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John Titor & Time Travel

Historian for alleged time traveler John Titor, Oliver Williams reviewed the facts of the remarkable case, and related some of Titor's past predictions to recent news stories. Titor's story has been pieced together from posts he made on Internet discussion boards beginning in November 2000 and ending in March 2001. He claims to have traveled to 1975 from the year 2036 (a period recovering from the devastation of World War III)-- to find an IBM computer that was needed to fix something in his time.

Williams believes that we could be living in an alternate reality that was changed by Titor's visit in 1975. Specifically, he did something to stop Y2K from happening, said Williams. According to the timeline Titor shared, America entered a Civil War between 2005 and 2010, then became involved in a global war which culminated in a nuclear exchange in 2015. By 2036, the population had been reduced by one third, society is more agrarian and the US capitol is in Nebraska. The country is divided up into five main areas, with states having more control.

Williams noted that the upcoming research at CERN may lead to unexpected breakthroughs in time travel-- and that Titor had posted comments connecting experiments at CERN to the development of time travel. Williams has created several podcasts related to the Titor story, which can be viewed on You Tube.

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The March issue of After Dark features a fascinating article on the mystery of bilocation and doppelgangers by Timothy K. Perry. Below is an excerpt:
...A striking example of the negative nature of the doppelganger is that Abraham Lincoln saw his own shortly before his assassination. According to Noah Brooks' Washington in Lincoln's Time (1895), the author reported that Lincoln told him of a doppelganger experience back in 1864. Brooks records Lincoln's own words as follows: "Opposite where I lay was a bureau with a swigging glass upon it… and looking in that glass I saw myself reflected nearly at full length; but my face…I noticed I had two separate and distinct images…"

Lincoln further relates that he was understandably startled by such an event, and added that when he lay back down, the double-image reappeared. To make the situation even stranger, several days later Lincoln saw this double-image reappearing for yet a third time. After mentioning it to his wife Mary Todd Lincoln, she made a chilling prophecy, as Lincoln further writes: "She thought it was a sign that I was to be elected to a second term of office, and that the paleness of one of the faces was an omen that I should not see life through the last term…"

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