However, the mechanism is borderline fantasy in this case—a clock that, when wound, begins to run backward and transports people in the vicinity backward in time, with no explanation as to where the clock came from or how it gained this ability.
Hale je leta 1881 v "Harper's New Monthly Magazine" anonimno objavil zgodbo "Hands Off" o neimenovanem bitju (morda o duši nedavno umrle osebe), ki je prosto potovalo skozi čas in prostor, se vtikalo v zgodovino sveta v Starem Egiptu in preprečilo Jožefu, da bi ga prodali v suženjstvo.