{"id":3817,"date":"2024-01-15T19:50:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T19:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=3817"},"modified":"2024-01-15T19:50:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T19:50:53","slug":"facebook-convinced-time-travel-is-real-after-cellphone-spotted-in-wwii-pic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtimenew.com\/?p=3817","title":{"rendered":"Facebook convinced time travel is real after \u2018cellphone\u2019 spotted in WWII pic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surely, it must be a man out of time?<\/p>\n

Sleuths on Facebook have spotted an odd-looking fellow in a black-and-white 1940s photograph where he appears to be using a device way too high-tech for the decade.<\/p>\n

The mystery dawns back to 1943 in Reykjav\u00edk, Iceland, where the suspicious character is seen around deployed US soldiers during World War II, according to the Sun.<\/p>\n

But this man isn\u2019t in army fatigues. Instead, he stands out for wearing a lightly colored trench coat while holding his hand close to his ear as a modern-day cellphone user would.<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t take long for social media to throw their thoughts into the ring, insisting the man must be a time traveler.
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\nThe photo \u2014 first posted on the Icelandic Facebook group Gamlar lj\u00f3smyndir by user Kristjan Hoffmann in 2016 \u2014 was captioned: \u201cOne thing that draws attention to this beautiful picture is in 2016 \u2014 was captioned: \u201cOne thing that draws attention to this beautiful picture is that above the window, in the corner in the middle of the picture, a man is leaning and is on a cellphone,\u201d according to the outlet.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what to say, I don\u2019t think he\u2019s just talking on the phone\u2026 He\u2019s in a stupor, standing alone and wearing a different headdress than the others and a scarf and acting like we would do today,\u201d Hoffmann added.
\nAnother user, Karolina Petursdottir, even evoked a likeness to \u201cDr. Who,\u201d according to the Mirror.<\/p>\n

Beyond the niche old photo group, the picture found its way into a conspiracy theory video on YouTube titled \u201c10 REAL Cases of Time Travel That Cannot Be Explained.\u201d
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An old photo has people thinking there could have been a time traveler in the 1940s.Kristj\u00e1n Hoffmann
\nSurprisingly, a theory that the man was operating as a spy for the Axis powers was not proposed by any parties involved.<\/p>\n

Instead, those with more levelheaded philosophies in the Facebook group insisted he had just been checking to see if his watch was working.<\/p>\n

Others said he was simply using a tobacco pipe and had gone to scratch his ear while the photo was taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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