Time Traveler? A man with a mobile phone in a 1943 photograph

A 1943 photograph of a man “talking on a mobile phone” has gone viral on social media.

Journalists discovered that this photo was actually taken in 1943, in Reykjavik, Iceland. It depicts American soldiers, but this man in a white coat is definitely not a soldier and is clearly different from the other people in the photo.

A man holds an object in his hand and brings it to his ear in the same way that mobile phone owners do. And he is with his mouth open, that is, apparently photographed at the time of the conversation.

And next to him there is no one with whom he can talk, no one looks in his direction.

Social media users quickly concluded that the photo was of a time traveler who didn’t expect to be filmed.

“He is alone, with a different headdress than the others and a different scarf, and he behaves as we would today, talking on a mobile phone,” writes Christian Hoffmann, who first posted this image on the Icelandic Facebook group.

Skeptics, on the other hand, believe that the man in the photo may have looked at his watch on his hand or decided to scratch his ear just at the moment the photographer was working.

However, there is definitely some kind of flat rectangular object in the man’s hand. And if it’s not a smartphone, what is it?