10 Men Who Claim to Have Traveled Through Time

Von Helton

This one’s a real enigma. Born Eugene Helton Jr., the man now known as Von Helton has had a pretty interesting life. By his own account, he invented the stealth fighter at the age of 7 and grew up to become a vampire vigilante who walked the Earth fighting evil. Oh, and he also traveled in time repeatedly. His proof of this is a series of photographs of himself from the year 1857 to today, photographs that don’t look all too much like the same person, really. But who are we to mock the dude who also claims to be the real-life inspiration for comic-book character the Punisher?

John Titor

Nobody really knows who “John Titor” was, as most of his communications were made over the Internet. In 2000 and 2001, a series of cryptic messages appeared on Art Bell message boards from Titor, who said he was a soldier from the year 2036 sent back to 1975 to retrieve an IBM computer that the future needed to debug a variety of legacy programs on. So we can assume that eBay doesn’t exist then? Titor provided a number of goofy predictions from the future, including a new Civil War in the United States that would begin in 2004. After being debunked, Titor disappeared into the ether. Or did he just go back to the future?

Sir Victor Goddard

British Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard has one of the weirdest and most believable stories on this list. In 1935, Goddard was piloting a plane over an abandoned airfield in Edinburgh when he got caught in an unusual storm. He almost lost control in the turbulence, but when he righted himself he looked down and was shocked to find the airfield totally refurbished, with strange-looking planes with Royal Air Force markings being worked on by mechanics in blue uniforms. He told some of his compatriots about his weird trip, but since he had no physical proof, nothing really came of it. That is, until four years later when the RAF changed their mechanics’ coverall colors from brown to blue. Did Goddard have a brief timeslip over England?

Hakan Nordkvist

Time travel can occur by a variety of methods, but a leaky kitchen cabinet? For Norwegian man Hakan Nordkvist, his path to the future was underneath a sink. When he discovered the leak, he grabbed his plumber’s tools and crawled under the sink, only to find himself in a long tunnel that deposited him in the year 2042. While there, he met his 70-year-old self and quizzed him on a variety of topics, and the aged doppelganger not only knew information that only Nordkvist would know, but he also had the same tattoo -- faded by time, of course. Nordkvist even captured video using his cell phone. Unfortunately, Nordkvist’s journey turned out to be a viral stunt by a Norwegian pension company, but lots of people bought it.

Andrew Carlssin

One of the most attractive elements of time travel is the ability to make a killing on the stock market. After all, just a basic knowledge of financial history could let you make investments in stocks like Apple that would pay huge dividends. Hence the story of Andrew Carlssin, allegedly a Wall Street trader who jaunted back from the year 2256 to make a killing on the market. The story claims that, starting with just $800, Carlssin was able to build a $350 million fortune in just two weeks. After he got busted in 2003, the time traveler offered “historical information” such as the location of Osama Bin Laden and the AIDS vaccine. Unfortunately, this was a serious hoax, and Carlssin never actually existed, but some time-travel believers still insist that he did and this is just a giant cover-up.

Billy Meier

While some of these time-travel fakers go to extreme ends to fabricate their journeys, UFO cult leader Billy Meier just let it rock in a truly low-grade way. When he was challenged to provide pictures of aliens, Meier just took a picture of his TV screen and tried to pass off a woman from "The Dean Martin Show" as an extraterrestrial visitor. His time-travel claims were no less specious. Meier said he went back to the age of the dinosaurs and came back with photographs of a pterodactyl trying to eat him. That photograph, blurry as hell, was quickly traced back to an illustration from a science textbook. Despite all this, Meier still has suckers buying his stories.

Pasko Kuzman

Time travel would be an incredible tool for an archaeologist, but surprisingly, only one of them is using it. Oh, and he’s a little nutty. Macedonian treasure hunter Pasko Kuzman wears a trio of watches on his arm, and claims that one of them can transport him back to the Bronze Age, where he has conversations with Alexander the Great. Needless to say, this kind of talk hasn’t really endeared Kuzman to his fellow scientists, and many of his claims have been pretty intensely debunked.

William Stillings

Another veteran of Project Pegasus, William Stillings alleges that he was the subject of a huge variety of experiments as a child that had him traveling tremendous distances through space and time. Not only was Stillings sent back to various awesome moments in history, but he also served as part of the secret program to establish a base on Mars. Oh, and do you know who else was in that program with him? A young man named Barry Soetoro, better known as President Barack Obama.