7 People Who Claimed To Be Time Travelers

A man by the name of Andrew Carlisson was supposedly arrested by US authorities in 2003, after turning $800 into $350,000,000 with a series of high-risk trades in the stock market, leading to accusations of insider trading.

According to legend, the man told police that the explanation for his improbable run of fortune was that he was actually a time traveller who had gone back in time with the express intention of making his fortune in stocks and shares.

With the investigators (quite understandably) skeptical of his claims, Carlisson offered to give them clues about things like the location of Osama Bin Laden and the cure for AIDS in return for his release, so desperate was he to get back to his time machine.

The story ends with him being mysteriously granted bail and then abruptly disappearing without a trace. It's this part (along with all the of the parts) that makes you doubt whether it all wasn't just some media hoax designed to sell a few extra papers. But really, what's more likely: the media being dishonest, or this guy breaking the known laws of physics?