Time Traveler Video Explained

A so-called time traveler video has sent some netizens abuzz recently.

Time Traveler Video Explained (Youtube Screengrab)

In the black-and-white footage, a young woman can be seen talking on a mobile phone while making her way out of a building with a group of young people, possibly factory workers. The amateur video was reportedly shot in 1938, years before the first cell phone was commercially available.

According to conspiracy theorists, the video is a proof of time travel, citing other vintage clips that apparently show images of modern technology existing years before it was invented.

But now a Youtuber, who claims to be related to the lady in the time traveler video, has come forward to explain it.

"The lady you see is my great grandmother Gertrude Jones," Planetcheck writes. "She was 17 years old. I asked her about this video and she remembers it quite clearly. She says Dupont had a telephone communications section in the factory."

Planetcheck adds, "They were experimenting with wireless telephones. Gertrude and five other women were given these wireless phones to test out for a week. Gertrude is talking to one of the scientists holding another wireless phone who is off to her right as she walks by."

A similar time traveler video ignited some conspiracy theories back in 2010 when an unreleased footage from a 1928 Charlie Chaplin film surfaced. The clip appears to show a woman using a cell phone in the background, fueling speculation that she was a time traveler.