Greta Thunberg a Time Traveller?

When 16-year-old environment activist Greta Thunberg isn't busy challenging global leaders to reduce their carbon footprint or mobilizing young people to strike for the climate, she's...time traveling?

That's the consensus on social media, at least. Savvy users dug up a 19th-century photo of a girl who looks eerily similar to the 21st-century teen. "120-year-old photo sparks theories that climate activist & environmental heroine, @GretaThunberg , is, in fact, a 'time-travel' who has traveled thru time to save our planet! Wishing her all the best and success in her mission to save the Earth. We can use the help we can get!" one person wrote. It is safe to say that @GretaThunberg must have used a solor-powered time machine to time travel," joked another. A third user floated a much bleaker theory: the photo is from the dystopian future.

The original picture was taken by the Swedish American photographer Eric Hegg, who also took part in gold-digging expeditions as well capturing the daily lives of prospectors. It is possible the girl was a member of the Swedish community in the Yukon at that time. The connection appears to have been first made on November 9 by a Facebook user who posted the image on a paranormal community group. From there it was picked by Sunday Express on November 17, only for the story to be mysteriously deleted within 24 hours. The photo, which can be found online in the Eri Hegg special collection at the University of Washington, then quickly spread across Twitter and other news sites.

Archivists at the University of Washington in Seattle, however, are doubtful a photograph in their collection is evidence of a time-travelling Swede. Hegg’s collection was donated to the University of Washington more than 50 years ago – and the image has long been known to staff not for its resemblance to Thunberg – but for the fact it depicted such young children working a mining operation.

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