John Titor

About

John Titor is the online handle of a man who made several bulletin board posts during the early 2000s claiming to be a time traveler from the year 2036.

Origin

On November 2nd, 2000, several posts from a user named TimeTravel_0 were submitted to the Time Travel Institute Forums, which featured a symbol that Titor would later claim was his military symbol from 2036 (shown below).^[1]

In January 2001, TimeTravel_0 began using the name John Titor at the Art Bell BBS Forums. In his posts, Titor claimed to be a military time traveler from 2036, who traveled back in time using a time machine located in Tampa, Florida. His mission was to go to the year 1975 to gather an IBM 5100 computer, but he had made a stop over in 2000 to collect pictures of his family. Titor acknowledged that there may be multiple timelines for future events, and that his future may diverge from our own, but warned against an impending United States civil war over "order and rights."

Spread

In 2003, the blog John Titor Times^[2] began collecting Titor's forum posts and organizing them into a story. In April 2004, a play based on Titor's posts titled Time Traveler Zero Zero was staged at the Harris Theatre in Fairfax, Virginia.^[4] On September 22nd, 2006, YouTuber revelation13net uploaded a video titled "John Titor, Time Traveler from Year 2036 and the Bible Code" (shown below).

In May 2008, the Italian television program Voyager aired an investigation into Titor's claims. On February 13th, 2009, the hoax debunking website Hoax Hunter published a report on John Titor, concluding that Florida residents Larry Haber and his brother John likely invented the John Titor character.^[3] On August 11th, 2009, the Unfolding the John Titor Story YouTube channel uploaded a video explaining the John Titor posts (shown below).

In October 2009, the science-fiction visual novel Steins;Gate was released for Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and various PlayStation consoles, which features a character named John Titor. On October 5th, 2012, a Facebook^[5] page for John Titor was created, garnering more than 17,300 likes over the next five years. On January 24th, 2013, the /r/johntitor subreddit was launched. On March 29th, the Stuff They Don't Want You To Know YouTube channel uploaded a video titled "Time Travel – The Story of John Titor" (shown below).

Donald Trump Theory

On August 17th, 2016, an anonymous 4chan user submitted a thread titled "Trump Has a Time Machine," speculating that Donald Trump was actually the time traveler John Titor and had used a time machine based on blueprints collected from the deceased scientist Nikola Tesla. The post claimed that Mike Pence was also a time travel, but had been cloned several times over to battle various political enemies through time. Additionally, a connection between Trump and the Cult of Kek is mentioned, claiming that Trump "began to understand timelines" after traveling to ancient Egypt.

On October 9th, YouTuber Listicle uploaded a video titled "The Donald Trump Time Travel Theory," which described many of the theories from the 4chan post (shown below). On January 19th, 2017, The Daily Star^[6] published an article titled "Donald Trump inauguration – John Titor 'time traveler from 2036' about to become president."

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