Welcome to Unexplained Extra with me Richard McClain smith. For the weeks in between episodes, we look at the stories that, for one reason or other, didn't make it into the show. In last week's episode, Time Out of Joint, we looked at two instances of a supposed time slip. In both stories, we find ourselves questioning the validity of someone's belief that
they unwittingly stepped back into the past. But what instead, if we were on the other side and it was us witnessing them arriving miraculously from the future, how could we possibly believe them? Fans of the recent TV show The OA may be familiar with the film's Sound of My Voice, also written by The OA creators Britt Marling and Zal Batman Man Gleage, the film is a mesmerizing portrayal of an alleged time traveler and the lengths it requires going to in order to convince others of her veracity.
What is perhaps most remarkable about the film, however, is the likelihood that it was in fact inspired by true events. The story begins on July twenty ninth, nineteen ninety eight, with the facts read out live on air by broadcaster Art Bell on his show Coast to Coast Am Dear Art, It read, I had to facts when I heard other time travelers calling in from any time past the year twenty five hundred a d Please let me explain. Time
travel was invented in twenty thirty four. Offshoots of certain successful fusion reactor research allowed scientists at CERN to produce the world's first contained singularity engine. Unfortunately, it was also discovered that anyone going forward in time from my twenty thirty six hit a brick wall in the year twenty five sixty four. Everyone who has ever been there has reported that nothing exists. When the machine is turned off,
you find yourself surrounded by blackness and silence. Now, most time travelers are trying to find out where the line went bad by going into the past, creating a new universe, and proceeding forward to see if the same thing results in twenty five sixty four. It appears the line went bad around the year two thousand. I'm here now in this time to test a few theories of mine before going forward. The Facts goes on to list a number of dystopian disasters that were set to before the planet
as a result of the Millennium bug. Of course, despite some hysterical concerns at the time, the millennium bug never truly bit. The name of the facts sender was not disclosed, and like the Millennium Bug, the incident was destined to fizzle out, consigned to the dustbin of post apocalyptic paranoia. That was until two years later, on October the fourteenth, two thousand, when a new contributor popped up on Internet relay chat and joined a conversation with a user named
Yaresa and another named g Degrees. The new entrant called themselves time travel Underscore zero Greetings. They wrote, my name is John, I'm thirty eight, and I'm a time traveler from Florida. The other users were understandably intrigued, if not wholly convinced. In the ensuing conversation, John proceeded to outline his story, which contained a number of similar elements to that of the original facts read out by art Bell, such as the fact that he had also traveled back
from the year twenty thirty six. It seemed to suggest that both the mystery poster and the author of the facts were the same person, only this time they had a few more details to share. Are you always taking care of your family? Do you often take care of others and not yourself. Now it's time to take care of yourself, to make time for you. You deserve it. Teledoc gives you access to a licensed therapist to help you get back to feeling your best to feeling like
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something about creating a black hole? Says Euresa. Yes, says John, you've heard of it. It's a black hole about the size of an electron. John goes on to explain that he is visiting the year two thousand as part of a promise made to his grandfather in nineteen seventy five, a sort of scenic route, before returning to the year twenty thirty six. Why would you do that, they ask? I was sent back to nineteen seventy five to get a computer, says John. It's an IBM model fifty one ten.
We need it in twenty thirty six to recode Unix, which dies in twenty thirty eight. Who needed a fifty one ten? You lost me there, says G Degrees. The fifty one ten is able to read the old IBM mainframe code. We need it in twenty thirty six. So have you tried changing the past yet, says g Or have you found that everything you do has already been done? Actually, replies John. Our worldlines are not fixed, they are all different.
There is no one time. But you have a past, says G. You remember things and if one changes, yes, says John, but they are different. The fact I am here changes this world line. In fact, I've noticed small changes, incidental news, stories that haven't happened, books not written, small stuff like that. Have you ever been in a room that has mirrors on the walls, yes, says G. The infinite worlds with infinite possibilities theory, yes, cries John. Multiple
world theory is correct. So who do you work for? Asks G. The military, replies John, I'm a soldier, but civilian travel is not far off. Wermkin underscore thirty seven enters the room. I will tell you a little story, continues John. When time travel was invented, they built prototypes that would go back in time for a split second and then return, but they never returned. It was later discovered that the machines were ending up about fifteen miles
away and three thousand feet in the air. Isn't all this classified? Said G. I know you think I'm nuts. Who would believe me? That's why I love these chat rooms. I know that nothing I say will make a bit of difference. I'm not feeling sorry for myself I'm actually learning to like the people here. You have a very bad reputation in twenty thirty six, who me, says Wormkin? In general, says John. This period is thought of as the time when they had it all but squandered it.
But fun was had, jokes Wormkin. There is something you can tell me, says G. What happens in December two thousand and twelve? Anything nothing, says John. But there is a nuclear war around two thousand and fifteen, Bugger, says G. It's not that bad, says John. There's a civil war in the US. Then Russia launches against China Europe and does. From my point of view, Russia helps us we win. The civil war has two sides fought on one side the other side got nuked by Russia. Not North and
South again? Was it? Asks G? No? More like city against country, says John. Well, it's been interesting talking to you, says G. But it's way past my bedtime. Look me up when you get back to twenty thirty six, will you if I'm still here, I will try it, says John. Well, good night, then, good night. All elements have unexplained are produced by me. Richard McClain Smith. Please subscribe and rate the show on i Tunes. Feel free to get in touch with any thoughts or ideas regarding the stories you've
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