The internet can be a terrifying place -- a haunted digital asylum filled with spooky spam, terrible trolls, horrible hackers, and your mom on Facebook. But when they really want celebrate spookiness, internet folk will gather around a subreddit, bring out their flashlight Emoji, and tell scary stories. Stories which at first glance look legit, but when the moon is at its highest and people start checking for sources, are revealed to be bullshit. Buuuuulllshiiit! For example ...

6 Grainy Pictures Of Time Travelers Aren't Real

RKO Pictures

Continue Reading Below Advertisement

It's quite easy to debunk time travel. Have you heard of Adolf Hitler? Then either time travel isn't a thing, or time travelers are a real bunch of tools for not wiping him from history. In fact, this also seems to be the opinion of those who believe in time travel -- the tool part, that is.

According to believers on Tumblr and Facebook, historians keep finding evidence of time travelers acting like idiots by haphazardly wandering into photos, leaving behind their stuff, and making other rookie mistakes. Some of you might remember this viral smash from several years ago about a Charlie Chaplin blooper reel which accidentally bagged footage of a time traveler talking on her cellphone:

Continue Reading Below Advertisement

We're sorry to disappoint you, but that was nothing but an old-timey hearing aid -- which, obviously, one had to hold against their head, because the notion of making inventions tiny and convenient hadn't been invented yet. It's like when some weirdo thought a Civil War soldier pulled out an iPhone to give directions to the stagecoach driver in the 1948 western Fort Apache. That can't possibly be true. If that guy really had an iPhone, he would've insisted on recording the whole movie on it. Also, and we shouldn't have to be the ones to point this out, but unless these "time travelers" had some sort of slipstream technology installed in their OtterBoxes, there is no possible way their alleged cellphones would work in the past, because cell towers did not exist.

Continue Reading Below Advertisement

Truly, the incompetence of these highly advanced humans seems to know no bounds. Like when tabloids thought that some time-surfing hipster had dropped his vintage Swiss watch in the tomb of a Ming emperor?

via Ancient Origins

Shortly after he accidentally put in the wash and it shrank.

Continue Reading Below Advertisement

Or when that same dude photobombed at a bridge opening in 1941, popping up in the audience like he was standing in line for the opening of a new vape shop?