I heard about this story of a man hit by a taxi in the 1950's would had gone missing in and around the 1850's. Here is the link to an article about the story...
Clock runs out on long-told story of time traveler

European man ends up in Akron while getting to bottom of strange mystery
By Paula Schleis
Beacon Journal staff writer

Is time travel possible?

Could evidence for it be found in the story of a man who appeared suddenly on the streets of New York City in 1950, bearing the property and identity of a man who had vanished in 1876?
Chris Aubeck loves a good mystery, so the Londoner who lives in Madrid, Spain, decided to get to the root of a tale that has received a lot of press in Europe.
This month, the Spanish magazine Enigmas will publish the yearlong odyssey of Aubeck, who doggedly traced a piece of paranormal folklore through six countries and back six decades to its source -- in Akron.
Aubeck, 31, who researches modern and ancient mysteries as a hobby, said fellow researchers in Europe often use the case of Rudolph Fentz as proof of time travel.
``They had been using the story for years in articles and books... and many of them accepted the Fentz story at face value,'' Aubeck said in an e-mail interview. ``When I asked them if it had been solved, I was told it had been tried but never successfully.''
To Aubeck, that sounded like a challenge he couldn't pass up.
The story
In a world of believers and skeptics, Aubeck is a skeptic searching for something to believe in.
``I don't need any further confirmation that odd things do happen, but the amount of disinformation and error is such that much of my time is spent reinvestigating old cases to weed out the nonsense,'' he said.
Most phenomena are explainable in scientific terms, but a small percentage defy explanation, he said. He's looking for that ``needle in the haystack'' that will stand up to scrutiny.
Last year, he turned his critical focus on the Fentz case.
Few people in the United States have heard of Fentz, but in Europe, the story has been repeated in at least six books, a couple of dozen magazines and several Internet sites.
The details change slightly in each retelling, but here's the gist:
It was 11:15 p.m. on a warm June night in 1950, and the area of Times Square was buzzing with people leaving the theaters.
Suddenly, in the midst of traffic appeared an odd-looking man, about 30 years old. He wore mutton-chop whiskers and quaint clothing that had gone out of style decades before.
The man gawked at his surroundings, and then tried to dash away from the cars. He was struck by a cab and killed.
Police found on the dead man antique currency, business cards in the name of Rudolph Fentz, and a letter addressed to Fentz postmarked in 1876.
Assuming the man was Fentz, police sought the next of kin. But Fentz wasn't listed in the telephone directory, and no one at the address on the business card and letter knew him.
Capt. Hubert V. Rihm eventually turned up a 1939 phone book listing a Rudolph Fentz Jr. When Rihm located the junior's widow, she told him her father-in-law had vanished in 1876 after going out for a smoke.
That knowledge in hand, Rihm dug into old police files and found the missing-person report from 1876. The address given was the same as that on the dead man's business cards.
Renewed interest in the Fentz case was rekindled recently when a Spanish magazine published the tale in 2000. Soon afterward, Aubeck launched his investigation.
He started with obvious records such as the Social Security database and old telephone directories.
He tried several name variations and found a Rudolf Fenz in Chicago, but Fenz died in 1976, not 1950. He uncovered a Herman Rihm living in Cincinnati until 1993, but he was a linotype operator, not a policeman.
Aubeck closed other doors one at a time and soon found there was no document, police report or burial plot to prove either man ever existed.
And that's when the paper chase really began.

Aubeck decided to trace the myth back to the first person who told it -- an ambitious if not impossible task.
At this point, Aubeck had in hand only three Spanish publications, and none credited its sources. It took another six months of research before Aubeck found the story in a 1975 French book.
The French book had cited a 1974 Italian magazine.
The Italian magazine referred to a 1973 Norwegian article.
The Norwegians had lifted it from a Swedish periodical.
The Swedes were quoting from a journal published by the California-based Borderland Sciences Research Foundation, a group investigating UFO sightings and paranormal events.
When Aubeck received a copy of the 1972 Borderland publication, he found it credited a 1953 booklet called ``A Voice from the Gallery.''
That booklet was written by Ralph M. Holland, who was born in Youngstown, lived in Akron and died in Cuyahoga Falls.
Details on author
With so much time invested in tracking Holland down, Aubeck wanted to know more about the man whose tale of time travel had been teleported across the Atlantic and into European imaginations.
Did Holland mean for his story to be taken as fact, or was he simply trying to entertain?
Holland died in 1962. His sister, Dora, died in 1995. They had no other relatives.
But Aubeck has uncovered a couple of revealing documents.
In an obituary, Dora Holland provided background on her brother. Ralph Merridette Holland was born in Youngstown on Aug. 29, 1899, and lived there until moving to Akron with his family in 1914. He worked ``in the plant'' at the Akron Beacon Journal for a time, received an engineering degree, and went to work at B.F. Goodrich.
He spent the last 40 years of his life in Cuyahoga Falls, and had been employed by Vaughn Machinery Co. there.
Dora Holland spoke of her brother's interest in paranormal phenomena and his membership in the Borderland research group. ``He was interested in our own life beyond our earthly one,'' and he was constantly ``sorting fact from fake before he would pass the information on.''
But Holland also loved science fiction. He published his own fanzine, The Science-Fiction Review, and had published a book featuring a fantasy character called ``Ghu.''
Holland was keenly aware that his science fiction enterprises would cast a shadow on anything he tried to present as fact.
So he adopted an alter-ego.
Aubeck learned that Holland was Rolf Telano, the author of A Spacewoman Speaks, a book about a ``real'' extraterrestrial with whom he was in contact.
When a Swedish publisher sought permission to translate the book in 1964, Dora Holland gave it on the condition that her late brother's identity be kept confidential.
In a letter to the publisher, Dora Holland noted her brother had been president of the National Fantasy Fan Federation, and ``this is the connection he did not deem advisable to use in connection with his book or other similar interests lest his work in that connection be discredited... ''
Dora Holland may have believed her brother could be true to both sides of his personality -- the science-fiction fan and the science fact investigator.
But Aubeck isn't buying it.
When he learned that the author of the Fentz story was a member of the Borderland research group, it all clicked.
At the time, Borderland was trying to promote the idea of a ``fourth dimension'' -- an alleged hole in the fabric of reality that is often used to explain the Bermuda Triangle. Aubeck is confident that Holland simply created a story to try to justify that theory.
``I doubt that for Holland this was ever much more than a game,'' Aubeck said.

-and this is the followup saying that he couldn't find where the story came from..so they mystery continues?..

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/3893565.htm
I am curious as to what everyone knows or thinks about it?

That is so freaky! And so interesting. If this actually did happened which sounds like it did. That is weird. Course, the guy hit by the car could have simply found the wallet or what not from the missing guy from long ago aye? hmmm.

to bad that guy was killed by a cab ...

What a wonderful example!

I have tracked down sources in similar far-out stories, but unlike Aubeck rarely left my computer to do so, as I look up and email sources on the web. But it seems that nearly every claim of apparent miraculous events, once followed, usually ends up with the main sources being either misquoted or not even knowing they were quoted at all.
The desire to sell books and magazines clearly transcends any need to be honest or investigative, imitating newspapers who print almost anything to make a story, rather than worry about facts.

I will name names here anyone can check up, and as I have evidence these all ended in a dead end, I am quite confident in doing so.

Philip Krapf, who claimed aliens had a timetable to visit, till he published a new book saying it had been cancelled.

Lawrence Gardner's anti-gravity white gold powder, which was supposedly proved in a laboratory to make things lighter. Until I asked the laboratory who said the results had been misquoted.

The Ummo files, proven to be a hoax by naming and shaming the hoaxer, but persists in running the story ummo homepage

These are just a few that took less than a day to pull apart. It makes you wonder if any articles have a basis in reality when relating free energy, aliens and the like, or were all a hastily put together facade with unchecked claims to keep the circulation going. Anyone who knows someone who has had an article written about in the news will know the differences between the report and the truth- age, family, history, events which can all change when being reported in a newspaper to suit the story. So why not keep this style in supernatural magazines? Just because people are writing about the subject doesn't make them a saint. I am still awaiting the day I trace an article and actually find something solid behind it. I carry on in hope.

I had posted my own time travel experience but I think it bears repeating here. After having my own adventure the story does not seem so far fetched.

In August of 1997 my friend Larry and I got together midweek for a game of afternoon tennis. We were driving through North Cambridge, MA and neither of us knew where the nearest tennis courts were. I pulled up to a cop on a side street who was directing traffic around a small construction area. Neither of us said anything at the time but we both felt there was something strange about that cop. I'm not sure if it was the way he was dressed or his attitude but something seemed odd. The cop gave us directions to tennis courts a very short distance away. We followed his instructions, took a right into a driveway and, sure enough, we both saw three tennis courts. All the courts were occupied. It struck as both as odd that all the players were dressed exclusively in white. We both noticed an attractive brunette in the right court wearing a short, white tennis dress preparing to address the serve. I pulled my car into a small parking area on my immediate right. Lerry got out of the car first and yelled, "where did the tennis courts go?" I followed right behind him and said, "they were right here!" The coiurt, the players and everything we saw when we pulled in had vanished! Instead there was a building in front of us that was not there before.

Later I found out that there were tennis courts there - but they were torn down in 1954!

Did we travel back in time? Did we see ghosts? Was the cop part of it? Anyone have any suggestions?

These are the sort of stories that keep me inspired, a similar one occurred (with evidence) of a Japanese doctor who was called out to deliver a baby and the journey from home to hospital took a quarter of the usual time, though it was along mountain roads where it's impossible to speed. The trip was affirmed by the call log time and the arrival time, and it would have needed to drive at around 200 mph to make the journey in that time.

I find the most data on time shifts on reality shifters which is the specialist site on apports, time slips and the like. It also has a monthly email digest of stories like the one I just gave.

Surely going back in time would cause a rift somewhere else, causing an unexplained happening. Say someone went back in time caused someone from that time to take the first person place in the present, surely when time returned to normal the person would say something or report it to someone. That would make a record and then it could be possible to see if it exists.

They thought of that- 'multiple universe theory' says that there are infinite copies of the universe, each where the alternative event happened. So in one place is the original earth, and then another with the time shifted one. Either way, if it happens, things aren't as simple as they appear.

It means we have to accept an infinite dimensional universe, but as it seems to be infinite already in 3d, maybe that's not such a great shift as it seems.