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Is it possible I was born in 1677?
According to the Phantom Time Hypothesis the early Middle Ages, specifically 614-911 AD as they are recorded in history are a fabrication. it argues that those 297 years of falsified history were achieved through the alteration, misrepresentation and forgery of documentary and physical evidence. So if this theory were true, instead of it being the year 2010, our calendar is off by 297 years and it’s actually 1713. That would mean I was born in 1677. Sweet.
While developers of the Phantom Time Hypothesis have a lot of supporting evidence, there are also plenty of convincing arguments against this hypothesis as well. Here is the full hypothesis on the University of Cambridge Website if you are interested in learning why they believe its possible to have 200 years of fake history:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/volatile/Niemitz-1997.pdf