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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Ryan Merrifield

Mystery as 1937 painting shows 'time travel Native American using iPhone'

Conspiracy theorists believe a painting from nearly 100 years ago showing a Native American man holding a 'mobile phone' proves time travel exists.

The work - titled Mr Pynchon and the Settling of Springfield - was completed by Italian artist Umberto Romano in 1937 and depicts the arrival of settlers to the town in the 1620s.

A local is seen holding up a small, black rectangular object similar to the shape of an iPhone and looking directly at it, almost as if he was snapping a selfie.

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