The Versailles Time Slip – Two Women Claim They Walked Into the Past

August 10, 1901 – A Trip to Versailles

Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain were two respectable English academics visiting Paris. On a hot afternoon, they decided to tour the Palace of Versailles, specifically the Petit Trianon — a small chateau in the gardens, famously associated with Marie Antoinette.

They never made it there.

Instead, they got lost on foot, wandered through some trees… and found themselves in another century.

The World Around Them Changed

Later, in their joint book “An Adventure” (published anonymously in 1911), they described how:

The air became still and heavy, as if a storm were about to hit
The sunlight dimmed, and everything took on a flat, lifeless gray tone
They saw men in green coats and tricorn hats sitting under a tree — who looked like wax figures
A woman in a wide-brimmed old-fashioned hat and pale dress looked at them blankly
The layout of the buildings seemed different from modern maps

Moberly later claimed she saw Marie Antoinette herself, sketching on a stool. Jourdain said she felt like something was deeply wrong, and she was almost overcome with nausea.

Then, just like that, they were back.

The color returned. The people were modern. The palace looked normal again.

What Did They Experience?

When they got home, the women compared notes. They were stunned at the consistency of what they’d seen — and that many things they saw didn’t exist in 1901, but were later confirmed to match historical records of 1789 that were not publicly available at the time.

The layout of certain walls and gardens matched pre-revolution Versailles
The style of clothing they saw on people hadn’t existed in France since the 18th century
They described a bridge and a garden wall that had been removed decades before their visit

Skeptics vs. Believers

Critics argue that the women:

May have stumbled upon a historical reenactment (though none were scheduled)
Got confused by their surroundings
Were experiencing shared hallucination or suggestion

But the women were educated, sober, and had no history of delusion. Their notes were written separately and matched in uncanny ways. They later stood by their story until their deaths.

So… Did They Slip in Time?

The "Versailles Time Slip" became one of the most studied anomalous time displacement events of the 20th century.

Two rational women.
No drugs. No trauma.
Just a walk… into someone else’s century.

If true, it suggests time isn’t a straight line — and that, just maybe, places remember things.

Legacy and Echoes

The Versailles event has inspired dozens of similar “time slip” reports:

A man in Liverpool claimed to walk into the 1950s while crossing a street
Tourists in Spain reportedly entered a church to find it “full of monks” — then returned to find it abandoned
In Paris, several people have claimed to enter shops that later “don’t exist”

Are these tricks of memory? Multiverse overlaps? Temporal echoes?

Or something stranger?