If you ’ve spent far too much metre on the Internet , you may have stumbled across the story of Sergei Ponomarenko , a suppose prison term traveller who render up in Kyiv , Ukraine , in 2006 .
According to the tarradiddle , a humanity was witness cast the streets of Kyiv , wearing a strange getup for the time and conduct an one-time - fashioned camera . He lay claim to say-so that he was born in 1932 and was 25 years former . The story gets weirder , as the man got out his pass , demonstrate a Soviet document from the 1950s in which he still looked 25 .
Ponomarenko told police that he had been take photograph of Kyiv prior to his sudden appearance 48 years in the future . fit in to thetale , the police force then look at his camera and realized it was an old make that had n’t been made since the ' 70s , and the film inside it could only be rise by an expert .
They got one in , who establish that the movie was surprisingly well - keep , and position about develop the picture . He regain that the picture show Kyiv as it was in the 1950s , and included pictures of Sergei , as well as another woman . Sergei , of row , was wearing the same clothes that he was wearing when he stop to inquire the police for directions .
The final photo showed a UFO in the sky ( because why not ? ) , which Ponomarenko said was the last affair he photographed before on the spur of the moment find himself in the future tense .
Already uncanny enough as a story , articles around the web tot up that Sergei was walked to his room at the police force station – captured on CCTV no less – but was never seen again . However , the police looked through historic record and find a military man by that name who proceed lack in 1958 . They tracked down his girlfriend named in the piece , now in her seventy , and feel that she was the fair sex in the photograph .
The womantoldthe police that Sergei had disappeared for two years , before reappearing . Then in the seventies , he evaporate again forever and a day , though she did get one photo years later , showing Sergei a peck sometime and purportedly in 2050 in front of Kyiv , now a large city .
go a little too eldritch to be true ? Well , that ’s because it is . In the above video , YouTuberJoe Scottdug into the figure and " footage " purportedly claim at the fourth dimension and found a few trouble . For one , the skyscrapers behind Sergei in the " future " photo appear to be cloned and may admit the Empire State Building . Another is that the photos were all from a Ukrainian boob tube show calledAliens .
The show is likely similar to pseudo - scientific shows in the US and around the world about extraterrestrial , and comes with a heavy disclaimer :
" The Alien series aims to touch on scene of controversial topics . Any theory or hypothesis proposed can not be considered to be right , and further scientific inquiry is require , " a translation of the disclaimerreads . " All scene restorations are based on the statements of ' witnesses ' . There is no conclusive evidence to prove the existence of extraterrestrial . Your notion on this issue is up to you . "
Though purportedly a " Reconstruction Period " of real events , the show seems to be the informant of the story , or – as Scottguesses – they came across a similar creepypasta and " die hard with it " .
metre travel , despite rumour on the net , remains unconfirmed .
