A Man Who Time Traveled from 19th Century to the 20th

Have you ever dreamt of traveling through time? Would you go to the future or to the past? Rudolf Fentz didn't choose the time, he simply found himself in Times Square, hardly recognizing anything: people in unusual clothes, strange noisy machines he'd never seen before, lights everywhere. What happened?
It was in the summer of 1951. At about 11:15, passers-by in Times Square noticed a young man in his twenties. He was dressed in the fashion of the late 19th century. He looked lost and clueless, and obviously had no idea how he’d gotten to the crossroad. Where did he come from? Nobody saw it, he just appeared in that spot as if out of thin air...
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SUMMARY:
- It was in the summer of 1951. At about 11:15, passers-by in Times Square noticed a young man in his twenties. He was dressed in the fashion of the late 19th century.
- When he finally started walking, he was struck by a car. He was badly injured, and didn’t survive.
- Later, his clothes were searched and really strange things were found in his pockets, like a bill for the care of a horse and a carriage wash, old bank notes worth $70, a letter sent to this man at the same address from the business cards in June, 1876 in Philadelphia.
- The case was given to Captain Hubert V. Rihm, of the Missing Persons Department of NYPD.
- The policeman found the widow of Rudolf Fentz Junior in Florida; she’d lost him 5 years earlier. She said that her father-in-law, Rudolf Fentz Senior, went missing in 1876 at the age of 29 years.
- Interest for this story grew again after 1972, when it was mentioned in books and articles related to this subject as proof of traveling through time.
- The legend was inspired by a short story, written by Jack Finney in 1950, and first published under the title “I’m scared” in 1951.
- The spread of the Internet in the 90s gave another life to it. It started being mentioned again as fact, and proof of the existence of time travelers.
- Another example of how urban legends appeared is the radio play based on Orson Welles’s “War of the Worlds”.
- One of the actors announced the beginning of the radio play. After that, there was a weather forecast, and then a concert. Soon, the music was interrupted by urgent news that strange flashes were observed on Mars.
- The concert continued, but soon it was again interrupted by an urgent newscast. A CBS reporter broadcasted a play-by-play about the landing of a metallic cylinder in Grover’s Mill of Mercer County.
- As newspapers wrote later, 6 million people listened to the play and most of them took it all in good faith.
- They were gathering things to move to the West, or barricaded in the basements of their houses.
- Some people claimed that they’d seen the flashing lights and smelled the odor from the toxic gases.
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