People are freaking out over a photo taken in the 1940s which some think shows a man scrolling on an iPhone - proving that time travel is real.
The image shows hundreds of people enjoying a nice day on the beach, but one person in the photo has caught attention for looking like he’s from an entirely different era.
Among the hoards of families relaxing on the sands in Cornwall back in September 1943, there is one man who is being called an imposter.
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He is dressed in a brown suit and is standing looking at an object in his hand which appears to be a modern-day smartphone - which is obviously far removed from the 1940s.
Social media users sparked a debate over what was preoccupying him and have since nicknamed him the "texting time traveller.”
While some believe this theory to be true, others simply laughed it off and dubbed the concept 'ridiculous,’ insisting he was just rolling a cigarette.
Many remained strong amid the social media debate and insisted the photograph at Towan Beach, Newquay provided evidence "that time travel is real.”
One comment read: "Er...is it just me or is this guy checking his phone…..in the 1940s?"
Another responded: "Shows how much beachwear has changed! Jacket, tie and hat? Mind they did that when I was a kid in the 50s."
A third added: "Good catch. It’s clearly the man in the shot is a time travelling tourist checking his mobile device.
"Finally the evidence we need that time travel is real."
But the theory was rebuffed by one user who said: "I think that chap is rolling a cigarette!"
This isn’t the first historic image to have caused a stir among time travel believers in recent weeks.
The Mirror reported on unearthed footage from 1938 which offered ‘proof’ that time travel was real, according to some commentators.
In the clip of people walking toward the camera, one young woman can be seen holding something to the side of her head.
Conspiracy theorists claimed the woman had been caught on film chatting on a mobile phone, decades before the technology was invented.
The woman can be seen chatting as she walks in the crowd of people, with the device clamped to the side of her head with one hand. She then lowers it before the film clip ends.
As the woman, dressed in a stylish 30s dress, lowers the object from her ear, it can be seen as a dark hand-sized item; the same dimensions as a modern mobile phone.
The mystery deepens when one YouTuber came forward claiming the woman in the shot was their great-grandmother, and she was in fact using a mobile phone.
According to YouTube user Planetcheck, the divide is an experimental wireless phone developed by industrial giant Dupont at their factory in Leominster, Massachusetts.
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