Time Warp Television

In 1953 people in England began picking up images of the station card and call letters for KLEE-TV, a TV station from Houston Texas that had been out of business for four years.
Frank D. Drake, head of the United States' Project Ozma (an attempt to establish contact with extraterrestrial life) headed over to England. This KLEE-TV business had caused such an uproar that Drake was there on behalf of the US Government to get to the bottom of things.
He eventually came to the conclusion that it was the work of two well-known British pranksters. Apparently the jokers had done this all as part of a stunt to sell new television sets.
If you go to various Urban Legend sites on the net, the story usually ends here. But there is actually more to it.
Not long after Drake finished his investigation, people in the Northern U.S. and southern Canada started seeing the "KLEE-TV" station letters. This was usually seen when they were "tuning in" their televisions, and the knob was between stations. (Obviously TV technology has changed a lot since then.)
Following the call letters, there would usually be seen exactly twelve and a half minutes of a TV show that culminated in a fellow running up a flight of stairs shouting "Help me! Help!" Then that particular spot on the dial would go blank until 9:15 PM the next day.
A lot of people saw this , sporadically, for about two months.
I've often wondered if there was a way you could tune in to all of those old TV shows that are heading out into the beyond at the speed of light. About the only way (theoretically) that you could pull this off would be to send a space probe out into space FASTER than the speed of light. When it gets past the farthest out of these old TV show waves, it could conceivably bounce them back to the earth. If it were able to bounce them back faster than the speed of sound we may not have to wait that long to start watching all those old shows again.
This leads me to another idea, which is about as close as we could ever come to a time machine. Everything you see is a reflection of light. The stars you see in the sky are images of the light they reflected billions of light years ago. The stars may not even be there today. Light does not just reflect off planets, it reflects off people, cars, trees, and everything else under the sun. Theoretically, somewhere out in space there should be light waves carrying images of The Battle of Hastings, the 1970 Super Bowl, and just about anything else that ever happened out of doors on Earth.
If we could somehow send out a space probe faster than the speed of light and get it past those very first light waves that came off planet Earth, we would have a start. Then if we could equip the probe with the mother of all telescopes and aim that toward the earth. Then beam the images from the telescope back to Earth,
real quick like. (I told you this was theoretical.) Then we could sit at home and watch trilobites crawl around , knights on horseback, and a million other strange things. (Maybe equip the telescope with infra red vision so we could see things like the signing of the Declaration of Independence.) I still haven't worked out how you'd focus on one era or another...
Stay tuned, this week I'll be posting rooftop photos of the Skull and Bones Tomb in New Haven, CT. The fellow who sent them to me (and asked to remain anonymous) also included information on how he managed to get these unusual pictures.