Grandfather Was A Time Traveler
by Dean Terry
A friend of mine found something strange in his late grandfather’s belongings.
The grandfather
The following are excerpts from a message I received from my friend Adrian:
“My grandfather died recently. He was quite a unique person and I will miss him dearly.
While helping my mother sort out my grandfather’s personal effects, I came across something incredibly odd.
He left behind a key to a small chest which he gave to my mother just days before he died in the hospital. The chest, he said, was very important. He never said what was in it, but I figured it was a possibly an old family heirloom.
Since my mother was so emotionally distressed at my grandfather’s passing, I took on the task of sorting out his things. After sorting through clothing, letters and other personal articles, I finally came to the chest.
I was surprised when I opened it and found the only thing inside was a yellowed, ragged-edged booklet.
When I first paged through it, I though it was a prank. My grandfather had a great sense of humor and was known as a bit of a prankster. But after reading passages from the booklet, I was shocked to see that was in fact a manual explaining theories about time travel and how to do it.
Also, inside the booklet was a folded piece of paper, seemingly picturing a time traveling device and the bending of space.
I’m no expert on space time sciences or physics, but this information appears to me too complex to be a prank.
Dean, I scanned the images and am sending them to you. Please tell me what you think. You may want to put the scanned images on your website. Maybe readers of Our Strange World would have comments.
I’d like some help to confirm whether this is real, or possibly a final prank by my late grandfather.
Thanks - Adrian”
The Booklet:
The Paper Found In The Booklet:
“Dean, my grandfather was a brilliant man. When I was young, he used to tell me strange stories about living on other worlds. I remember him telling me of devices like home television recording systems, advanced computer systems and the internet - long before they became available.
My grandmother passed away when my mother was six years-old. After that, my grandfather left my mother with relatives, and he disappeared for a number of years. The story was that grandfather had accepted a job overseas, but my mother isn’t sure that was true. She said she remembers getting letters from grandfather which were postmarked from New Mexico.
Mother said he was always evasive about that portion of his life, but after he returned home, he started receiving monthly checks from the government.”
What are the chances that Adrian’s suspicions are real?
If this information is not a hoax, how did it come into Adrian’s grandfathers possession?
Could his grandfather have been a time traveler?
What do you think?
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adamski on Tuesday, September 02, 2008well for something the grandfather valued so highly it looks very dog-eared and damaged. A cynic would say it’s been artificially aged! I started reading the text but it was written in such colloquial language that the chances of that being written by a government body as a training manual are nil. It would be cool if time travel were possible but this sort of stuff isn’t going to fool anyone
Steve on Tuesday, September 02, 2008I notice that in spite of all of the other huge leaps in technology they’ve achieved in the 22nd century, spell & grammar check software hasn’t gotten any better. Methinks Gramps had one last prank left in him, this one with (very) long-term planning…
I wish I could’ve met this guy; he seems like someone who was really cool. My condolences, Adrian, for your family’s loss, but I’m guessing The Force just got an infusion of humor… wink
c cox on Tuesday, September 02, 2008i think this is the coolest thing . you need to investgate it more? i have always thought it possible.
ahah on Wednesday, September 03, 2008I personally believe that this incredible story is true.
eddie e emrick on Saturday, September 06, 2008why does it take war to bring about change? why would there be 2 more wars if time travel it apparent? is time really set for us to follow, or leed? do we wait till its to late? what does it mean to be late? what are the travelers trying to do? fix mistakes, prevent something or someone. it has to be to late, or is it fixed? how will we know ?
ffxi gil on Thursday, September 11, 2008I think this article done a great job.What a best way to describe your
view. Thanks for sharing with us. Really like your informative article.
Hopefully we will get more interesting topic from you in future.
Pomroy on Wednesday, September 24, 2008You can just tell those pages were soaked in tea, and had the edges ripped + burned to create an aged feeling to them :/
The Nivekian Konsolate on Wednesday, September 24, 2008I have met several old men that told similar stories of time travel, though none have had any evidence and only one of them told of similar rules.(pg.7)
Years ago (92 maybe) I was in a small book store in Durango CO, where I found three pamphlets that dealt with one persons journey through time in New Mexico where he had involvements with a similar time agency and supposedly aided in diverting an alien invasion with the aid of another alien species all in the 1950’s. The books were printed around 85 and I have yet to find them again. I wish I would have gotten them.
But, being that these are photos and not a pamphlet in my hand I have little to go by. Also, from the photos it looks like smudged copies from a ink jet printer that someone took a lighter to (I would have used an oven for over all yellowing), scribbled on with some pens and splashed with water…
Danny on Wednesday, September 24, 2008It feels so cliche to say, but it REALLY DOES look like it’s photo-shopped. Like someone was too lazy to actually make a fake document. The ideas presented don’t even make sense. This is what we thought time travel would be like 50 years ago. The only people who think this is an even plausible THEORY are the generation fed by disinformation and common misconception. Sometimes pop-culture helps spread good ideas, and then.. well there’s this. Failure.
Jordan L. on Wednesday, September 24, 2008At least its an interesting fake. Time moves in a straight line, the word time is just a word used to define where the earth is compared to the sun.
Taylor Hay on Thursday, September 25, 2008aging looks fake, New Mexico? aka Roswell… to unrealistic. trying to hard.
vigge on Friday, September 26, 2008OMG! It’s the Large Hadron Collider! No one things that the picture to the left top on the last image seems like the image of the LHC???
Sharon on Friday, September 26, 2008not sure about this, but either way it is about the most romantic thing I have ever heard....
Kspace on Friday, September 26, 2008Stop now.
Regulators are monitoring.
You do not want them to intercede.
Intercession would be bad.
HAHAHA on Monday, September 29, 2008if this was actually true
it wouldn’t be up on the internet
the U.S. government would’ve taken it down by now
Heather on Tuesday, September 30, 2008It would be nice if time travel was possible, this has to be a fake. I wonder why we all use the same method to age paper. Still it’s a fun story, lots of imagination!
Grandpa on Tuesday, September 30, 2008Of Course the story is true! I’m Grandpa and I’m already living in the future, even though I’m dead. Don’t you get it?
BenThere on Tuesday, October 07, 2008This is totally shopped. I can tell by the pixels and from having shopped 17 photos in my time.
Trey Smith on Monday, October 13, 2008THis is a really bad looking hoax, did the fake burned pages help? Guess what dude, we all have photoshop too. Dipshit.
erin on Monday, October 13, 2008I didn’t read the text, but the #1 thing that sticks out at me is how each page has a different burn pattern around the edges. Wouldn’t it all be the same? Also, when I was 9 years old I had the assignment to write the journal of Amelia Earhart, a sort of what-if-this-is-what-happened thing. Anyway, I burned the edges just like that. That’s exactly how it looked. That’s not what aged paper looks like, that’s what it looks like when a 9 year old makes something look aged for a school project.
FAKE on Thursday, October 16, 2008NICE BULL BUDDY __ SOUNDS LIKE a bored person that has some photo shop skill
Rodimus on Thursday, October 23, 2008Is it me or does that bottom picture look just like “Unicron” the transformer from the “Transformers” movie? Behold the time traveling robot
