A Man Who Claimed He'd Time Traveled To The Year 2749 Revealed The Events That Will Happen In The Future
Al Bielek said he'd seen the future — and it was not good. According to this self-proclaimed time traveler, it all started when he and his brother Duncan were drafted into a top-secret government mission at the height of World War II. But, if Bielek is to be believed, the pair weren't aware that the project would hurl them on a journey beyond anyone’s wildest imagination. And he seemingly came back to the present to deliver a warning.
The future man
By most accounts, Al Bielek was an unusual child. As a boy, he could apparently recite amazing knowledge in school — leading to the nickname “walking encyclopedia.” He reportedly had genius levels of recollection, too. For instance, he claimed to have remembered and understood a conversation he overheard at the age of nine months.
Speaking his truth
And yet the most remarkable aspect of Bielek’s life story only became known after his 60th birthday. Yes, in 1988 he watched a film called The Philadelphia Experiment. Originally released in 1984, the Stewart Raffill-directed sci-fi began on the decks of the USS Eldridge in the Second World War — and it struck a disturbing chord within Bielek. His life was never the same again.
Opening up his past
In the movie, U.S. Navy officials concoct a device to make their ship invisible to radar. And watching the film unfold, Bielek saw these fictional scientists test a device on the USS Eldridge. However, the contraption worked too well in the film. Rather than taking the ship out of sight, the experiment had instead transported its crew to the future of 1984. It was just a movie, of course — but for Bielek, it was all too real.
Making sense of his memories
The Philadelphia Experiment was a fantastical tale for most who saw it. And even though the film was based on a book about an urban legend, its original writer, John Carpenter, admitted that the narrative was untrue in a 2016 interview. But for Bielek, there was something about the movie that ran uncomfortably close to real life.
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