Today we're going to delve into the internet legend of John Titor, who is said to have come from the future and made a stop in the year 2000 to post a few posts on the forums. This, my friends, is the beginning and the end of the story. However, we are skeptical and would like to know more. Something can be learned from rumors and legends, even in the complete absence of connection with history. The very existence of the legend is a question, and the weaker the evidence, the greater the temptation to dismiss it. This is irresponsible, and we will turn our attention to the time traveler John Titor.

The first acquaintance with the general public, in 1998, John Titor owes several messages on the radio "From Coast to Coast", which broadcast programs about paranormal phenomena. Posing as a time traveler from the year 2036, he warned of a global computer system failure at midnight on December 31, 1999, which would cause famine, frost and military conflict. The next time John Titor appeared was in 2000, on a forum called The Time Travel Institute. His nickname was TimeTravel_0. Under the same name, on the forum "From coast to coast", a prediction was posted about the beginning of the civil war in the United States in 2004, which would break the country into 5 regions and result in the Third World War, continuing until 2015. Among the predictions of John Titor is the Large Hadron Collider, built by that time. So the time traveler's prediction was that the LHC would give rise to small black holes. All, without exception, the predictions of John Titor did not come true.

According to John Titor, he arrived on a military mission and was sent to 1975 from 2036. The main task was to breathe life into the IBM 5100 computer, one of the early portable computers with a 5 inch black and white CRT screen. The time traveler claimed that there was a need to translate the ancestral code. Further, in the course of moving through the years, he decided to stop for a few years in 1998. John Titor made his movements in a car with a built-in time machine. It should be noted that this way of traveling is not new, the film "Back to the Future" in 1985 is well known to the public. It cannot be ruled out that the prankster chose this old-fashioned way of time travel, wanting to prank the forum visitors.

Who was John Titor, the "time traveler" who came from 2036 to warn us of a nuclear war?

As the world celebrates Back to the Future Day, it has forgotten the unknown man whose 2001 internet postings might just have saved humanity.

Since John Titor remained active on the forum even after the arrival of the year 2000, which showed the price of his prophecies, he had to explain the theory of parallel universes. What happened in one universe by 2036, according to John Titor, will not necessarily happen in a parallel one. Thus, events that happened by 2036 in his universe will not necessarily happen in ours. This is called a special condition. An unverifiable force majeure claim grants immunity to all time traveler claims.

Now the skeptic can discover the reason why John Titor became famous in Internet forums. Anyone can easily register and tell whatever they want. You can pretend to be Mickey Mouse, Napoleon or a time traveler from the future. People also sometimes seize the initiative, and there is no guarantee that only one person writes on behalf of John Titor. Likewise, there is no guarantee that calls and faxes on the radio are not sent by stupid pranksters. This happens several times a day.

John Titor differs from anonymous posts in his predictions of the future, which are easily verifiable over time. All predictions turned out to be fake, that is, exactly what you would expect from a random talker.

Why did the story of John Titor become famous? Why does it exist?

The Joker has managed to gain notoriety as a time traveler thanks to the development of the Internet and the Coast to Coast radio station, which is very friendly to such fictions and unverified facts. Nowadays, the density of information on the Internet is much higher, and there are more “time travelers” and other pranksters. Now it's much harder to get John Titor's fame.

At the same time, note that popular stories on the Internet appear almost daily. Breaking through to the top today is much more difficult than back in 1998, but inventions that won the fame lottery appear regularly. If we weren't talking about John Titor, we'd be talking about something else. Our time traveler is popular because he became one of those who became popular.

The story of John Titor has elements that work in any legend. The possibility of time travel attracts any of us. The author, like others, would like to experience it. We really want time travel to be possible.

Another element is distrust of the government: Civil war, martial law, struggle for respect for freedoms and democracy. Since the conspiracy theory has been alive, many would like to witness these events. There seems to be a connection between conspiracy theorists and Internet forum users. Therefore, John Titor represents many of the popular opinions.

To top it off, he has a time machine built into a sports car. Who wouldn't like this?

According to the author, connoisseurs of interesting stories should not like the time traveler John Titor. The author was asked many questions about this traveler, which forced him to study the materials. Surprise knew no bounds when it turned out how insignificant the information was. Some people believe in John Titor. The majority, who are familiar with Internet pranks, simply scoff at the time traveler. Reflecting on whether the story deserves the article, the author was not worried about its veracity. It would be more interesting to understand how we determine whether a paranormal activity is worth attention.

Strictly speaking, nothing should be rejected without close scrutiny. On the other hand, we are busy people and there is no time for a detailed examination of everything that surrounds us. A line should be drawn between the worthy and the unworthy. The author believes that the story of John Titor's time travel is beyond an imaginary line.

One of the pleasures of exploration is discovery. If someone posts stupid messages on the forums, maintaining them for years, it does not add value and veracity to the posted information. There is no room for discovery here, unlike many other legends that grew up on real events.

Enthusiasts of John Titor tried to come from the other side. In 2008, Italian TV planned a show looking for the real John Titor, the one who goes by that name. Very quickly they realized that it would be a boring show and switched to another topic.

The author avoids this path and, when choosing a topic, recommends rejecting stories beyond common sense, when, by all indications, we are dealing with a fantasy or a hoax. There are so many interesting and interesting things around us. Time travel? Jon Titor joke? Don't waste your time.

Who claimed to be from the future. The case is funny, but far from isolated. Moreover, many of these "time travelers" were not arrested and not dragged to a psychiatric hospital, but they listened to them and believed almost every word. However, without curiosities and frank hoaxes also could not do. We decided to recall some high-profile and amazing cases related to chrononauts.

Soldier from 2036
John Titor

Perhaps the most famous "time traveler", which caused an extraordinary stir, forcing even convinced skeptics to think about his words. Nobody has ever seen Titor himself - John preferred to communicate on the Internet. According to legend, Titor arrived from the year 2036, when the world lay in ruins after the invasion of a computer virus, the Third World War and a whole string of local conflicts. Titor's future looks like it's in cyberpunk novels of the mid-1980s and early 1990s: high digital technologies coexist with poverty and decline in other areas, half the world is destroyed by nuclear strikes, and the political map is completely different from the current one.

Schematic of John Titor's time machine

Titor preferred to speak in semi-hints, without naming specific dates and names, referring to "non-intervention" in the affairs of the past. Nevertheless, “non-intervention” did not work, and he poured out a lot of information on his grateful readers: in addition to fairly transparent hints, he, for example, explained in detail the structure of the time machine and the principle of time travel.

However, in terms of the number of prophecies that came true, Titor is close to Nostradamus, however, in terms of their quality, he can also compete with the famous predictor: everything is rather vague and can be explained by the forecast of a person who more or less understands the political situation of that time. In the main, Titor's predictions did not come true: in 2004-2005, there were no mass riots in the United States that would lead to a new civil war and split the country into several separate states. But it was on this ridge that the whole history of Titor was based. However, in 2015, the Third World War should break out, judging by the words of the chrononaut. True, Titor himself claims that the picture of the future that he painted is typical for the world in which he lives: time travel, according to Titor, involves moving from one parallel reality of the multiverse to another.

Mission Titor was to go back to 1975 and get hold of the IBM 5100 computer, which had a latent capability to fix "old UNIX-based systems, even before the spread of APL and Basic." In 2000, when his first posts on the Time Travel Institute forum appeared, John stopped by “for personal reasons”: to see his family and ... himself at the age of two. Doc Brown is crying tears of blood.

Hokan Nordqvist and Hokan Nordqvist from the future

Swede Håkan Nordqvist came home in 2006 and saw that the kitchen floor was flooded with water. Without thinking twice, he took out his tools and reached into the cupboard under the sink to fix the leak. Further, according to Hokan, the space of the closet suddenly expanded, and a light appeared ahead. Without blinking an eye, the Swede climbed towards the light and ... crawled out from under the sink in his house, but 36 years later. At the same time, says Nordqvist, he managed not only to meet with his 72-year-old self, but also to shoot a video confirmation. It is difficult to judge the similarity of the people captured by him: Nordqvist took a strategically correct position with his back to the sun. However, there are some similarities between men, except that an elderly person is slightly taller than Nordqvist, and in the period from 36 to 72 years, people usually do not grow. There is one more "evidence" - identical tattoos, but it is rather difficult to call this convincing evidence.

Billy Meyer and Dinosaur Photography

Swiss chrononaut Billy Meyer is famous not only for time travel, but also for close contacts with representatives of extraterrestrial intelligence. It was they, according to Billy, who helped him travel to the past, where he took several photographs. True, his most famous photo, which depicted a pterodactyl, turned out to be a highly out-of-focus shot of an illustration from the book “Life before Man”, and a photo with alien dancers turned out to be a screenshot of a TV screen on which the Dean Martin show was on. Subsequently, the wife of the Swiss confirmed that all the evidence of his words were forgeries and she personally took part in their manufacture.

Future Millionaire Andrew Karlssin

In 2002, the FBI carried out an operation to detain 44-year-old Andrew Karlsin, who was surprisingly lucky in stock transactions. The agents suspected that Karlsin had entered into a criminal conspiracy with the managers of stock trading companies, and with the help of insider information received from them, he received quite good income.

Having started playing with 800 dollars in his pocket, Andrew managed to increase his fortune to 350 million in two weeks, having completed only 126 transactions. This is what brought him to the attention of the US Securities Market Commission, and then the FBI.

The arrested person himself denied the existence of a collusion with representatives of the companies, instead declaring that he had come from the future - from the year 2256, where, of course, everything is known about how stock quotes fluctuated in 2002.

As soon as the story got into the newspapers, a whole hysteria began around the story of Karlsin. Someone claimed that such a person never existed before 2002, there is no mention of him in the databases. Stock brokers assured that, even with insider information, it was impossible to earn so much money in such a short time. True, all these people did not take into account one thing: the first mention of a time traveler appeared on the pages of Weekly World News, a tabloid famous for the most absurd stuffing and fiction.

Chronovisor of the Holy Father Pellegrino Ernetti

Benedictine monk, archaic music specialist, famous exorcist and quantum physicist Marcello Pellegrino Ernetti became known to the whole world in a completely different capacity. Unlike our other heroes, he did not claim to have come from the future or the past, and it is rather difficult to call what he described a journey. Ernetti claimed to have invented a kind of device - a chronovisor - that allowed him to look at any point in time and see the events that took place there.

As Ernetti himself said, he was inspired to create such an instrument by a passion for ancient music, or rather, for the ancient Roman opera Fiesta, the score of which was lost, but the original sound of which the holy father passionately desired to hear.

Interestingly, Ernetti himself mentioned the chronovisor only once, after which he did not mention this device in any of his works. But Ernetti's assistant and confidant, Father Francois Brun, spoke willingly and a lot about this device and even wrote a book dedicated to this story.

According to Brun, the operation of the chronovisor was based on the theory that there are no solid particles in the world, and all phenomena are waves, which, in fact, are the same Word, which, according to the Bible, was at the beginning of everything. By learning to read these waves, it was possible to call from the past any event that ever happened. The result of the work of the chronovisor, according to Brun, looked like a three-dimensional black-and-white hologram, but taking into account new technologies, color could also be added.

In order to check the operation of the device and make sure of its accuracy, the holy fathers first looked into the recent past by watching a speech by Benito Mussolini. Then we went further, seeing Napoleon, Cicero's speech and, in the end, the crucifixion of Christ.

Shortly thereafter, the device was dismantled, as it carried a potential threat: the ability to look into any event of the past could seriously undermine the current power of both political and religious structures. In addition, Brune argues, the chronovisor could be set to capture the thoughts of any person, and in unscrupulous hands this would lead to the establishment of a worldwide dictatorship.

Nevertheless, no convincing evidence of the existence of the chronovisor has been presented to the general public. The text of the "Fiesta" was recognized as a stylization composed by Ernetti himself, photographs of Jesus Christ, allegedly taken with the help of the device, turned out to be a fake, and not the most skillful one - they looked very much like a sculpture by woodcarver Lorenzo Valera, and the very principle of operation of the device, which allows both to see the events of the past on TV was described in the work of science fiction writer Thomas Sherred "Attempt" in 1947.

Marcello Pellegrino Ernetti

Photograph of Jesus Christ

Today we're going to delve into the internet legend of John Titor, who is said to have come from the future and made a stop in the year 2000 to post a few posts on the forums. This, my friends, is the beginning and the end of the story. However, we are skeptical and would like to know more. Something can be learned from rumors and legends, even in the complete absence of connection with history. The very existence of the legend is a question, and the weaker the evidence, the greater the temptation to dismiss it. This is irresponsible, and we will turn our attention to the time traveler John Titor.

The first acquaintance with the general public, in 1998, John Titor owes several messages on the radio "From Coast to Coast", which broadcast programs about paranormal phenomena. Posing as a time traveler from the year 2036, he warned of a global computer system failure at midnight on December 31, 1999, which would cause famine, frost and military conflict. The next time John Titor appeared was in 2000, on a forum called The Time Travel Institute. His nickname was TimeTravel_0. Under the same name, on the forum "From coast to coast", a prediction was posted about the beginning of the civil war in the United States in 2004, which would break the country into 5 regions and result in the Third World War, continuing until 2015. Among the predictions of John Titor is the Large Hadron Collider, built by that time. So the time traveler's prediction was that the LHC would give rise to small black holes. All, without exception, the predictions of John Titor did not come true.

According to John Titor, he arrived on a military mission and was sent to 1975 from 2036. The main task was to breathe life into the IBM 5100 computer, one of the early portable computers with a 5 inch black and white CRT screen. The time traveler claimed that there was a need to translate the ancestral code. Further, in the course of moving through the years, he decided to stop for a few years in 1998. John Titor made his movements in a car with a built-in time machine. It should be noted that this way of traveling is not new, the film "Back to the Future" in 1985 is well known to the public. It cannot be ruled out that the prankster chose this old-fashioned way of time travel, wanting to prank the forum visitors.

Since John Titor remained active on the forum even after the arrival of the year 2000, which showed the price of his prophecies, he had to explain the theory of parallel universes. What happened in one universe by 2036, according to John Titor, will not necessarily happen in a parallel one. Thus, events that happened by 2036 in his universe will not necessarily happen in ours. This is called a special condition. An unverifiable force majeure claim grants immunity to all time traveler claims.

Now the skeptic can discover the reason why John Titor became famous in Internet forums. Anyone can easily register and tell whatever they want. You can pretend to be Mickey Mouse, Napoleon or a time traveler from the future. People also sometimes seize the initiative, and there is no guarantee that only one person writes on behalf of John Titor. Likewise, there is no guarantee that calls and faxes on the radio are not sent by stupid pranksters. This happens several times a day.

John Titor differs from anonymous posts in his predictions of the future, which are easily verifiable over time. All predictions turned out to be fake, that is, exactly what you would expect from a random talker.

Why did the story of John Titor become famous? Why does it exist?

The Joker has managed to gain notoriety as a time traveler thanks to the development of the Internet and the Coast to Coast radio station, which is very friendly to such fictions and unverified facts. Nowadays, the density of information on the Internet is much higher, and there are more “time travelers” and other pranksters. Now it's much harder to get John Titor's fame.

At the same time, note that popular stories on the Internet appear almost daily. Breaking through to the top today is much more difficult than back in 1998, but inventions that won the fame lottery appear regularly. If we weren't talking about John Titor, we'd be talking about something else. Our time traveler is popular because he became one of those who became popular.

The story of John Titor has elements that work in any legend. The possibility of time travel attracts any of us. The author, like others, would like to experience it. We really want time travel to be possible.

Another element is distrust of the government: Civil war, martial law, struggle for respect for freedoms and democracy. Since the conspiracy theory has been alive, many would like to witness these events. There seems to be a connection between conspiracy theorists and Internet forum users. Therefore, John Titor represents many of the popular opinions.

To top it off, he has a time machine built into a sports car. Who wouldn't like this?

According to the author, connoisseurs of interesting stories should not like the time traveler John Titor. The author was asked many questions about this traveler, which forced him to study the materials. Surprise knew no bounds when it turned out how insignificant the information was. Some people believe in John Titor. The majority, who are familiar with Internet pranks, simply scoff at the time traveler. Reflecting on whether the story deserves the article, the author was not worried about its veracity. It would be more interesting to understand how we determine whether a paranormal activity is worth attention.

Strictly speaking, nothing should be rejected without close scrutiny. On the other hand, we are busy people and there is no time for a detailed examination of everything that surrounds us. A line should be drawn between the worthy and the unworthy. The author believes that the story of John Titor's time travel is beyond an imaginary line.

One of the pleasures of exploration is discovery. If someone posts stupid messages on the forums, maintaining them for years, it does not add value and veracity to the posted information. There is no room for discovery here, unlike many other legends that grew up on real events.

Enthusiasts of John Titor tried to come from the other side. In 2008, Italian TV planned a show looking for the real John Titor, the one who goes by that name. Very quickly they realized that it would be a boring show and switched to another topic.

The author avoids this path and, when choosing a topic, recommends rejecting stories beyond common sense, when, by all indications, we are dealing with a fantasy or a hoax. There are so many interesting and interesting things around us. Time travel? Jon Titor joke? Don't waste your time.

Translation Vladimir Maksimenko 2014

People have been dreaming about flying in a time machine for a long time. And they are tirelessly working on the creation of such an apparatus. But our children have already invented it and freely travel through temporary spaces! At least, this is what those who were convinced of their reality by the legendary John Titor think so.

Who is Titor?

Until January 27, 2001, the name of this person was almost unknown to anyone. Although the first message from him appeared at the beginning of November 2000, and two years earlier, he sent two letters by fax addressed to one TV broadcaster. The man said that his name was John Titor and that he flew in ... from 2036.

Starting from January 27, 2001, this allegedly mysterious alien literally "bombs" the world wide web with his messages, in which he tells people about what awaits them in the near future and how their children and grandchildren live in 2036. John Titor, whose predictions caused a stormy resonance in society, disappeared just as suddenly as he appeared. On the network, he spoke for a very short time - literally a month. But his story still haunts the minds of earthlings.

History of Titor's journey

So, John Titor, claimed that he was an American soldier, at the time of 2036 serving in the military unit of Tampa (Florida). In addition, he is a member of the government time travel program, in which he was sent to the past.

The ultimate goal of the “flight” should be 1975, where 5100 remained. It is this machine that is the ancestor of all portable computers, and people from the future need to get access to it in order to improve the software of new machines - its descendants. It was Titor who was sent on this mission, since his grandfather was involved in the creation of the IBM 5100. And “at the bus stop” in the 2000s, the traveler left solely for personal reasons. He needed to visit his family and return some photographs.

About the time machine

Naturally, the interlocutors of a strange man posing as an alien were interested in how exactly he got into the past. And the guest willingly answered all questions.

John Titor's time machine, in his own words, was released by General Electric. In general, the production of such units began in 2034, and CERN became a pioneer.

The model that Titor flew in is called the C204. The device is a gravitational distortion unit, which is usually mounted in an ordinary car and allows you to travel a distance of ten years per hour.

Describing the flight process itself, Mr. John Titor said that at the very beginning it is like starting an elevator, during which people in the cabin feel a jerk. While driving, the sun's rays go around the body of the car, so its passengers find themselves in complete darkness.

The time machine starts moving as soon as the “pilot” loads the coordinates into the system. Before the start, it is imperative to check whether the passengers are securely fixed in their seats. At 100% acceleration, the attractive force becomes very large. As a rule, the flight is well tolerated, but it is still better to fly on an empty stomach.

In addition to detailed descriptions, Titor also posted drawings and diagrams of his vehicle online, so that even today anyone can try to assemble their own personal time machine from them.

About predictions

Of course, after reading all this, a sane person will think that the noise was made out of nothing. After all, when communicating on the Web, anyone can pretend to be anyone. And why did people get the idea that John Titor was not an ordinary "fake", what are millions of? It wouldn't be too hard to come up with stories about a time machine... It could well have been considered so, if not for the predictions that Titor poured out of the bucket.

In fairness, it must be said that far from everything came true. Approximately half of the predictions of this legendary character remained empty words. But their author made sure in advance, giving out the theory of some parallel worlds.

Parallel Worlds by John Titor

The theory announced by Titor is based on the laws of quantum mechanics and the possibility of the existence of many worlds in the universe. Its essence lies, figuratively speaking, in the fact that a beam that has left a certain point will not necessarily reach the place that is predicted at the start. Due to the intervention of various forces, the path of the beam can be changed, and the finish is slightly shifted.

That is, if in the year 2000, for example, a war in a particular country is predicted in 10 years, this means that there are “iron” prerequisites for it. But people still have a chance to change the course of events. And there is, albeit small, but the likelihood that there will be no war. Or it will happen a little later. Or it won't be as big as expected.

John Titor from the future argued that the greater the time gap between the moment of prediction and the date of the predicted event, the less realistic the forecast.

It is with these arguments that Titor's "adepts" operate in a long-term dispute with skeptics, when the latter "poke their noses" at the former's unfulfilled predictions.

Predictions about the USA

The example of the war was given here not in vain. The time traveler John Titor, whose predictions concerned various spheres of human life, paid the most attention in his speeches to armed conflicts.

In particular, he said that a serious civil war awaits the United States. According to his forecasts, it was supposed to start in 2004 due to some twists and turns associated with the presidential election.

Teiter predicted a protracted hard times for the United States, lasting until 2015. He drew pictures in which people leave the cities en masse and, in order to survive, settle in the villages. By 2008, the conflict was completely out of control, and by 2012, the country, choked with blood, showed solid ruins in his forecasts. And an even more terrible event, the Third World War, put an end to all this.

John Titor's predictions about Russia (well, how could it be without it)

Titor saw Russia as a force that should end civil strife in the United States and completely change the world order. The predictor said that she would start the Third World War in 2015, inflicting a series of nuclear strikes on the megacities of the United States, as well as Europe and China.

A long course of the Third World Time Traveler did not predict. He argued that it would be a very short operation, destroying, however, Europe, China and part of the United States of America. And Russia will be given dominance on the world stage.

According to "prophetic John", three billion people will fall victim. The survivors will become wiser and more tolerant of each other. In a renewed world, family and social life will be most valued.

Tyter about residents of the 2000s

But if there are parallel worlds in the Universe, then maybe there is a chance to avoid such a terrible denouement? Shocked interlocutors asked the predictor about this. And he replied that, yes, there is such a possibility. It's just that she's very tiny.

The guest from the future considered earthlings of the “sample of the 2000s” sentenced to punishment, because they allow their rights to be violated, eat poisoned food, deliberately killing themselves, they are indifferent to the suffering of their neighbors…

And all this destroys, undermines society, like a worm. Sooner or later, the "end of the world" must come, which will cleanse the planet of rot. The mysterious soldier John declared that people living at the beginning of the third millennium are not loved and even despised by his current contemporaries, considering them to be a lazy, selfish and ignorant herd.

About future

But in the future, according to predictions, everything is completely different. People no longer eat junk food. They respect old age and cherish childhood. They take care of the orphans and the disadvantaged. Help each other. Actively participate in public life. And - most importantly - people have completely abandoned Nazism and racism.

As for the purely everyday moments of 2036, the clothes of earthlings will become more functional. Hats will be very popular, and bright colors will almost go out of fashion. With hair, no one will bother too much. Any frills will be a thing of the past. Women will simply grow long hair, and men will cut their hair short - that's all the "variety". Both sexes will be drafted into the army and fight.

Other "alien" predictions

One after another, John Titor gave birth to predictions. Their list grew by leaps and bounds. As it has become clear today, the most ambitious forecasts did not come true. And thank God! But some of Titor's predictions found their confirmation.

So, for example, he said that already in 2001, humanity will find a way to move in time. This will happen as soon as miniature black holes are discovered. People have not yet learned to travel through temporary spaces, but holes have been opened. And just when the seer John said.

Titor was not mistaken when he "saw" the war in Iraq, as well as a series of cataclysms in 2012. His words were confirmed: the world has survived "Sandy", abnormal snowfalls in Europe, and Russia. The planet was rocking, but it kept afloat. The promised end of the world did not happen in 2012. The alien also convinced everyone of this.

For China, he predicted the lightning-fast development of the space system, and for people - a smooth transition from television and cinema to personal "shows" (in our opinion - video blogs). And here he was not mistaken in the slightest!

Where did Titor go?

John Titor and his predictions seriously shook the world. People were seized with real hysteria, information about the "alien" was spreading at a breakneck pace. And suddenly, at the very peak of his popularity, he disappeared. Just as suddenly as it appeared. Without epilogues and farewells. His last post was dated March 2001.

But the legend of the guest from the future continues to live and acquire new details. The next surge occurs when one or another prediction comes true. Although the most hardened skeptics, of course, long ago “buried” Tithor the alien, writing him down as ordinary “fakes”. And, in addition to unfulfilled predictions, they have other arguments.

So, for example, they “poke their noses” at the public in the gross contradictions that John allowed in his speeches. One of them concerns money. Bringing up this topic, Titor sometimes said that in 2036 they are widely used by people, just like credit cards. And sometimes he argued that the centralized financial system did not survive to that time.

What is this? Some kind of deliberate cunning of an alien or a banal forgetfulness of a fraudster?

Investigation

Trying to answer the question that torments many, interested people even hired private detectives. The detectives managed to establish that there are no citizens named John Titor in the registration documents. And it was not in the foreseeable past. But in Florida there is a firm called the John Titor Foundation. And a certain John Haber works in it - a first-class computer specialist. And he may well have secret information about the IBM 5100 device, which the “alien” flaunted in front of a spellbound audience.

By the way, the above company does not even have an office space. The only thing that is assigned to her on a leasehold basis is a mailbox. Suspicious, of course. But the main question remains. For what???

Titor's trail

In the meantime, the doubters are looking for an answer to it, people who "believed" continue to carry information about their idol to the masses. A soldier who "fell" from 2036, for example, became the subject of a book called John Titor. Time Traveler's Story. She saw the light in 2003. A year later, a computer game based on the adventures of the alien was released, in 2006 his theory of traveling through temporary spaces was patented, and in 2009 the Japanese filmed an animated series based on the legendary story.

And hundreds of thousands of people live in the world who are sure: "John Titor" is a book that has not yet been finished. There will definitely be a sequel. Only when? And how? Wait and see.

1. Do not eat animal meat.
2. Do not copulate with strangers.
3. Learn how to handle firearms.
4. Learn the basics of water treatment and general sanitation.
5. Always have emergency kits on hand and have the skills to use them.
6. Find five people within 100 miles of your home to whom you can trust your life and maintain constant contact with them.
7. Eat less food.
8. Have the US Constitution at home and review it regularly.
9. Buy a bike and spare tires. Ride it more often.
10. Think about the question of what you can take with you if a situation arises in which you need to leave the house within ten minutes, knowing that there will be no return.

Time travel is a favorite subject of science fiction writers and the dream of their fans. However, there are those who claim that they actually came from the future - some are fleeing from the special services, some are trying to warn humanity about the impending disaster. told the stories of the most odious guests from the future.

Soldier from 2036

In 2000, the story of John Titor, who supposedly arrived from the year 2036, captured the minds of Americans. He registered on one of the resources and talked about his experience, casually demonstrating his time machine.

Titor admitted that he was a soldier who was sent back in time to deliver the IBM 5100 computer to scientists. The programmers of the future must fix bugs in it that will cause problems in 2038. However, Titor decided to temporarily stop in 2000 to talk with his family, collect photographs lost in a future war and prevent the coming catastrophe - the Third World War.

Titor suggested learning basic weapon skills and having everything ready to "leave the house in ten minutes and never return there." He even assembled a team of volunteers ready to go with him to 2036. “I do not set myself the goal of being believed,” Titor explained. - I'll tell you a little secret: no one loves you in the future. We consider you to be a generation of lazy, self-centered and utterly ignorant sheep. I think this should worry you more than my person."

Titor appointed a global catastrophe for 2015. It was supposed to begin with a Russian nuclear strike against the United States, which collapsed during the 2005 civil war. The cause of the war was the conflict between Arabs and Jews. As a result, almost the entire world would have to lie in ruins: Russia and Europe would have disappeared from the face of the planet, and only a few military bases remained of the United States.

Titor finally disappeared from the Internet in 2005, when one after another his predictions turned out to be false. In 2008, private detectives determined that neither John Titor nor his family existed. The only person to confirm Titor's existence was his lawyer, Larry Haber. Some fans still believe in the reality of Titor, and unfulfilled predictions are explained by a temporary paradox: since he told about them, they did not happen. The Habers, on the other hand, were simply friends of the guest's family from the future, with whom he stayed, - therefore, he accessed the Internet from their computer.

Nuclear strike on the bitcoin rich

In 2003, a story appeared on the entertainment resource Weekly World News about the arrest of an unusually successful economist. Someone named Andrew Carlssin allegedly made $350 million in two weeks on a risky investment with just $800. Such an exceptional case could not fail to attract the attention of the policemen who arrested the newly-minted rich man. During interrogation, he did not reveal fraudulent schemes, but admitted that he came from 2256. This was told to journalists by a source in the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Under interrogation, Karlsin admitted that he was too carried away: he planned to invest in both successful and unsuccessful business projects, but “it was too difficult to resist the temptation,” so all of his 126 investments brought him instant profit. According to journalists, they could not find any data about him until December 2002, as if before that Karlsin really did not exist.

For his release, he promised the government to tell the whereabouts of bin Laden and reveal the secret of the AIDS cure, but flatly refused to admit where the time machine was located and explain its device, as he was very afraid that the unit would fall "into the wrong hands." He was refused to be released from prison until an unknown well-wisher paid a bail of one million dollars for him. Karlsin was released, in April 2013 he was supposed to appear in court, but disappeared on the way to the hearing.

The story was picked up by many world media: publications about Karlsin appeared in The New Yorker, The Scotsman. But most of all, the mysterious story of Andrew Karlsin surprised not newspaper readers, but employees of the FBI and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Journalists literally tortured them with requests to comment on the “time traveler”. The refusal of the special services to comment on the Karlsin case only incited conspiracy theorists, who are sure that the authorities are simply hiding the truth.

His prophet was also found on the entertainment resource. In August 2013, a user under the nickname Luka_Magnotta wrote an appeal to the Americans with a request to abandon bitcoin. According to him, the use of cryptocurrency can lead to nuclear war, and he arrived from 2026 to warn humanity about this and make it stop in time.

Luca said that in his time, dollars familiar to people had already disappeared. After the cost of bitcoin reached a million dollars, humanity became disillusioned with other currencies and abandoned them: "Now all wealth exists in only two forms: bitcoins and land." The population, according to him, is suffering from hunger, since all the money is concentrated in the Citadels - completely robotic fortress cities where the cryptocurrency rich live. But the availability of money does not guarantee a comfortable life: at least every fourth bitcoin owner is tortured to find out his password.

Not everything is fine with politics either: most governments have been destroyed, as people prefer to hide income and stop paying taxes. Russian hackers stole 60 percent of Africa's wealth in two days, after which a civil war began, which only two of the richest countries, Saudi Arabia and North Korea, could stop.

Luca claimed he was planning a nuclear apocalypse to end the dominance of the bitcoin rich. With the help of 20 nuclear submarines, he is going to kill all underwater Internet cables and launch missiles into densely populated areas. He ended his story with a request to nip bitcoin in the bud because “he knows how this will all end.”

Magnotta's prediction was remembered in November 2017, when bitcoin reached the ten thousand dollar mark, as the "guest from the future" predicted.

The future is hazy

The latest fashion among self-proclaimed time travelers has been the display of photographs from the future. Guests from other times prefer to do it on YouTube-ApexTV channel dedicated to the paranormal. Only since the beginning of 2018, three time travelers have already shown their pictures: from the year 6000, 10000 and 2118. All photos are similar in one thing: for some reason they are not clear.

An alien from the year 6000 explains the blurry image by the fact that when traveling in time, they are distorted. He was also lucky that the same did not happen to his insides: according to him, scientists have observed this as well. He stated that he was born in the 20th century and participated in experiments in the 1990s, when researchers sent several people into the future, in different periods. He is forced to hide his name and face and change his voice to avoid being caught by the mysterious "they".

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According to the "guest from the future", this will be the world in a hundred years.

After 40 centuries, according to him, everyone will be able to teleport and move in time. But don't worry about time paradoxes: travelers will be invisible and will not be able to interfere with the course of history (how he was able to star in the video, he does not explain). The world will be ruled by artificial intelligence, devoid of emotions, it will also reduce people in size so that they take up a minimum of space and consume fewer resources.

A man who visited the year 10,000 attributed the fuzziness of the image to “a change in the electromagnetic properties of the Earth,” which caused cameras to work differently. According to him, while studying in America in 2008, he met a professor who offered him to fly into the future. After some hesitation, he made up his mind. According to him, in the future, grass grows everywhere, and skyscrapers are so high that their tops are not visible behind the clouds. All cars fly through the sky, and aliens walk on the ground. People also learned to fly, and the time traveler suggested that nanotechnology helps them in this. Soft robots and holograms were everywhere. He really wanted to fly into the future again, but when he came to the professor the next day, he was not at home, and the time machine disappeared without a trace.

Alexander Smith, who moved from 1981 to 2118, and then to 2018, that the government seized the original image from the future, and only a poor quality copy remained with him. According to him, he is wanted, so he lives in hiding and hides his real name. As for the future, the robots told him that "intelligent aliens will come to Earth in the middle of the 21st century." Smith called global warming the most terrible danger to humans and asked the inhabitants of 2018 to think about the environment “at least for the sake of their children and grandchildren.”

On the same channel, several interviews have already been released with a guest from 2030 under the pseudonym Noah. He even passed a polygraph test, and he passed the test with honor: to a direct question whether he was a guest from the future, he answered “yes”, and the polygraph showed that this was true.

Noah looks about 20 years old, but says that he is twice his age and retained the appearance of a young man thanks to the "secret medicine". According to him, scientists have learned to travel in time already 15 years ago, but hide it from the public. And only in 2028 the government will allow anyone who wants to go to the past or the future. Then humanity will go to Mars.

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According to him, by 2030, humanity will learn how to treat many forms of cancer, robots will run the house and almost everyone will have some kind of Google-glasses of the same power as today's computers. Bitcoins will finally come into circulation, but traditional money will not disappear either. Due to global warming, the climate will become hotter in the US and colder in Europe. He also said that the US president would be re-elected for a second term, but refused to provide evidence so as not to “cause a temporary paradox.”