Proof of time travel might have been found in a 1928 Charlie Chaplin film – as a woman has been spotted seemingly holding up a mobile phone to her ear.
The woman can be found in the extras section of black-and-white movie The Circus, as members of the public headed to the premiere of the silent film at the Manns Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
The promotional film features horses painted as zebras with signs advertising the movie in the background, and as a woman in a black coat and hat strides past, she’s holding something up to her ear as she talks.
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Nobody is around on the street for her to be chatting to aside from one man in a suit who quickly walks ahead in the shot.
(Image: The Circus)
And bafflingly, the woman can be seen appearing to stop mid-sentence as though waiting for a response from someone on the end of the line.
But as the earliest mobile phones were not invented until 1973, is the only explanation for the bizarre shot time travel?
The first device in the same realm was Motorola’s Walkie-Talkie, developed in the 1940s – but the huge device was the size of a man’s arm and came more than 10 years after The Circus was released.
(Image: The Circus)
No device in existence back then was small enough to hide in the palm of a hand.
Other explanations have been put forward by sceptics. It has been suggested that the woman was simply trying to conceal her face from the camera – but that doesn’t reason away why she is talking.
Some viewers suggested the woman could be listening to a portable radio or an old-fashioned hearing aid, which again don’t explain why her mouth is moving.
(Image: Print Collector/Getty Images)
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Another flimsy excuse – one of the only ones that explains why she’s chattering away – is that the woman could have a mental disorder that causes her to talk to herself, and was hiding her face to disguise it.
Film buff George Clark, who discovered the footage in a Chaplin box set, said: “I have studied this film for over a year now – showing it to over 100 people and at a film festival, yet no one can give any explanation as to what she is doing.
“My only theory – as well as many others – is simple… a time traveller on a mobile phone. See for yourself and feel free to leave a comment on your own explanation or thoughts about it,” he encouraged on YouTube.
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