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Charlie and the Time Traveler

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Conspiracy theory fans may now officially rejoice. From out of nowhere, with almost no background or context in the world of the strange and hard-to-explain, comes a piece of evidence from a Canadian filmmaker in Toronto, who has been analyzing a very brief scene from some footage related to a 1928 Charlie Chaplin movie.

In the clip is a woman walking across where a movie camera is shooting. The lady, somewhat older and heavy-set, isn't particularly noteworthy until you realize what she's seems to be doing: it looks for all the world like she's talking into a cell phone!

Wait. What?

Watch the YouTube produced by the indy film maker, and you'll see it for yourselves.

Remember that we see behaviors in the context of associations of our own time, and that is very much how any normal, sensible person seeing this clip will formulate an interpretation. That being said, it is still a little challenging to explain as normal, everyday behavior of an older woman in the 1920s what this person is doing.

Here's the YouTube, which has gone pretty viral since it was posted a little more than a week ago.



The fellow narrating the video goes over the top with his speculation about the woman (or man, as he suggests) being a "time traveler," but it's still fun to watch and try to figure out what's going on in the movie clip.

Not-so-extraordinary explanations are available for what the woman is doing, but they don't close the case entirely.

Several people have pointed out that two manufacturers of hearing aid devices in the mid-1920s offered models that were fairly flat (one of them, a Siemens product looked eerily like an iPhone in shape and size); that does not, however, explain why she's talking into the device, which she most obviously is.

One possibility that comes to my mind is that it really is one of those fancy hearing aids, and the lady is not entirely sound of mind, so she's talking to herself.

Conspiracy theorists have noted other subtle oddities about what's going on in the scene, but I won't go into those. Maybe in comments, I will; but I wanted to share this YouTube with all of you and see what ideas you have about what's really going on.

Noting for the record that I do dearly favor a good conspiracy theory — provided, of course, it isn't too easily debunked — I must now make the necessary invitation to let the myth busting, if there is to be myth busting, begin.


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