The Most Convincing Time Traveler Story

In 2006, a mysterious man appeared on the streets of Kiev, claiming to have come from 1958. And the story gets crazier from there. The Sergei Ponomarenko story has become a bit of an internet phenomenon as one of the most compelling time traveler stories ever documented. It's a great story. But is it any more than that?

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro
1:36 - Photographic Evidence
5:18 - Aliens
8:24 - Time Travel
9:10 - The Billiard Ball Model
11:52 - Sponsor - Brilliant
13:20 - Round 3 Sketch Madness

[key-tgih]

I’ve never been so excited and so disappointed in such a short period of time

[Gweb]

Imagine being a time traveler, and you use that amazing experience to visit Eastern Europe in 2006

[coneil]

I like to think there's aliens out there watching us struggle to wrap our heads around time paradoxes the way animals react to their own reflections, and finding it really cute.

[erikswenson]

A nobody in the Soviet Union would not have the means to afford a Japanese camera. He would have had a Lomo, FED, Zorki or any of the numerous cameras produced in the USSR

[mateiaprozianu]

“It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.” Mark Twain

[Road_to_Dawn]

This story can be summed up with “My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.”

[BernardSamson-hffc]

I am a time traveller. I came here in 1962, and it has taken me just over 60 years to arrive at Today.

[missbacon]

"Time is the most insidious force in our lives. It marches on, it never stops, we're ultimately at its mercy. The greatest fantasy we have is to escape it's grip." Damn. Maybe im just going through a bad breakup, but that shit resonated with me just now.

[zachloken]

Sometimes it’s just fun to imagine these stories for a minute, suspend disbelief a bit and wonder. Like, just imagine if this were true.

[brunospasta]

Time travel is possible. I do it every night. I go to bed, sleep, and time travel to the next day.

[Arcgateway]

Being from Kyiv and in my teen years back at the time, I can share that such techno-mystical stories were quite a hit back in the day. In every corner, you could buy some yellow newspaper talking about Soviet UFO secrets, and TV was filled with "Psychic" reality shows and pseudo-documentary UFO-cryptid mystery dramas. One of the most popular shows was literally called "Psychic War" where they would test a bunch of "Psychics" and make them complete quest-like challenges. This story 1:1 fits the mold of such yellow entertainment and I vaguely remember hearing about it.

[payalm]

Finally a good practical video instead of clickbait. Good job.

[see.eye.]

The why files did a great video on this. He does a really good job at spending the first half of the video convincing you that this can’t be anything but a time traveler, then crushes your dreams in the second half.

[thatonel]

I met someone who felt like a time traveler once. I worked in a cafe in Sweden when an old man came in and talked to me in an antiquated kind of Swedish (just old, not ancient), saying he'd not been in Sweden for a long time and such. It was really cool, I sold him some coffee and he left. Later in the day my boss checked the till and started laughing and asked where the 50+ old bills came from 😬😬

[djliquornation]

Someone needs to make a movie based on the events that happened in this story. The amount of questions and curiosity it could bring to cinema would be insane.

[lijiawu]

The Most Convincing Time Traveler Story about me is I woke up at 6 then in a blink it's 9 already!

[theknightofdoom]

I witnessed something like this.
I worked in a pub here in the UK and the gents loo had one way in just around the bar...A chap walked in wide eyed and looking like a 1920s chap (before it was cool this was in 92) and he asked for the toilet I had just opened and motioned towards the door, he went in.
A few customers came in and as I served I as a good pub landlord took note of who is in and out. Now after 20 minutes this chap had not come out of the toilet so I went in to find no one in but also a stall was locked and I had to climb over to open it from the next stall. The only window was a barred 2 by 3 foot window.
He did.t come out of the loo and fuck knows what happened to him.

[joy]

What if those missing people just accidentally time travelled and couldnt go back to their own timelines?

[rhfgssdtgt]

Most convincing one I've seen was the guy from the 1800s who stepped into a street in NY and was immediately hit by a car. There were police reports found on it that corresponded to both the year he disappeared and when he died. Its a story I ran across the first time before the internet was even invented.

I'm just curious. If someone finds the place where Sergei's photo was taken in 2050 and waits for him there from the beginning to the end of 2050, will he show up?