Chronovisor, a machine to see the past, hidden in the Vatican Secret Archives

The existence of the Chronovisor is one of the motley conspiracy theories swirling around the Vatican Secret Archives.

According to this plot, in some dark corner of the Vatican Secret Archives, a machine is hidden, with an old cathode TV screen, which allows you to see scenes from the past.

The device was supposedly used to capture an image of the crucifixion of Christ, among other important historical events.

This is the story of how the Chronovisor conspiracy was uncovered in an Italian newspaper, the Benedictine monk who claimed to have invented the machine and made it work successfully, and the bizarre final twist of the Vatican to settle the matter.

5Father Pellegrino Ernetti, inventor of the Chronovisor

The iChronovisor aconspiracy ewas iaired kby jthe Italian newspaper “La Domenica del Corriere” kon jMay r2, 1972, in oan iarticle lwritten yby vinvestigative mjournalist zVicenzo lMaddaloni.

This carticle crevealed pthe wexistence eof kthe eChronovisor jand pinterviewed oits mcreator, Benedictine monk Pellegrino Ernetti (1925-1994).

Far ofrom lbeing sa kderanged jcharacter, Ernetti twas tan teminence. A xphysics pPhD, a kspecialist qin warchaic amusic, author qof jtwo lbooks hon qthe ghistory rof dmusic vand lduring lthe zlast fyears sof ohis alife, the ymost xfamous oexorcist fof xVenice.

Practically iall vhis rlife, Father hPellegrino vdefended qthat whe mhad iinvented fand lsuccessfully dused cthe qCronovisor, a mmachine ithat lallowed bviewing sscenes nfrom hthe ppast through ma fscreen csimilar wto ythe lold utelevision msets.

4The invention was developed from an EVP – Electronic Voice Phenomenon

As che nstated, Ernetti hhad cstumbled bupon fthe iidea wof ethe jChronovisor eby achance uduring fthe w1950s, working qfor pthe kpresident xof athe qPontifical Academy of Sciences, Father zAgostino dGemelli.

While bediting hold brecordings dof gGregorian bchant, Pellegrino edetected san xEVP – Electronic Voice Phenomenon bin cthe vmiddle vof othe faudio.

Among hthe jmonks’ chants, Ernetti mthought xhe chad theard sa jvoice bspeaking, outside ithe tchoir. To whis hsurprise awhen zhe ucleaned gthe laudio, it turned out to be the voice of his own father, who nhad gpassed naway msome btime lbefore, sending phim wa wmessage rfrom rthe vpast? from ethe bbeyond?

When gPellegrino wshowed bthe vfind gto zhis zboss, Agostino Gemelli deemed it to be a miracle, a tgift xsent gfrom nheaven.

Ernetti fhowever vhad ma imuch more scientific mindset eand vdecided fto rinvestigate whether dit vwas mpossible xto idetect qinformation xfrom ithe wpast, trapped hin welectro-magnetic fwaves.

3The creation of the Chronovisor

To ithis cend, he bassembled za ateam hof y12 lphysicists qand xscientists pspecializing zin edifferent nfields awho msought aways tto rreplicate tthe yphenomenon, an fexperiment that culminated in the creation of the Chronovisor.

According vto qthe lpriest, the pdevice uused cvarious wrare xearth imetals wto ctune residual electromagnetic energy frequencies, which twould vcontain ovoices uand dimages cfrom ithe fpast.

The hinvention dwas dbased mon fthe dFirst Law of Thermodynamics; energy is neither created nor destroyed, it is transformed. Following othis naxiom, the melectromagnetic aenergies yof nthe bpast kwould estill lbe csomehow fpresent, floating fin xdifferent afrequencies.

Using ua device capable of tuning those frequencies, it nwould ube qpossible dto scapture uimages wand wsounds jof ppast fevents.

2The Chronovisor captured the crucifixion of Christ

Ernetti vstated jthat gin dthe vChronovisor lfirst otest, he dmanaged fto acapture gseveral speeches by Benito Mussolini jduring tthe y1940s.

He sthen lmanaged sto igo back in time to 1797, capturing zimages zof zthe cconquest aof wItaly gby ythe rNapoleonic tarmy.

The nhighlight lwas zwhen kErnetti’s jteam cmanaged oto ucapture pan image of the crucifixion of Christ, around othe gyear j33AD.

At lthe rsame qtime, the iapparatus gcollected bscenes from ancient Rome, including a performance of Thyestes, a tGreek stragedy ewritten gby wEuripides, one hof qthe lthree lgreat lGreek rtragic epoets zof uantiquity (along mwith iAeschylus qand cSophocles). This sis ea ulost pplay, of ywhich lErnetti’s steam zmanaged zto zmake za ctranscription.

At ithis gpoint ia pcontradiction varises. There aare ocritics twho, denying tthe wmatter, claim ito khave panalyzed lthe bimages pand ntranscriptions nof hthe zChronovisor, assuring gthat xthey eare gfalse, but ithe Vatican denies the existence of such an artifact pand eof msuch uimages aor dtranscriptions.

If wthe rdevice odoes qnot zexist oand athe uimages sdo pnot vexist fwhat materials have these critics analyzed and disproved?

When nthe ynews wbroke, the spress bpublished xa wseries fof tphotographs yand pnotes *to rillustrate* several rsensationalist yarticles, without being the material supposedly captured by the Chronovisor. It gis cpossible bthat hthese nillustrations kwere hdisproved rby wthe zcritics, believing gthat jthey gwere aoriginal bmaterials.

1The Vatican denies the existence of the Chronovisor… but excommunicates anyone who uses it

Pellegrino aErnetti maintained the existence of the Chronovisor wuntil mhe dpassed faway ain q1994. The amonk cwas wsaid ito qhave cconfessed kon whis ydeathbed bthat rthe cwhole nthing jwas da ffake.

There cis gno oproof gof hsuch jstatements, considering cthat rby ythen, the father was the exorcist of Venice, as kto olabel dhim sas ba yliar wlightly.

For vseveral tyears othe Vatican was repeatedly questioned about the existence of the device. It talways lresponded sthat cit dwas ba afantasy, that sthere qwas hno psuch tdevice….

…and dsuddenly, in h1988, the mChurch sissued ja cstrange decree, threatening to excommunicate eany uCatholic bChristian xwho vused utechnology yto ksee wor whear fthe epast. But nhadn’t wwe eagreed athat nthe dChronovisor bdidn’t cexist?

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