New life goal. Become rich enough to move to Prague and spend my days in a toga and a crown just walking around so that Simon gets freaked out for a few weeks. Then, one day, while filming Casual Criminalist, he stops, looks up, and reports to the camera "Toga guy just walked past my window."

@kellycowart1620

Жыл бұрын

“It was just his ankles, because you know, i’m sure i’ve told this before but my office is in a basement so my windows are really small and high up but anyways, it was just his ankles but i know it was the toga man. It had the same shoes! same straps! Anyways…that’s a problem for after filming, gotta make those sweet sweet sponsors happy lets carry on”

@markkarasik2211

Жыл бұрын

😎Just freakin’ Epic! Go Toga Guy!

@JimmyS.25

Ай бұрын

Have you since moved to Prague, good sir ?

I like how Simon pronounces French words and names with reckless abandon 😂

@greenockscatman

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, amazingly English pronunciation

@cmtippens9209

Жыл бұрын

He sounds like Pepé Le Pew. 🦨

@staytuned2L337

Жыл бұрын

Just read this comment as he started getting into it 🤣😭

@tubensalat1453

Жыл бұрын

Hm, yeah. Maybe if the editors would add the words on-screen. You know, for the people who want to know what or who he's talking about.

@halodregs

Жыл бұрын

Is urinals french too?

With a bit of a mind flip - You're into the time slip And nothing can ever be the same

@GreenGrasshoppa

Жыл бұрын

💋

@LexionCombine

Ай бұрын

Rocky Horror.

Simon, have Danny or Katie cover Travis Walton's abduction on DTU. It's the only alien story that is super hard to debunk with all of the people involved. Even the friends were suspected of murder and interrogated while he was missing. I'd love to hear your tangents

@w13rdguy

Жыл бұрын

*Walton Edit: Nicely done!

@The_SCPFoundation

Жыл бұрын

@@w13rdguy I'm editing now. Thank you so much. I didn't proof read before posting. You're 100% correct my friend

@shadowoftheraven619

Жыл бұрын

It's just my opinion but Mr Walton is full of sh*t. Not sure of his real motive, profit, attention or to cover something else up but to me it's obviously a load of nonsense.

@synistree

Жыл бұрын

I think this makes for a good topic: Simon will immediately determine it's just some simple oversight but it's quite nuanced and it includes a decent investigation at the time. Good suggestion

@w13rdguy

Жыл бұрын

@@The_SCPFoundation Great handle, BTW 👍

I desperately need a story on The Coral Castle!! Some old dude built a badass castle in Florida completely alone without telling anyone how he did it! I’d be super interested to see your take on it!

@RealElongatedMuskrat

Жыл бұрын

florida man strikes again!

@leecentner8585

Жыл бұрын

I've been there. Fascinating on how a 98 pound human built it

@jackbuff_I

Жыл бұрын

he'll piss all over it while knowing nothing about it as usual

@ryanparker4996

Жыл бұрын

@@jackbuff_I he is indeed a smug self righteous git regarding most things

@katiekane5247

Жыл бұрын

Look at the channel "Old World Florida"

It's worth noting that both "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" and "The Time Machine" had come out in the decade prior to when this account supposedly happened, and the somewhat random nature of the "time travel" mirrors Mark Twain's book in particular. I think Simon's theory that it was fiction is by far the most likely.

@47f0

Жыл бұрын

Saved me the bother, and to be fair, I actually forgot about 'The Time Machine', which has been butchered in a couple of films.

@mellie4174

Жыл бұрын

Ya it was just fiction that these ladies wanted to market as real to make some money. Though back in the day people did believe crazy shir

@JohnD808

10 ай бұрын

@@mellie4174incredibly boring fiction, if it was fiction. “We walked around and saw a few people”

@dddux

2 ай бұрын

@@mellie4174 "Though back in the day people did believe crazy shit" lol, and nowadays they don't? 😂

I love time travel videos! I saw this one a few years ago, but you guys just wait and see what Simon makes next year! It was great!

@TheMastaDazza

Жыл бұрын

How has this comment only got 41 likes. Come on people! Ffs!

@willmfrank

Жыл бұрын

I didn't have time to watch it tomorrow; I'll watch it yesterday.

@joshlewis575

Жыл бұрын

Well there is no difference between the past present and future, according to Einstein at least

@TheJoshestWhite

Жыл бұрын

​@@joshlewis575 it's all relative

I wrote a short story like this as a response to a school trip to Naples, where a man slipped back in time while sitting on a fountain in Pompeii to the hours before Vesuvius erupted. It ended with him waking up having fallen asleep on the fountain and writing it off as a vivid dream, only to find a Roman coin in his pocket.

@Nyctophora

Жыл бұрын

I like your story.

@chiefhologramfart

Жыл бұрын

That's really fuckin good

@HappyBeezerStudios

Жыл бұрын

And the best thing is, it works both as proof and as coincidence.

"The monarchy was formally abolished" ... that's ... one way of putting it, I suppose. I'm of the opinion that they accidentally made it up, talking about their weird feels at Versailles and then stacking up misremembered/influenced-by-research details when comparing notes. I.e. they honestly believed that was what they saw, but as Simon is quick to point out on his other show "The Casual Criminalist", eyewitness accounts are notoriously unreliable.

@jamietaylor5570

Жыл бұрын

You could say that the French monarchy reached its cut-off point.

@The_Blazement

Жыл бұрын

the royals were definitely physically abolished, with a guillotine

@wolfiemuse

Жыл бұрын

You might even say that the head was abolished from the body.

I’ve been to Versailles, and I have to say, the walk from the palace to the Petit Trianon is really weird. I didn’t slip in time, but the air felt heavy and oppressive, there was a sense of discombobulation, and the walk back didn’t look like the walk towards it. It was extremely bizarre, and if I had exited in a different time then I entered, I genuinely wouldn’t have been suprised.

@MorganHorse

Жыл бұрын

That’s so cool. There really could be some kind of subspace rift there or something we can’t measure/don’t understand yet.

@wowsew

Жыл бұрын

I'd go get help lol

@Sm0kingGun

Жыл бұрын

@@MorganHorse There could be some kind of interdimensional goblin there that we can't see, pushing people in and out between dimensions😱

@The_Blazement

Жыл бұрын

it was French aliens

@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380

Жыл бұрын

Maybe infrasound.

I've had a similar experience thinking I slipped into an alternate reality. Driving down the street I passed a man throwing an alligator into a drive through, a large group shooting guns into the clouds and a man with no arms stabbing a tourist. Then I remembered I was on vacation in Florida (these are sadly all true news stories).

@imafackinjunglist

Жыл бұрын

If you think you did then you did. The reality you experience is no different to a reality your mind conjures like a dream or dissociation as it is effectively conjuring this one too. It’s just more constant and it’s consistent enough that if anything else happens with “other realities” this is the one that will always point north; so to speak. It’s like being at home compared to being lost in a place you’ve never been before.

@MarkHarrisonBNE

Жыл бұрын

OMG. I am almost hyperventilating from laughing so hard. You made my day! :)

@Zyo117

Жыл бұрын

By the time I got to the end of that I was literally thinking 'do you live in Florida?'

I remember the dress of a lady I saw over 20 years ago as though it were THIS morning. It was 6am Sunday morning and a beautiful woman in a full length blue and yellow floral dress was walking towards me. She stopped, stepped toward the gutter and threw up in the most dignified manner I had ever seen at the time,,, or since! I think perhaps she was pregnant, it didn't really have a hangover VIBE about it. It was boss af and I'll never forget that dress!!

@susanmissett-king1839

Жыл бұрын

And I was also thinking that, as women of their time and education, they would have experience with drawing and painting which helps a person remember details and composition.

That beard is glorious. Let’s time travel fact boy. Thanks Katy x

Suggestion for my favorite mystery: The Man From Taured. A man shows up nat the Tokyo airport with a passport from a country that doesn't exist, is detained and then mysteriously disappears. Would love to see Simons take on this one.

@QBCPerdition

Жыл бұрын

He did a video about this already. Not sure if it was DTU or another one of his channels though. Edit: it was on his now-defunt XPLRD channel.

@zmodsomar2388

Жыл бұрын

Mystery finally solved, The Man from Taured was a Con Man

With the new and improved beard, Simon looks like he could've been an elite lawyer in the 1840s

@thejudgmentalcat

Жыл бұрын

Instead of glasses...a monocle 🧐

@rmooreg

Жыл бұрын

Isn't Simon the great, great, great grand nephew of quack doctor, practitioner of homeopathic medicines and one half of the team of cough drop moguls, Smith Brothers (or BROS. If you prefer)? He sure looks like he is. If he isn't, he should be.

I want that on a shirt.... Decoding the unknown... We're skeptical and shit on mysteries. 🤣

I've never gone into the wrong toilets, but when I occasionally use men's public toilets that don't have urinals it makes me paranoid that I might have...

@AnamLiath

Жыл бұрын

When I was little, Gran taught me to pee standing up. It's actually pretty easy for most women, and I've always wondered why we aren't all taught. I've used the men's room many times, usually at public events. There's always a long line to get in the women's room and the men's is virtually empty. I loudly ask if anyone would be bothered if I come in to use the urinal. Never been a problem, other than curiosity how that works and occasional betting on whether it's possible. And nope, I don't have to drop my pants lol

I once stepped out of an alleyway onto a cobblestone street, & found myself surrounded by women in bonnets selling stuff from carts they were pushing, policemen in long coats with batons, butcher shops with pheasants & rabbits hanging up outside, & young boys in flat caps & shorts. I thought I had stepped through some kind of time warp, until I realized I had stumbled onto the set of "Houdini & Doyle", & mini-series set in the Victorian era about the relationship between Harry Houdini & [Sherlock Holmes] author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. True story.

@Ericstroman100

7 ай бұрын

Yeah but this was in 1901 no one was shooting any films back then.

I think they made it all up but I could also see them accidentally meandering through backstage area of costumed performers or something. Also you'd be surprised the level of detail some people can retain from briefly seeing someone's outfit if they're particularly fashion-brained. I rarely even notice what people are wearing but I had a previous co-worker who could recall an absurd amount of detail about what other people were wearing at certain events. So that one lady recalling the dress details so vividly isn't entirely unbelievable to me.

@AT-sx2jp

Жыл бұрын

My husbands big into watches and he’ll remember people we met once in passing years ago based on their watch.

@bradevans7935

Жыл бұрын

@@busimagen I was thinking the same - if they had taken a short-cut through a backstage area, or maybe a private event, while under the influence of something (maybe some dodgy mushrooms for lunch?) things would have seemed more than a little bit weird. It would also explain why they had focused on different things during their 'trip'.

This reminds me of a bit by Billy Connelly, when he asks house guests after one night if they slept well, they say they did. However, he then mentions previous guests have spoken about eerie apparitions. After the second night, many of his guests were convinced they saw or felt something spooky. That's why comparing notes isn't always a good idea. In fact, after bank robberies and such, guards and police often try and stop people doing just that, because they can feed off of each other's mistaken memories.

@debbibowen

Жыл бұрын

When I worked at a bank, we were told to lock ourselves in a room and write everything we could remember down in case of robbery. No talking to anyone.

@stevenotto1456

Жыл бұрын

@@debbibowen exactly what you should do. Keep the details fresh, without cross contamination of other people's ideas or memories. Unlike the people in this video, where they got together later and basically convinced each other something spooky happened. Memory is not as permanent as we tend to think 8t is.

@vickibart3491

11 ай бұрын

I was in a study about this. Had another person in the room with me, watching some crimes on a screen. After we had time to discuss things like the colour of the perp's hat. So incredibly easy to have someone tell you it's blue and if you're not confident it was red, your mind will tell you it was blue. So weird to experience it haha

I love how Simon is adamant on his pronunciation that he knows. Yet in this episode he pronounced the simple word of bodice as bod-ice instead of bod-iss (clothing worn in the top half of the body).

OH BOY! A fresh new Fact Boy Video, and about Time travel no less? This is going to be a blast!

I live by the Hudson river. One morning went for early morning run and in the mist rising off the water was the Halfmoon, Henry Hudson's ship. It was 400th anniversary of some event. While it was a surprise to see it there, it looked amazing, I could imagine what it might have looked like in another time, I knew what year I was, that this was a replica. It was just another cool thing to see on a morning run❤️

Based on my own experiences: Due to various conditions and drugs I suffer psychotic breaks fairly regularly (one every couple of days I suppose) in the form of mainly auditory but sometimes visual hallucinations. Hallucinations can be very similar to dreams in their logic and lack of true detail. Often the waking brain will attempt to fill in the blanks (more detail picked up from elsewhere is quite possible) not because you specifically do it but because the mind can't understand why there is so little detail. This is because in dreams and similar internal stories/memories, the vast majority of the meaning in the dream is emotionally based (why were you terrified of crustations chasing you on a dark road to cut your feet off at the ankle for example?). Because all of it's content depends on the emotional side allowing you to ignore these discrepancies. Other than PTSD hallucinations which come accompanied WITH the emotional dreamlike response (the response of incorrectly associated non-declarative, emotional memories) making them almost indistinguishable to the sufferer. Most hallucinations are easily spotted provided you are aware of the moment and your own emotional state could be creating the circumstances where you might hallucinate. Cool story though ;)

Not even kidding here. My mother still talks about an unexplainable event she had when she was a preteen. She used to listen to the radio at night while falling asleep. And one night, she heard a shocking news report about how the Berlin wall was being torn apart, and how the wall was coming down. She went to school the next day and told her teacher about it. And he said she was nuts, and that we will probably never see it come down in our life time. . . 15 years later. . . It came down. And she swears to this day that she experienced some kind of temporal event. She's never experienced anything similar since, and is still kind of unsettled by it.

I’ve never taken any recreational drug in my 38 years (except alcohol) until I had a weed gummy a few months ago. These women seem to be experiencing their first gummy.

@lyfandeth

Жыл бұрын

Ergot is a fungus that naturally occurs on rye. Rye flour is used for bread and...guess what happens if there is ergot on the flour used for your lunch roll? Yup. Trippy. Naturally psychedelic.

@deltatango6793

Жыл бұрын

@@lyfandeth haha yes exactly .. I remember some other stories about people acting crazy back in the day and there being theories on it being caused by exactly that.. and how it was not occurring to people who were more poor, but more so in the communities where people could afford breads.

This sounds like an episode of Doctor Who.

@jimmybisk

Жыл бұрын

It's actually incredibly remeniscant of The Girl in the fireplace - I thought this while I was listening to it - Marie Antoinette & the person with the mechanical sounding voice (there were lots of mechanical robots in it too). Wow, did the writers plaguerize this story when making it?!

@MrEricSir

Жыл бұрын

It's mentioned on the Wikipedia page for "The Girl in the Fireplace" episode.

@jimmybisk

Жыл бұрын

@@MrEricSir Ah ok, I never realised that.

I would LOVE to see the world wide Sky Trumpets thing sorted! It is incredibly intriguing to me.

Hey Simon And in memory we travel back in time...

Totally love you and watch about 2 hour nearly every night. Great job and keep all your channels going.

Here's the problem with the fraud theory: once the Masquerade scenario came to light, the surviving author was like: Case Closed, not selling anymore books. IF THEY DID IT FOR THE MONEY, WHY WOULD THEY STOP???

Simon, it's over... the good place has ended.... you're like two or three years late, mate

@babblerscorner

Жыл бұрын

This is Simon it’s miraculous he catches on to something like that at all.

@JamesFromTexas

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it ended in 2020.

@southernbenz2098

Жыл бұрын

You assuming that Simon’s not a time traveler.

@andrewsisson6536

Жыл бұрын

Ended perfectly, in my opinion. It was one of those shows I started watching for the laughs but ended up falling in love with.

@JamesFromTexas

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewsisson6536 it was a great show with a comedic yet thought-provoking narrative.

Katie, Simon, you'd be surprised at what details can be retained in memories. I remember talking to my Mumsy about the floor and wall colour of a room my ex and myself decorated in Wembley when she was on holidays in the USA. My brother and her didn't fully remember. I also remember the clothing colour of a, later discovered dead person, near the Necker River in Mannheim Germany, when I was still in a stroller. I remember because he looked like an off colour German Shepherd dog and it was something life changing for me and made a difference to how I grew up. There was a pair kissing maybe 1.5Ft(1.2M) away from him and the ambulance guy said there were maggots coming out of him already, so nothing they could do but thanks for letting them know as others, the pair kissing, just ignore drunk people which the dead guy was. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Just because it might not make a difference in other people's eyes, does not mean a difference wasn't made by the observer is what I'm saying. Look at the minor details you, Simon, make when recording although you might not see this if it doesn't get a lot of likes. 😆😆🤷🏽‍♀️

@Pooki2024

Жыл бұрын

“Mumsy” 😂😂😂😂😂

@lisapop5219

Жыл бұрын

I have done the same thing to my mom when I described a town house we lived in for 6 months when I was two. She said you can't know that.

@RealElongatedMuskrat

Жыл бұрын

omg that's such an intense early memory to have! What a wild time

I know that if I was on a historical site and ran across a bunch of people in historical dress, doing historical things, and looking slightly annoyed at my tourist ass wandering around I certainly wouldn't think "Oh I've slipped time into the past!" I'd think "wow I'm really pissing these reenactors off by blundering into their reenactment. My bad!"

The way that their feelings are described, when saying that everything felt off, reminds me of my own experiences with derealization. The APA [American Psychological Association, for those who may not know] Dictionary of Psychology defines derealization as "a state characterized by a diminished feeling of reality; that is, an alteration in the perception or cognitive characterization of external reality so that it seems strange or unreal (“This can’t be happening”), often due to trauma or stress. It may also occur as a feature of schizophrenia or of dissociative disorders." It is entirely that one of the two women actually had experienced something unusual and unsettling, on that day, and told the other woman, who may have decided to pretend that they had also experienced it. I've seen people lie about having an identical experience to someone else, and there are multiple potential motives for this. Sometimes, the liar didn't like the fact that the other person was getting attention and they were not. Sometimes, the liar is placating a friend who was having an experience that couldn't be explained, at the time, by telling them that they were not going through it alone. It could be that the one who had actually had the experience was the one who decided that it would be a good idea to write a book about it, and the one who didn't was like "okay, but let's use fake names," because they wanted to be able to create distance between the book and their professional life. I imagine a lot of Literotica writers probably do this, because hot stories may not pay enough of the bills to justify tanking one's career prospects indefinitely- so, same idea with this time slip book. Of course, it's possible that the one who didn't have the experience came up with the idea of writing the book, instead. I firmly believe that people have been exploiting the mentally ill for as long as sentience has been a thing, and this could be just another case of that. On the other hand, the one who didn't have the experience could have convinced themself, over the years, that something really had happened. This isn't unrealistic to me. I saw a loved one legitimately convince themself that they'd experienced some pretty terrifying stuff, after a dramatic event. I had been the first to arrive after the event, so I saw the physical evidence of what when down. Over time, my loved one's story morphed into something downright terrifying; I know this person well enough to say that they honestly believed the evolved story was reality. The thing is, I hadn't been there for the dramatic event, but I had seen and assessed the damage, and I was the one who cleaned everything up. Their evolved story was directly contradicted by the damage that I had taken care of. It took a matter of weeks for the evolved story to cement itself as reality inside of their mind. So, while I don't believe that the time slip actually occurred, I've seen enough to not be entirely cynical in assigning motive for putting the story out there.

How about an episode on quantum mysticism? It is a group of beliefs that mix mysticism with the weirdness of quantum mechanics, stating ghosts are 4th dimensional beings for example.

@jennaxoxox4821

Жыл бұрын

I love that stuff! Fascinating & funny.

@achristiananarchist2509

Жыл бұрын

How would the "ghosts are 4d beings" thing work in practice? Because when people describe ghosts, they tend to just be glowy people, but if you were looking at a 4d being from a 3d perspective, you would just see a cross-section. Like, if you were a 2d creature interacting with a 3d person, you'd just see a bunch of shapes forming and disappearing as the person moved. A sphere bobbing up and down would look like a circle rapidly growing and shrinking. A 4d ghost would be some sort of lovecraftian monstrosity of strange shapes and alien geometries when viewed in 3d, even if their 4d body shape was basically just a hyper-human.

I don't think that this was a conscious fraud. The whole thing of "I wrote this fictional book but I can't get it published or no-one will buy it unless I say it's true" is a modern phenomenon. People in the Edwardian period didn't have the range of alternative forms of entertainment we do - they read a lot of fiction.

@sfsin3380

Жыл бұрын

True but it wasn't unheard of at the time. "The Three Musketeers" was a fictional story that claimed to be true in 1844. While that been put to the side sense The author claimed the story was based on the entries in the diary of d'Artagnan and while d'Artagnan was a historical figure no one has found any evidence that this diary Dumas claims he used ever existed other than his claims.

Suggestion: Dopplegangers. Famous people who claimed to have 'seen themselves, such as the poet Shelly, Guy de Maupassant, etc.

I was once in a coffee shop in London and saw an old man walk past the window who was dressed like a wizard. He had long purple robes, a walking stick with a crystal ball on top and had a live cat on his shoulder. But I never thought it was a time slip. I just thought he was probably a children's entertainer.

Have you ever covered the Kincaid trip through Grand Canyon (Secret Egyptians at Grand Canyon)? I think it would be perfect for this show

Dodleston Messages is a glaring omission from this very entertaining channel

You should do an episode on "The Phoenix Lights" of 1997. A series of strange UFO events witnessed by thousands of people across Arizona.

The Good Place ended a few years ago and it was sad but totally satisfying.

4:07 They finished The Good Place a couple years ago. It is brilliant. I cried at the end. I also smiled. You should catch up on it. I was going to maybe suggest doing a video on it but I’m not sure which channel of yours would make sense for you to cover it on.

@thepsychopotato

Жыл бұрын

The show was absolutely brilliant! What a beautiful finale.

You should totally do an episode on Bob Lazar, would be really interesting to see Simon's take on his story

I always thought this was the third one, and just a historical recreation so people were in costume and acting (hence weird mechanical speech). Add in a little heat stroke and the fact they were recalling it all about three months later (eyewitness testimony being notoriously unreliable), and then feeding off each other’s stories. So a little of the fourth coming in.

@doomedmessenger

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. Just because such a thing was not "on the schedule" does not mean a group of reenactors didn't decide one day it would be hilarious to go to Versailles and hang out. And then some tourists wander right through? Yeah of course they're going to go 'hey ladies it's over there'.

My friends and I have felt this often. Like everything feels slightly off and a bit surreal. We refer to it as " a little bit to the left". We explained in conversation that it feels like everything has been moved, ever so slightly, to the left.

Those gardens are massive, without a map you will struggle so hard.

Do the Pascagoula, Mississippi UFO Incident. One of the most well-known tales of UFO abduction and possibly just two guys being drunk while fishing.

Still by far the funniest guy on YT I know!

Thumbs up if you think Katy deserves a raise!

@Digimastertwo

Жыл бұрын

A raise from the sub basement to the regular basement.

@jacobkobald1753

Жыл бұрын

This sounds like something Katy would say…

There's a movie about Chavalier coming out shortly. He was Marie Antoinette's musical consort.

I love this video.. jus for the intro.. and the Perspective into Time travel.. so common.. so relatable.. God Bless you Simon

Best 4.20 viewing material on YT. Love your work

It is good to see Brian Dunning's Skeptoid mentioned on this video. He makes some good, short content regarding supernatural claims!

Simon is making a very basic mistake that we all make regularly; he is judging other people by his own standards. By his own admission, he’s pretty obsessed with making money. So, naturally, he assumes everyone is just like him, and these women were just trying to do the same. Not saying they went through a time slip, of course, just that I think they were more likely mistaken or delusional, rather than knowingly committing fraud.

@tubensalat1453

Жыл бұрын

Both had a career, and the book and how it was published doesn't really seem to be a get rich quick scheme.

@rashkavar

Жыл бұрын

@@tubensalat1453 Also, if you go hard into a career in academics...money is not what led you there. Not unless you're looking to get enough knowledge to produce a convincing counterfeit currency.

@Vaeldarg

Жыл бұрын

Except, he's read enough of these where at the end it is revealed...(drum roll....)...to have been someone lying to make money. After enough cases like that, it's going to come up pretty clearly as the most likely reason.

@scionofdorn9101

Жыл бұрын

Slick, every single priest, psychic, fortune teller, alien abductee, etc. is just telling their story for money. Its been an industry since the first primate figured out he could talk his way out of working for a living by telling pretty lies to the other primates. Don’t delude yourself. They wrote under pseudonyms to turn a buck without wrecking their careers and standing (they thought), pure and simple.

@Vaeldarg

Жыл бұрын

@@scionofdorn9101 Don't forget how it tends to be pretty useful for driving up tourism for small towns with nothing else going for them.

Due to Simon's love of all things supernatural, and particular fondness of fairies, I think Katie should cover the Cottingley Fairies.

It wasn't so bad, anyway this is why we watch after all. Big thank you to you and the team for your show.

Another excellent one from Katy!

I think the two ladies went to Versailles, wandered around and felt out of place or disorientated, perhaps because of their perception of the history of the place. They only actually gave it all a second thought when they both talked about it and realised they both had had a similar strange experience. By the time they had heard each other's recounting, their own notion was confirmed as being a very strange incident. I don't think they wrote the book for the money - they would have come up with something more elaborate - but instead I think they were truly intrigued by what they had seen and felt, particularly felt. Perhaps it was an unusually warm day and they were dressed for English weather and so both felt uncomfortable and this exacerbated the feeling of strangeness. Versailles is a very, very out of the ordinary place and I'm sure many people go there, after having read up on the extravagant epoque of Louis XVI, and get moments of a sense of the place. Imagination is a powerful thing. I think they sincerely believed what they wrote.

If Simon said "or maybe they made it all up!" one more time, I was gonna lose it 😅🤣

When I was a child, my family took a trip to Disney World in Orlando, Florida. While passing through Virginia we found ourselves transported through time to colonial times. People were churning butter and shoeing horses. Turns out it was just a bunch of people paid to cosplay for the world's largest outdoor museum.

Have you ever done an episode on the Count of St. Germain? Mythological time traveling/immortal genius, or one of history’s greatest con-men? You decide.

Have to level out the audio- Simon muttering through the script till he's overtaken by the background music then shouting is definitely making this a challenge to listen to. -I'm only bringing this up be because the team normal does such a great job with the audio balancing! Thank you for making these!

The reason I think they believed what they said is, their story (especially at first) is profoundly boring. People deliberately sensationalizing usually go out of their way to make the story, well - sensational.

Let's learn all about time travel!

@alexandercampbell0001

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Muahaha. Nope.

I read a book when I was young that referenced “An Adventure”. The book itself was out of print even in the 1960s. I remember crying that I would never see Versailles. Of course I did as an adult but did not go back in time. It was disappointing! Lol. ❤️ from 🇨🇦

I know it was covered on side projects, but I think an in depth look at the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald would be a very interested video for this channel. Overall, great work and still very enjoyable. Thank you, Simon.

There have been a lot of stories regarding this so called phenomena (I vaguely recall one about a pilot who flew over a runway in something like 1973 and supposedly saw it full of WW2 planes). I used to love to half believe all this stuff - until I discovered this channel & now I find Simon's take on it even more entertaining! Maybe there was a carbon monoxide leak - but, errr - probably not!

If you're not first, you're last. Great video, thoroughly enjoyed it.

@voidstar.studio

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so you time traveled to view the entire video as soon as it came out? the video must be wrong

@alexandercampbell0001

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@@voidstar.studio I just learned how to do it.

As an aside - Simon, you should finish The Good Place. The final season is phenomenal.

Remember that you have to add a haughty French laugh at the end of every word or sentence, Fact Boy!

I'd say Madame de Pompadour got the better experience with time travelers than Marie Antoinette in the end. Hard to top David Tennant saving you from robot mimes on horseback.

FactBoi: If you label fiction as fact it's going to be more successful. Dan Brown: Hell yeah! 🥳

I would like to see an episode of Decoding the Unknown on the very famous Princes in the Tower mystery.

this is well funny. once me and a friend went to the museum dressed as ancient Egyptians. we travelled further in time! 😂

Simon's commentary is fantastic. I wound up in an important performance for 10 minutes in front of thousands of people with a small group I wasn't supposed to be in and it was strange because everyone assumed I was supposed to be there and the performers knew me and they still didn't know I shouldn't have been there afterwards. Simon was not sure if he hes pronouncing the French words correctly but Simon puts the emphasis on different syl labbles in English so the English words are not pronounced correctly either, but not as often lately.

Did Renaissance Faires exist in 1902? Because this sounds like every visit to a Ren Faire - weird vibe, robotic performers, people randomly making art, ugly people leering at you, snide know-it-all appearing from condemned buildings. It all fits.

nice video, thanks. the sense of time is a fascinating thing.

I remember reading about this tale in a book in the 70s and it always bewitched me.

If Memories are electrical impulses then it would seem far more improbable that we would not be able to read others memories in the future

2:40 - Chapter 1 - The incident 11:25 - Chapter 2 - Some possible explanations 12:10 - Chapter 2.1 - It was really a time slip 13:10 - Chapter 2.2 - It was something possibly even less believable 16:50 - Chapter 2.3 - It was a "Folie à deux" 19:35 - Chapter 2.4 - It was a total drag show 22:10 - Chapter 2.5 - It was all a fraud

For the record, a Folie A Deux can happen to any small group. The Tromp family in Australia, the Slenderman case...

The past was so bad even the air was oppressive

Simon: Ah yes, French accent, I have reference for this… the chef from the cartoon little mermaid, but somehow angrier.

This feels a hell of a lot like those two women had a psychotic break or a shared trip from eating something they shouldn’t have.

Always look forward to these. Time travel does exist as Simon pointed out. It moves in one direction, forward. This is as much a story as The Time Machine.

I enjoyed Simon's reaction way more than the story.

it’s super irrelevant to the video but i love hearing the differences in how Simon pronounces words vs how I pronounce them! ofcourse the first one that comes to mind is aluminum but now URINALS? that one caught me off guard lol

Simon goes in to the "Minority Report" kind of future. He sees himself in all the commercials and thinks he made it, but it is just the AI putting him in.

@jamietaylor5570

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I prefer the Black Mirror version, where bigcorp pays Simon's family to use his likeness in adverts after his death. But they actually do it by instantiating thousands of copies of his consciousness to do nothing but individually promote Raid Shadow Legends to each viewer during KZread ad breaks.

the Good Place was a great show and one of the best things is that they wrapped it up well and didn't drag it out like most shows you love in the start but ignore later seasons because they crash and burn too much

I’ve been known to time travel. It’s been happening my entire life, and it won’t stop.

@susanmissett-king1839

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I can't tell if you're being ironic🤔

Speaking of urinals......I was in a pub bog once & a woman walked in!!!! She nonchalantly said "so this is where all the nobs hang out"

27:35 it's pronounced "BAA-diss" (bodice) To cut me down to size, I always pronounced it "Charlamane"

"Ur - Eye - Nal" 😭😂

Hey how about a DtU on the "Lake Michigan Triangle!". I'm from the state n only heard of It being a "thing" only 2yrs ago.. Nice vids DtU team. Keep up the antics.

This is where the dr who episode about Marie got its inspiration. This story is almost one for one

5:07 in and it sounds like the Doctor Who episode "The Girl in the Fireplace" with the androids. 🤣

If I saw some guy in a robe and a crown out in public, I’d wonder where the Burger King was

As a French, you did good with the pronunciations :)