People have been dreaming about flying in a time machine for a long time. And they are tirelessly working to create such a device. But our children have already invented it and are freely traveling through temporary spaces! At least, that’s what those whom the legendary John Titor was able to convince of his reality think.

Who is Titor?

Until January 27, 2001, the name of this man was almost unknown to anyone. Although the first message from him appeared in early November 2000, and two years earlier he sent two letters by fax addressed to one television worker. The man said that his name was John Titor and that he had arrived... from 2036.

Starting from January 27, 2001, this mysterious supposedly 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 strong resonance in society, disappeared just as suddenly as he appeared. He communicated online for only a short time - literally about a month. But his story still disturbs the minds of earthlings.

Titor's travel story

So, John Titor claimed that he is an American soldier, serving in the military unit of Tampa (Florida) at the time of 2036. In addition, he is a participant in the government's time travel program, as part of which he was sent back in time.

The final 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 gain 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 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, interlocutors strange man, posing as an alien, was 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 produced by General Electric. In general, the production of such units began in 2034, and CERN became the pioneer.

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

Describing the flight process itself, Mr. John Titor said that at the very beginning it is similar to the launch of an elevator, during which the people in the cabin feel a jerk. While driving Sun rays bend 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 coordinates into the system. Before the start, you must check whether passengers are securely fastened in their seats. With 100% acceleration, the force of attraction becomes very strong. As a rule, the flight is tolerated normally, but it is still better to fly on an empty stomach.

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

About predictions

Of course, after reading all this, a sane person will think that the fuss was made out of nothing. After all, when communicating on the Internet, anyone can pretend to be anyone. And why did people even think that John Titor was not an ordinary “fake”, like millions? It wouldn’t be very difficult to come up with stories about a time machine... It could have been so, if not for the predictions that Titor poured out like a bucket.

To be fair, it must be said that not everything came true. About half of the forecasts of this legendary character remained empty words. But their author hedged his bets in advance by issuing a theory of certain 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 ray leaving a certain point does not necessarily reach the place predicted at the start. Due to the intervention of various forces, the path of the beam may be changed and the finish may be slightly shifted.

That is, if in 2000, for example, a war is predicted in a particular country in 10 years, this means that the prerequisites for it exist “iron”. But people still have a chance to change the course of events. And there is a possibility, albeit small, 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 these arguments that Titor’s “adherents” operate in a long-term dispute with skeptics, when the latter “rub their nose” at the former’s unfulfilled predictions of the “newcomer.”

Predictions about the USA

The example of war was not given here in vain. Time traveler John Titor, whose predictions concerned various spheres of human life, paid 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 begin in 2004 due to some vicissitudes associated with the presidential elections.

Tyter predicted a protracted period of hardship for the United States, lasting until 2015. He drew pictures of people leaving cities en masse and settling in villages to survive. By 2008, the conflict was supposed to be completely out of control, and by 2012, the country, choked with blood, was in his forecasts complete ruins. And all this was put to an end by an even more terrible event - the Third World War.

John Titor's predictions about Russia (well, how could we not do without it)

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

The time traveler did not predict the long course of the Third World War. He claimed that it would be very short operation, which nevertheless destroys 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 victims. The survivors will become wiser and more tolerant of each other. In a renewed world, family and social life will be most valued.

Tater about the inhabitants of the 2000s

But if there are parallel worlds in the Universe, then perhaps there is a chance to avoid such a terrible outcome? Shocked interlocutors asked the fortuneteller about this. And he answered that, yes, such a possibility exists. Only it is very tiny.

The guest from the future considered earthlings of the “2000 model” to be sentenced to punishment because they allow their rights to be violated, they eat poisoned food, deliberately kill 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 stated that people living at the beginning of the third millennium are not liked and even despised by his current contemporaries, considering them 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 orphans and the disadvantaged. Help each other. Actively participate in public life. And - most importantly - people completely abandoned Nazism and racism.

As for purely everyday aspects of 2036, the clothes of earthlings will become more functional. Hats will be extremely popular, and bright colors will almost go out of fashion. No one will bother too much with hair. All sorts of frills will be a thing of the past. Women will simply grow their hair long, and men will cut their hair short - that’s all the “diversity”. Both sexes will be drafted into the army and fight.

Other predictions of the “alien”

John Titor made predictions one after another. Their list grew by leaps and bounds. As has already become clear today, the most ambitious forecasts have not come true. And thank God! But some of Titor’s predictions were confirmed.

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

Titor was not mistaken when he “saw” the war in Iraq, as well as a series of disasters in 2012. His words were confirmed: the world experienced Sandy, abnormal snowfalls in Europe and Russia. The planet swayed, but it stayed afloat. The promised end of the world did not happen in 2012. The alien also convinced everyone of this.

He predicted lightning-fast development for China 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 one bit!

Where did Titor go?

John Titor and his predictions seriously shook the world. People were gripped by real hysteria, information about the “alien” spread at breakneck speed. And suddenly, at the very peak of his popularity, he disappeared. Just as suddenly as it appeared. No epilogues or farewells. His last message dates back to March 2001.

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

For example, they rub the public’s nose into the gross contradictions that John allowed in his speeches. One of them concerns money. When raising 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 live up to those times.

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

Investigation

Trying to answer the question that plagues many, interested people even hired private detectives. Detectives were able to establish that there was no citizen named John Titor in the registration documents. And it hasn’t happened in the foreseeable past. But in Florida there is a company called the John Titor Foundation. And it employs a certain John Haber, a first-class computer specialist. And he may well possess secret information about the IBM 5100 device, which the “alien” flaunted in front of a captivated audience.

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

Titor's trail

And while those who doubt it are looking for an answer to it, people who “believe” continue to bring information about their idol to the masses. The soldier who fell from 2036, for example, became the hero of a book called John Titor. The story of a time traveler." She was released in 2003. A year later, a computer game based on the alien’s adventures was released; in 2006, his theory of traveling through temporary spaces was patented, and in 2009, the Japanese made an animated series based on the legendary story.

And there are hundreds of thousands of people in the world who are sure: “John Titor” is a book that has not yet been completed. There will definitely be a continuation. Just when? And what? Wait and see.

1. Do not eat animal meat.
2. Do not copulate with strangers.
3. Learn how to use firearms.
4. Learn the basics of water purification and general sanitation.
5. Always have emergency kits on hand and know how to use them.
6. Find five people within 100 miles of your home who you can trust with 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. Consider the question of what you could take with you if a situation arose in which you needed to leave the house within ten minutes, knowing that there would be no return.

There is hardly a person who would not dream of learning about what awaits us and our planet in the future. Is it possible to hope to meet someone who has already been there and probably knows about the upcoming events? Most likely, many will say that such a development of events is nothing more than the plot of a science fiction film and real life such a meeting cannot happen. Of course, this statement will seem surprising to some, but many say that a meeting with a guest from the future, whose name is John Titor, has already taken place. Is it really? Let's try to find out.

Who is John Titor? This is a man who proclaimed himself a time traveler, a guest from the future who came to us from 2036. John Titor literally shook up numerous Internet forums of the early 21st century. The discussions and disputes that took place there concerned the predictions given to them. They say that some of the events described in his messages did occur. But the identity of this man still remains a mystery.

First messages

Who John Titor was (sometimes in Russian transcription the surname sounds like “Titor”) was not known until January 27, 2001. And this is despite the fact that this man left his first messages on the Internet back on November 2, 2000 .

However, then they were signed a little differently - TimeTravel. Two years earlier, on July 29, 1998, they sent two faxes to a late-night talk show host. These messages said that he was a time traveler, had been here since April of this year and would soon be heading back.

Titor's statements

Appearing on the Internet, this man left many predictions there. Some of them were very specific and did not allow for double interpretation. Others were rather vague.

John Titor has outlined a terrifying future for readers. In it, the United States was divided into five small countries. Infrastructure and environment The once powerful America was destroyed due to nuclear war. Many world powers were simply destroyed.

At the end of March 2001, the Internet stopped receiving messages from the time traveler who John Titor declared himself to be. Nobody knows where he is now. However, all of his predictions were saved by users on their hard drives, as well as on websites he visited. And after 2001, this person’s messages are published on the Internet, sometimes in a very modified form.

The story of John Titor is considered legendary today. It was reflected in a book about a traveler, in computer game, based on his adventures. Japanese filmmakers made a film about John Titor in the form of an anime series.

Interestingly, the principle of time travel, which was outlined by John, was patented in 2006. Not bad for a person whom reasonable citizens consider just an Internet troll.

Travel history

How did John Titor end up in our time? He claims to be an American soldier from the future. The unit in which he serves is based in Tampa, Florida. This man's messages say that he was made a participant in a government project in 1975. The task assigned to John is that he will have to get to the IBM 5100 computer. Why was he chosen for such a responsible mission? An explanation for this was also given by Titor. This happened due to the fact that the traveler’s paternal grandfather was directly involved in the assembly and programming of the IBM 5100.

Why was John Titor in 1998? The time traveler's story describes him making only a short stop in the past for personal reasons. Allegedly, he wished to return photographs lost during the future civil war. John wanted to visit his family and also meet himself at the age of three.

Autobiography

What did John Titor tell the forum participants about himself? The date of birth of this person remains unclear. Only the year is known. According to Titor, he was born in 1998. At the age of thirteen, the boy himself decided to serve in the army. He also helped his father work, transporting cargo along the river.

At 31, John entered college. After this, he was recruited to participate in the Time Travel program.

According to Titor, in this unit, where seven other people serve besides him, he has the rank of major. Travelers are sent on various missions during the time period from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Johnson said he appreciates old rock and roll and classical music. He is a passionate sailing enthusiast. His hobbies include swimming, online games and cards, reading and communicating with foreigners. Titor is an agnostic in his worldview, and by religion he is a Christian who worships the Sabbath. He is married. He has two sons and lives with his family in the state of Florida, in Tampa. John Titor did not leave a photo with his interlocutors.

Experts' opinions

The computer John Titor is talking about was one of the first portable devices capable of running now-obsolete programming languages. This is IBM, supplemented by Basic and APL. John wrote on the Internet that in the future there was a need for a system for debugging a wide variety of computer programs. He claimed that Linux would have some problems in 2038.

According to Bob Dabka, an IBM engineer, Titor's statements were correct. Indeed, the IBM 5100 had a little-known capability for system debugging and emulation. And this strengthens the position of Titor’s supporters. After all, in 2000 and 2001 such information was not available to the general public. The time traveler himself said that such a function will appear only in 2036. At this time, the Linux operating system will serve as the basis of all computer systems.

However, such a possibility of emulation is now well known to specialists. In addition, it was repeatedly commented on by publications covering topics not only of the IBM 5100, but also of software microcode in general. References to this fact were available on the Internet in 1999 and clearly preceded the messages received from Titor. From this we can clearly conclude that the one who seemed to readers as a time traveler knew the IBM 5100 well.

Time Machine

Time traveler John Titor has been answering questions from online forum members for months. He described future events using poetic phrases, and constantly talked about the fact that there were other realities in the world.

Time traveler John Titor spoke about the vehicle that took him to 1998. At the same time, using extremely complex algorithms, he explained how the machine he arrived in worked and provided grainy photographs of it.

Judging by the description of this device, it consisted of the following:

• two magnetic units required to generate a double microsingularity;
• an electronic injection manifold that measures mass and gravity in a microsingularity;
• cooling and X-ray protection systems;
• gravity sensors and systems for blocking changes in gravity;
• three main computers.

The time machine came with a User's Guide, which was also published by the traveler on the Internet.

As John Titor said, the time machine was originally installed in a 1967 Chevrolet Corvette. Then it was transferred to an all-wheel drive car.

Reasoning about the quantum model of the world

In his messages, Titor wrote that the Everett-Wheeler theory is absolutely correct. According to this model, each plausible quantum solution occurs in a separate “universe.” According to the time traveler, this explanation was the reason for resolving the controversy surrounding the “Grandfather Paradox.” So, based on the quantum logic of reasoning, killing one’s grandfather is simply impossible.

After all, after this a new universe will certainly be formed, where the old man will not exist. In addition, the old world will definitely remain, where everything will be fine with grandfather. Similar theory found its reflection in the film "Back to the Future". In this regard, all quantum events, results and states that take place are completely real.

Predictions

Of course, the whole story could well have been made up by a simple science fiction fan. In order to present it as something other than a cheap joke, the author had to provide evidence. And they became predictions. That is, information that was unknown at the time Titor’s messages appeared on the Internet. Evidence of the veracity of the story also included some ambiguous statements, which, of course, the researchers discovered.

Titor hedged his story with arguments about the laws of quantum mechanics and the existence of many worlds whose events differ from ours. However, he was still careless in his statement that the differences between realities are minimal. And he was deeply mistaken. Today it has become obvious that these differences are still quite significant. All this casts great doubt on the time travel story. After all, the main events predicted by Titor never happened.

The soldier's main prediction from the future concerned the upcoming civil war in the United States. What did John Titor say about her? The traveler's predictions clearly indicated that the conflict would develop in 2004, during the presidential campaign. Moreover, his reports claim that the situation is constantly deteriorating until the entire country is out of control. This will supposedly happen in 2008.

Titor also wrote that in 2011, as a thirteen-year-old boy, he had to fight in an infantry unit. Peace, according to his stories, came only in 2015. However, it was preceded by a short but very intense Third World War, which claimed 3 billion human lives.

What predictions did John Titor make about Russia? He claimed that it would be she who would launch a nuclear strike in 2015 aimed at big cities USA, China and Europe. The American Federal Empire will be completely destroyed. However, part of its territory, for which Titor fought, will emerge victorious, taking Russia as an ally. China and the European Union will also be destroyed. After the end of hostilities, the country will have new capital. It will be the city of Omaha, which is located in the state of Nebraska.

Despite the clear description of specific events, the causes of World War III are indicated by Titor very vaguely. He speaks only about its main preconditions, which were overpopulation and border conflicts. At the same time, he points to the conflict between Jews and Arabs as one of the main milestones preceding the war.

Evaluating Predictions

Was John Titor right? Fortunately, this man’s predictions did not come true. And we can talk about this with firm confidence, since all the deadlines mentioned by John have passed. This would make it possible to completely forget the failed prophet. However, Titor's claim that there are a large number of worlds worked well here. It may follow from this that the journey of the American soldier began not in our reality, but in a parallel universe. Thus, all events in our world can go completely differently. And here it is difficult to accuse a time traveler of lying.

Another of Titor's prophecies concerns CERN's discovery of a way to travel through time. And this, according to him, should have happened in 2001, immediately after the discovery of miniature black holes. To prove the veracity of his facts, John Titor (time traveler) even posted a photo, albeit unclear, of a time machine. However, this did not happen either. To be fair, it is worth saying that miniature black holes were actually discovered during this period.

Titor’s successful prediction was also a statement about the coming war in Iraq. He was also right that no weapons of mass destruction would be found.
Today it is impossible for our contemporaries to assess future events. The time traveler describes the year 2036 as a period of restoration of the world after numerous disasters. John reports on the increasing role of religion, but the falling prestige of large church communities. By 2036, according to a visitor from the future, people began to work more. Moreover, more attention began to be paid agriculture. AIDS was never eradicated in the future, and high-energy physics researchers discovered “strange things.”

Exposure

Most commentators immediately drew an analogy between the story that appeared on the Internet and a classic science fiction post-apocalyptic novel. Of course, many elements of the time traveler's story can work in any legend. For example, moving from one century to another. The opportunity to travel like this is appealing to many, and most of us still wish it were true.

Another important element the created legend represents distrust of the government. The civil war and martial law described in John's messages, as well as the struggle to respect democracy and freedoms, are nothing more than the implementation of a conspiracy theory. And many people would like to witness such events. In this case, we can say that John Titor collected the most popular opinions in his stories. To top it all off, he used nothing less than a sports car to travel through time. This should appeal to a lot of people.

Yes, there are people who believe in the existence of an American soldier from the future. However, those familiar with Internet pranks simply scoff when they hear about a traveler from a possible parallel world. Skeptics cite Titor's contradictory stories as an example. So, in one of his messages, he talked about how credit cards and money are widely used in his world. Somewhat later, he argued that there was simply no centralized banking system in 2036. In addition, according to Titor's stories, he moved back in time to prevent the upcoming world war. But at the same time, answering questions about the future, he insisted that it was too late to change the world.

Be that as it may, the legend that appeared on the Internet continues to develop. After all, humanity does not yet know a reliable way to distinguish an honest person from a fraudster. Where is this time traveler now? Maybe he lives quietly among us, or maybe, having completed his mission, he moved into a parallel dimension? We will never know.

I want to believe

Why don’t chronotourists, who arrived in our time from the distant future on an excursion, fall right on our heads? Some explain this by saying that the time machine has not yet been invented, and time travel is impossible before the moment when it happens - a kind of defense mechanism of the Universe to prevent the occurrence of insoluble time paradoxes. Others argue that traveling into the past is impossible: whatever happened, happened, the river of time flows only in one direction - into the future. The most pragmatically minded people generally consider time travel to be a fairy tale like “ Star Wars”, the American landing on the moon and other gremlins. However, if we do not see chronotourists, this does not mean that they do not exist.

One of the most famous time travelers was named John Titor. He wasn't a chronotourist, he was a soldier from the future, just like Kyle Reese from The Terminator. Titor arrived from 2036 in our time to find an IBM 5100 computer running on a unique software code that could solve the 2038 Problem for UNIX systems. In addition, in 2015, World War III will break out, killing about 3 billion people, the United States will disintegrate into five parts, and the world will cease to exist as we know it.

The John Titor Story

Even after all these years, there is still debate about when exactly this story began. The starting point was November 2, 2000, when someone under the nickname TimeTravel_0 began posting on the Time Travel Institute forum. At first, the conversation was only about the basic principles of time travel and some technical details of creating a time machine. The name John Titor first appears on the forum of American radio host Arthur Bell, creator of the paranormal show Coast to Coast AM, broadcast in the USA and Canada. Gradually, John Titor begins to make predictions about the future. More and more people joined the discussion, asked questions about time travel, asked why he was here, were interested in the technologies necessary to create a time machine and, of course, future events full of wars and disasters. Titor's last post was dated March 21, 2001, where he claimed to be going back to 2036. Since then, John has never appeared online again.

Facts about John Titor.

• John Titor was born in 1998
• In 2036, Titor and his family live in Tampa, Florida.
• Titor listens to classical music and old rock and roll
• Titor didn't know if anyone believed him in 2001
• In addition to Titor, his unit includes 7 more time travelers who perform various missions from the 60s to the 80s
• Titor could not communicate from 2001 with his native timeline in 2036
• Titor's true passion is sailing

John Titor's unit emblem

John Titor's theory of time travel

Titor argued that the Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI) theory, formulated by American physicist Hugh Everett in 1957, is correct. According to his conclusions, every event has an infinite number of versions, determined by a complex world function that can describe the universe in countless ways, at the same time, uncertainty (remember a simultaneously living and dead cat in a box?) does not arise, since it is impossible to observe the universe from outside its boundaries . The MMI should not be confused with the Multiverse, which consists of a collection of an infinite number of parallel worlds. In Everett's theory, the world exists in a single copy, it is simply described different ways. Titor argued that based on this, the grandfather paradox is absurd, he can kill his “own” grandfather, but it will be a “different” grandfather, that is, this will not prevent Titor’s birth and the paradox will not arise.

Time Machine

You can look at the drawings and diagrams of John Titor's time machine and, if you wish, build your own copy to go back to the future.

Let's skip the technical details and focus on the sensations of a time traveler, which Titor talked about in some detail in his posts.

After loading the coordinates into the system, the time machine begins to accelerate. A beep and flashing light will begin the countdown and you must ensure that you are securely seated in your seat. You almost immediately find yourself inside the gravitational field generated by the machine. It's like the jerk you'd get if you were going up quickly in an elevator. When the car accelerates to 100%, the force of gravity increases. Its strength is directly proportional to how far you are directly from the device. No serious ones side effects does not arise, but before sending to the past it is better not to eat anything.

You won't see any flashes and bright light, from the outside it will look like light rays are bending around the car. Your eyes should be protected with dark glasses as there will be a flash of intense ultraviolet radiation.

Titor describes what follows as “like driving under a rainbow, and then darkness comes until the very end.” Then you hear the sound characteristic of a voltage drop and a slight crackling sound of static electricity.

Details of some predictions

All of the self-proclaimed time traveler's posts were written before the events of September 11, the crash of the space shuttle Columbia and the start of the Second Iraq War. Many of Titor's followers believe that he knew about these events, but did not speak about them directly, only dropping hints and giving hints. John Titor answered a huge number of questions and is believed to have foreseen many of the events that actually happened later. The most important thing in his predictions was that he proclaimed the truth of MMI with an infinite number various options the development of one and the same event, where, under the influence of our actions, the universe can “transition” from one line to another. Thus, the future can be changed, moreover, it has already changed under the influence of John Titor, which means that not all of his predictions will come true. Titor himself claimed that his universe differs from ours by 1-2%, but the longer he is here, the greater the differences become.

Some John Titor predictions and answers to questions about 2036:

• AIDS is still not defeated, and progress is being made in cancer treatment.
• Status: unknown

• CERN will discover “strange things” through high-energy physics experiments.
• Status: the hysteria around the collider has died down a little, the “God Particle” has been found

• Printed books are still being published.
• Status: unknown

• “Movies” and “TV” still exist, but are segmented throughout the web. Many people make their own “shows”.
• Status: There is some trend towards execution. Everyone is now their own video blogger.

• There will be some natural disasters in 2012. It won't be the end of the world.
• Status: correct. “Sandy” passed, Europe was abnormally covered with snow, Venice and the Krasnodar region were flooded, but the world survived.

• The US capital will be moved to Omaha, Nebraska.
• Status: unknown

• After 2004 the Olympic Games will not be held
• Status: incorrect

• The Chinese space program is developing rapidly.
• Status: correct. In 2011, China launched its own orbital station, and already in 2012 the first manned flight took place.

• Year 2000 (Y2K) was a terrible disaster that resulted in massive power outages and thousands of people dying on America's highways while trying to get to warmer places.
• Status: incorrect. Issue 2000 was a well-executed marketing campaign.

Faxes to Arthur Bell

The last prediction was not made online, because Y2K had already passed without serious consequences, and Titor could not have known this. Some sources claim that this story began in 1998, when Arthur Bell received two faxes from John Titor. Full text of messages and .

Titor's adherents explain this inconsistency by saying that the future was changed. However, there is no reason to assume that the faxes and messages on the forums were sent by the same person. Moreover, there is no way to determine whether these faxes were actually sent in 1998, or if they were miraculously found after 2001, when the story gained popularity. Titor himself never commented on the existence of faxes, which serves as further proof of Bell’s rich imagination.

Influence on pop culture

The legend of John Titor most clearly manifested itself in the series of games, manga and anime Steins;Gate, in which John Titor is a soldier from the future who arrived in 2010 to find the IBN 5100 computer running on a unique program code, capable of decrypting SERN databases. an organization that in the future built a time machine and with its help gained world domination.

Hoaxes and legends have left their mark on popular culture and contributed to the development of unexpected Scottish tourist destinations in Loch Ness and Roswell, New Mexico. However, the story of John Titor was a unique example of how an ordinary Internet discussion made it out of the clunky Internet 1.0 into the real world and merged into popular culture. Titor has appeared in the media, a book, a play, a manga, a visual novel, an anime, and even gave rise to patenting some of his theories about time travel. Legends are now born online, just as Gibson and Sterling predicted.

Time travel is a favorite plot among science fiction writers and the subject of dreams of their fans. However, there are also those who claim that they actually arrived from the future - some fleeing from the special services, some in an attempt to warn humanity about the impending disaster. told the stories of the most odious guests from the future.

Soldier from 2036

In 2000, the minds of Americans were captured by the story of John Titor, who allegedly arrived from 2036. He registered on one of the resources and talked about his experience, demonstrating his time machine in between.

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

Titor suggested learning basic firearms skills and keeping everything at the ready to “leave the house in ten minutes and never return.” He even gathered a team of volunteers ready to go with him to 2036. “I don’t set myself the goal of being believed,” Titor explained. - I'll tell you little secret: No one will love you in the future. We consider you a generation of lazy, self-centered and incredibly ignorant sheep. I think this should worry you more than me.”

Titor scheduled a global catastrophe for 2015. It was supposed to begin with a Russian nuclear strike on 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 disappear from the face of the planet, and only a few military bases would remain from 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 investigators 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 explain the unfulfilled predictions as a temporary paradox: since he spoke about them, they did not happen. The Habers were simply friends of the guest’s family from the future, with whom he was staying, and therefore, from their computer he accessed the Internet.

Nuclear attack on the Bitcoin rich

In 2003, the entertainment resource Weekly World News published a story about the arrest of an unusually successful economist. Andrew Carlssin allegedly made $350 million in two weeks on risky investments, investing just $800. Such an exceptional case could not fail to attract the attention of the police, who arrested the newly rich man. During interrogation, he did not reveal the fraudulent schemes, but admitted that he arrived from 2256. A source in the Securities and Exchange Commission told reporters about this.

During interrogation, Karlsin admitted that he got 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 profits. According to journalists, they could not find information about him until December 2002, as if Karlsin really did not exist before that.

For his release, he promised the government to tell the government where bin Laden was and to reveal the secret of the cure for AIDS, but he flatly refused to admit where the time machine was located and explain its structure, since he was very afraid that the unit would fall “into the wrong hands.” They refused to release him from prison until an unknown well-wisher paid his $1 million bail. Karlsin was released and was due to appear in court in April 2013, but disappeared on his way to the hearing.

The story was picked up by many world media: publications about Karlsin appeared in The New Yorker and The Scotsman. But most of all misterious story Andrew Karlsina 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 intelligence services to comment on Karlsin’s case only emboldened conspiracy theorists, who were confident that the authorities were simply hiding the truth.

The entertainment resource also found its own prophet. In August 2013, a user under the nickname Luka_Magnotta wrote an appeal to Americans asking them to abandon Bitcoin. According to him, the use of cryptocurrency could lead to nuclear war, and he came from 2026 to warn humanity about this and force them to stop in time.

Luke said that in his time, the dollars familiar to people had already disappeared. After the value of Bitcoin reached a million dollars, humanity became disillusioned with other currencies and abandoned them: “Now all wealth exists only in 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 fortified cities where the cryptocurrency rich live. But having money does not guarantee a comfortable life: at least every fourth Bitcoin owner is tortured to find out his password.

Politics is also not all right: most governments were destroyed, as people preferred to hide their income and stopped paying taxes. Russian hackers stole 60 percent of Africa's wealth in two days, after which a civil war began that only two could stop. richest countries: Saudi Arabia and North Korea.

Luca claimed that he was planning a nuclear apocalypse to end the dominance of the Bitcoin rich. With the help of 20 nuclear submarines, he plans to cut all underwater Internet cables and launch missiles into densely populated areas. He concluded his story with a request to nip Bitcoin in the bud, because “he knows how it will all end.”

Magnotta’s prediction was remembered in November 2017, when Bitcoin reached the ten thousand dollar mark, as predicted by the “guest from the future.”

The future is unclear

The latest fad among self-proclaimed time travelers is the display of photographs from the future. Guests from another time prefer to do this on YouTube- ApexTV channel dedicated to paranormal phenomena. Just since the beginning of 2018, three time travelers have already shown their photographs: from the year 6000, 10,000 and 2118. All the photographs are similar in one thing: for some reason they are not clear.

An alien from the year 6000 explains the blurriness of the photo by saying that when traveling through time, they are distorted. He was lucky that the same thing did not happen to his insides: according to him, scientists have observed this too. 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, to 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 testimony of the “guest from the future,” this is how the world will be in a hundred years.

In 40 centuries, he said, everyone will be able to teleport and move through time. But there is no need to worry about time paradoxes: the travelers will be invisible and will not be able to interfere with the course of history (he does not explain how he was able to appear in the video). The world will be ruled by artificial intelligence, devoid of emotions, which will also reduce people in size so that they take up minimal space and consume fewer resources.

A man who visited the year 10,000 explained the blurriness of the image by “changes in the electromagnetic properties of the Earth,” due to which cameras began to work differently. According to him, while studying in America in 2008, he met a professor who invited him to fly to the future. Having doubted a little, he made up his mind. According to him, in the future, grass grows everywhere, and skyscrapers are so tall that their tops cannot be seen behind the clouds. All the cars fly in the sky, and aliens walk on the earth. People also learned to fly, and the time traveler suggested that nanotechnology helps them with this. There were soft robots and holograms 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 had disappeared without a trace.

Having moved from 1981 to 2118, and then to 2018, Alexander Smith, that the original photo from the future was confiscated from him by the government, and he was left with only a poor quality copy. 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 “smart aliens will come to Earth in the middle of the 21st century.” Smith called global warming the most terrible danger to humans and asked residents of 2018 to think about the environment “at least for the sake of their children and grandchildren.”

The same channel has already published several interviews with a guest from 2030 under the pseudonym Noah. He even took a lie detector test, and he passed the test with honor: when asked directly whether he was a guest from the future, he answered “yes,” and the polygraph showed that it was true.

Noah looks about 20 years old, but claims that he is twice as old and has retained the appearance of a young man thanks to a “secret medicine.” According to him, scientists learned to travel in time 15 years ago, but they hide it from the public. And only in 2028 will the government allow anyone to travel to the past or future. Then humanity will go to Mars.

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According to him, by 2030, humanity will learn to treat many forms of cancer, robots will run the house, and almost everyone will have some kind of Google glasses with the same power as today's computers. Bitcoins will finally come into circulation, but traditional money will not disappear either. Because of global warming The climate will become hotter in the USA, 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 time paradox.”

Who claimed to have come from the future. The case is funny, but far from isolated. Moreover, many of these “time travelers” were not arrested or dragged to a psychiatric hospital, but they listened to them and believed almost every word. However, it was not without oddities and outright hoaxes. We decided to recall several high-profile and surprising cases related to chrononauts.

Soldier from 2036
John Titor

Perhaps the most famous “time traveler”, who caused an extraordinary stir, forcing even convinced skeptics to think about his words. No one had ever seen Titor himself - John preferred to communicate on the Internet. According to legend, Titor arrived from 2036, when the world lay in ruins after the invasion of a computer virus, World War III and a whole string of local conflicts. Titor's future looks like something out of cyberpunk novels from the mid-1980s - early 1990s: high digital technologies coexist with poverty and decline in other areas, half the world is destroyed by nuclear strikes, and political map not at all similar to the current one.

John Titor time machine diagram

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

However, in terms of the number of prophecies that have come true, Titor is close to Nostradamus, however, in terms of their quality he can also compete with famous fortune teller: everything is quite 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 have led to a new civil war and split the country into several individual states. But it was on this ridge that the entire history of Titor was based. However, the Third World War should break out in 2015, judging by the words of the chrononaut. True, Titor himself claims that the picture of the future that he painted is characteristic of the world in which he lives: time travel, according to Titor, involves moving from one parallel reality multiverse to another.

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

Håkan Nordqvist and Håkan 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 the tools and reached into the cabinet under the sink to fix the leak. Further, according to Hokan, the space of the closet suddenly expanded, and 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, Nordqvist claims, he managed not only to meet with his 72-year-old self, but also to film video confirmation. It is difficult to judge the similarity of the people he captured: Nordqvist took a strategically correct position with his back to the sun. However, some similarities between men are observed, except that old man slightly taller than Nordqvist, and in the period from 36 to 72 years old people usually do not grow. There is one more “evidence” - identical tattoos, but it is quite 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 go back in time, where he took several photographs. True, his most famous photograph, depicting a pterodactyl, turned out to be a very out-of-focus shot of an illustration from the book “Life Before Man,” and the photo with alien dancers turned out to be a snapshot of the TV screen on which the Dean Martin show was shown. Subsequently, the Swiss wife confirmed that all the evidence of his words were fakes and she personally took part in their production.

Future Millionaire Andrew Karlssin

In 2002, the FBI conducted an operation to detain 44-year-old Andrew Karlsin, who was amazingly lucky in stock transactions. As the agents assumed, Karlsin entered into a criminal conspiracy with managers of companies trading shares, and with the help of insider information received from them, received very good income.

Having started playing with $800 in his pocket, Andrew managed to increase his fortune to $350 million in two weeks, making 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 conspiracy with representatives of the companies, instead stating that he arrived from the future - from 2256, where, of course, everything is known about how stock quotes fluctuated in 2002.

As soon as the story penetrated the newspapers, a whole hysteria began around Karlsin’s story. Someone claimed that such a person never existed before 2002; there is no mention of him in databases. Stock brokers insisted 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 the time traveler appeared on the pages of Weekly World News - a tabloid famous for the most absurd falsehoods and fabrications.

Chronovisor of Holy Father Pellegrino Ernetti

Benedictine monk, specialist in archaic music, famous exorcist and specialist in quantum physics Marcello Pellegrino Ernetti became known to the whole world in a completely different capacity. Unlike our other heroes, he did not claim that he came from the future or the past, and what he described was quite difficult to call a journey. Ernetti claimed that he had invented a device - a chronovisor - that made it possible to look into any point in time and see the events that took place there.

As Ernetti himself said, he was prompted to create such a device by his passion for ancient music, or more precisely, for the ancient Roman opera “Fiesta,” the score of which was lost, but the original sound of which the holy father passionately wanted to hear.

It is interesting that 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 Bruhn, 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 very Word that, according to the Bible, was in the beginning of everything. Having learned to read these waves, it was possible to call up from the past any event that had ever happened. The result of the chronovisor's work, according to Brun, looked like a three-dimensional black and white hologram, but taking into account new technologies, it was possible to add color.

In order to check the operation of the device and make sure of its accuracy, the holy fathers first looked into the recent past, watching the speech of Benito Mussolini. Then we moved on, seeing Napoleon, Cicero's speech and, ultimately, the crucifixion of Christ.

Soon after this, 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. Moreover, Bruhn argues, the chronovisor could be configured to capture the thoughts of any person, and in unscrupulous hands this would lead to the establishment of a worldwide dictatorship.

However, no convincing evidence of the existence of the chronovisor has ever been presented to the general public. The text of “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 wood carver Lorenzo Valera, and the very principle of operation of the device, which allows to see the events of the past on television was described in the 1947 work of science fiction writer Thomas Sherred “The Attempt.”

Marcello Pellegrino Ernetti

Photo of Jesus Christ