A resurfaced recording of the final concert of legendary rocker Elvis Presley has sparked wild time-travel theories after viewers spotted a strange detail.
Nearly 50 years after Presley’s final performance in June 1977, attention has turned to a woman in the Indianapolis crowd who appears to be holding a small handheld device that some believe resembles a modern smartphone.
The woman appears to be holding a black, rectangular object with a reflective square patch at the top, which some online viewers speculated could be a camera like that of the iPhone.
One online user shared: ‘Definitely looks a lot like one of today’s phone cameras.
‘Not sure what technology was around back then, though that could compare.’
However, the shocking sight was spotted roughly 30 years before the very first iPhone was released to the public and about six years before the first mobile phone, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, went on sale.
Skeptics have continued to push back, arguing that the mystery object was the woman’s autograph book, an early tape recorder, a primitive portable camera or even a whiskey flask.
Another person added: ‘I mean, I really doubt there’s such a thing as time travel, but if I could time travel, I would definitely try to go to as many concerts as I could of all my favorite bands.’
Pictured: Elvis Presley during his final live performances in June 1977
Footage from Presley’s final concert has resurfaced online and appears to show someone carrying a device which conspiracy theorists claim is a smartphone
The strange sighting took place during Presley’s concert at Market Square Arena in Indiana, the final time the celebrated ‘King of Rock and Roll’ would ever take the stage.
Elvis would die just seven weeks later of cardiac arrest on August 16, 1977 at his Graceland estate in Tennessee.
Televised recordings of his final concert would not air until October of that year, and no one at the time would even see a cellular phone until 1983.
Still, many remain skeptical that someone from the future traveled back in time to savor Presley’s final live concert before his untimely death at the age of 42.
‘Looks like a camera to me. There were a number of cameras in the 70s that were about the size of a modern mobile phone, but thicker,’ one doubter claimed.
‘I paused it and took a photo it is [an] autograph book, and the silver pen even shines,’ another person commented.
Others contended that a modern phone would not have been able to work since there were no cell towers in 1977.
However, that would not have stopped a working iPhone from taking pictures or recording Elvis if a time traveler were present.
A woman was pictured carrying a small rectangular device in her left hand which appeared to be a modern smartphone, although skeptics argue it was an autograph book or camera
Elvis gave his final concert in Indianapolis just seven weeks before he died on August 16, 1977
The footage of Elvis’s last concert adds to a growing list of decades-old photos that conspiracy theorists claim show individuals holding smartphones and other mobile devices during eras where that technology did not exist.
These include images of a man during World War II appearing to be talking on a cellphone in Reykjavik, Iceland, and a spectator in the front row of a Mike Tyson boxing match appearing to hold up a smartphone in 1995.
Meanwhile, scientists have stated that time travel into the past is not only possible, the math to make it happen actually aligns with Einstein’s famed theory of general relativity – which says that space and time are linked together as ‘spacetime,’ and gravity is the result of massive objects like planets and stars curving this spacetime.
As for Presley’s final concert, even more conspiracy theories surround the King of Rock and Roll’s last days, with many even claiming Elvis did not die in 1977.
Widely reported but unproven theories about Presley’s passing claimed the rocker staged his death to escape the pressures of fame.
Some claimed Presley’s death was faked to place him in witness protection due to alleged threats from the Mafia.
However, some theories have pointed to visible evidence – Elvis’s own tombstone. Although his middle name was Aron, the headstone reads ‘Aaron,’ which conspiracy theorists have said was done because putting a living person’s name on a grave is taboo.
The Hollywood blockbuster ‘Men In Black,’ which dealt with aliens and government conspiracies, even poked fun at this decades-long theory, claiming that Elvis was actually an alien, stating ‘Elvis is not dead, he just went home.’
