A 60-year-old photo from ‘The Happiest Place on Earth’ has sparked a wild debate online, with many claiming they have just seen proof time travel is real.
Josie Weaver was looking through her grandfather’s vacation photos from a trip to California‘s Disneyland in the late 1960s when she spotted a man that appeared to be wearing clothes from the present and also had a modern haircut.
Weaver said in the video posted on TikTok: ‘That guy looks like he’s a time traveler. He does not look like he’s from the 60s. No, for real, he’s so out of place.’
The man, dressed in a navy blue crewneck T-shirt and sporting a side-faded haircut, stood out from all the other park visitors, who were seen wearing more formal dresses and shirt and brighter colors – which were more common for the time.
The picture was discovered in a collection which were taken around 1968, just over a decade after the new Disney theme park opened in Anaheim.
Weaver’s grandfather, Tom Eubank, was taking a picture of the attraction’s New Orleans Square when he captured the image of the man, standing in the center of the foreground, wearing modern-looking sunglasses and carrying a square case strapped around his shoulder like a purse.
Weaver, 30, shared the discovery on TikTok on August 25, with the caption ‘found a time traveler in my grandpa’s film.’ The video quickly went viral, amassing over 2.7 million views and more than a thousand comments.
While the mysterious man’s appearance may have just been a strange coincidence, the photo had added to a growing list of unexplainable images which many believe has captured people from our future visiting key events in the past.
A viral video posted on TikTok has drawn speculation that a man seen in modern-looking clothing in 1960s Disneyland was a time traveler
Believers who commented on Weaver’s video noted that the alleged time traveler’s shirt was completely out of place for the era and the venue he was visiting.
Several people commented that the man’s shirt was not tucked in, a common fashion choice at the time.
They also compared him to the other male Disneyland guests, who all had on bulkier, collared shirts and slacks, which was also common to see when Americans visited public venues 60 years ago.
Weaver told the Daily Mail: ‘Grandpa agreed with me that he looked out of place. We had already been talking about how everyone was dressed so nice, almost business causal, so when we saw him that was a big difference. I suggested time traveler, but he just laughed.’
While full suits had already become less common on warm days by the 1960s, button-up or knit collared shirts with dress pants were still the default ‘going out’ look during this era.
One person declared: ‘Bro is from 2010.’ Another added: ‘Doesn’t look like a 60s shirt, glasses OR haircut.’
‘And he looked so different. To me, he looked so different to everyone around him, especially with his haircut – it was like faded on the side,’ Weaver told People.
While many on social media are buying that the mysterious T-shirt-wearing gentleman was from the future, many others pointed out that much of what he was wearing was available six decades ago.
While Weaver can be heard in the TikTok video pointing out the man’s sunglasses, suggesting that they were modern Ray-Bans, these were actually available at the time.
In fact, Ray-Ban was launched in 1937 and had a variety of sleek designs available for men and women by the time of the photo.
Other skeptics also pointed out that wearing a T-shirt as outerwear had been around for decades at that point. The trend became widely popular among men returning home from World War II in the mid-1940s.
‘I hate to break it to you. But people did own shirts and sunglasses in the 60s,’ one person said.
‘His bag is a camera bag for the time period. My grandpa had them in different colors, he was a photographer. Just because the guy is wearing a blue shirt doesn’t mean he’s out of place,’ another TikTok user contended.
The mystery Disneyland visitor’s appearance is not the first photo taken in modern times to draw serious scrutiny. Unlike this one, however, many have caught alleged time travelers holding up pieces of modern technology.
In June, a recording of Elvis Presley’s final concert in 1977 resurfaced, and appeared to catch a woman in the Indianapolis crowd holding a small handheld device that resembled a modern smartphone.
The woman appeared to be holding a black, rectangular object with a reflective square patch at the top, which some online viewers speculated could be a camera like that of an iPhone.
Footage from Elvis Presley’s final concert has resurfaced online and appears to show someone carrying a device which conspiracy theorists claim is a smartphone
Conspiracy theorists have claimed that a stone statue from 100 BC depicts a woman using a modern laptop, complete with USB ports in the side
Other strange images include a man during World War II appearing to be talking on a cellphone in Reykjavik, Iceland, and a spectator in the front row of a Mike Tyson boxing match appearing to hold up a smartphone to film the fight in 1995.
Time travel, which scientists have stated is theoretically possible and fits with Einstein’s famed theory of general relativity, has also been allegedly captured in artwork throughout the centuries.
A 2,000-year-old Greek statue appeared to secretly provide physical evidence that time travel was possible, depicting a woman carved in stone using a device that many viewers are convinced is a laptop computer.
Meanwhile, a painting from 1937, entitled ‘Mr Pynchon and the Settling of Springfield,’ recently resurfaced online, allegedly showing an Indigenous man in the 17th century holding up a smartphone to take a selfie.
As for Eubank’s Disneyland photo, Weaver joked that even her own grandmother said: ‘These are just old photos.’
