The Versailles Time Slip: Moberly and Jourdain, 1901

From Midnight Signals: History, Folklore and Unexplained Mysteries · 21:33

Show by Russ Chamberlin

In August 1901, two English academics, Charlotte Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain, walked through the gardens of Versailles and suddenly found themselves among strange figures in old-fashioned dress, in an eerie stillness, beside buildings that should not have been there. In 1911 they published a detailed account claiming they had briefly crossed into the world of Marie Antoinette. It remains one of the most famous time slip cases in paranormal history.This episode retells their walk minute by minute, then follows the research they did afterward, mapping their memories against the real layout and history of the palace grounds. We look at skeptical explanations, from misremembered routes to shared fantasy, along with more unsettling ideas about thin places and time out of joint. The question that remains is whether Moberly and Jourdain stepped into the past, or whether something else in the gardens shaped what they saw.Midnight Signals blends history, folklore, and dramatized storytelling. Some names, places, and events are fictionalized or illustrative. Characters are fictional, and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

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