This Paranormal Life - #394 US Military Time Traveler from 2036 - John Titor

Episode Date: November 26, 2024

The US military is, historically, at the bleeding edge of technology. Every minor advance in technology used to further fine tune the American war machine. What if they discovered the ability to time travel, wouldn’t they do everything they can to exploit it? And begs the question — if the military did develop time travel, how would we know? Some of these questions were answered one day in the year 2000 when a man claiming to be a military operative from the future, logged on a forum and started telling all. This is the story of John Titor.Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTubeJoin our Secret Society Facebook CommunitySupport us on Patreon.com/ThisParanormalLife to get access to weekly bonus episodes!Buy Official TPL Merch! - thisparanormallife.com/storeIntro music by www.purple-planet.comEdited by Philip ShackladyResearch by Ewen Friers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is the door to the Hollow Earth in the Mariana Trench? Is it called cursive writing because it's cursed? Answers to these questions and more on this episode of This Paranormal Life! Hello and welcome back to This Paranormal Life, the weekly comedy podcast where every Tuesday we get to the bottom of a different paranormal tale, deciding by the end whether we, me, Kit Kermelvenna, this guy sitting across from me, Mr. Rory Parrs, think it's really paranormal or not. Rory, how the hell are you doing today? I'm doing pretty good, Kit. Wow, what a roller coaster the last week has been.

You and I were just in Puerto Rico investigating a haunted Burger King. But now we're back. Now we are back in sunny London. And it's been a bit of a strange morning to be fair because I'm back in the office we have in London today. And before we left, we were coming up to Halloween, but we kind of missed Halloween. So now I'm back in the office.

It's November. I'm the only one in here, but the place is still filled with bats and pumpkins and cauldrons. I feel quite strange. I feel like maybe this is what it feels like to be Dracula. Kind of just every day alone in a castle filled with bats. You know, I'm, I feel like I'm just calling up my buddies being like, Oh, do you want to get a beer or something this weekend?

You can count, there's plenty of room in the studio. Because Phil's not in either, it's just me. And your friends are kind of like, you could drop the voice, man. It just feels like you're kind of a little too embarrassed and just ask us straight up as friends. You're trying to put a funny little spin on it. Right, but that would be me admitting that I'm lonely

and I obviously can't do that as a human. So I kind of have to... It's like... Dracula doesn't get lonely. He loves being by himself. Yeah, sure. What do you want to drink this weekend? Oh, a blood bank, perhaps?

No, a bar would be a nice pub, maybe. That does food. That would be cool. Do you think there's girls there? It's like no girls are going to talk to you if you if you talk like that. That's crazy. Rory, it is true. We are just back from Puerto Rico. We had an unbelievable time.

I mean, it was so much of a whirlwind. We are not even at the time of recording. A little bit of time has passed since that we just haven't been recording since we were there. Um, that's why you're only hearing about it now. And, uh, it was a really, really crazy time. And I feel like I can even sum up, uh, how strange mine and your Halloween was that we were, I mean, I joked before being a paranormal investigator at Halloween

is like being Santa at Christmas. It is the super bowl is the biggest night of your life. Yeah. Um, and we have been going so crazy out in the Caribbean, doing our own location investigation, as well as releasing campfire and all these special episodes. Me and you, we had our only like five minutes of downtime and peace at like midnight in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the rain pouring outside. We're in like a dope Caribbean bar, music playing in the

background. And I think you were like, shit, it's Halloween. Like tonight is Halloween. We missed it. People were coming through dressed up as vampires and ghosts and we were like, oh wow. We're so busy chasing ghosts. We forgot to dress up as ghosts ourselves. Yeah. We were so busy chasing ghosts we forgot to dress up as ghosts ourselves. Yeah, but we did have a crazy time between like getting there, me basically staying up

for 24 hours trying to turn around this edit, going at midnight to an actual haunted Burger King. I gotta say, if you haven't watched our full vlog, which is on YouTube right now, go check it out. It's really hilarious. And I also want to be vindicated for the amount of work that we put into it. But also if you want to hear about the trip

and the behind the scenes, we literally did an after party from our hotel room, completely delirious, kicking back with a couple of beers. And when I say kicking back, I mean Kit kicked one of the beers before the recording, sending it flying across my hotel room. So there's a ton of great stuff from the trip. So definitely go check that out.

Yeah, we were delirious. We had a fantastic time. Do not worry though. We are back in the zone. My brain has had one full week at home to recombobulate after being discombobulated. And I have managed in my mosquito-induced fever, I have managed to put together a paranormal case for today's investigation.

We're going to get right into it after a couple of words from today's sponsors. Remember every episode of TPL is available ad-free right now on patreon.com forward slash this paranormal life along with that after party go check it out Rory today's investigation is on a theme that I personally love and can't get enough of to find out what let's set the scene back in 2009 Cambridge University 15 years ago on the 28th of June There was an event that we've actually talked about before on this paranormal life, when famed physicist Stephen Hawking hosted a party like no other, a party for time travelers. He led out a beautiful spread and then waited for his guests

who never arrived. And then after the party ended, he paradoxically went online and finally issued the invitations. Your brain is not being scrambled. The idea behind this famous experiment was to prove that if time travelers really existed, they would have been able to see the invitation in the future, then use their time machine to travel back

and attend Stephen Hawking's party. Rory, today's investigation is not about that party, but it does set a precedent for what is to come in today's investigation. Because Stephen Hawking used his party as experimental evidence to say that time travel is not possible. But interestingly, he said it's not possible for now. I mean, wouldn't that be irrelevant though if time travel was possible? Silence, silence. Too many interjections.

I mean, if it's possible at any time, it's possible now. Surely, right? Am I misunderstanding the concept of traveling through time? If it was ever possible, the cavemen could do it. Because you can go back in time. I'm sorry, maybe I'm getting a little hot right off the bat. I'm just excited. It's the first one back.

Roy, I'm excited that you're already putting that noodle into preparation for today's case, because we're going to need every question, every theory to pick this one apart. Okay, that made me angry. I want to say right off the bat, that did make me angry. The time, the statement that time travel is possible. It's just not possible now. I also don't want to be rude, but I do want to point out that Stephen Hawking might be smarter than you.

That's why I'm not, I'm being a bit reserved here. I don't want to, I don't want to get too angry because there's a good chance that he's right and I'm wrong. I'm just writing down my thoughts and signing them Stephen Hawking. I'm like, yeah, he actually thought that Cool Original is the best Doritos flavor when you really think about it. One day someone living in the future will find the information and use a wormhole time machine to come back to my party, proving that time travel will one day be possible. Now in our timeline, Stephen Hawking is now dead, rest in peace.

But it sounds like in another timeline, he's still waiting at that party for the first time traveler to respond to his invitation. And today Rory, we're talking about one person who just might do it. I mean, that's a pretty interesting choice that this person might have to invent time travel and decide immediately to go back to Stephen Hawking's time travel party instead of, I don't know, stopping 9-11. I mean, even stopping 9-11, there's probably cavemen who were listening to this in the past using their future AirPods being like, bro, are you not going to stop the Triassic die off? Three million year period of darkness that killed 90% of the Earth's population. There's seemingly no end to the amount of places that would be better served by time travel.

Yeah. But no, I think if we know anything about human nature, we know that people are shitheads and show-offs and that if time travel does become commonplace in the future, as we once hope, humans are very good at misusing technology. So I have good faith someone would misuse it enough to go back to this party. Oh yeah, 100%. I mean, you know, if I got it, the first thing I'm doing is eating an entire foot long subway sandwich just to rewind time and eat it again. That's the best meal you can think of. I'm really into sandwiches right now.

Even in London, it's not exactly New York City, but I think there's pretty good sandwich shops though. It's like you could go back in time and eat fish and bread with Jesus Christ. It's like, I really want the subway. I want the meatball marinara. I like the idea of going back in time to eat fish and bread at the feeding of the 5,000 to Jesus.

And you just teleport into the situation. Jesus is like, bro, I just portioned it out for 5,000. I don't have 5,001. Dickhead. Nine years before Stephen Hawking's famous stunt, a relatively new technology was redefined in communication, the internet. It's November 1st in the year 2000 and users of an online forum known as the Time Travel Institute Are just logging on for a long day of old-school internet communication You've got mail I will say Roy I feel like this is slightly higher brow kind of use of the internet than me and you were getting up to

Back in the late 90s early 2000s. Do you remember getting the internet? Not the moment that we got it, but I do remember just having one big family computer that you kind of have to take shifts on because of course if you were using the internet, you couldn't use the phones. And God, I sound old just talking about it. It was an interesting time. It really was.

I actually want to pick up on what you just said because I think we talked about that once in the past and someone, I think on YouTube or something, called us liars and said, that's not true. You could use the phone at the same time. You couldn't. I, you're just wrong. The Rory is remembering it the same way.

I remember it. My parents would be pissed as hell at me for being on RuneScape, trying to log on RuneScape when they were on the phone. Oh yeah. Yeah. Well, you had to, cause you log on RuneScape when they were on the phone. Oh yeah. Yeah, well, you had to, cause you only had one computer as well. He had to do shifts. It was like, you know, I went on like three to four, then I was done.

Then my brother went on like four to five. It was only one computer. I actually do remember the first day I got the internet. And I can really remember it extremely perfectly. It was just in my family sitting room, like you say, with the big brick desktop. And I think my sister had just come off the computer, like trying it out.

And I had a lot of high expectations. I was really excited to get it. And I just remember sitting in front of that giant desktop with Internet Explorer loaded up, and I had no idea where to go. I didn't know any websites yet. So I think my sister was like, go to like, this sounds, it makes me sound so ancient, but I think she was like,

go to like bbc.com or bbc.co.uk. And she's like, mother I could do this shit in a magazine. It's just telling me what's on television. I have no business being on BBC.com or CNN. But pretty quickly we did of course find ways to talk to our mates, play RuneScape and watch cartoons that we definitely shouldn't have been watching like Salad Fingers. Yeah. But users in today's story immediately hopped on to using internet forums to discuss possibilities and theories around time travel. After all, the internet was new, exciting and hopeful, and people hadn't discovered how to commit hate crimes on it yet. But users on the forum that day were rewarded for logging on. Something strange was about to happen. A new user created their first post. Greetings, I am a time traveler from the year 2036 I am on my way home

after getting an IBM 5100 computer system from the year 1975 wait what year is it now 2000 oh so he's in the past he's actually glad you brought it up he's actually makes much more sense than that, Rory. To quote him, on his way home from 1975, he's going home to 2036, but he stopped off in the year 2000. What the f*** is happening? What are you actually talking about right now today? The first... He's going... home... not geographically. You know the way if you're at the airport, and then you need to going home, not geographically.

You know the way if you're at the airport and then you need to go home and then on the way home you're like, I'm pretty hungry. I guess I could go to McDonald's. And then you swing by McDonald's, you get a Big Mac and then you continue your journey home. Well, he was in 1975 getting this computer. Then he was going back to the future, pun not intended, and he was like, I guess I'll stop off in the year 2000.

Yeah, you usually swing by McDonald's in the Departures Lounge, not the McDonald's 20 years in the future. He went to McDonald's in 1975 and the f***ing ice cream machine was broken, and he was like, f*** this, and he kept time travelling forward one year until it was open again, 25 years later. The first viewers of course assumed this to be a joke. But then he started posting details. My time machine is a stationary mass, temporal displacement unit manufactured by General Electric.

The unit is powered by two top spin dual positive singularities that produce a standard offset tipular sinusoid. I will be happy to post pictures of the unit." And then he did. Oooh, okay. Rory, check it out. You got mail. Okay, so Kit has sent me the picture that this person posted on the forums.

First off, it's not a picture. It is a blueprint, like out of a manual. It's a drawing. It's like a schematic, an engineering schematic. Yeah. At the top it says major systems description, army something. I mean, it looks like the insides of a computer, like a high tech gaming PC.

It is the dimensions of a fridge for sure, but it is ostensibly too complicated inside to possibly be a fridge. As you say, potentially a high-powered gaming PC. It's also possible it's a time machine. You will see detailed twin microsingularities housed in two magnetic housing units. He continued to describe it in greater and greater detail. But the compelling or maybe jarring, but let's face it, most familiar detail of all was the fact that he claimed his time machine was housed, quote, in the back of a 66 Chevrolet

Corvette convertible. Whoa. So let's just come out and say he has back to the future style, whatever this gaming PC is, we don't know if that's the size of two houses or a Tamagotchi, but he has allegedly been able to somehow combine this with a vehicle, which I'm not even a big fan of those movies. But I will say, doesn't that seem somewhat believable that if you're going to travel through time and thrust yourself thousands of years or hundreds of years in the future or the past, you're gonna want wheels when you get there? Yeah, I guess it depends

where you're going. I mean, if you go into the cowboy days, I think that famously worked out quite badly for them because there were no roads to drive on and they had to turn it into a train almost immediately to get back to the future. But yeah, also maybe the future there won't be roads either because they're flying, but anywhere kind of 50 years forward or back, you're gonna want a car. Yeah, that's a good point. Definitely dependent on year.

I would say for sure, don't take a Corvette. I mean, even a kind of off-road dirt bike would seem infinitely more useful. I mean, think Mad Max. I mean, hell, if you got a time machine strapped to a car, you might just want to go back 20 years to get those gas prices. Swing by a 1970s petrol station and then back to the future. Pick up an ice cream for a nickel. That would be such a funny kind of minor issue way

to use your time machine, but undoubtedly extremely effective. It's like hey I'm going to the store, do you guys want anything? Could we just get like a case of beer? Yeah, yeah, sounds good. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. Ripping a hole through space and time just to get a six pack for $2. People are like, Roy, how did you become

so rich over your lifetime? Well, I very wisely saved my money by meticulously and painstakingly traveling back in time for every small purchase I needed to make to avail of the previous prices. They're like, if you had a time machine, why didn't you just rob a bank in the future, come back and escape and just spend all that money here? Ah, f**k. That would have made a lot more sense actually. Oh shit, I wish someone had told me that in the past. Wait a minute!

Dun dun dun dun! Whooooosh! Hahaha! Users went wild leaving comments, and he continued to reply. He communicated with the forum for months, under the username time-travel-underscore-zero. And other times as John Titor. Feels like the first username, uh, he kind of f***ed up and gave away the gig, Time Travel Zero, and other times as John Titor. Feels like the first username,

he kind of f***ed up and gave away the gig, and then he remembered to create a separate username with his real name. Time Travel Zero, slightly on the nose, but gets the job done. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. Then he just went straight in with his full government name. Hey, full disclosure, while we get through this podcast,

I actually know about this case for two reasons. The first one being that I actually, at one point in our paranormal investigating careers, did some preliminary investigations into this case myself. And the second reason is this is actually one of the inspirations behind a fantastic anime that I love called Steins Gate, which is all about time travel. And it briefly mentions this time traveler called John Teeter. I would highly recommend that series if you're interested in the paranormal, it's great.

But so this is cool, we're finally covering him on the podcast. In the world of potential time travel incidents, which is, I will say, a small world, this is one of the bigger stories. It kind of, maybe because it capitalized on the early internet and was a paranormal tale born of the internet when the internet was a lot smaller, it seemed to capture people's imagination. And the name John Titor definitely rings a lot of bells for various people around the world who've come across the story. It also I think

will feel relatively familiar to old-school listeners of TPL because of its similarity to emails from the 1500s. Yes, where time travelers were posting on forums interacting with people from the future or the past. I mean, if you couldn't tell from that headline, those were people from the 1400s emailing the future. Yeah, I think it was kind of as simple as that. It was like feudal peasants somehow sending AOL emails using early computers.

I can't remember the exact details of that one, but it was to be sure. I can't actually vouch for the recording quality of that old school TPL episode, but it was definitely a landmark TPL investigation for sure. So users of this forum rallied to try and collate what information Titor had revealed. He claimed to be an American soldier from the year 2036 based in Tampa Florida. He was assigned to a federal time travel experiment and sent back to 1975 to recover an IBM 5100 computer which he claimed was needed to troubleshoot different legacy computer programs in 2036. He also posted that this was his military insignia.

I don't remember this part of the story. He was in the military? The time traveling military? That's right, Rory. You know, we've done actually extremely recent investigations on just how much time and energy the US government and US army has spent on paranormal investigations, looking into telekinesis, clairvoyance, remote viewing, and so on.

It's definitely extremely plausible that if time travel ever did become scientifically possible, the military would be among the first to A, know about it, and B, use it. Right. That is very true. I mean, it's only a little worrying because if you are part of a military force that can time travel to any battle, that pretty much means that every battle that's already happened, you were happy with the outcome. Right. Yeah, it does. I can't believe that's never come up before, but yeah, it does open a can of worms, doesn't it? That if you can just change the timeline of the future you could just go back kind of infinite

times until you've kind of moved the chess pieces enough that you are ultimate ruler of the universe personally. You've got mail. But Kit is right he has sent a kind of a patch an insignia again not a picture this is a drawing of a symbol very similar to the first picture. This is a drawing of a symbol, very similar to the first. It looks like almost a scan of a insignia drawn on a page. Potentially drawn in MS Paint. Yeah. Look, it's pretty cool. It definitely resembles some kind of like portal and galaxy. There's some swirls in there. Yes, a certain section of it does kind of remind me

of a vagina. It is vaginal. Now that you mention it. But that could be, I was, I'm glad you see it too because I was worried that that could be some sort of kind of Rorschach type effect where, you know, the human mind sees what it wants to see. But if you're seeing it too, that's okay.

That takes some pressure off of me. Maybe that's, maybe that's what the insignia is. It's like the time travel births the future of humanity. I don't like this. No, I don't like this. All right, delete it from the podcast. I wish we could go back in time and delete that comment. You're the one who brought up cervixes, okay? That's cool. That's cool. It doesn't really give us a lot to go off, but it is a fascinating piece of back story as we try to figure out whether this

is real or not. But it definitely paints a picture of a near future in which time travel is possible and some of the uses, I guess, of that. As Rory says, maybe this tells us something about the way time travel actually works. If it's possible to go back and gather information from the past, is it possible to affect the events of the future? That will come up slightly later on. Yeah, how about we go back in time and redesign the logo?

Don't go with the vagina one for a start. That seems like a no-brainer. Let's at least get a V2, a V2 where we tone down the vagina elements. Alright, here's the V2. That's a penis! What is wrong with you? What kind of twisted graphic designer are you? You don't want a vagina? You don't want a penis?

What do you want? I can't figure you out, chief. What do you want? The colonel's in the meeting with the graphic designers getting visibly angry. What kind of army would we be running around with an insignia that looks like a vagina? For God sakes, man, put a cock on that thing!

It needs to be manly. Titor stated that he was chosen for this mission mainly because his grandfather was closely involved with the manufacturing and programming of this computer, the 5100. To help support his claim, he dropped information in the chat about the IBM 5100 that had never been publicized before. Now in the time travel forum community, what started as kind of just a source of entertainment, some began to believe him.

But he would have to do a lot better than information about an old computer, which fair enough, maybe people didn't have access to those documents, but he would need to tell them about the future. So they started asking him questions. Starting with, why was he in the year 2000 at all? Man, I can tell this was really back in the early days of the internet because there must

not have really been a lot of other stuff to do that they're giving this guy so much time. There definitely wasn't YouTube. Right. This was the first AMA. People are logging back on being like, I guess I'll see what John's up to. This guy I've never met who claims he's a time traveler. That's pretty interesting.

Isn't it mad though how like, yes, things have changed a lot on the internet, but also things haven't changed at all? Because like you say that, because yes, of course there is an infinite world of kind of non-overlapping content on the internet. Your timeline on your social media platforms could be completely different from your best friends.

There is also complete silos of information and filter bubbles in which all of us are seeing the same posts from the same four guys if you open up your Twitter feed. That's why I deleted Twitter. Probably smart. I'm going to guess that after two months of John Titor underscore zero, posting every day on Time Traveler Institute forum, a lot of people probably deleted Time Traveler Institute forum off their bookmarks tab. After he tried to get members of the forum

to sign up for his drop shipping course so they can make passive income through cryptocurrency, they were like, all right, I might actually do. I was more interested in kind of facts about the future. John Titor is making thirst traps for TikTok all day long. He doesn't even talk about the future anymore. He just takes off his, yeah, his abs are really nice, but like, what does that have to do with anything? You're like, all right, the dick and vagina logo is starting to make sense. You're like, all right, the dick and vagina logo is starting to make sense. John Titor claimed to be on a layover in the year 2000 for, quote,

personal reasons, such as collecting images lost in the future civil war and seeing his family. His past family? I was trying to work this out. I guess, depending on what age his parents were, I guess either his parents as children or his distant relatives that he maybe didn't have the chance to meet normally. That would quite literally ruin their lives. Swinging by to visit your granddad as a teenager would completely ruin the rest of his life

and probably put yours in jeopardy. Because now granddad doesn't want to settle down and get married because he met his great grandson and threw a portal. He goes back to the office on Monday in 2036 like, well how was it meeting your great great great grandfather? He lost his mind. He lost his mind the moment he saw me. Just flipped a switch in his brain,

and he was kind of just rolling around the floor in a straight jacket, kind of after that. Oh, shit. Okay. I won't try that myself then. Yeah. And as we know, through the paradoxes of time travel, you have to be very careful bumping into relatives, because if you have an interaction with him, that means he doesn't get married and meet your grandmother anymore, guess what? Your dad isn't born, you're not born.

Right. You're Thanos snapped. You turn to dust immediately in the reality. If John goes back in time and if his dad is bi and John's looking a little too sexy that day, because they've not seen the grooming standards of 2036 back in the day. You know, he's got a fresh cut, beautiful beard.

As I said, rippling abs. That's just the way I kind of picture him in my mind. Maybe as John's going, you know what? Forget Sandra. I want a piece of this guy. I know I'm going down. This is a disturbing rabbit hole we're going down, but these are the kinds of things you have to think about

when you think about time travel. I don't want to think about it, but a father and son kind of French kissing, I have to think about when you think about time travel. I don't want to think about it, but a father and son kind of French kissing. I have to think about that. You're bringing, you definitely don't have to think about it. We all have to, scientifically. No, no, I think- That's why I've been watching video after video of father and son kissing on camera.

It's amazing what is on the internet in 2024. We've really come a long way. There's kind of, I typed that into Google, 24 million results. In the time travel forms or just? No, no, just various pornography sites. I think that's mostly what the results were. Right, stepdad videos.

It doesn't even need to be pornographic really for me, honestly, just like a, I'm proud of you or something. It'd be cool. Right. I mean, that arguably wouldn't even move the needle of like offsetting the timeline of events, would it? I don't know. It might, might change who I am as a person. Right.

I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I see what you're saying. Like it wouldn't, it wouldn't help, but it wouldn't hurt kind of thing. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. The dad is like, you know what? I don't even know you yet. And I'm proud of you. He goes into kiss. Whoa, what the f*** wrong with you? But clearly I and you and a lot of people got too hung up on the kissing their dad thing. And I kind of glossed over the more important part of that sentence. The sheer mention of a future American civil war. Some users noticed it and asked John for more information. He went on to describe a whole series of worrying and weird future events. He warned that global instability would lead to the cancellation of the Olympics in 2004. And yes, much worse

than that, the USA would enter a full-blown nuclear second civil war by 2015. Kind of making you wonder why he even brought up the Olympics thing. The time travelling man predicted a ton of stuff that never came true. Nothing gets past Rory. As he said earlier in the episode, this guy's IQ is greater than Stephen Hawking's. Never said that, but you know, if you want to put words in your own mouth to say it, that's fine with me.

The eagle-eyed investigator noticed that because my long-term memory is not good, but I don't recall the Olympics being cancelled and I had to look it up, they weren't. They were in Greece and they pretty much went off without a hitch. Also the closest we've got to a civil war in North America since the year 2000 is Alex Garland's Civil War movie, which was also dope. But clearly those events didn't happen. I mean, some of what he went on to say is vague enough about say Israeli and Russian geopolitics in the future.

I mean, sure. He talked about pandemics due to rare infectious diseases. Okay, true, but still too vague. I mean, if he had come out and said COVID-19 back in the year 2000, my nips would have been blown off. But he didn't. He referred to various pandemics. But to throw him a bone on some of his other predictions, there are a couple things he said which feel a little eerie looking back. One night after Tidor and another forum user named G were chatting away, G wanted to bid John goodnight.

So they said, goodnight John. Will you look me up when you get back to 2036? John replied, go north. Invest in hydrogen fuel cells. Was John referring to the climate crisis? Is it possible? Or in another post, John kind of flipped the script and asked users of the forum, hey, how did you guys solve the problem of overheating on your space planes?

No one quite knew what he meant by that. And yet, three years later in 2003, the infamous Columbia shuttle disaster happened when heat insulation broke off of a NASA space shuttle during launch, killing seven astronauts. Wait, John asked how they fixed the overheating? Yes. But wouldn't he have known they didn't and that the rocket would explode if he's from the future? Rory, you are poking all the right holes in

the case and it kind of only leaves one possible paranormal reason for why any of this has happened. That the events of John's future don't seem to line up with our own, that history doesn't repeat and yet it rhymes, is history on a couple of different tracks. That's why we're going to come back, right after the break, with some of those paranormal theories that might just make sense of this case. This episode is brought to you by Google Pixel. I'm Jessi Krikchank. I host the number one comedy podcast called Phone a Friend. I also have three kids. I need help making every day easier. So I switched to Google Pixel.

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Dan Levy. You will not die hosting the Hills After Show. I get thirsty for a friend. I phone my old friend, Dan Levy. You will not die hosting the Hills after show. I get thirsty for the hot wiggle. I didn't even know what thirsty meant until there was all these headlines. And I get schooled by a tween. Facebook is like a no. That's what my grandma's on.

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a real-time traveler why don't his events of the future line up with ours? How is it possible he could talk about some events but miss entirely huge moments in Western history like 9-11. Well, John himself told people in the forum that the quote, Everett Wheeler quantum physics model is true, which users on this forum knew well, otherwise known as the many worlds interpretation of physics. Why are time travelers never alive?

Why are they never... They're always coming back, warning about horrible shit that's gonna happen in the future. You know, they're never like, hey, guess what guys? In the future, check out this puppy. He's not gonna be born for like 15 years, but look how cute he is. Isn't he adorable? Some of those Marvel movies get good again.

I know, that's cool. That's something to look forward to. And global warming, we actually, we solved it. We found a way to reduce our CO2 emissions. It was really cool. Wouldn't that be sick if time travelers just came back and they were just like, I've come for the future with a message

for the people of today. Everyone's like, oh shit, what is it? Don't worry. Just don't. We figured it out. What? All our problems? Yeah, every one of them.

Name one. Climate change. Solved it. It's gonna be solved in like two years. A guy's just gonna, he just figures it out. And it's like the next day it's solved. Literally don't even worry about it. There's nothing to worry about.

War, oh yeah, it's gone. Gone. Hunger, boom. We invented a type of nut that's really cheap to grow. And now there's no hunger anymore. All right. Here, try one. They're called super nuts. Here, super nuts for everyone.

Yeah, here's some nuts to try. And I guess I gotta go. All right, but stop worrying. Enjoy your life. There's a crazy party in the future. You guys are all invited. Enjoy it. Honestly, our problem right now is too many of the nuts.

Because one nut and you don't have to eat again. And we made like a million of the things. So here, just take a bunch now. Take them now. That guy, that guy disappears. Everyone's like, oh my God. You have no idea how like put at ease I am by that guy. Another person teleports. It's a giant nut mutated with a human.

Rawr! People of today, don't make the nut! It is ruined. I'm further, I'm from further in the future! It has ruined humanity! Holy shit! We don't know who to believe! Another portal opens with a giant squirrel inside. Please continue to transform into nuts. Who is he? Are we supposed to be on his side? Turn the machine off. I think ignorance is bliss. I think no more time travel. I thought you were going to say a guy was going to come through the portal from the future, and he'll be like, Hey, people of the now, don't worry about any of your problems. We've found a solution.

And they're like, you found a solution to war, famine, homelessness? And he's like, yeah, what we do is go back in time and take over worlds from the past. It's like, oh, okay. Oh yeah. A hundred percent in the time travel movie, that would be the twist, right? In the, in the, even in the Pixar movie, you would have the benevolent overlord who creates time travel and the technocrat who seems like such a brilliant guy, wink, wink, Elon Musk.

And then it turns out halfway through, everyone realizes that this guy, it's all built on the back of terrible shit that actually what he's doing by solving the problems of the future, he's going into other timelines and just ransacking the place. Right, to fund the big nut corporation in the future.

Again, not a sex thing. Forget the vagina monologues, the vagina insignia, the cock insignia. The nut corporation has nothing to do with that. You know, I'm not a bioengineer. I honestly think there's something to the giant nut. Nuts are cheap, plentiful, nutritious. I think there might be something there. You are right.

John is not a laugh. He's quite serious. Maybe that comes from his military background. I don't know. But to be honest, if you look at how we use technology today, look at the bleeding edge of space technology, right? And SpaceX, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, billionaires with space programs. We really are sending the most annoying useless humans

to space. Maybe it'll be the same in the future when we develop time travel it'll be an obnoxious billionaire sending himself back in time to be a dick to everyone. I assume that's how half of these guys got here. Imagine that a guy turns turns up, I'm from the future. Wow, are you the scientist that invented it? No, I'm just a trillionaire from the future who paid a load of really smart guys to send me back. So, all right, cool. Can you tell us anything interesting?

Nope. All right, brilliant. Can't share any discoveries of humanity, nothing useful. Can't even recite a poem. Very nice. We're probably going to kill you? Yeah, because this is the 1400s and your leather jacket is worth a year's salary to a peasant. You have an iPhone 19.

I don't even know really what the iPhone 1 was, but I know that's the 19th version and it seems important. But yes, you bring up this important, important point that the only way any of this could be true is with the many worlds interpretation of physics. Within this theory, and I almost wish the goddamn many worlds theory had never been invented because then we might have saved ourselves a few f***ing awful Marvel movies, but within this theory, we live in a multiverse, not just a universe. It's a kind of super universe made up of other potential universes, wherein with every decision we make and every possible

event of chance, a new universe kind of opens up like a branch in a tree, meaning it's possible to live in a completely different timeline of events. Sounds complicated, you've seen it a million times before in movies and TV shows, you know, it's not just as simple as going back in time and killing Hitler. Maybe if you go back in time and kill Hitler, you've stopped World War II in that timeline, but not the timeline that you left. Right, right, right, right. So I was working with one of our researchers, Ewan, on writing and researching this episode, when something surprising happened. Ewan was hanging out on the Time Travel Institute website, diving through archived

posts when he saw something interesting. A new thread. Today. In November 2024. Posted by a user named Time Travel Underscore O. Not zero, but O. And it was called, Today. Exactly 24 years from the date of my first appearance on this forum. We couldn't believe it as if predicting this very this paranormal life episode, John Titor returned to the forum, breaking his silence. Wait, it was the actual John Titor? Allegedly.

Okay. Ewan has left me a note here saying quote prepare for eye-watering confusion because the post writes at this moment a few hours ago my older version first created a profile on this forum after a while my older version will start posting at the same time as me thus linking past and present in a single cycle I will be here for a while while one of the stages is being carried out. In a few days, a test of the global anonymous communication system will be carried out in different parts of the world.

So I will be absent sometimes, just like my older version, which in the past will lay the foundation for the actions of the present. Good night, John. Good to see you again, bud. Zero comments, zero likes. I will say at this juncture, I have been this high once. Whatever level of high John reached, I hit this after eating an entire box of high Hawaiians in my Amsterdam hotel in like 2015. I did it.

I achieved it once. It is possible. Ladies and gentlemen. Rory, I mean, you joke, how did people react to this? Well, like the first time, some thought this was a hoax someone was pretending to be John, while many others wanted to believe. User Jared Thompson, PhD, responded, John, I've been waiting my whole life to talk to you. People started worshipping John on the spot and eagerly updating him about which of his predictions came true and which did not. Like I'm not joking, people were like, John you said in 2006 this was going to happen which is kind of crazy because nine months later this thing did happen so the year wasn't right but actually if you calculate it...

But thank God, researcher Ewan was on the forum ready for the second coming of Tidor. He joined the forum and posted his first comment, writing, If you could say one thing to the people of 2024 about the past, present or future, what would you say? John replied almost instantly. I would say the following. Guard your mind and don't go along with big corporations. It will lead to big trouble.

I'm so sick of covering time travelers on this podcast who just leave cryptic borderline uncomprehensible advice as their parting message. It drives me f***ing insane. What I want to hear is, oh uh John Titor if you had one bit of advice for me personally what would it be and I want to hear Bellagio Casino October 21st 31 Black that's what I want to hear. If he, if he, no if a time traveler gambles that much I don't want to hear from him he's a degenerate if a time traveler is telling me gambles that much I don't want to hear from him he's a degenerate if a time traveler is telling me when to bet on black hey earlier he did say go north and buy hydrogen fuel cells what does that mean what does that mean go north

from anywhere just everyone go up yeah because the temperature of the earth all right hey here's his final message. Almost his final message. What is cryptic about this, Roy? I can tell you that in the short term, we have a very sad future, a war that is hard to undo. Oh, my God. Time traveler O seemed to be distracted and anxious about the upcoming presidential election, the one that just happened a week ago.

He ended his message saying, I'll give you a more detailed answer in a couple hours. I have to leave right now. But by 9 a.m. on November 6th, the day after the election, he posted, I'm temporarily shutting down. Is he a robot? And he was never seen again. This is absurd.

This is exhilarating stuff. I can't believe this Paranormal Life got a quote from John himself. That is real journalism. Rory, you make the excellent point. We're long in the tooth now here at this Paranormal Life. We've investigated a lot of different cases and for better or for worse, for better in my case, for worse in Rory's case apparently, plenty of time travelers. Nah. They're actually relatively infrequent, but I think they leave a big impact on the show because the stories are so mad.

So we had, you know, the, I think it's a kit thing. I think it might be. We've got emails from the 1500s. We've got time traveling madman Mike, which was another seemingly believable classic, but they often do end in a similar way, don't they? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I mean, look, I think one of the reasons this case is so big is because as you said,

this was the first time the internet was blowing up and becoming popular. It was all fresh and it was all new. And we had someone making these claims that no one had ever really heard before on the internet. So it was a huge deal. The crazy thing now is that times really haven't changed. I believe there was a bonus episode that we did where there was an individual on TikTok claiming that they were living in the future. And all the videos they uploaded, it was like, you know, Times Square, New York, completely empty. There was like no other humans living with them.

The posters on the walls were like from movies that were released back in the 60s or something. It was all this crazy stuff and these really cool, interesting videos. But I think what we're seeing is this will never change. No matter how far we go into the future, pun intended, we will always have people claiming to be time travelers. Yes, the problem with time traveler cases is like the Everett Wheeler theory of physics itself, it's unfalsifiable, as they say in the biz.

Physicists don't really like that theory, the many worlds theory, because whilst fun and sexy and cool and thought provoking, it's scientifically untestable, essentially. Which, like with this case, as soon as John claims that, oh yeah, I'm in a different timeline though, so you can never actually prove whether I was there or not. It makes our job very hard at the end of an episode

of This Paranormal Life to say whether it really happened or not. That does mean though you probably could go kiss your dad back in time, because that ain't even your dad, that's a whole other universe. Oh, shit. Yeah. And I really didn't want to bring it back to that, but that was just like a little. I guess you're right, because it's like, it almost makes your biological dad

kind of your step dad, which is- No, actually, no. I think we can all agree from the kind of tube sites, pretty popular kink. So, not saying I'm into it, I'm just saying it's the number show. I think the record shows and the number show, it's a pretty popular kink.

So quick kiss, hop to the future to grab a super nut for sure. And then back in home by midnight. They're this size, by the way. They're absolutely massive, the super nuts. Right. They don't provide any more nutrients than a regular nut. They're just huge. A thousand times of a single peanut.

It's like, oh, did you condense down a week's worth of nutrients into a nugget? No, no, no, the nut's just f***ing huge. It's the size of a car. When you go camping, you just strap a super nut to the roof rack of your BMW, like f***ing Fred Flintstone with the T-bone dinosaur steak. It rocks the car. I don't know why that's so funny. In the future, humans only need to eat one sandwich a month. Oh my god, one regular sandwich?

We didn't say it was regular. The sandwich is huge. It's the size of a thousand sandwiches. It's like, okay, so we're just eating a normal food a huge amount of times. Has anyone tried that yet? Is that so crazy? That's not. Mega soup. Stop. Just stop. You could swim in this soup. Well Rory, like I say, we've covered so many clairvoyance, time travelers, and future predictors

that I think, if anything, if it's possible to predict the future, we should be able to do it ourselves. If there's some skill to learn, me and you might have it. Rory, I wonder this because I don't know if you noticed this, but this year one of our predictions came true. On the This Paranormal Life Secret Society Facebook page, on the 2nd of April, 2024, one Alastair Robertson wrote, I was re-listening to episode 122. That is going back a long way.

And Kitten Rory joke that P Diddy's full name is Paul Diddler. Just stop now. Oh my God. He writes, well boys, looks like you were bang on the money with that one. Your psychic powers coming through yet again. It's not the first time we've done it here on the show And it won't be the last time I just can't remember the other times

I just remember the kind of most recent one. Well, we did one on There was something saying about the big sick Putin big sick. Oh 15 may put you yeah or like Putin disappear 15 may or something. Yeah. We've done a lot of mysterious kind of prediction podcasts and time traveler podcasts before. But yeah, I don't know if in our lifetime a case that we've covered has had a prediction that has come true to the point. I guess the closest time travel one that I did recently was the card game Illuminati, which was where a card game designed in the 90s or 80s

started predicting real world events, which was a really cool episode. And we actually on the shelf have a bunch of Illuminati cards from that series. So maybe that was the only one where a bunch of stuff kind of came true. But again, it was all vague enough that it's probably safe to assume that those type of events are gonna happen in the future. That's it.

And in another bonus episode, I investigated the suggestion that the Simpsons television program had successfully predicted the future several times. And it really had, I mean, if we're trying to be objective about it, it really did predict some kind of wildly accurate events, but even at the end of that,

we kind of determined that, right, but that's the nature of writing and generating storylines week to week for 20 plus years, that even here on this paranormal life where the podcast has only had a few hundred episodes, even we have occasionally predicted something that feels a little bit suspicious, which I think just goes to show how easy that is to do if you just keep talking. Yeah. I think at the end of one of our podcasts where we did investigating time travelers,

we said, Hey, let's do the Stephen Hawking thing. If time travelers are real, we'll set up a third mic. And we'll do a... Our guests this week will be a time traveler. And if no one turns up, well, f*** me. Guess they're not real. That's honestly not a terrible idea for a podcast. I like that. I like the suspense that you could be listening through and at any minute someone might appear. At any minute. Of course with- We've all got nuts.

At any minute we could have gone nuts, Rory. At the end of every episode of this paranormal life, we have to decide whether the given paranormal case is real or not in the event of John Titor, one of the most famous modern cases of an alleged time traveler. Rory, are you saying it's a yes or a no today? I like this case.

I think it's quite cool. And as you said, one of the more famous and earliest cases of someone claiming to be a time traveler from the future, who's living in the past, stopping by the current, totally irrelevant by the way, that he's posting in the now, if by the current. Totally irrelevant, by the way, that he's posting in the now. If he can time travel at any point, I'm gonna skip aside that, it's fine.

But yes, I think there's a lot of fundamental problems with this case. Mostly, look, we can't dance around it. A lot of the stuff he said was gonna happen, we've lived past the point in which it was supposed to happen and it didn't happen. So he just straight up got a lot of stuff wrong. And I know we can say the multi-world theory is plausible and he came from a future that's different from ours.

But as you said, at that point then it's unprovable whether or not this could actually happen. And at that point, we're not even talking about time travel anymore. This would be someone who's hopping dimensions, which then also doesn't make sense he's hopping into a dimension to try to retrieve something from the past in another dimension to go forward to another alternate dimension where he might not have even wanted to go back. Don't... we're quite literally opening up a lot of continuity issues here. So unfortunately it's gonna be a no from me this week. You know, the only cool thing John Tidor ever said,

which I'll kind of leave you with, was that someone asked him at one point about UFOs and if they had UFOs in 2036 or if they had any insight on them. And he was like, we do have UFOs and we know that they are not extraterrestrials. Figured that out. They're not. They're just other humans that are further in the future with more advanced

time traveling capabilities than we have, which is not the first time I've brought that up on the show. That is actually what Steven Spielberg believes. A man who's made several movies about aliens clearly loves the topic of extraterrestrials. And he said, he's like, I think they're time travelers. I think that's it. He's like, I think they're just us.

Which is wild and then the same thing to say, but actually not really any more wild than saying that it's kind of gray men in spacecraft. It's all wild. It's all wild. So I'm here for it, Steven. I'll listen to it. You did make ET though.

It's a double no today. You did make ET, though. It's a double no today! You did make ET, and he is not human. He looks like a ball sack with eyes. Yeah, one clearly he thinks is a better story, that's for sure. It's a double no today, clearly, in the case of John Tudor, but a fun one nonetheless. I hope you've enjoyed this investigation. I love covering a bit of time travel. It is just something that bit different in the world of the paranormal. It is not a beast or an alien. It is something strange.

And the fact that dummies like me, whenever we hear scientists say it's technically possible, we're like, so you're saying there's a chance. And they're like, not really. It's basically under no circumstances could this really ever... You're saying there's a chance. Dumbies like me love to hear scientists say that. Yeah, I think usually when scientists talk about it, you know, in our heads, it's like turn the dial, do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do,

and then like hit the button and go back. And I think they're like, it's possible as in, if you went into a wormhole that bends space and time, you might be ejected into a point previous to where you entered in any of the universe's existence, completely randomly. Yeah, if you were somehow in a craft that was able to withstand the kind of infinite levels of gravitational force of a wormhole, you'd be ripped to shreds. It's not possible.

The dust that you would become would kind of blow out the other side 32 billion years before the Big Bang took place. So it would just be kind of infinite dark. And you're like, so you're saying I can kiss my dad? It's like no. Would my tongue be intact for the Frenching, sir? Like I say, we have covered many other time travel investigations. So if you like this one, go back and check some of the others out. And

may I suggest that I mentioned we did a bonus episode on the Simpsons and then predicting the future. So head on over to patreon.com forward slash this paranormal life to hear that episode. It's a bit of a classic. Over at Patreon, that is where we upload bonus material for the people who support the show financially. We've been supporting this show from the community for over seven years now. It's kind of unbelievable. It pays for these lights, the studios we're in, the cameras, the whole thing, and it means that we can talk about whatever we want. Because let's face it, if we weren't allowed to talk about whatever we want, no one would pay us to talk about John Titor. Are you kidding face it, if we weren't allowed to talk about whatever we want, no one would

pay us to talk about John Tidor. Are you kidding me? You guys shouldn't even be paying us to talk about John Tidor. There's so much more important things in the world to be talking about, but that's the beauty of Patreon. We can run our minds, say whatever we want, and you will see that when you check out the bonus episodes. There is just an untold list of nonsense titles to dive through.

Yeah, and I think community support is really important as well because if you've listened to this paranormal life over the years, you will know that we are still saving up to buy our own time machine on the internet. That is of course the D-mode D7 time machine. Shout out to the D7 D-mode, hasn't gotten a shout out in a long time in the podcast. I think that was the first time we talked about time travel on the podcast, where it was an episode where I found a website online that was selling a time machine called the D7 D-mode.

The website no longer exists, or maybe you have to go back in time to buy one. Maybe that's kind of the catch. You need one to get one. Or maybe they went forward in time and saw all the lawsuits and went back in time and deleted the website. Yeah, it's kind of beautiful that we lived in the brief moment in history when you could buy a time machine and we missed it. We f***ed up because we didn't have the money. We missed it. I mean, I think the thing was 5,000 pounds or something. It was quite a lot of money, to be fair. The D7D mode only existing for such a brief moment in time. It's like the Sakura season

in Japan. It's beautiful because it only lasts for such a short time. Like in the late 2000s when Chinese pharmaceutical companies just started inventing drugs because they were technically legal. Just a kind of chaotic and beautiful time in which anything could happen before eventually it all becomes banned. Well we read through the spec sheet for the D7D mode on the podcast and I do remember it could do more than just travel back and forth through time.

I believe it had USB charging. It enabled the user to do something called a psycho dive and it explicitly mentioned the device enabled you to steal blueprints from other worlds, which I think is how they got the design for the D7 time machine Steel blueprints for other worlds It's so on the nose. You just know what those guys were using it for Fantastic That is what your support on patreon.com is going towards and so bear with us and we should be able to eventually travel through time and Presumably create even better podcasts for it and interviews with aliens and we should be able to eventually travel through time and presumably create even better podcasts for it

interviews with aliens and things like that and Over on patreon.com. We also like to give shout outs to those who've supported us on the shout out tier I should say patreon.com the links are on the description of this podcast or if you're on YouTube in the description of the video Click on it. Check it out. Let's give a shout out to those people. Let's do it. Thank you very much to Craig Simpkins. Craig Simpkins is the king of the simps. Oh, the simp king? Simp kings? Which does feel like a little bit of an oxymoron, but this guy is so devoted to his stepdad. It's crazy. Terrible thing to be devoted to, I guess. You know, a lot of people said you couldn't simp your stepdad.

Well, Craig proved them wrong. And actually, from my research, I've deduced that that has become a pretty prolific niche on the aforementioned Tube site. So shout out to you, Craig, for doing that. The simp king. He paid money for that. mentioned tube sites so shout out to you Craig for doing that the simp king he paid money for that thanks also to pacman impact dot site oh we gotta visit that is that a real website that sounds like a site that's selling a couple time

machines for sure oh it is a website well they've really they really got what they wanted I will I don't want to encourage people doing this on the shout out to you from here on in But this is a conspiracy theory website for sure okay? Good fun conspiracies or problematic conspiracies. We're gonna have to beep the parts of this URL This is a safe one. I will say this is the type of conspiracy that I am quite That I am sympathetic to because they're basically like, there was a global event, something hit the earth 20,000 years ago that we've forgotten about

and it explains everything. It explains Atlantis, it explains the law civilizations, it explains it. So, you have to check this website. There you go, pacmanimpact.site. Hopefully it's not mental. It just seems like a lot of graphs. A lot of graphs trying to convince me that the earth was hit by a thing. I mean, it sounds like it was hit by Pac-Man. If it's called pacmanimpact.com.

This was a seismic event called Waka Waka. Thank you, Pac-Man. And thank you lastly today Thank you Pacman and thank you lastly today to Audrey Christian. Audrey is all grey. Sure, Audrey Christian might sound like a human name, but you see beneath the baseball cap, mustache, and sunglasses, Audrey is all grey. All alien grey. Oh, okay, so, right, not human at all. Oh no, no, no, no,. Oh, no How tall are we talking here tall gray or like two foot three foot, you know, Caitlin Clark so like a little taller than the average woman but like not like not that nuts really to be honest Okay, that's not that's pretty good then I mean I cuz I will say most of the commune Did I mention the gray then I mentioned that yeah, the height is not so much

Yeah, sure the height is actually pretty human but that it is the we're talking seven fingers eight fingers I didn't count. I mean most of the commune at this point are from another planet We realized that most humans are smart enough to know a bad idea when they see one So most of the commune is built up of kind of primitive species, mostly kind of slug-like sentient beings that we've kind of trapped and brought to the Commune. So hey, a grey's gonna fit in just fine. I wouldn't worry. You are more than welcome, Audre, for that reason.

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