episode 020 - Time Travel Sampler pt. 2
A breezy and then spooky episode. We catch up over the Alchemist, leaky roofs, and Hong Kong action films before returning to strange stories of TIME. A mix of personal anecdotes of odd time slips and classic mysteries, weird tunnels, entertaining hoaxes, and genuine anomalies. It's a fun one folks and I hope you enjoy!
Show Notes
The Alchemist, by Paolo Coelho read by Jeremy Irons
Jeremy Irons on the power of words Jeremy Irons Castle tour
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Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020) | Official Trailer
Hospital Trains were a thing during WWI
The Versailles time slip is known as 'Moberly-Jourdain Incident'
Carl Jung's time travel stories
The plumber who saw roman ghosts in the basement was Harry Martindale
An Adventure, by Moberly and Jourdain
Visit the Williamson's Tunnels
"Rudolph Fentz, accidental time travelers"
__I am not John Titor, at least not yet!_, by Morey Haber
You are partially correct. My parents and I were traveling to Worms with the Parady's to see the cathedral and a museum. I cannot recall the exact reason for the trip, though I believe it was connected to Martin Luther. On our way, we stopped in Speyer, just south of Worms, home to a massive cathedral of its own.
Centered in the cathedral's outer plaza was the broad stump of a giant oak tree. Something about the scene sparked my imagination, and I announced right then and there that Martin Luther had preached from that tree trunk. The story took on a life of its own as I painted the picture: a huge, eager crowd surrounding the stump while a furious priest leaned over the cathedral steps, shaking his fist and shouting at the crowd. I was improvising completely. The environment was just so evocative, and once I saw I had a rapt audience, I couldn't resist embellishing the scene.
Later on, I discovered the actual history. Luther never set foot in a Speyer pulpit, but the stump had indeed served as a stage for real drama. A wave of radical, dissenting preachers had taken turns standing on that oak trunk to address the masses, prompting church leaders in Speyer to coin the word *Protestant* as they tried to sweep those fiery speakers out of the city.
But on to the main story.
We stepped inside Speyer Cathedral. The scale was overwhelming; standing at the front entrance, the high altar felt a world away. We wanted to descend into the crypt where the German kings and queens were buried in massive stone sarcophagi topped with carved effigies. Although I had never set foot in the cathedral before, an inexplicable certainty came over me.
"Follow me," I said. "I know where the stairs are."
The crypt stairs were situated behind the main altar, completely hidden from sight until you walked directly around to the back. Without hesitation, I led everyone straight down into the crypt to view the royal tombs. For the rest of the visit, everyone kept asking how I knew where those hidden stairs were. Truthfully, I had no answer. It felt like a moment of pure déjà vu.
Since then I wondered if in a past life I was a monk there are something. I still remember it vividly.
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The Andrew Carlssin story was only reported in Weekly World News, a (beautiful) wacky news newspaper I subscribed to as a kid. It is fiction.
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I couldn't find the story about the cave with a prehistoric nuclear blast by the time we needed to publish. Will update when found!