The whole truth about paranormal phenomena (9 photos). Paranormal phenomena in Russia (15 photos)

21.09.2019

A small selection of 11 of the most unusual paranormal phenomena that occurred in Russia.

1. Meeting of astronauts with a UFO

The pioneers of space exploration had a hard time: the technologies of the beginning of the space era of mankind left much to be desired, so emergency situations arose quite often, like the one that Alexey Leonov encountered when he almost ended up in outer space.
But some of the surprises that awaited space pioneers in orbit were not related to the equipment at all. Many who returned from orbit Soviet cosmonauts talked about unidentified flying objects appearing near earthly spacecraft, and scientists still cannot explain this phenomenon.

Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, cosmonaut Vladimir Kovalyonok said that during his stay at the Salyut-6 station in 1981, he observed a bright luminous object the size of a finger rapidly encircling the Earth in orbit. Kovalenok called the crew commander, Viktor Savinykh, and he, seeing the unusual phenomenon, immediately went to get a camera. At this time, the “finger” flashed and split into two objects connected to each other, and then disappeared.
It was never possible to photograph it, but the crew immediately reported the phenomenon to Earth.
Sightings of unknown objects were also repeatedly reported by participants in Mir station missions, as well as employees of the Baikonur Cosmodrome - UFOs appear quite often in its vicinity.

2. Chelyabinsk meteorite

On February 15, 2013, residents of Chelyabinsk and surrounding settlements observed an extraordinary phenomenon: heavenly body, which was 30 times brighter than the Sun when it fell. As it turned out later, it was a meteorite, although various versions of the phenomenon have been put forward, including the use of secret weapons or the machinations of aliens (many still do not exclude this possibility).
Exploding in the air, the meteorite split into many parts, the largest of which fell into Lake Chebarkul near Chelyabinsk, and the remaining fragments scattered over a wide area, including some regions of Russia and Kazakhstan. According to NASA, this is the largest space object to fall to Earth since the Tunguska bolide.

The “guest” from space caused quite significant damage to the city: the blast wave broke the glass in many buildings, and about 1,600 people received injuries of varying severity.
The series of “space” adventures for Chelyabinsk residents did not end there: a few weeks after the meteorite fell, on the night of March 20, a huge luminous ball hovered in the sky above the city. It was observed by many townspeople, but there is no exact explanation yet of where the “second Sun” suddenly appeared, especially at night. However, some believe that the ball arose due to the reflection of city lights on specifically located ice crystals in the atmosphere - that night Chelyabinsk was covered with thick cold fog.

3. Sakhalin monster

Remains of an unknown creature found by military personnel Russian army on the coast of Sakhalin Island in September 2006. In terms of the structure of the skull, the monster is somewhat reminiscent of a crocodile, but the rest of the skeleton is completely unlike any reptile known to science. It also cannot be classified as a fish, and the local residents to whom the soldiers showed the find could not identify it as any creature living in these waters. Remains of animal tissue were preserved, and judging by them, it was covered with wool. The corpse was quickly taken over by representatives of the special services, and its further study took place “behind closed doors.”

Now most experts are inclined to believe that these were the remains of some kind of cetacean, according to some versions - a killer whale or a beluga whale, but others object that the creature differs in its skeleton from both of them. An alternative to the “accepted” point of view is that the remains belonged to a prehistoric animal, which were probably still preserved in the depths of the World Ocean.

4. Seeing off the mermaid

Mermaids are one of the main characters of Russian folklore. According to legend, these spirits living in reservoirs are born as a result of painful death women and children, and rumor says that meeting a mermaid does not bode well: they often seduce men, luring them into the abyss of a lake or swamp, steal children, scare animals and generally behave not very decently. According to tradition, in order for the year to be successful and fertile, villagers brought various gifts to the mermaids, sang songs about them and held dances in honor of these restless souls.
Of course, now such beliefs are not nearly as widespread as in the old days, but in some parts of Russia rituals associated with mermaids are still held. The most significant of them is considered the so-called Rusal Week (also known as Trinity Week or Farewell to the Mermaid) - the week preceding Trinity (50th day after Easter).
The main part of the ritual is the making and destruction of a stuffed mermaid, accompanied by fun, music and dancing. During Rusal Week, women do not wash their hair to protect themselves from perfume, and men carry garlic and walnuts. Of course, at this time it is strictly forbidden to go into the water - so as not to be dragged away by some bored mermaid.

5. Russian Roswell

The military missile range near the village of Kapustin Yar in the north-west of the Astrakhan region is often found in reports of the most strange and inexplicable incidents. Various UFOs and other curious phenomena are observed here with amazing regularity. Because of the most notorious case of this kind, Kapustin Yar received the nickname Russian Roswell by analogy with the city in the American state of New Mexico, where, according to some assumptions, an alien ship crashed in 1947.
Almost a year after the Roswell incident, on June 19, 1948, a silvery object shaped like a cigar appeared in the sky above Kapustin Yar. On alert, three MiG interceptors were scrambled into the air, and one of them managed to shoot down a UFO. “Cigar” immediately fired a certain beam at the fighter, and it crashed to the ground; unfortunately, the pilot did not have time to eject. A silvery object also fell in the vicinity of Kapustin Yar, and was immediately transported to the test site bunker.
Of course, many have repeatedly questioned this information, but some documents of the State Security Committee, declassified in 1991, indicate that the military more than once saw something above Kapustin Yar that does not yet fit into the framework of modern science.

6. Ninel Kulagina

During the Second World War, then Nina Sergeevna Kulagina served as a radio operator in a tank and participated in the defense of the Northern capital. As a result of her injury, she was discharged, and after the blockade of Leningrad was lifted, she got married and gave birth to a child.
In the early 1960s, she became famous throughout Soviet Union like Ninel Kulagina - a psychic and the owner of other paranormal abilities. She could heal people with the power of her thoughts, determine color by touching her fingers, see through fabric what was in people's pockets, move objects at a distance, and much more. Her gift was often studied and tested by specialists from various institutions, including secret scientific institutes, and many testified that Ninel was either an extremely clever charlatan or actually possessed anomalous skills.
There is no convincing evidence of the first, although some of the former employees of Soviet research institutes claim that when demonstrating “supernatural” abilities, Kulagina used various tricks and sleight of hand, which was known to the KGB experts investigating her activities.
Until her death in 1990, Ninel Kulagina was considered one of the most powerful psychics of the 20th century, and the inexplicable phenomena associated with her were called the “K-phenomenon.”

7. Dragon from Brosno

Lake Brosno, located in the Tver region, is the deepest freshwater lake in Europe, but it is known throughout the world mainly because of the mysterious creature that local residents believe lives in it.
According to numerous (but, unfortunately, not documented) stories, an animal about five meters long, resembling something like a dragon, was seen in the lake more than once, although almost all observers describe it differently. One of the local legends says that a long time ago, the Tatar-Mongol warriors who made a halt on the shore of the lake were eaten by the “dragon from Brosno”. According to another story, in the middle of Brosno one day an “island” suddenly appeared, which disappeared after some time - it is assumed that it was the back of a huge unknown beast.
Although there is no reliable information about the monster supposedly living in the lake, many agree that some strange things do sometimes happen in Brosno and its environs.

8. Space Defense Forces

Russia has always sought to protect itself from all possible external (and internal) threats, and more recently, the defensive interests of our Motherland also include the security of its space borders. To repel an attack from space in 2001, they were created Space Force, and in 2011, the Space Defense Forces (VKO) were formed on their base.
The tasks of this type of troops include mainly organizing missile defense and controlling the military satellites that coordinate it, although the command is also considering the possibility of aggression from alien races. True, at the beginning of October of this year, answering the question whether the East Kazakhstan region is ready for an alien attack, Sergei Berezhnoy, assistant to the head of the Main Test Space Center named after German Titov, said: “Unfortunately, we are not yet ready to fight extraterrestrial civilizations.” . Let's hope the aliens don't know about this.

9. Ghosts of the Kremlin

There are few places in our country that can compare with the Moscow Kremlin in terms of mystery and the number of ghost stories that are found there. For several centuries it has served as the main citadel of Russian statehood, and, according to legend, the restless souls of the victims of the struggle for it (and with it) still roam the Kremlin corridors and dungeons.
Some say that in the Bell Tower of Ivan the Great you can sometimes hear the crying and lamentations of Ivan the Terrible, atoning for his sins. Others mention that they saw the spirit of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in the Kremlin, three months before his death, when the leader of the world proletariat was seriously ill and no longer left his residence in Gorki. But the most famous ghost of the Kremlin is, of course, the spirit of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, who appears whenever the country is in for a shock. The ghost smells cold, and sometimes he seems to be trying to say something, perhaps warning the leadership of the state against mistakes.

10. Black bird of Chernobyl

A few days before the infamous accident of the fourth power unit Chernobyl nuclear power plant four station employees reported seeing what appeared to be a huge dark man with wings and glowing red eyes. Most of all, this description is reminiscent of the so-called Mothman - a mysterious creature that allegedly appeared repeatedly in the city of Point Pleasant in the American state of West Virginia.
The Chernobyl plant workers who met the fantastic monster claimed that after the meeting they received several threatening calls and almost everyone began to have vivid, incredibly scary nightmares.
On April 26, the nightmare happened not in the dreams of the employees, but at the station itself, and the amazing stories were forgotten, but only at a short time: While they were extinguishing the fire that raged after the explosion, survivors of the flames said that they clearly saw a 6-meter black bird that flew out of the clouds of radioactive smoke pouring out of the destroyed fourth block.

11. Well to Hell

In 1984, Soviet geologists started ambitious project drilling ultra-deep well on the Kola Peninsula. The main goal was to satisfy scientific research curiosity and test the fundamental possibility of such deep penetration into the thickness of the planet.
According to legend, when the drill reached a depth of about 12 km, the instruments recorded strange sounds coming from the depths and most of all resembling screams and moans. In addition, at great depths, voids were discovered, the temperature in which reached 1100 °C. Some even reported a demon flying out of the well and a flaming "I Win" sign appearing in the sky after eerie screams were heard from a hole in the ground.
All this gave rise to rumors that Soviet scientists had drilled a “well to hell,” but many of the “evidences” do not stand up to scientific criticism: for example, it is documented that the temperature at the lowest point that the drill reached was 220 °C.
Perhaps, David Mironovich Guberman, one of the authors and managers of the Kola superdeep well project, spoke best about the “well”: “When they ask me about this mysterious story, I don't know what to answer. On the one hand, stories about the “demon” are bullshit. On the other hand, as an honest scientist, I cannot say that I know what exactly happened here. Indeed, a very strange noise was recorded, then there was an explosion... A few days later, nothing similar was found at the same depth.”

Nowadays, many people do not believe stories about spirits, ghosts, UFOs and aliens. Nowadays people need evidence and this is photographs, videos or audio recordings of unusual incidents or paranormal phenomena. Let's look at them.

Loch Ness monster

One of them is the Loch Ness monster. This unusual phenomenon is observed in Scotland on a lake called Loch Ness. It is believed that the people who filmed this creature observed a plesiosaur, which miraculously survived.

The first photographs of the Loch Ness monster were taken in 1934 by Wilson, and a video was made in 1967. According to Richard Raynor, who owns the sensational footage, he thought he was filming a Navy SEAL until he saw the size of the monster.

Ghosts in photographs

For now paranormal objects in the photo There are a huge number of ghosts, but only a few of them are genuine. Here is the story of some of them. One of these photographs dates back to 1969. Mabel Chinari decided to go to the grave of her recently deceased mother.

She took a few photos of her grave, and then wanted to take a photo of her husband, who was waiting for her in the car. After developing the photographs, she discovered that in the back seat of her husband’s car was a woman wearing glasses, who, according to Mabel, was her deceased mother. There is a known incident that occurred during the First World War in England. One of the mechanics, named Freddie Jackson, was killed on the battlefield. Two days after his death, a group photo was taken of the squadron in which the deceased served. On it, behind the back of one of the soldiers, you can see Freddy himself.

UFO in the photo

Many people are sure that we are not alone in the Universe and that we are being watched by more highly developed beings. In 1962, children took a photograph that showed five strange flying objects. The British Air Ministry immediately began studying paranormal objects in the photo, it recognized them as authentic, however, it could not answer the question about the nature of the objects.

In 1965, Rex Heflin directed UFO during his duty checking road signs. The flying saucer hovered above the ground, so we were able to take fairly clear pictures.

And more recently, in 1997, in the state of Mexico, it was possible to photograph a flying object that hovered over houses for several minutes. Thus, in modern world, we can observe paranormal phenomena recorded on video or filmed, which allows us to see ample evidence of the existence of parallel worlds.

Each of us has that same friend who believes in cities located on back side Moons, reptilians living in the center of the Earth's core and crazy conspiracy theories. Sometimes he finds a photo of the “supernatural” on some website and smugly shows it to you as confirmation of all his abnormal beliefs. When he tries to do this again, show him this post, which debunks famous cases of paranormal manifestations in photographs.

10. Surgeon’s Photo

The surgeon's photograph is the most famous photograph Loch Ness Monster and in fact, thanks to this one photograph, Loch Ness madness began. When anyone thinks of Nessie, then, without a doubt, this is the photo that comes to mind. The photograph was allegedly taken by a gynecologist and his wife, who were vacationing near the shores of Loch Ness. Unfortunately for all the “scientists” who spent decades studying Nessie, the photograph was 100% fake.

The monster in the photo is an ordinary toy submarine. The doctor was prompted to create the fake by a desire to take revenge on the Daily Mail newspaper. A man named Wetherall was ridiculed by a newspaper reporter after what he thought were Nessie's footprints on the shore turned out to be hippopotamus footprints. Weverall and his accomplice decided to humiliate the newspaper with another fake, but even after the photo captured the minds of the public, they did not admit to what they had done.

9. Patterson's Photo

Patterson's photograph was taken by Roger Patterson and his friend Robert Grimlin. This is perhaps the most famous photograph of Bigfoot in the world and has been mentioned everywhere - from The Simpsons to Will Ferrel's Elf. A couple of friends were horseback riding in the Six Rivers National Forest, where they were filming documentary. According to their story, they simply saw Bigfoot while they were filming a documentary about Bigfoot. Unfortunately, several people have admitted to participating in the creation of the fake. These people included a man in a suit (don't tell me you thought it wasn't a man in a gorilla suit), the special effects artist who created the suit, and one of the producers of the film.

8. Cottingley Fairies Photos

In 1917, two little girls became the center of public attention when they said they had found fairies in their garden. Normally people wouldn't believe such a story from two girls, but they had photographs to back up the story. Even the famous skeptic Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, was amazed by the photographs. He wrote about them in his personal journal, claiming that the photographs were real - however, they were fakes. The girls admitted (70 years later) that they used cardboard figures and placed them in front of the camera. Did we mention that Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the Sherlock Holmes books?

7. Mulmer’s Ghost Photos

Mumler worked as a jeweler and took up photography in his spare time. Oh, and he also took photographs of people with their dead relatives appearing in the background. The photograph shows the widow of Abraham Lincoln. An incentive prize will go to whoever recognizes the tall, bearded man behind her. However, not everyone believed that Mumler photographed real dead people. During the trial, it was stated that the effect was easily achieved by taking two pictures on one film, and most of the ghosts were actually living people who had recently been photographed by Mumler.

6. Venusian Scoutcraft

A scout ship from the planet Venus was photographed by George Adamski, who claimed that he had been contacted by Venusians on several occasions. Although Adamski's stories sound like science fiction that wouldn't even be shown on SYFY, Adamski has written books and given lectures about multiple contacts with Aryans from deep space, and has even been hosted by the Queen of the Netherlands. However, of course, all this was a lie. Interstellar Venusian spaceship is actually a lampshade with ping pong balls attached to it.

5. “Thoughtography” Photos

Ted Serios claimed that he had amazing abilities. Using only the power of his thoughts, he transferred mental images to film. He got drunk and screamed, holding a small device he called a "gizmo" to the camera lens while someone else took a photo. When the film was developed, it revealed blurry photographs of cars, buildings and people. This phenomenon was widely covered on television, and even an episode of The X-Files was filmed about it.

Unfortunately, we hasten to disappoint you. These photos were as authentic as if Moses had started posting on Twitter. It is believed that the gizmo actually contained a lens that had a transparent image on it. Later experiments were carried out that confirmed that such a device gives the same effect as in the case of Ted.

4. Wern Ghost Apparition Picture

When Shropshire Town Hall burned down in 1995, Tony O'Rahilly photographed the aftermath. When he printed the photo, it turned out that there was a young girl standing among the flames, although when he took the photo there was an empty doorway. Her clothing and appearance in the middle of the flames led people to believe that she was the ghost of a girl from 1677 who died in a fire that she started. The story made news around the world.

Years later, someone noticed an old photo of a girl that looked suspiciously like a photo of a ghost. As it turned out, the photograph was a common example of overlaying frames. An old photograph the girls simply superimposed it on a photograph of a burning building.

3. Battle For Los Angeles Photo

In 1942, shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, an air raid alarm sounded in Los Angeles. Air defense installations began firing into the sky, while searchlights illuminated the aircraft hovering over the city. The next day, news appeared in the newspapers that a UFO had been spotted over Los Angeles, accompanied by a photograph of said UFO under spotlights.

The government argued that this was a simple misunderstanding, which made people even more suspicious. Did alien forces attack America? No, it was actually a weather balloon... probably. It is worth considering the fact that the tension at that time was incredible: the United States had recently faced a surprise attack from the Japanese, which is why the army and navy simply got excited when they reacted this way to a harmless object in the sky. The spotlights also made the object in the sky look really cool - especially since the photo was then retouched in newspaper to make the object look more UFO-like. Years later, the same effect was recreated by experts, proving that no Battle of Los Angeles took place.

2. Levitating Man

Colin Evans was a Welsh medium who claimed to be able to levitate. If you believe his stories, the spirits lifted him up, like at rock concerts. However, the truth is much simpler. Evans performed his trick by simply jumping out of his chair. The wire in his hand was connected to a camera, which captured people's surprised eyes. Their shock at seeing an adult jump from a chair made the picture look like people were trying to figure out how he was able to fly. In fact, they were thinking about why they spent money on such idiocy. These same viewers then asked for their money back.

1. Time-Traveling Hipster

The photograph shows the opening of the bridge in Gold Bridge, Canada, in 1941. Even though all the people are dressed in typical 40s clothes, the guy on the right stands out from the crowd. He's wearing a sweater with a big letter "M", dark glasses, a sweatshirt, and in his hands some kind of electronic device. When this photo appeared on the website of the Virtual Museum of Canada, the entire Internet exploded with theories about time travel. And he really looks unusual for the time, because no one dressed like that in the 1940s, did they?

In fact, all the clothes we see on the time traveler were available at that time. His glasses are identical to the glasses worn by Barbara Stanwyck in the movie Double Indemnity. His sweatshirt is actually a knitted football jacket, and the device in his hands is a camera.

1. Bigfoot

Yeti, bigfoot, sasquatch, kongodrilo and even “metoh kangmi” (which means “snow man” in Tibetan) are all different names for one creature that periodically allegedly appears before people’s eyes. different parts planets. Bigfoot was initially seen in areas near North Pole, but then it began to “appear” in more southern territories.

The first report of Bigfoot in California dates back to 1958, when in the Six Brooks Nature Reserve on the shore of one of the reservoirs, American Ray Wallace discovered a chain of very large footprints, which in shape resembled the prints of huge human feet. The length of the tracks was forty centimeters, the width was a little more than fifteen. Nine years later, on the banks of that stream, writer Roger Petterson and a friend not only saw the creature that left these traces, but also filmed it. The frame clearly shows a huge figure moving along the stream, with long arms, an egg-shaped head and pronounced breasts. Petterson claimed it was a female sasquatch.

The video, of course, created a real sensation. And only after the death of Ray Wallace, his relatives revealed the secret of the deceased: in fact, Wallace made the “first footprints of Bigfoot” himself, cutting out the corresponding blanks from wood. And then he became the producer of Petterson’s film, dressing his wife in a Yeti costume.

2. Loch Ness Monster

For several decades, people's minds have been haunted by the idea that creepy and incredible creatures can live in the depths of the earth's lakes. The most famous of which, of course, is a creature from the Scottish Loch Ness, named Nessie. Fans of Nessie claim that the lake is home to an ancient plesosaur lizard, which somehow miraculously managed to survive to this day, although its relatives died out sixty-five million years ago. Skeptics, however, do not believe in the existence of a monster; they say, about ten thousand years ago, Loch Ness was a gigantic glacier, and if a plesiosaur could survive in it, it would be only as a huge piece of ice.

However, there is a whole series of photographs that show something living in a Scottish pond. The most famous footage was taken in 1934 by surgeon R. C. Wilson. And on June 13, 1967, Richard Raynor filmed a creature moving quickly underwater, raising its head above the surface. According to the eyewitness himself, at first he decided that it was a cat, but only the visible part of the body of the unknown monster was more than two meters.

3. UFO

The truth is somewhere out there, and there is numerous evidence of this in the form of photographs. Most of which, however, are almost considered clever photomontage. But there are also shots whose authenticity no one can challenge to this day.

So, in 1962, three English boys went out into the yard to take a picture of their dog, but noticed five strange objects in the sky. The resulting photographs went straight into the hands of British Air Ministry researchers, who, no matter how hard they tried, could not prove that it was a fake. August 1965 - American inspector Rex Heflin, during his duty, was checking the condition of road signs when he saw and immediately filmed an object in the sky with a diameter of almost thirty feet, hovering above the ground at an altitude of one hundred and fifty feet. And in 1997, a flying saucer was filmed in the Mexican capital of Mexico City; she hovered between the houses for twenty-five seconds.

4. Ghosts

Perhaps the most terrible evidence that after death a person’s soul still continues to live are photographs in which someone’s face or figure suddenly appears, as, for example, happened during the First World War in England. RAF mechanic Freddie Jackson was killed in action, but two days later, as his entire squadron gathered for a group photo, Freddie's face appeared over the shoulder of one of the soldiers. The dead Englishman is clearly visible in the photograph.

In 1959, Mabel Chinnery went to the cemetery to visit her mother's grave. After taking several photographs of the tombstone, the woman decided to photograph her husband, who remained in the car behind the wheel. But the finished photograph showed that the man in the cabin was not at all as alone as he himself believed: behind him, in the back seat, a creepy black man with glasses was visible. According to Mabel, this is her dead mother.

Each of us has that same friend. Well, you know which one. He believes in cities on the far side of the moon, in angels and crazy conspiracy theories. Sometimes he finds a photo of the “supernatural” on some website and smugly shows it to you as confirmation of all his abnormal beliefs. When he tries to do this again, show him this post, which debunks famous cases of paranormal manifestations in photographs.

10. Surgeon’s Photo

The surgeon's photograph is the most famous photograph of the Loch Ness Monster and, in fact, thanks to this one photograph, Loch Ness madness began. When anyone thinks of Nessie, then, without a doubt, this is the photo that comes to mind. The photograph was allegedly taken by a gynecologist and his wife, who were vacationing near the shores of Loch Ness. Unfortunately for all the “scientists” who spent decades studying Nessie, the photograph was 100% fake.

9. Patterson's Photo

Patterson's photograph was taken by Roger Patterson and his friend Robert Grimlin. This is perhaps the most famous photograph of Bigfoot in the world and has been mentioned everywhere - from The Simpsons to Will Ferrel's Elf. A couple of friends were horseback riding in the Six Rivers National Forest, where they were filming a documentary. According to their story, they simply saw Bigfoot while they were filming a documentary about Bigfoot. Unfortunately, several people have admitted to participating in the creation of the fake. These people included a man in a suit (don't tell me you thought it wasn't a man in a gorilla suit), the special effects artist who created the suit, and one of the producers of the film.

6. Venusian Scoutcraft

A scout ship from the planet Venus was photographed by George Adamski, who claimed that he had been contacted by Venusians on several occasions. Although Adamski's stories sound like science fiction that wouldn't even be shown on SYFY, Adamski has written books and given lectures about multiple contacts with Aryans from deep space, and has even been hosted by the Queen of the Netherlands. However, of course, all this was a lie. The interstellar Venus spaceship is actually a lampshade with ping pong balls attached to it.

5. “Thoughtography” Photos

Ted Serios claimed to have amazing powers. Using only the power of his thoughts, he transferred mental images to film. He got drunk and screamed, holding a small device he called a "gizmo" to the camera lens while someone else took a photo. When the film was developed, it revealed blurry photographs of cars, buildings and people. This phenomenon was widely covered on television, and even an episode of The X-Files was filmed about it.

Years later, someone noticed an old photo of a girl that looked suspiciously like a photo of a ghost. As it turned out, the photograph was a common example of overlaying frames. An old photograph of a girl was simply superimposed on a photograph of a burning building.

1. Time-Traveling Hipster

The photograph shows the opening of the bridge in Gold Bridge, Canada, in 1941. Even though all the people are dressed in typical 40s clothes, the guy on the right stands out from the crowd. He is wearing a sweater with a large letter “M”, dark glasses, a sweatshirt, and is holding some kind of electronic device. When this photo appeared on the website of the Virtual Museum of Canada, the entire Internet exploded with theories about time travel. And he really looks unusual for the time, because no one dressed like that in the 1940s, did they?