loop-y time travel - this boy/man did it

[Petals]

I just wanted to share this find with you. It can challenge your idea of what's possible or not. Is it true? I don't really know. At least it's an interesting story. If you want to go down the rabbit hole, google 'the wanderling meeting yourself' and go from there.

TIME TRAVEL - MEETING YOURSELF

In the early to mid 1940s a very young American boy from a small Southern California beach town travels to India with a foster couple, ending up staying several months at or near the ashram of the venerated Indian holy man, the Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi in Tiruvannamalai, south India. Prior to his departure from the U.S. the foster couple allows the boy to select one, and one only, small easy to carry toy to take with him. He picks his hands-down favorite, a metal decoder badge known as a Photo-Matic Code-O-Graph that has a picture of Captain Midnight mounted in it.

In a seeming set of incredible coincidences, an American man, who was at the time around age 25 or so, and unbelievably from the same Southern California hometown as the boy, visits the ashram during the same period the young boy is there. Oddly enough, although a full grown man, he too has a near duplicate decoder with him, albeit slightly more tarnished than the boy's decoder, that has on it's surface a somewhat newer like sheen. So too, in lieu of the Captain Midnight photo, the man's Code-O-Graph has in it's place a black-and-white photograph of himself as a young boy. After inadvertently meeting each other and discovering they both have decoders, with the boy's permission, for reasons no longer known but seemingly valid at the time, they switch the two photos, exchanging the man's for the picture of Captain Midnight and vice versa for the boy.

Not long after the man's departure from the ashram the young boy leaves as well, returning to the U.S. with the couple, ending up being left off by the couple totally unannounced at the home his grandmother on his father's side in Pennsylvania. When the boy returns to California, the decoder with the now switched picture of the boy in it, for reasons unknown, is left behind at the grandmother's and, rather than trying to return it, she simply stores it in a box where it slowly languishes away and soon forgotten.

Several years later the grandmother dies and upon her death her son, who happens to be the boy's uncle, travels to her home in Pennsylvania to put her things in order. There he finds the decoder in the box among her belongings. Having been the boy's onetime guardian the uncle instantly recognizes the photo as being that of his nephew while at the same time remembering how important Code-O-Graphs were to the boy during his very early childhood years as well. So said, the uncle, knowing that the boy had stayed at his mother's for a short time during those same years, after which the decoder went missing, but now having found it, without really thinking about it sends it to his nephew. The nephew however, is now no longer a young boy but reaching into his late teenage years and just about ready to graduate from high school. The decoder, having lost both it's luster physically as well as in importance to the boy, floats around a few years eventually ending up stored away in a box at his younger brother's when the boy, now a man just into his early twenties in the 1960s, is drafted into the U.S. Army.

While the boy-now-a-man is in the Army and fully vested as a soldier he requests his younger brother send him some much needed items. In the process his younger brother either inadvertently or mistakenly includes the decoder in the package along with the other items he requested. With the decoder in his possession and some distance from home he simply carries it around with him during his young adult years and has it with him when he decides to visit the ashram of the Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi in Tiruvannamalai, south India.

During the man's visit to the ashram, in what seems to be another set of incredible if not unbelievable coincidences, he meets a young boy from his own home town who has been staying at the ashram with a foster couple for a couple of months --- and has with him of all things, a Photo-Matic Code-O-Graph --- except that the boy's seems much newer and has a picture of Captain Midnight in it while the man's has a picture of himself when he was a young boy. Following a short discussion the man switches the picture of himself as a boy that is in his decoder for the picture of Captain Midnight that is in boy's decoder, leaving the decoder with the picture of the boy in the hands of the boy, while taking the decoder that now has the Captain Midnight photo inserted in the square with him when he leaves the ashram. Over time he eventually returns home, continuing to have the decoder with Captain Midnight's picture in it right up to this day.

Not long after the man's departure from the ashram the young boy leaves India returning to the U.S. ending up at his grandmother on his father's side in Pennsylvania. A few weeks later the boy returns to his home in California and for reasons unknown leaves the decoder with the picture of the boy at the grandmother's. She, rather than trying to return it to her grandson, simply puts it away in a darkened box where it is soon forgotten. A few years later the grandmother dies and her son goes to Pennsylvania to put her estate in order. There he finds the decoder and recognizes the photo as being that of his nephew when he was a young boy and sends it to him.

Edited July 10, 2019 by Petals