Time traveller? 'Greta Thunberg' spotted in 121-year-old photo
Conspiracy theorists have claimed Greta Thunberg is a time traveller "sent back to save us" with the 16-year-old looking eerily similar to a girl from a photo taken 121 years ago.
People throughout the world took to social media to share the photograph which shows three children operating a rocker at a gold mine in Canada in 1898.
In the foreground is a young girl who looks extremely similar to Thunberg, a climate change activist.
The image was recently found in the picture archives of the University of Washington.
While the likely explanation is that the pair are lookalikes, it hasn't stopped the conspiracy theorists from scheming up their own thoughts.
One impressed person joked that the Swedish teenager had been "sent back to save us".
"So 'Greta Thunberg' is in a photo from 120 years ago, and it's my new favourite conspiracy," he tweeted. "Greta's a time traveller, from the future, and she's here to save us."
Another social media user quipped: "I'm not one for conspiracy theories but she is 100 per cent a time traveller."
"Maybe she is from the future who was sent back in time to key moments in history to stop climate change."
Another said: "What it is, right, is that actually she's a time traveller, and she's come to warn us about the future. It's the only explanation."
Greta has become a symbol of a growing movement of young climate change activists after leading weekly school strikes in Sweden that inspired similar actions in around 100 cities worldwide.