The Time Travel Case Historians Can't Explain... Versailles, 1901 | Conspiracy Theories

In August of 1901, two English schoolteachers walked into the gardens of Versailles and, by every account they ever gave, walked out of their own century. The birds stopped. The air went dead and still. The trees looked flat, like tapestry. People in eighteenth-century clothing moved past them without seeing them. And sitting alone on the grass in front of the Petit Trianon was a woman in a wide pale hat, sketching, looking very slightly bored — a woman they later identified, from a portrait, as Marie Antoinette. Dead for more than a hundred years. Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain were not mystics. They ran colleges. They spent the next twenty years being publicly ridiculed and never took back a word — and when they went into the French archives, they found a bridge, a kiosk, and an abandoned plough that existed only in the 1780s, in exactly the places they had described.