The Moberly-Jourdain Incident: The Professors Who Travelled Through Time

New life goal. Become rich enough to move to Prague and spend my days in a toga and a crown just walking around so that Simon gets freaked out for a few weeks. Then, one day, while filming Casual Criminalist, he stops, looks up, and reports to the camera "Toga guy just walked past my window."

I love time travel videos! I saw this one a few years ago, but you guys just wait and see what Simon makes next year! It was great!

With a bit of a mind flip - You're into the time slip And nothing can ever be the same

I desperately need a story on The Coral Castle!! Some old dude built a badass castle in Florida completely alone without telling anyone how he did it! I’d be super interested to see your take on it!

Simon, have Danny or Katie cover Travis Walton's abduction on DTU. It's the only alien story that is super hard to debunk with all of the people involved. Even the friends were suspected of murder and interrogated while he was missing. I'd love to hear your tangents

It's worth noting that both "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" and "The Time Machine" had come out in the decade prior to when this account supposedly happened, and the somewhat random nature of the "time travel" mirrors Mark Twain's book in particular. I think Simon's theory that it was fiction is by far the most likely.

I like how Simon pronounces French words and names with reckless abandon 😂

"The monarchy was formally abolished" ... that's ... one way of putting it, I suppose. I'm of the opinion that they accidentally made it up, talking about their weird feels at Versailles and then stacking up misremembered/influenced-by-research details when comparing notes. I.e. they honestly believed that was what they saw, but as Simon is quick to point out on his other show "The Casual Criminalist", eyewitness accounts are notoriously unreliable.

I wrote a short story like this as a response to a school trip to Naples, where a man slipped back in time while sitting on a fountain in Pompeii to the hours before Vesuvius erupted. It ended with him waking up having fallen asleep on the fountain and writing it off as a vivid dream, only to find a Roman coin in his pocket.

I’ve been to Versailles, and I have to say, the walk from the palace to the Petit Trianon is really weird. I didn’t slip in time, but the air felt heavy and oppressive, there was a sense of discombobulation, and the walk back didn’t look like the walk towards it. It was extremely bizarre, and if I had exited in a different time then I entered, I genuinely wouldn’t have been suprised.

I remember the dress of a lady I saw over 20 years ago as though it were THIS morning. It was 6am Sunday morning and a beautiful woman in a full length blue and yellow floral dress was walking towards me. She stopped, stepped toward the gutter and threw up in the most dignified manner I had ever seen at the time,,, or since! I think perhaps she was pregnant, it didn't really have a hangover VIBE about it. It was boss af and I'll never forget that dress!!

That beard is glorious. Let’s time travel fact boy. Thanks Katy x

Thumbs up if you think Katy deserves a raise!

I once stepped out of an alleyway onto a cobblestone street, & found myself surrounded by women in bonnets selling stuff from carts they were pushing, policemen in long coats with batons, butcher shops with pheasants & rabbits hanging up outside, & young boys in flat caps & shorts. I thought I had stepped through some kind of time warp, until I realized I had stumbled onto the set of "Houdini & Doyle", & mini-series set in the Victorian era about the relationship between Harry Houdini & [Sherlock Holmes] author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. True story.

I've had a similar experience thinking I slipped into an alternate reality. Driving down the street I passed a man throwing an alligator into a drive through, a large group shooting guns into the clouds and a man with no arms stabbing a tourist. Then I remembered I was on vacation in Florida (these are sadly all true news stories).

OH BOY! A fresh new Fact Boy Video, and about Time travel no less? This is going to be a blast!

I want that on a shirt.... Decoding the unknown... We're skeptical and shit on mysteries. 🤣

I love how Simon is adamant on his pronunciation that he knows. Yet in this episode he pronounced the simple word of bodice as bod-ice instead of bod-iss (clothing worn in the top half of the body).

I think they made it all up but I could also see them accidentally meandering through backstage area of costumed performers or something. Also you'd be surprised the level of detail some people can retain from briefly seeing someone's outfit if they're particularly fashion-brained. I rarely even notice what people are wearing but I had a previous co-worker who could recall an absurd amount of detail about what other people were wearing at certain events. So that one lady recalling the dress details so vividly isn't entirely unbelievable to me.

This reminds me of a bit by Billy Connelly, when he asks house guests after one night if they slept well, they say they did. However, he then mentions previous guests have spoken about eerie apparitions. After the second night, many of his guests were convinced they saw or felt something spooky. That's why comparing notes isn't always a good idea. In fact, after bank robberies and such, guards and police often try and stop people doing just that, because they can feed off of each other's mistaken memories.