An Urban Legend around a man named Rudolph Fentz has become a highly debated time traveler story in the modern world! In this video, I'll will tell the story of Rudolph Fentz the supposed time traveler from 1856 who traveled to 1951.

Around 11:15 p.m. in the summer of 1950, a young guy dressed as an extra from a Victorian period movie showed up in the midst of Manhattan's busiest junction. No one saw him drive up or make his way there, according to the tale. He simply sort of...showed up. He stumbled a little as he gazed up at the soaring steel structures all around him. According to several, he knelt down and covered his head as if he were afraid the buildings might fall. Sadly, a taxi struck the victim and killed him quickly before anyone could aid.

The plot becomes stranger. The dead man's pockets were searched later that evening by a police captain looking for anything that would help identify him. A bundle of 1870s-era bank notes and a letter from 1876 addressed to Rudolph Fentz were among the things discovered. Both the money and the letter appeared to have recently been written. The deceased man, now known as "Fentz," was not identified by his name in the phone book and no fingerprints were found on him. The only clue the captain had was a business card from the dead man's pocket that had a 5th Avenue address on the back.

The officials at the morgue searched his body and found the following items in his pockets:

• A copper token for a beer worth 5 cents, bearing the name of a saloon, which was unknown, even to older residents of the area;
• A bill for the care of a horse and the washing of a carriage, drawn by a livery stable on Lexington Avenue that was not listed in any address book;
• About 70 dollars in old banknotes;
• Business cards with the name Rudolph Fentz and an address on Fifth Avenue;
• A letter sent to this address, in June 1876 from Philadelphia;
• A medal for coming 3rd in a three-legged race.

The modest shop was run by a man who had never heard of Fentz when the captain arrived at the address. The captain looked through the missing person files, but no one who matched the description of the stranger was found there. The captain looked through the 1876 missing person files on a whim, and sure enough, he discovered a report that precisely matched Fentz's name and appearance. The captain wasn't sure what to make of this and didn't want to risk damaging his reputation in the workplace by publishing the findings of his probe. He reportedly never revealed Fentz or the peculiar circumstances surrounding his case to anybody else.

The story of Rudolph Fentz became one of the more significant urban legends of the 1980s and has been repeated occasionally since. With the spread of the Internet in the 1990s, it has been reported more often as a reproduction of facts and presented as evidence for the existence of time travel.