What if time travel isn't fiction?
What if it's already happened—again and again?
In A Shadow History of Time Travel, investigative historian Dr. Dr. Santiago Montes reveals a startling and meticulously documented case: that the phenomenon of time travel, far from being a futuristic fantasy, is embedded in the very fabric of human history.
From the sudden appearance of advanced metallurgical techniques in the Bronze Age, to 15th-century notebooks containing diagrams of flight mechanisms centuries ahead of their time, to the precise astronomical alignments of ancient megalithic structures—this book compiles an eerie body of evidence that suggests repeated technological and cultural “jumps” that cannot be explained by linear historical development alone.
Dr. Montes draws from a wide range of forgotten and forbidden sources: declassified Cold War military experiments, pre-modern accounts of temporal “distortions” recorded by Sufi mystics and Taoist alchemists, the paradoxes hidden in Mayan calendrical records, and the mysterious “Lost Archives” of Baghdad said to contain documents written centuries before their supposed authors were born.
At the heart of this work is a deeply uncomfortable thesis: time travel has not only occurred—it has shaped our history. From the Industrial Revolution to the birth of the Internet, certain inexplicable accelerations in human progress hint at temporal interference—whether by accident or design.
Vale also uncovers suppressed testimony from early 20th-century physicists and astronauts, revealing a covert war within the scientific community to either unlock—or bury—this knowledge forever. He traces the origins of modern time travel myths back to older, ritualistic traditions that may have encoded practical temporal mechanics in allegory and symbol, long before Einstein provided the theoretical framework.
But the implications are more than academic. If time travel has happened before, could it be happening now? And if so—who controls it?
A Shadow History of Time Travel is a sweeping, disturbing, and brilliantly argued work that questions the boundaries of science, history, and human agency itself. Erasing the line between speculative fiction and documented fact, Dr. Montes forces us to confront the real possibility that we are not just writing history—but constantly rewriting it.