20 Historical Events That Convinced People Time Travel Is Real

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20 Historical Events That Convinced People Time Travel Is Real

Coincidences can be found throughout history; they were probably even found on your last trip to the refrigerator. Unlike the discovery that you had the exact right amount of Cheez Whiz left in the can for your girl dinner, however, some coincidences seem too implausible to be explained by random chance or, indeed, anything besides some strategic wormhole diving.

By way of example, one Reddit user cited “Archduke Franz Ferdinand bleeding out from an assassin because the suit he had been sewn into for the perfect fit couldn’t easily be cut off him fast enough to stop the bleeding. Cue WWI.” 

They then asked r/AskReddit, “What historical event 100 percent reads like a time traveler went back in time to alter history?” 

Here’s how Reddit answered back…

Fickle_Penguin 3y ago Leonardo de Vinci. Не could have been trying to get attention of other time travelers saying hey I'm stuck back here.
pm_me_gnus 3y ago There was a shipwreck in 1664, a shipwreck in 1785, and a shipwreck in 1820. Each had 1 survivor. Each survivor was named Hugh Wiliams.
TXhorndog 3y ago On Christopher Columbus's first voyage there are reports of strange lights following them as they approach land. I think these are time tourists going back to watch it all happen.
slower-is-faster Зу ago Edgar Sengier. Не stockpiled uranium in New York - which just happened to be where it was needed, when it was needed, for the Manhattan project to build the bombs they dropped on Japan.
Зу ago Satoshi Nakamoto Не came out of nowhere, invented bitcoin, and then disappeared. Easiest trillion dollar play.
Idkeepplaying 3y ago Cyanide Gas Attack Thwarted in Tokyo Subway 20,000 people could have died but a worker found a burning gas bag in a toilet just before it mixed with another poisonous another gas bag - just in time - and put them out. That was in Shinjuku station. I was in that station that day, and that person might have saved my life.
-eDgAR- 3y ago Edited 3y ago I remember this comment about a bumbling time traveller trying to kill Adolphe Sax (inventor of the Saxophone) because they hate their sax lessons and I can totally see it because of how many things that almost killed him.
joaaoluucas Зу ago Edited Зу ago Jimmy Page moved with his parents to Miles Road, Epsom at Surrey. When they enter on their new house, there was only one thing inside: an acoustic guitar. Jimmy Page was 12yo by this time. To those who don't know, Jimmy became one of the greatest guitarists of all time.
smokeyman992 Зу ago The russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to death by firing squad and just as they were preparing the groups to be shot, a messenger came with a letter from the Tsar forgiving them and the sentence was changed to prison labor. Не later went on to write some of the most influential novels of all time.
Demiscio8 3y ago I would say there is significant evidence Fidel Castro. Every single assassination attempt failed, sometimes because of wildly miscellaneous circumstances, including a sabotaged diving suit that somehow got miraculously switched with someone else, who ended up drowning in his place. Dude holds the world record for over 600 attempts, I believe.
LDM123 3y ago When the Athenians voted to execute a large group of war prisoners during the Peloponnesian wars, many of those prisoners women and children, an entire city, a man whom nobody knew or heard of took the stage. His name was Diadotus, literally gift of god. Не persuaded the Athenian people to reverse their decision, which they did. Before the messenger reached the soldiers to order them to kill the prisoners, another messenger had reached them in time to inform the commander that the Athenians had changed their mind and let them live.
TheFalconKid Зу ago That confederate soldier who was delivering Lee's Special Order 191 definitely got Merced by a time traveler. They left it up to one guy to deliver the message to invade Philadelphia and it was lost and intercepted by America who then had an even bigger advantage in that war. If the guy were able to successfully deliver the orders, idk if it would lead to the south winning like in Harry Turtledoves book series, but a full scale battle in the streets of Philly would be a huge part of American history.
3y ago The Germans spent a lot of time and money developing a magnetic sea mine that probably would have significantly reduced England's ability to stay in the war, except they dropped a single one of the mines accidentally on an English beach, and also failed to arm it so none of the booby traps were active and the British basically found out straight away how it worked and we're able to cheaply build magnetic mine sweepers
Gentleman_Viking 3y ago The commando raid on the NorskHydro heavy water plant in Hardanger Norway during WWII, the Norwegian commandos parachuted in during one of the worst blizzards on record, along with hundreds of pounds of explosives, and had to trek through the Norwegian wilderness for 15 days before they found a hunting cabin. The English commandos who were supposed to link up with got shot down, and the only reason they were able to make it to the cabin was that they found one of the commandos sled, which he had lost as a child. After that they had
Namika 3y ago When the Persians/Muslims were about to invade Europe, they were suddenly and inexplicably stopped as their invasion fleet fell to Greek fire. Artists of the era made paintings showing a small number of Greeks destroying hundreds of ships with what clearly looks to be some sort of portable flamethrower. No one in antiquity had ever mentioned or used Greek fire before that event, and no one since has ever used it again. We still have no idea wtf it was, all we know is it appeared out of nowhere and stopped a monumental invasion.
bd_magic Зу ago Edited Зу ago I have an older one. Sometime between 200BC - 100 AD. the Ancient Greeks had invented a early prototype steam engine (Aeolipile). But they really didn't give it much further thought. The Ancient Greeks were clever, but somehow, no one seemed to realize the potential of this invention. It never developed beyond being more than just a curiosity. Had these Ancient Greek designs been more widespread. There is a good chance the industrial revolution could have happened 1,500 years earlier. But honestly, it seemed like someone was intervening to prevent these designs from being disseminated.
TenseTeacher Зу ago I might have found a time traveller in Irish mythology There's a mythological Druid called Mug Ruith Не is claimed to have lived for over 1000 years, living during the rein of different kings (ok, nothing unusual for Irish mythology there). But he flew in a machine called the 'oared-wheel' which sounds like a helicopter Не wore a hornless bullhide and a bird mask, which sounds like a flight helmet/cap and respirator pilots use Не drove a chariot that blinded those who saw it, deafened those who heard it, had sides of glass and was daylight inside
TuckerMouse Зу ago Edgar Allen Poe writes about an event 40+ -years in the future. Basically, Poe writes about four people who are starving at sea, draw straws, and kill and eat the loser, cabin boy Richard Parker. 40 odd years later four people are adrift at sea in a lifeboat, one drinks seawater and goes into a coma. When they draw straws for who will be eaten, the coma guy gets the short straw in a development that surprises no one. And so the three other men kill and eat the cabin boy. Richard Parker. Seriously.
AustinJG 3y ago The number of times we DIDN'T go to nuclear war because of a false positive of a launch. Honestly Stanislav Petrov should have statues in every country.
Stonesword75 3y ago Just whoever has been working in The Simpsons writers room

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