Adventures in Time: Encounters with the Past

Adventures in Time examines reports of retrocognition: experiences in which people appear to encounter scenes, surroundings or events belonging to the past. Andrew MacKenzie considers several direct accounts, including the celebrated 1901 Versailles incident, when two English women said they witnessed an earlier world within the palace grounds.

The book also gives substantial attention to a 1957 report involving three youths who reportedly found themselves in a medieval village. MacKenzie weighs such testimony against possible explanations involving hallucination and the elusive nature of time, while drawing on cases he investigated personally as well as established examples from psychical research. The result is a focused study of time-slip experiences, presented as reported claims rather than proof of travel through history.