asks the hardest question on this show: when the evidence is moving and the people are sincere, what do we do when the evidence was gathered the wrong way? Verdict: sincere but unsupported. Sources: Society for Psychical Research, Psi Encyclopedia (Jenny Cockell / Mary Sutton case); Jenny Cockell, Yesterday's Children (1993); Jim Tucker, Return to Life (2013); BBC documentary.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>748</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>future travelers,historical anomalies,history podcast,hoaxes,identity,internet mysteries,missing time,mystery documentary,past lives,physics of time,precognition,psychology of memory,reincarnation,relativity,science podcast,temporal anomalies,time slips,time travel,unexplained stories,wormholes</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/643ae8b0038c7a7032f41f25f8cb009d.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Book No One Can Read</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-book-no-one-can-read--76045029</link><description><![CDATA[It is two hundred and forty pages long, written on vellum in a language that does not exist, in an alphabet that appears nowhere else on Earth. Its pages are full of plants no botanist can identify and women bathing in pools of green liquid. It is six hundred years old. It has been studied by the greatest codebreakers of two world wars, by linguists, by historians, by artificial intelligence — and no one has read a single sentence of it. James follows the Voynich Manuscript from a Jesuit library in Rome to Yale, through every failed decipherment, and asks what it means to not know. Verdict: genuinely unexplained. Sources: Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (MS 408); University of Arizona radiocarbon dating (2009); Mary D'Imperio, The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma (1978); Montemurro & Zanette (2013); Stephen Bax (2014); Greg Kondrak / University of Alberta (2018).]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76045029</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2026 05:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/76045029/episode.mp3" length="6451237" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/4f64ae51-23b4-443f-8027-5cc3df5c6c36/4f64ae51-23b4-443f-8027-5cc3df5c6c36.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/4f64ae51-23b4-443f-8027-5cc3df5c6c36/4f64ae51-23b4-443f-8027-5cc3df5c6c36.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/4f64ae51-23b4-443f-8027-5cc3df5c6c36/4f64ae51-23b4-443f-8027-5cc3df5c6c36.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>James Garner</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>It is two hundred and forty pages long, written on vellum in a language that does not exist, in an alphabet that appears nowhere else on Earth. Its pages are full of plants no botanist can identify and women bathing in pools of green liquid. It is six...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[It is two hundred and forty pages long, written on vellum in a language that does not exist, in an alphabet that appears nowhere else on Earth. Its pages are full of plants no botanist can identify and women bathing in pools of green liquid. It is six hundred years old. It has been studied by the greatest codebreakers of two world wars, by linguists, by historians, by artificial intelligence — and no one has read a single sentence of it. James follows the Voynich Manuscript from a Jesuit library in Rome to Yale, through every failed decipherment, and asks what it means to not know. Verdict: genuinely unexplained. Sources: Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (MS 408); University of Arizona radiocarbon dating (2009); Mary D'Imperio, The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma (1978); Montemurro & Zanette (2013); Stephen Bax (2014); Greg Kondrak / University of Alberta (2018).]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>807</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>future travelers,historical anomalies,history podcast,hoaxes,identity,internet mysteries,missing time,mystery documentary,past lives,physics of time,precognition,psychology of memory,reincarnation,relativity,science podcast,temporal anomalies,time slips,time travel,unexplained stories,wormholes</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/0e728f03b682216190ac669b2d54ad22.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Time Traveler Who Passed the Lie Detector</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-time-traveler-who-passed-the-lie-detector--76045025</link><description><![CDATA[His face was blurred. His voice was distorted. He said his name was Noah, and he came from the year 2030. He predicted Trump would be re-elected in 2020 and the Queen would die in 2019 — and then he passed a lie detector test on camera. Millions watched. Newspapers ran the story. And two years later, a sixteen-year-old boy posted a video with his face in full view and said: it was all fake. James follows the case from the ApexTV videos to the confession, and asks why we believed him. Verdict: hoax — confessed, documented, and paid for. Sources: Higgypop (Noah investigations and confession coverage); Truth or Fiction; ApexTV Fandom wiki (false-claims list); American Psychological Association on polygraph reliability.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76045025</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2026 05:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/76045025/episode.mp3" length="5199973" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/76dc715c-fbbd-4499-97e3-2ac28594a98d/76dc715c-fbbd-4499-97e3-2ac28594a98d.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/76dc715c-fbbd-4499-97e3-2ac28594a98d/76dc715c-fbbd-4499-97e3-2ac28594a98d.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/76dc715c-fbbd-4499-97e3-2ac28594a98d/76dc715c-fbbd-4499-97e3-2ac28594a98d.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>James Garner</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>His face was blurred. His voice was distorted. He said his name was Noah, and he came from the year 2030. He predicted Trump would be re-elected in 2020 and the Queen would die in 2019 — and then he passed a lie detector test on camera. Millions...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[His face was blurred. His voice was distorted. He said his name was Noah, and he came from the year 2030. He predicted Trump would be re-elected in 2020 and the Queen would die in 2019 — and then he passed a lie detector test on camera. Millions watched. Newspapers ran the story. And two years later, a sixteen-year-old boy posted a video with his face in full view and said: it was all fake. James follows the case from the ApexTV videos to the confession, and asks why we believed him. Verdict: hoax — confessed, documented, and paid for. Sources: Higgypop (Noah investigations and confession coverage); Truth or Fiction; ApexTV Fandom wiki (false-claims list); American Psychological Association on polygraph reliability.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>650</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>future travelers,historical anomalies,history podcast,hoaxes,identity,internet mysteries,missing time,mystery documentary,past lives,physics of time,precognition,psychology of memory,reincarnation,relativity,science podcast,temporal anomalies,time slips,time travel,unexplained stories,wormholes</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a79ea60d2e8932a3870f477d12eb0bf3.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Street That Slipped Into the Fifties</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-street-that-slipped-into-the-fifties--76045023</link><description><![CDATA[On a Saturday in July 1996, an off-duty policeman named Frank walked up Bold Street in Liverpool and stepped into the 1950s. The bookshop became a women's clothing shop called Cripps. A van marked Caplan's nearly ran him down. A girl with a modern handbag saw it too. James follows the case through the radio broadcast that made it famous, the callers who confirmed the shop names, and the flood of later reports — and asks the question that matters: can this story be checked? Verdict: the record is too weak. A single anonymous source, filtered through one researcher, with details that drift from telling to telling. Sources: Tom Slemen's Bold Street Zone investigation; Liverpool Echo account; Listverse, Ten Amazing Slips in Time; Kevin Barry, Beatlebone.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76045023</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2026 05:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/76045023/episode.mp3" length="5167909" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/aa299325-d5e1-42ee-9807-77e5709eb700/aa299325-d5e1-42ee-9807-77e5709eb700.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/aa299325-d5e1-42ee-9807-77e5709eb700/aa299325-d5e1-42ee-9807-77e5709eb700.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/aa299325-d5e1-42ee-9807-77e5709eb700/aa299325-d5e1-42ee-9807-77e5709eb700.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>James Garner</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>On a Saturday in July 1996, an off-duty policeman named Frank walked up Bold Street in Liverpool and stepped into the 1950s. The bookshop became a women's clothing shop called Cripps. A van marked Caplan's nearly ran him down. A girl with a modern...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[On a Saturday in July 1996, an off-duty policeman named Frank walked up Bold Street in Liverpool and stepped into the 1950s. The bookshop became a women's clothing shop called Cripps. A van marked Caplan's nearly ran him down. A girl with a modern handbag saw it too. James follows the case through the radio broadcast that made it famous, the callers who confirmed the shop names, and the flood of later reports — and asks the question that matters: can this story be checked? Verdict: the record is too weak. A single anonymous source, filtered through one researcher, with details that drift from telling to telling. Sources: Tom Slemen's Bold Street Zone investigation; Liverpool Echo account; Listverse, Ten Amazing Slips in Time; Kevin Barry, Beatlebone.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>646</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>future travelers,historical anomalies,history podcast,hoaxes,identity,internet mysteries,missing time,mystery documentary,past lives,physics of time,precognition,psychology of memory,reincarnation,relativity,science podcast,temporal anomalies,time slips,time travel,unexplained stories,wormholes</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/48177b77d8522e4af4a0b426f26b1f2b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The White House on the Beach</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-white-house-on-the-beach--76045024</link><description><![CDATA[Cameron Macaulay was two years old when he started crying for his other mother — on the island of Barra, two hundred miles from Glasgow, a place neither he nor his family had ever visited. He described a white house by the sea, a black and white dog, three toilets, and planes that landed on the beach. Elena follows the case from Glasgow to Barra, where a local historian found the house, a living family member confirmed the dog, and the father Cameron named could not be found in any record. Verdict: unsolved — genuine hits against genuine misses, and a case that refuses to be dismissed or proven. Sources: Jim Tucker, Return to Life (2013); Society for Psychical Research, Psi Encyclopedia (Cameron Macauley case); Tricia Robertson, Things You Can Do While You're Dead! (2013); Channel 5, Extraordinary People: The Boy Who Lived Before (2006).]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76045024</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 05:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/76045024/episode.mp3" length="5134309" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/1a2529a9-adcf-4516-b17b-0849092af645/1a2529a9-adcf-4516-b17b-0849092af645.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/1a2529a9-adcf-4516-b17b-0849092af645/1a2529a9-adcf-4516-b17b-0849092af645.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/1a2529a9-adcf-4516-b17b-0849092af645/1a2529a9-adcf-4516-b17b-0849092af645.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>James Garner</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Cameron Macaulay was two years old when he started crying for his other mother — on the island of Barra, two hundred miles from Glasgow, a place neither he nor his family had ever visited. He described a white house by the sea, a black and white dog,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Cameron Macaulay was two years old when he started crying for his other mother — on the island of Barra, two hundred miles from Glasgow, a place neither he nor his family had ever visited. He described a white house by the sea, a black and white dog, three toilets, and planes that landed on the beach. Elena follows the case from Glasgow to Barra, where a local historian found the house, a living family member confirmed the dog, and the father Cameron named could not be found in any record. Verdict: unsolved — genuine hits against genuine misses, and a case that refuses to be dismissed or proven. Sources: Jim Tucker, Return to Life (2013); Society for Psychical Research, Psi Encyclopedia (Cameron Macauley case); Tricia Robertson, Things You Can Do While You're Dead! (2013); Channel 5, Extraordinary People: The Boy Who Lived Before (2006).]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>642</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>future travelers,historical anomalies,history podcast,hoaxes,identity,internet mysteries,missing time,mystery documentary,past lives,physics of time,precognition,psychology of memory,reincarnation,relativity,science podcast,temporal anomalies,time slips,time travel,unexplained stories,wormholes</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/f31b39629a5e6ac197c9d24700364a96.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Ancient Computer Found in a Shipwreck</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-ancient-computer-found-in-a-shipwreck--76044961</link><description><![CDATA[In 1900, Greek sponge divers pulled a corroded lump of bronze from a Roman shipwreck off Antikythera. A year later, archaeologist Valerios Stais saw gears inside it. The lump was a hand-cranked computer from the second century BCE — thirty-seven bronze gears that could predict eclipses decades in advance, track the Olympic Games, and model the Moon's irregular orbit. James follows the investigation from Derek de Solla Price's X-rays to the 2006 Nature reconstruction, and asks the real question: not whether the machine is real, but why nothing like it appeared again for fourteen hundred years. Verdict: documented and explained. Sources: Derek de Solla Price, Gears from the Greeks (1974); Antikythera Mechanism Research Project (Mike Edmunds, Tony Freeth), Nature, November 2006; National Archaeological Museum, Athens.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76044961</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 05:00:03 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/76044961/episode.mp3" length="4847653" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/818f5699-a356-4287-a061-d61e008eed2d/818f5699-a356-4287-a061-d61e008eed2d.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/818f5699-a356-4287-a061-d61e008eed2d/818f5699-a356-4287-a061-d61e008eed2d.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/818f5699-a356-4287-a061-d61e008eed2d/818f5699-a356-4287-a061-d61e008eed2d.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>James Garner</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 1900, Greek sponge divers pulled a corroded lump of bronze from a Roman shipwreck off Antikythera. A year later, archaeologist Valerios Stais saw gears inside it. The lump was a hand-cranked computer from the second century BCE — thirty-seven...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 1900, Greek sponge divers pulled a corroded lump of bronze from a Roman shipwreck off Antikythera. A year later, archaeologist Valerios Stais saw gears inside it. The lump was a hand-cranked computer from the second century BCE — thirty-seven bronze gears that could predict eclipses decades in advance, track the Olympic Games, and model the Moon's irregular orbit. James follows the investigation from Derek de Solla Price's X-rays to the 2006 Nature reconstruction, and asks the real question: not whether the machine is real, but why nothing like it appeared again for fourteen hundred years. Verdict: documented and explained. Sources: Derek de Solla Price, Gears from the Greeks (1974); Antikythera Mechanism Research Project (Mike Edmunds, Tony Freeth), Nature, November 2006; National Archaeological Museum, Athens.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>606</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>future travelers,historical anomalies,history podcast,hoaxes,identity,internet mysteries,missing time,mystery documentary,past lives,physics of time,precognition,psychology of memory,reincarnation,relativity,science podcast,temporal anomalies,time slips,time travel,unexplained stories,wormholes</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/279b4c5ab75610c8fdeaf0e17abcbb19.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Night the Hills Lost Two Hours</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-night-the-hills-lost-two-hours--76044959</link><description><![CDATA[On September 19, 1961, Betty and Barney Hill drove home through the White Mountains of New Hampshire and arrived two hours late, with thirty-five miles of road they could not account for. Under hypnosis two years later, they described being taken aboard a craft, examined by figures with large wrap-around eyes, and shown a star map. James follows the case through the hypnosis sessions, the star map, and the skeptical evidence — the Cannon Mountain beacon, the Outer Limits episode, and what hypnosis does to memory. What was verified? Two honest witnesses lost two hours; their watches stopped; the dress and the car carried unexplained marks. What was not? The abduction as described under hypnosis — the star map does not survive better data, and the memories match Betty's dreams written down before hypnosis. Verdict: sincere but unsupported. Sources: John G. Fuller, The Interrupted Journey (1966); Dr. Benjamin Simon, Psychiatric Opinion; Marjorie Fish (1969); Carl Sagan's reanalysis; Jim Macdonald's beacon reconstruction; Martin Kottmeyer (1990); Project Blue Book.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76044959</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2026 05:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/76044959/episode.mp3" length="5362789" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/fa5015e2-9f3a-4c0a-8081-7527c232ff4c/fa5015e2-9f3a-4c0a-8081-7527c232ff4c.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/fa5015e2-9f3a-4c0a-8081-7527c232ff4c/fa5015e2-9f3a-4c0a-8081-7527c232ff4c.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/fa5015e2-9f3a-4c0a-8081-7527c232ff4c/fa5015e2-9f3a-4c0a-8081-7527c232ff4c.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>James Garner</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>On September 19, 1961, Betty and Barney Hill drove home through the White Mountains of New Hampshire and arrived two hours late, with thirty-five miles of road they could not account for. Under hypnosis two years later, they described being taken...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[On September 19, 1961, Betty and Barney Hill drove home through the White Mountains of New Hampshire and arrived two hours late, with thirty-five miles of road they could not account for. Under hypnosis two years later, they described being taken aboard a craft, examined by figures with large wrap-around eyes, and shown a star map. James follows the case through the hypnosis sessions, the star map, and the skeptical evidence — the Cannon Mountain beacon, the Outer Limits episode, and what hypnosis does to memory. What was verified? Two honest witnesses lost two hours; their watches stopped; the dress and the car carried unexplained marks. What was not? The abduction as described under hypnosis — the star map does not survive better data, and the memories match Betty's dreams written down before hypnosis. Verdict: sincere but unsupported. Sources: John G. Fuller, The Interrupted Journey (1966); Dr. Benjamin Simon, Psychiatric Opinion; Marjorie Fish (1969); Carl Sagan's reanalysis; Jim Macdonald's beacon reconstruction; Martin Kottmeyer (1990); Project Blue Book.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>671</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>future travelers,historical anomalies,history podcast,hoaxes,identity,internet mysteries,missing time,mystery documentary,past lives,physics of time,precognition,psychology of memory,reincarnation,relativity,science podcast,temporal anomalies,time slips,time travel,unexplained stories,wormholes</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6064f0f17f09ff53b4b6eb244f574706.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Clock That Proves Time Travel Is Real</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-clock-that-proves-time-travel-is-real--76044957</link><description><![CDATA[In October 1971, two physicists bought plane tickets for four atomic clocks — under the name Mr. Clock — and flew them around the world. When the clocks came home, they disagreed with the clocks that had stayed behind, by exactly the billionths of a second Einstein predicted. Elena follows the measurement through muons, the Hafele-Keating experiment, and the GPS satellites in your phone, to the one form of time travel that is not a story but a measurement. What was measured? Eastward clocks lost 59 nanoseconds, westward clocks gained 273 nanoseconds (Hafele-Keating, Science 1972); GPS satellite clocks gain a net 38 microseconds a day. What does it mean? Time is relative to motion and gravity. Verdict: scientifically demonstrated — limited forward time travel only. Sources: Hafele and Keating, Science 177 (1972) 168; Einstein (1905); Frisch-Smith muon experiment; CERN muon storage ring (1977); Pound-Rebka (1959); GPS relativistic corrections.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76044957</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2026 05:00:03 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/76044957/episode.mp3" length="4606885" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/43f38f58-2547-457f-91d2-0d82f1e693c1/43f38f58-2547-457f-91d2-0d82f1e693c1.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/43f38f58-2547-457f-91d2-0d82f1e693c1/43f38f58-2547-457f-91d2-0d82f1e693c1.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/43f38f58-2547-457f-91d2-0d82f1e693c1/43f38f58-2547-457f-91d2-0d82f1e693c1.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>James Garner</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In October 1971, two physicists bought plane tickets for four atomic clocks — under the name Mr. Clock — and flew them around the world. When the clocks came home, they disagreed with the clocks that had stayed behind, by exactly the billionths of a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In October 1971, two physicists bought plane tickets for four atomic clocks — under the name Mr. Clock — and flew them around the world. When the clocks came home, they disagreed with the clocks that had stayed behind, by exactly the billionths of a second Einstein predicted. Elena follows the measurement through muons, the Hafele-Keating experiment, and the GPS satellites in your phone, to the one form of time travel that is not a story but a measurement. What was measured? Eastward clocks lost 59 nanoseconds, westward clocks gained 273 nanoseconds (Hafele-Keating, Science 1972); GPS satellite clocks gain a net 38 microseconds a day. What does it mean? Time is relative to motion and gravity. Verdict: scientifically demonstrated — limited forward time travel only. Sources: Hafele and Keating, Science 177 (1972) 168; Einstein (1905); Frisch-Smith muon experiment; CERN muon storage ring (1977); Pound-Rebka (1959); GPS relativistic corrections.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>576</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>future travelers,historical anomalies,history podcast,hoaxes,identity,internet mysteries,missing time,mystery documentary,past lives,physics of time,precognition,psychology of memory,reincarnation,relativity,science podcast,temporal anomalies,time slips,time travel,unexplained stories,wormholes</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/8e0e2cc7cd6cb7a2726d4474c7197524.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Woman With a Cell Phone in 1928</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-woman-with-a-cell-phone-in-1928--76044958</link><description><![CDATA[In 2010, Belfast filmmaker George Clarke found a clip in the DVD extras of Charlie Chaplin's The Circus (1928): a woman at the premiere outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre, holding a dark object to her ear and talking — like a mobile phone, forty-five years before the mobile phone existed. James checks the provenance, the physics (a phone in 1928 would have no network to call), and the history of 1920s hearing aids, including Siemens' 1924 carbon microphone device. What was the footage? Genuine premiere footage from 1928, included in the 2004 DVD. What was she holding? Most likely a hearing aid — a rectangular black box held to the ear, exactly like the Siemens 1924 device. What is impossible? A working phone call in 1928. Verdict: ordinary explanation. Sources: George Clarke's 2010 YouTube upload; CNN, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post coverage (2010); Philip Skroska, Bernard Becker Medical Library, Washington University in St. Louis; Siemens hearing-aid history (1924 patent).]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76044958</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 05:00:04 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/76044958/episode.mp3" length="4534117" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/93a03f33-c422-4bb7-ab31-98bd72c6563d/93a03f33-c422-4bb7-ab31-98bd72c6563d.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/93a03f33-c422-4bb7-ab31-98bd72c6563d/93a03f33-c422-4bb7-ab31-98bd72c6563d.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/93a03f33-c422-4bb7-ab31-98bd72c6563d/93a03f33-c422-4bb7-ab31-98bd72c6563d.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>James Garner</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In 2010, Belfast filmmaker George Clarke found a clip in the DVD extras of Charlie Chaplin's The Circus (1928): a woman at the premiere outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre, holding a dark object to her ear and talking — like a mobile phone, forty-five...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In 2010, Belfast filmmaker George Clarke found a clip in the DVD extras of Charlie Chaplin's The Circus (1928): a woman at the premiere outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre, holding a dark object to her ear and talking — like a mobile phone, forty-five years before the mobile phone existed. James checks the provenance, the physics (a phone in 1928 would have no network to call), and the history of 1920s hearing aids, including Siemens' 1924 carbon microphone device. What was the footage? Genuine premiere footage from 1928, included in the 2004 DVD. What was she holding? Most likely a hearing aid — a rectangular black box held to the ear, exactly like the Siemens 1924 device. What is impossible? A working phone call in 1928. Verdict: ordinary explanation. Sources: George Clarke's 2010 YouTube upload; CNN, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post coverage (2010); Philip Skroska, Bernard Becker Medical Library, Washington University in St. Louis; Siemens hearing-aid history (1924 patent).]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>567</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>future travelers,historical anomalies,history podcast,hoaxes,identity,internet mysteries,missing time,mystery documentary,past lives,physics of time,precognition,psychology of memory,reincarnation,relativity,science podcast,temporal anomalies,time slips,time travel,unexplained stories,wormholes</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/998c6f9e6098ac022239fadd0d06a82b.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Boy Who Remembered Being a Hollywood Agent</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-boy-who-remembered-being-a-hollywood-agent--76044960</link><description><![CDATA[At age four, Ryan Hammons of Oklahoma began describing another life: dancing on Broadway, a big house with a pool in Hollywood, an agency where people changed their names, three boys who were not his, and death at sixty-one. Jim Tucker of the University of Virginia traced the memories to Marty Martyn, a Hollywood dancer turned talent agent who died in 1964 — and verified fifty-five of Ryan's statements, including details even Martyn's own daughter did not know. Elena asks what fifty-five correct statements prove, and what they do not. What was verified? 55 statements, including a second sister unknown to the family and a death age of 61 that corrected the death certificate. What was wrong? Some statements failed — Martyn died of a cerebral hemorrhage, not an exploding heart. Verdict: strongest modern reincarnation case; genuinely unexplained information; reincarnation not established. Sources: Jim Tucker, Return to Life (2013); Leslie Kean, Surviving Death (2017); Ian Stevenson, Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation; University of Virginia Division of Perceptual Studies.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76044960</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 05:00:03 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/76044960/episode.mp3" length="5014309" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/5eaf3d7d-f877-427d-a105-7a7c810f264f/5eaf3d7d-f877-427d-a105-7a7c810f264f.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/5eaf3d7d-f877-427d-a105-7a7c810f264f/5eaf3d7d-f877-427d-a105-7a7c810f264f.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/5eaf3d7d-f877-427d-a105-7a7c810f264f/5eaf3d7d-f877-427d-a105-7a7c810f264f.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>James Garner</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>At age four, Ryan Hammons of Oklahoma began describing another life: dancing on Broadway, a big house with a pool in Hollywood, an agency where people changed their names, three boys who were not his, and death at sixty-one. Jim Tucker of the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[At age four, Ryan Hammons of Oklahoma began describing another life: dancing on Broadway, a big house with a pool in Hollywood, an agency where people changed their names, three boys who were not his, and death at sixty-one. Jim Tucker of the University of Virginia traced the memories to Marty Martyn, a Hollywood dancer turned talent agent who died in 1964 — and verified fifty-five of Ryan's statements, including details even Martyn's own daughter did not know. Elena asks what fifty-five correct statements prove, and what they do not. What was verified? 55 statements, including a second sister unknown to the family and a death age of 61 that corrected the death certificate. What was wrong? Some statements failed — Martyn died of a cerebral hemorrhage, not an exploding heart. Verdict: strongest modern reincarnation case; genuinely unexplained information; reincarnation not established. Sources: Jim Tucker, Return to Life (2013); Leslie Kean, Surviving Death (2017); Ian Stevenson, Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation; University of Virginia Division of Perceptual Studies.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>627</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>future travelers,historical anomalies,history podcast,hoaxes,identity,internet mysteries,missing time,mystery documentary,past lives,physics of time,precognition,previous life memories,psychology of memory,reincarnation,relativity,science podcast,temporal anomalies,time slips,time travel,unexplained stories</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/b897ddabdc6018c187251c8ce9e13173.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Man Who Turned Eight Hundred Dollars Into Three Hundred and Fifty Million</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-man-who-turned-eight-hundred-dollars-into-three-hundred-and-fifty-million--76044948</link><description><![CDATA[On January 28, 2003, a 44-year-old man named Andrew Carlssin was arrested for insider trading after turning 800 dollars into more than 350 million in two weeks — 126 high-risk trades, every one a winner. His explanation: he was a time traveler from the year 2256. James traces the story to its source, a Weekly World News article of March 19, 2003, checks it against SEC records, and follows how a tabloid fiction escaped into the real news and grew a cover-up it never had. What was claimed? A time traveler from 2256 made 126 consecutive winning trades and confessed in a four-hour interrogation. What can be verified? Nothing — no SEC record, no FBI record, no court record of any Andrew Carlssin. What was added later? The 'US Paranormal Defense Agency', the asset seizure, and the Iraq invasion 'prediction', all invented by internet retellings. Verdict: hoax. Sources: Weekly World News, March 19, 2003 (Chad Kultgen); Yahoo News pickup; The Guardian, March 2003; SEC enforcement records (no record found).]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/76044948</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 07:01:09 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/76044948/episode.mp3" length="5180965" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/607030d1-cf08-46cd-8ada-ac0800c3fb19/607030d1-cf08-46cd-8ada-ac0800c3fb19.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/607030d1-cf08-46cd-8ada-ac0800c3fb19/607030d1-cf08-46cd-8ada-ac0800c3fb19.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/607030d1-cf08-46cd-8ada-ac0800c3fb19/607030d1-cf08-46cd-8ada-ac0800c3fb19.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>James Garner</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>On January 28, 2003, a 44-year-old man named Andrew Carlssin was arrested for insider trading after turning 800 dollars into more than 350 million in two weeks — 126 high-risk trades, every one a winner. His explanation: he was a time traveler from...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[On January 28, 2003, a 44-year-old man named Andrew Carlssin was arrested for insider trading after turning 800 dollars into more than 350 million in two weeks — 126 high-risk trades, every one a winner. His explanation: he was a time traveler from the year 2256. James traces the story to its source, a Weekly World News article of March 19, 2003, checks it against SEC records, and follows how a tabloid fiction escaped into the real news and grew a cover-up it never had. What was claimed? A time traveler from 2256 made 126 consecutive winning trades and confessed in a four-hour interrogation. What can be verified? Nothing — no SEC record, no FBI record, no court record of any Andrew Carlssin. What was added later? The 'US Paranormal Defense Agency', the asset seizure, and the Iraq invasion 'prediction', all invented by internet retellings. Verdict: hoax. Sources: Weekly World News, March 19, 2003 (Chad Kultgen); Yahoo News pickup; The Guardian, March 2003; SEC enforcement records (no record found).]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>648</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>future travelers,historical anomalies,history podcast,hoaxes,identity,internet mysteries,missing time,mystery documentary,past lives,physics of time,precognition,psychology of memory,reincarnation,relativity,science podcast,temporal anomalies,time slips,time travel,unexplained stories,wormholes</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/55cc65214ff4ed5c9d160edb678ede79.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Shanti Devi: The Girl Who Remembered Another Family</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/shanti-devi-the-girl-who-remembered-another-family--75271736</link><description><![CDATA[In nineteen thirties Delhi, a young girl named Shanti Devi began talking about another home in Mathura, another husband, and another life. She gave a name, described a house, spoke about childbirth and death, and insisted that the family she remembered was real.<br />Adults eventually contacted a man whose deceased wife appeared to match parts of the girl's story. Shanti was then taken to Mathura, where investigators watched to see whether she could recognize people and places she had supposedly never encountered. The case became one of the world's most famous reincarnation investigations, but the evidence is more complicated than either believers or skeptics often admit.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/75271736</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 03:18:07 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/75271736/shanti_devi_the_girl_who_remembered_another_family_101232.mp3" length="13112259" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/ed136f12-2fc9-4094-be3f-47864600836c/ed136f12-2fc9-4094-be3f-47864600836c.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/ed136f12-2fc9-4094-be3f-47864600836c/ed136f12-2fc9-4094-be3f-47864600836c.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/ed136f12-2fc9-4094-be3f-47864600836c/ed136f12-2fc9-4094-be3f-47864600836c.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>James Garner</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In nineteen thirties Delhi, a young girl named Shanti Devi began talking about another home in Mathura, another husband, and another life. She gave a name, described a house, spoke about childbirth and death, and insisted that the family she...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In nineteen thirties Delhi, a young girl named Shanti Devi began talking about another home in Mathura, another husband, and another life. She gave a name, described a house, spoke about childbirth and death, and insisted that the family she remembered was real.<br />Adults eventually contacted a man whose deceased wife appeared to match parts of the girl's story. Shanti was then taken to Mathura, where investigators watched to see whether she could recognize people and places she had supposedly never encountered. The case became one of the world's most famous reincarnation investigations, but the evidence is more complicated than either believers or skeptics often admit.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>820</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>case,childhood,delhi,devi,gandhi,historical,life,lives,lugdi,mahatma,mathura,memories,memory,mystery,of,past,psychology,reincarnation,shanti,unexplained</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/3c27433b176efb47ad153c43c1cb1bc3.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Dorothy Eady: The Woman Who Remembered Ancient Egypt</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/dorothy-eady-the-woman-who-remembered-ancient-egypt--75043837</link><description><![CDATA[Dorothy Eady was born in London in nineteen oh four. After a serious childhood fall, she reportedly began insisting that she belonged somewhere else. When she later saw images of the Temple of Seti the First at Abydos, she said she recognized it as home.<br />Decades later, Dorothy moved to Egypt, became known as Omm Sety, worked professionally with Egyptian antiquities, and spent much of her life at Abydos. She also claimed that she had once lived there as an ancient temple priestess named Bentreshyt. Some of her apparent knowledge impressed archaeologists. But how much came from memory, how much from years of Egyptological study, and how much can actually be documented before she learned it?<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/75043837</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:36:33 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/75043837/the_woman_who_said_ancient_egypt_was_her_real_home_152935.mp3" length="13838254" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/14d860e5-32fd-4847-a788-52f895cbb3c1/14d860e5-32fd-4847-a788-52f895cbb3c1.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/14d860e5-32fd-4847-a788-52f895cbb3c1/14d860e5-32fd-4847-a788-52f895cbb3c1.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/14d860e5-32fd-4847-a788-52f895cbb3c1/14d860e5-32fd-4847-a788-52f895cbb3c1.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>James Garner</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Dorothy Eady was born in London in nineteen oh four. After a serious childhood fall, she reportedly began insisting that she belonged somewhere else. When she later saw images of the Temple of Seti the First at Abydos, she said she recognized it as...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Dorothy Eady was born in London in nineteen oh four. After a serious childhood fall, she reportedly began insisting that she belonged somewhere else. When she later saw images of the Temple of Seti the First at Abydos, she said she recognized it as home.<br />Decades later, Dorothy moved to Egypt, became known as Omm Sety, worked professionally with Egyptian antiquities, and spent much of her life at Abydos. She also claimed that she had once lived there as an ancient temple priestess named Bentreshyt. Some of her apparent knowledge impressed archaeologists. But how much came from memory, how much from years of Egyptological study, and how much can actually be documented before she learned it?<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>865</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>abydos,ancient,archaeological,bentreshyt,dorothy,eady,egypt,egyptology,first,life,lives,memory,mystery,omm,past,previous,reincarnation,seti,sety,the</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/3c27433b176efb47ad153c43c1cb1bc3.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Boy Who Said He Died in a Burning Plane</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-boy-who-said-he-died-in-a-burning-plane--74067257</link><description><![CDATA[When James Leininger was about two years old, his parents said he began waking from terrifying nightmares about an airplane on fire. Soon, they reported, he started describing himself as a pilot whose aircraft had been shot down over the Pacific.<br />Years later, the family connected those statements to James Huston Junior, an American naval aviator killed during the Second World War. Some of the apparent matches are striking. Others become much less certain when chronology, childhood exposure to aviation, parental recollection, and later investigation are examined carefully.<br />Was James remembering another man's death? Or are we looking at an extraordinary example of how memory, coincidence, information, and family interpretation can combine?<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74067257</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:03:22 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74067257/the_boy_who_said_he_died_in_a_burning_plane_225732.mp3" length="15011048" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/187b4280-e48f-460f-a4a3-0af23c30ef81/187b4280-e48f-460f-a4a3-0af23c30ef81.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/187b4280-e48f-460f-a4a3-0af23c30ef81/187b4280-e48f-460f-a4a3-0af23c30ef81.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/187b4280-e48f-460f-a4a3-0af23c30ef81/187b4280-e48f-460f-a4a3-0af23c30ef81.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>James Garner</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>When James Leininger was about two years old, his parents said he began waking from terrifying nightmares about an airplane on fire. Soon, they reported, he started describing himself as a pilot whose aircraft had been shot down over the Pacific....</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[When James Leininger was about two years old, his parents said he began waking from terrifying nightmares about an airplane on fire. Soon, they reported, he started describing himself as a pilot whose aircraft had been shot down over the Pacific.<br />Years later, the family connected those statements to James Huston Junior, an American naval aviator killed during the Second World War. Some of the apparent matches are striking. Others become much less certain when chronology, childhood exposure to aviation, parental recollection, and later investigation are examined carefully.<br />Was James remembering another man's death? Or are we looking at an extraordinary example of how memory, coincidence, information, and family interpretation can combine?<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>939</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>bay,case,childhood,huston,james,leininger,life,lives,memories,natoma,of,past,pilot,previous,psychology,reincarnation,two,unexplained,war,world</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/3c27433b176efb47ad153c43c1cb1bc3.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Time Traveler From  2671 Who Kept Predicting Tomorrow</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-time-traveler-from-2671-who-kept-predicting-tomorrow--74066844</link><description><![CDATA[Beginning in the early twenty twenties, a TikTok creator using the name Eno Alaric, or Radiant Time Traveler, attracted a huge audience by claiming to have traveled back from the year twenty six seventy one. Instead of merely describing the distant future, he gave viewers something much easier to test: specific warnings about events that were supposedly only weeks or months away.<br />Alien contact. Enormous earthquakes. Impossible tsunamis. New species. People developing supernatural abilities. Many of the dates have now passed, allowing us to do something that cannot be done with most alleged time travelers: compare the prediction recorded before an event with what actually happened afterward. The result reveals less about the future than about how failed predictions can survive on the internet.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74066844</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:55:09 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74066844/the_time_traveler_from_twenty_six_seventy_one_who_kept_predicting_tomorrow_224934.mp3" length="11825363" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/3da5dc3e-8b3c-4aa0-a366-0a7f1520ae38/3da5dc3e-8b3c-4aa0-a366-0a7f1520ae38.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/3da5dc3e-8b3c-4aa0-a366-0a7f1520ae38/3da5dc3e-8b3c-4aa0-a366-0a7f1520ae38.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/3da5dc3e-8b3c-4aa0-a366-0a7f1520ae38/3da5dc3e-8b3c-4aa0-a366-0a7f1520ae38.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>James Garner</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Beginning in the early twenty twenties, a TikTok creator using the name Eno Alaric, or Radiant Time Traveler, attracted a huge audience by claiming to have traveled back from the year twenty six seventy one. Instead of merely describing the distant...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Beginning in the early twenty twenties, a TikTok creator using the name Eno Alaric, or Radiant Time Traveler, attracted a huge audience by claiming to have traveled back from the year twenty six seventy one. Instead of merely describing the distant future, he gave viewers something much easier to test: specific warnings about events that were supposedly only weeks or months away.<br />Alien contact. Enormous earthquakes. Impossible tsunamis. New species. People developing supernatural abilities. Many of the dates have now passed, allowing us to do something that cannot be done with most alleged time travelers: compare the prediction recorded before an event with what actually happened afterward. The result reveals less about the future than about how failed predictions can survive on the internet.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>740</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>alaric,alien,eno,failed,future,internet,mystery,one,prediction,predictions,radiant,seventy,six,tiktok,time,travel,traveler,twenty</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/3c27433b176efb47ad153c43c1cb1bc3.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Man Who Woke Up Alone in 2027</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-man-who-woke-up-alone-in-2027--74066518</link><description><![CDATA[In twenty twenty one, a mysterious TikTok account began showing something almost impossible: the streets of Valencia, Spain, completely empty. The creator, known as Javier and Único Sobreviviente, claimed that he had awakened in a hospital with no memory and somehow found himself in the year twenty twenty seven, apparently the last human being left on Earth. He filmed deserted streets, shops, hospitals, police facilities, and famous locations while communicating with people who were supposedly still living six years in his past.<br />Millions followed the story and challenged Javier to enter places that should have been occupied. But years later, the mystery acquired a very different ending. Javier's current talent agency now explicitly describes the project as an immersive fiction built around an empty world in twenty twenty seven. The extraordinary part of this story is no longer whether Javier traveled through time. It is how convincingly an internet narrative made millions of viewers temporarily wonder whether he had.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74066518</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:48:29 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74066518/the_man_who_woke_up_alone_in_twenty_twenty_seven_224234.mp3" length="10674721" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/0cb6e708-1e29-4919-a8c7-11b65129652e/0cb6e708-1e29-4919-a8c7-11b65129652e.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/0cb6e708-1e29-4919-a8c7-11b65129652e/0cb6e708-1e29-4919-a8c7-11b65129652e.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/0cb6e708-1e29-4919-a8c7-11b65129652e/0cb6e708-1e29-4919-a8c7-11b65129652e.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>James Garner</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In twenty twenty one, a mysterious TikTok account began showing something almost impossible: the streets of Valencia, Spain, completely empty. The creator, known as Javier and Único Sobreviviente, claimed that he had awakened in a hospital with no...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In twenty twenty one, a mysterious TikTok account began showing something almost impossible: the streets of Valencia, Spain, completely empty. The creator, known as Javier and Único Sobreviviente, claimed that he had awakened in a hospital with no memory and somehow found himself in the year twenty twenty seven, apparently the last human being left on Earth. He filmed deserted streets, shops, hospitals, police facilities, and famous locations while communicating with people who were supposedly still living six years in his past.<br />Millions followed the story and challenged Javier to enter places that should have been occupied. But years later, the mystery acquired a very different ending. Javier's current talent agency now explicitly describes the project as an immersive fiction built around an empty world in twenty twenty seven. The extraordinary part of this story is no longer whether Javier traveled through time. It is how convincingly an internet narrative made millions of viewers temporarily wonder whether he had.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>668</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>city,empty,future,internet,javier,last,mystery,parallel,person,seven,slip,sobreviviente,tiktok,time,timeline,travel,traveler,twenty,unico,valencia</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/3c27433b176efb47ad153c43c1cb1bc3.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Flight That Was Supposed to Last Three Hours but Landed Decades Later</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-flight-that-was-supposed-to-last-three-hours-but-landed-decades-later--73846462</link><description><![CDATA[The legend of Pan Am Flight Nine Fourteen sounds like one of the most extraordinary time slips ever recorded. A passenger plane supposedly left New York for Miami in nineteen fifty five, vanished during a journey that should have taken only a few hours, and then suddenly appeared decades later over Caracas, Venezuela. In later retellings, the aircraft is sometimes said to have passed through violent weather or a mysterious storm before emerging in another time.<br />But when the story is traced backward, the mystery changes completely. There are no contemporary aviation records for the disappearance, the famous photographs do not prove the claim, and the earliest known version came from Weekly World News, a tabloid known for publishing fabricated stories. The real mystery is not where the aircraft went, but how a fictional flight became one of the internet's most convincing time travel legends.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73846462</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:53:48 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73846462/the_flight_that_was_supposed_to_last_three_hours_but_landed_decades_later_194747.mp3" length="11305004" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/c99c04b5-8f0d-43a0-b4a5-834fed983e22/c99c04b5-8f0d-43a0-b4a5-834fed983e22.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/c99c04b5-8f0d-43a0-b4a5-834fed983e22/c99c04b5-8f0d-43a0-b4a5-834fed983e22.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/c99c04b5-8f0d-43a0-b4a5-834fed983e22/c99c04b5-8f0d-43a0-b4a5-834fed983e22.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>James Garner</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The legend of Pan Am Flight Nine Fourteen sounds like one of the most extraordinary time slips ever recorded. A passenger plane supposedly left New York for Miami in nineteen fifty five, vanished during a journey that should have taken only a few...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The legend of Pan Am Flight Nine Fourteen sounds like one of the most extraordinary time slips ever recorded. A passenger plane supposedly left New York for Miami in nineteen fifty five, vanished during a journey that should have taken only a few hours, and then suddenly appeared decades later over Caracas, Venezuela. In later retellings, the aircraft is sometimes said to have passed through violent weather or a mysterious storm before emerging in another time.<br />But when the story is traced backward, the mystery changes completely. There are no contemporary aviation records for the disappearance, the famous photographs do not prove the claim, and the earliest known version came from Weekly World News, a tabloid known for publishing fabricated stories. The real mystery is not where the aircraft went, but how a fictional flight became one of the internet's most convincing time travel legends.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>707</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>914,am,aviation,caracas,flight,internet,legend,missing,mysterious,mystery,pan,plane,slip,storm,time,travel,unexplained,urban,warp</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/3c27433b176efb47ad153c43c1cb1bc3.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Man Who Said He Came From Twenty Thirty Six</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-man-who-said-he-came-from-twenty-thirty-six--73846286</link><description><![CDATA[In the early days of online message boards, an anonymous user began describing something extraordinary. He said he was an American soldier from the year twenty thirty six, sent back to nineteen seventy five to retrieve an old IBM computer before stopping in the year two thousand. The identity he eventually used was John Titor. Preserved forum material places his TimeTravel_0 posts in late two thousand and early two thousand one.<br />Titor described a future shaped by civil conflict, nuclear war, alternate world lines, and machines capable of manipulating gravity. But his predictions can now be compared with history, and one of the most famous details in his story, involving an IBM computer, becomes more complicated when the earliest surviving chat material is examined.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73846286</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:47:31 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73846286/the_man_who_said_he_came_from_twenty_thirty_six_194308.mp3" length="9486045" type="audio/mpeg"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/43beb794-226d-4094-9cf9-af14032ae924/43beb794-226d-4094-9cf9-af14032ae924.srt" type="application/x-subrip" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/43beb794-226d-4094-9cf9-af14032ae924/43beb794-226d-4094-9cf9-af14032ae924.txt" type="text/plain" language="en"/><podcast:transcript url="https://transcription.spreaker.com/starship/43beb794-226d-4094-9cf9-af14032ae924/43beb794-226d-4094-9cf9-af14032ae924.vtt" type="text/vtt" language="en"/><itunes:author>James Garner</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In the early days of online message boards, an anonymous user began describing something extraordinary. 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They became lost. Then the atmosphere seemed to change. The people around them appeared strangely dressed, the landscape seemed unfamiliar, and one of the women later believed she had seen Marie Antoinette.<br />Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain eventually published their account as An Adventure in nineteen eleven. Their story became one of the most famous alleged time slips ever recorded. But the original account, later additions, historical research, and ordinary explanations reveal a mystery more complicated than the legend suggests. 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