In 1984, a British schoolteacher turned on his home computer and found a message waiting for him.
He didn’t write it. The computer had no internet, no modem, and no outside access.
The message claimed to be written by a man living in the same house - in the mid-1500s.
This episode of Time Slipped examines The Dodleston Messages, a true and documented time slip case involving a BBC Micro computer, a cottage in Dodleston, England, and messages that crossed centuries. The writer from the past described real people, daily life, and architectural details later verified through historical records and physical discovery inside the house.
Then the story escalated. A second voice from 1906 warned of consequences.
And a third voice appeared—claiming to be from the year 2109.
Is this time travel? A haunted computer? A property that exists across multiple timelines? Or evidence that time behaves like a layered system—one that occasionally answers back?
No jump scares. No fiction.
Just transcripts, evidence, and a mystery that refuses to stay in one century.
Let's open the file.
Note: A thank-you to our listener Lysa for flagging a date discrepancy in an earlier version of this episode — further research supports a mid-1500s (c. 1546) timeframe for the Dodleston messages.
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