[Music] this is our future the United States of America endures a second Civil War killing Millions immediately after that a World War begins nuclear weapons are used billions are killed the aftermath leaves the Earth in Ruins electric grids are down food becomes scarce disease is rampant Society breaks down then in 2038 all computers go offline civilization has set back several hundred years the world enters a second Dark Age only by changing events in our past and present can we avoid this nightmare of a future in 1998 in a small town in Florida John Teeter was born in the year 2036 John a temporal Soldier would be sent back in time his mission saved the world foreign on July 29 1998 Art Bell host of Coast to Coast AM was running what he called open timelines he wanted calls from people who claimed to be Time Travelers obviously this brought out plenty of Kooks but then a fax came in that felt eerily real dear art ifacts when I heard other time travelers flowing in from any time past the year 2500 A. D please let me explain time travel was invented in 2034 offshoots of certain successful Fusion reactor research allowed scientists at CERN to produce the world's first contained Singularity engine the basic design involves rotating singularities inside of magnetic field by altering the speed and direction of rotation you can travel both forward and backward in time time itself can be understood in terms of connected lines when you go back in time you travel on your original timeline when you turn your Singularity engine off a new timeline is created due to the fact that you and your time machine are now there some interesting outcomes of this are one unit yourself I have done it often even taken a younger version of myself alone for a few rides before returning myself to the new timeline and going back to mine two you can alter history in the new universe that you have just created most of the time the changes are subtle sometimes I'll notice car models that don't exist or books that come out late unfortunately it was also discovered that anyone going forward in time for my 2036 hit a brick wall in the year 2564. please pray that we discover the reason why there is no apparent future after 25 64.
a few days later a second fax came in Dear MrBell I'm glad you're back I faxed this information to you the day before you left the air as I said then I'm a time traveler I have been on this world line since April of this year and I plan to leave soon typically Time Travelers do not purposely affect the world lines they visit however this mission is unusually long and I've grown attached to some of the people I have met here anyway for my own reasons I have decided to help this world line by sharing information about the future with a few people in the hope that it will help their future I realize my claims are a bit difficult to accept so I will send the following once I know you have received this fax a few pages from the operations manual of my time machine and a few colored photographs of my vehicle if you wish to contact me I will be happy to share with you the nature of time the physics of time travel and some of the events of your future Art Bell didn't hear from this person again which was too bad because he offered to show proof everybody who heard that broadcast wanted to see a working time machine learn the science behind time travel and know events from the future two years later they would get their wish a little over two years after the time traveler sent faxes to Art Bell a user who called himself time traveler zero and later John Teeter created an account on a message board called the time travel Institute on November 2nd 2000 he submitted his first post greetings and a time traveler from the year 2036 I am on my way home after getting an IBM 5100 computer system from the year 1975. my time machine is a stationary Mass temporal displacement unit manufactured by General Electric the unit is powered by two topspin dual positive singularities that produce a standard offset tipler sinusoid I will be happy to post pictures of the unit now before we get into it I have to be fair and say there were plenty of people on The Message Board who were skeptical who wouldn't be but John Teeter was very specific and seemed to have very specialized knowledge first off a tipler sinusoid or a tipler cylinder is a theoretical method of time travel outlined in a paper by Frank tipler in 1974 so we're off to an interesting start but what about the IBM 5100 why would anyone with the technology to travel through time need a computer that was in 2036 about 80 years old well John Teeter said the 5100 was needed to debug Legacy computer programs in 2036 because Unix has a problem in 2038 well that's true remember the Y2K scare the fear was hardware and software that measured the year in two digits would freak out when the year changed from 99 to 0-0 now the world didn't end as some people anticipated but Y2K did cause some sporadic problems something similar is going to to happen in 2038 and it could be worse Unix systems measure time in seconds a Unix timestamp is the number of seconds since January 1st 1970. so the Unix timestamp one minute after that date is 60.
the time stamp one hour after that date is 3600 and up it goes as I write this the Unix timestamp is 166-413-1870 so about 1. 6 billion seconds without getting too geeky a 32-bit integer can only go as high as about 2. 1 billion the official last date that a 32-bit system can recognize is Tuesday January 19 2038 after that things could get interesting new interesting is never good it's not and the way to solve this is by upgrading systems to 64 bits how far in the future does that get us well the max 64-bit number is about 9.
2 quintillion so that gets us to the year 292 billion in change oh that should be enough it will be so what is an old computer have to do with this well John Teeter said the IBM 5100 could help them debug Legacy code and this is actually correct most personal computers like the IBM 5100 could only support the basic programming language but the 5100 had special functionality that was hidden from the public it could run programs written in basic but it could also run APL programs written for IBM mainframes that's useful only the IBM Engineers who designed it knew this secret they were afraid of how competitors might use it in 2002 NASA was buying old gear on eBay because that was the only way to find Intel 8086 chips which they needed for various missions so this is something that happens so John teeter's first post contained a lot of sound science and information that wasn't well known at the time but he was just getting started John Teeter was very active on the message board he would answer any question anyone had he just wouldn't talk about things like the stock market or who would win the Super Bowl he said he wasn't interested in helping anyone get rich and even if he was he couldn't remember who won a Super Bowl 35 years ago but John Teeter also said that predictions like that could be wrong because he was from a different timeline which he called A World line how he explained it was imagine a cone where the diameter of the cone is how different the destination time is from your own you enter the time machine at the tip of the cone the further backward or forward in time you go the larger the Divergence Teeter said that when he arrived in the year 2000 the diversions was about one or two percent now that's not a lot but it's enough where different teams could win different games what Teeter is describing is the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics where anything that can possibly happen does happen it just happens in a different timeline Teeter specifically referred to the Everett wheeler model with which again shows a good grasp of quantum mechanics and the scientists working in the field and even though John Teeter wouldn't make Petty predictions he would describe his life and the future in detail John said that in the early 2000s there would be a Waco type event every month that steadily gets worse the Civil War in the United States starts in 2004 and the war affects everyone at the age of 13 John joins a shotgun infantry unit called the Fighting Diamondbacks and the war continues until 2015 and finally ends with what he calls a very short World War III taking advantage of America's weakness Russia attacked cities in the United States China and Europe the United States retaliated and as a result three billion people are killed the only people to survive are the ones who don't live in the big cities in the aftermath of the war the United States is split into five separate regions each region elects its own president and all five presidents serve a new very diminished federal government in the capital which has been moved to Omaha Nebraska in 2036 I live in Central Florida with my family I'm currently stationed at an army base in Tampa a World War in 2015 killed nearly 3 billion people the people that survived grew closer together life is centered on the family and in the community I cannot imagine living even a few hundred miles away from my parents there's no large industrial complex creating masses of useless food and recreational items food and livestock has grown and sold locally people spend much more time reading and talking together face to face religion is taken seriously and everyone can multiply and divide in their heads this new world is now a simpler Place more focus is placed on family the community and religion the biggest fear John Teeter has is mad cow disease which has become a worldwide pandemic John transfers into a military unit with seven other time travelers and their job is to go back and try and prevent as much environmental damage as possible The Narrative John Teeter creates is very detailed and I'll link to a page where you can read every one of his posts and even though people on The Message Board were entertained and fascinated they were skeptical they wanted to know one can you tell us how your time travel device works and two can you show us a picture of it the answer was yes and yes foreign posted diagrams of his time travel device pictures of the operator's manual and even pictures of the device itself according to John time travel is discovered in 2034 by scientists at CERN using this breakthrough technology General Electric actually creates working time travel devices these machines go through various iterations and improvements the time travel unit John Teeter uses is a c204 gravity Distortion time displacement unit which operates using micro singularities or tiny black holes the source of power for the c204 that allows it to distort and manipulate gravity comes from two micro singularities that were created captured and cleaned at a much larger and circular facility the Dual event Horizons of each one in their mass is manipulated by injecting electrons under the surface of their respective urbispheres the electricity comes from batteries the Breakthrough that will allow for this technology will occur within a year or so and CERN brings a larger facility online John Teeter talks about Cur black holes which are black holes that rotate and tippler cylinders now these are real theories in physics that involve time travel one of the most interesting pieces of technology in John teeter's time machine is called a variable gravity lock system or vgl since the machine only travels through time and not space the vgl makes sure that the Earth is in the same place in orbit when it reaches its destination otherwise you end up floating in space which is not ideal the hard part of traveling through time is not the bending of gravity but the plotting of your course and holding to the basic position in your environment this is done through a system called bgl variable gravity lock in effect it holds you to the Earth during travel it periodically checks to see that the field is not varied if it doesn't stops and reverses course or drops out at that point buildings and other terrain features are avoided in the same way as soon as the vgo sensors pick up an unexpected mass in the Target World line it would shut down the c204 has an array of computers clocks and sensors to get you to the correct day but because timelines get more and more different the further forward or back you go the unit maxes out at about 60 years someone asked him about traveling back a thousand years John said that you wouldn't even recognize that world the Distortion unit reaches its Target destination by using very sensitive gravity sensors and atomic clocks the basic unit of calculation is the second so we guess in a sense you do dial in a date and the computer system controls the Distortion field at maximum power the unit I have is capable of traveling about 10 years an hour unfortunately time travel is not an exact science there is inherent error in chaos in the computer's ability to make accurate calculations based on the current technology of the clocks and sensors Distortion units are only accurate to about 60 years or so no in 2036 we were unable to travel back 1 000 years due to the error rate in the system the Divergence between the world line of origin and the Target World blind would be too great if one were to try to travel back that far history would look nothing like what you would expect in other words if I wanted to go back 2 000 years and meet Christ there is a better than average chance I would end up on a world line where he was never born hello the one what are those pitches it looked like a bucket seat with a seat belt yep that's because on John teeter's first trip the time machine was mounted inside a 67 Chevy no I guess the DeLorean is too on the nose well the reason for the Chevy and why John later moved the machine to a truck is because the c204 is heavy it needs a vehicle with a suspension that can handle the weight plus the time machine has to be mobile since it only travels through time and not space you have to drive to your physical destination first and then move through time he chose those Vehicles because they blend into the times he was traveling to yo did he say what it feels like to time travel like it doesn't hurt does your face get all stretchy well John Teeter does talk about this the gravity field generated by the unit overtakes you very quickly you feel a tug toward the unit similar to Rising quickly in an elevator and it continues to rise based on the power setting the unit is working under at 100 percent power the constant pull of gravity can be as high as 2G as we're moored depending on how close you are to the unit there are no serious side effects but I try to avoid eating before a flight no bright flash of light is seen outside the vehicle appears to accelerate as the light is bent around it we have to wear sunglasses or close our eyes as this happens due to a short burst of ultraviolet radiation personally I think it looks like you're driving under a rainbow after that it appears to fade to black and remains totally black until the end is turned off we're advised to keep the windows closed as a great deal of heat builds up outside the car the gravity feel also traps a small air pocket around the car it acts as your only O2 Supply unless your green compressed air with you I can never time travel because of my IBS uh that's TMI um no it's IBS never mind naturally people were skeptical of all this technology but John Teeter didn't really care my goal is not to be believed most people do not take news of the war very well but I find that everyone believes it's inevitable I watch every day what you are doing as a society why do you sit by and watch your Constitution being torn away from you you willfully poison food by manufactured products no one needs and turn an uncaring eye away from millions of people suffering and dying all around you perhaps I should let you all in on a little secret no one likes you in the future this time period is looked at as being full of lazy self-centered civically ignorant sheep perhaps you should be less concerned about me and more concerned about that [Music] teeter's face was never seen his voice was never heard and John Teeter is not his real name so there's not much we know about him but one person did have a close relationship with John or at least claimed to Pamela Moore Pamela was very active on the message boards and spent a lot of time chatting with John over I am before John Teeter left he said he would make a departure video and send it to Pamela well how is she supposed to know that video is legit well because John provided Pamela with a secret song to act as a password this is something only the two of them know so she could identify imposters but to this day the departure video has not arrived and Pamela has never revealed the secret song on March 24 2001 John Teeter would leave his final message and some words of wisdom I will be leaving this world line shortly and this will be my final post there are only a handful of people who will know exactly when I will be leaving and I'm sure they will let you know when I'm gone in the last few days I've found your choice topics quite interesting and from an objective Viewpoint I think it collectively answers one of their own questions if time travel is real where are all the time travelers in the past I've stated that quite frankly you all scare the hell out of me and I'm sure other temporal drivers would feel the same but now I have an expanded explanation a while ago I related an experience I had with my parents while we were driving down a highway every now and then would pass someone who was in obvious distress with their vehicle I was amazed that so many people could pass them live without stopping to help their explanation Was Fear the risk of helping someone was too great and with today's technology it probably had a cell phone anyway if they didn't the walk to a gas station would be good for them and teach them the lesson for running out of gas this is why Time Travelers do not show themselves in trying to help you we put ourselves at Great risk and there's really no point to it I already know you won't pay any attention or believe me because we've already been through it on this world line besides I think the walk to the gas station will do you some good I also want to thank Pamela for helping me with the email and everyone else who asked intelligent and insightful questions I've learned a great deal my parting thought revolves around something JC has been harping on since day one no I did not have a secret agenda but I've been paying a great deal of attention to your world line my interaction with you was not a direct Mission parameter but it was a secondary Mission protocol based on standing orders given to all temporal drivers that secondary objective is basically to gather as much information about a world line based on a set of observable variables when we first arrived Your World Lighting at those conditions what amazes me is why no one here wonders why why 2K didn't hit them at all bring a gas can with you when the car dies on the side of the road farewell John and John Teeter was gone and hasn't been heard from since but that was really just the beginning of the legend [Music] when the John Teeter story first landed in 2001 it was a sensation but as the years went on we've been able to see the accuracy of John's predictions John predicted a Civil War in the United States that would begin in 2005. obviously that didn't happen but you can make the case that America has never been more divided than it is today thanks Twitter 20 of adults in a recent survey said they believe a civil war is likely within the next 10 years that's a high percentage and John Teeter predicted a nuclear war in 2015 and that too didn't happen but considering current world events the last time we were this close to nuclear war was the Cuban Missile Crisis I actually think we're in more danger now he predicted there would be no Olympic Games after 2004. and he was wrong about that but there were no 2020 Olympics John Teeter did get a few things right there was a mad cow disease outbreak in the early 2000s to America's First confirmed case of bovine spongiform Encephalitis in six years BSE is mad cow disease a potentially deadly brain wasting infection that can be transferred to humans when John Teeter was posting in early 2001 most people were still accessing the internet with a dial-up modem John said in the future the internet would look more like the current cell phone system that's exactly right he said that in the future the entertainment industry would be decentralized and anyone would be able to create video which could be watched by many people more people watch YouTube than watch the networks or even go to the movies John Teeter was right again he predicted breakthroughs in high energy physics at CERN in 2013 the Higgs boson was confirmed Stephen Hawking originally thought that everything that enters a black hole disappears forever Peter said that Stephen Hawking made a mistake about this Stephen Hawking did later change his mind now many of these predictions could be dismissed as educated guesses by someone who is intelligent and knew a lot about science and technology but there's no denying that John was right as for the predictions John Teeter got wrong True Believers and there are still a lot of those always fall back on the many worlds theory Sure many of John teeter's predictions were wrong in our timeline but they came true in other timelines and there's no way to prove this wrong but if you look closely at the John Teeter story you do find inconsistencies you also find Convenient coincidences because of these problems with the story many believe that John Teeter was a hoax and if that's true then who was the real John Teeter well there are a few Suspects [Music] whenever anyone does a story about John Teeter and who he actually may be there are a few names that always pop up the first is Joseph Matheny he's described as a writer and trans media artist and he's mostly known for aung's hat which was one of the first alternate reality or real-time interactive games and Matheny makes a good case he said that he along with three other people developed the John Teeter story as a fun experiment to see if they could develop an internet myth mission accomplish Matheny won't divulge who the other three people are because they're pretty high up in the entertainment industry and have reputations to protect but a lot of the story tracks Matheny says the time machine we see in the fuzzy photos was created by a prop designer who's worked on major movies and John Teeter fans have been able to identify pieces of the time machine that are actually real things Matheny says the reason the messages often have different tones is because they were written by different people on the team Matheny was responsible for character development and the reason that John tater's story is so similar to John Connors is because it was intentional now I've heard and read some interviews with Matheny and at first I was skeptical initially I didn't think he had the tech or science background to flesh out the details in the John Teeter story I was very wrong Matheny was involved in Tech since the 80s he worked with Adobe and Netscape in the early days and holds a few patents also his game ong's hat had references to theoretical physics he had add the tech shops and a track record in creating online myths he could have definitely pulled this off still I'd love to see hard evidence Matheny won't provide any and when asked he gets pretty annoyed he says believe him or don't he doesn't care I think that after 20 years he's sick of people asking him about John Teeter but there are more people to look at [Music] the other name that comes up in the John Teeter story is Larry Haber and the Haber Brothers Larry Haber is a florida-based entertainment attorney he claims to represent John teeter's mom K and the Teeter family hey how does a lawyer sleep I don't know how oh first he lies on one side and then he lies on the other hey good one now I've seen and read a number of interviews with Larry Haber he definitely does not have the technology or science background to create John Teeter but his brothers do Richard Haber is an I.
T administrator and Maury Haber is a very senior cyber security professional Mori also has a lot of experience writing about technology and if you go down the John Teeter rabbit hole on YouTube You'll eventually run into a channel called hoax Hunter Run by John Rasmus Houston and I'll link to his channel below now John has done a ton of research on the subject he's tracked P. O boxes he's done text comparisons of Mori haber's writing to John teeter's posts he's tracked all the usernames from John teeter's message board I mean this is exhaustive research he's convinced that John Teeter is actually Maury Haber who eventually enlisted his lawyer brother to represent the story what is a lawyer get when you give him Viagra what taller I have a problem with lawyers do you I've been divorced three times what do you think Larry Haber has been attached to John Teeter for years not only does he claim to represent the Teeter family in 2003 he registered the John Teeter Foundation LLC a for-profit business and this LLC published John teeter's posts as a book called A Time Traveler's tale Larry Haber also registered John Teeter as a trademark in 2007. this lawyer claims to represent the Teeter family right yeah and at the same time he's got businesses and books that is making money from this thing that's right isn't that a conflict of interest I think it is but I guess Larry Haber and the Teeter family are okay with it he won't say Hey how do you get a lawyer out of a tree I'll cut the rope Joseph Matheny said he had someone reach out to the publisher of Larry haber's book and get it pulled Larry Haber can't confirm that Matheny did this but he did confirm that the book is out of print and doesn't know why torpedo the lawyer that's what it looks like he's okay in my book hey what do you have when a lawyer is buried up to his neck in sand what do you have not enough sand yeah oh baby in Larry haber's defense even though he represents the Teeter family he doesn't claim to believe the story he says he doesn't know one way or the other and doesn't care he's just working for his client and making money from his client yeah and that Pamela Morris said she was sent a copy of Larry haver's book signed by John with a song quoted at the end who is it the secret song nope how do you know if a lawyer is lying his lips are moving [Music] over 20 years later and the John Teeter story still fascinates people honestly I had never considered doing the story because it's been done so many times but it's one of the most requested topics on the channel I think the reason we love time travel stories is because it all comes down to possibilities and opportunities a story about a possible future especially such a frightening one gives us an opportunity to reflect on our present and choose a path to avoid that dark future or it gives us a chance to prepare for it think of how useful it would be if someone came back from that future to warn us to give us the exact steps to follow to ensure our survival well before John Teeter disappeared he did just that do not eat or use products from any animal that is fed and needs parts of its own dead do not kiss or have intimate relations with anyone you do not know learn basic sanitation and water purification be comfortable around Firearms learn to shoot and clean a gun get a good first aid kit and learn to use it find five people within 100 miles that you trust with your life and stay in contact with them get a copy of the U.
S Constitution and read it less hit a bicycle and two sets of spare tires ride it 10 miles a week consider what you would bring with you if you had to leave your home in 10 minutes and never return I don't know if the story of John Teeter is real I don't think we'll ever know but still my family is taking his advice we've got the first aid kit the bicycle and lots of ammo we're prepared for the future that John described at least as best as we can be and it's okay if you don't believe that John Teeter is from the future it's a story that anyone would be skeptical of but be skeptical of John Teeter at your own risk me I'm not willing to take the chance thank you so much for hanging out with me today my name is AJ that's hecklefish this has been the y-files if you had fun or learned anything do me a favor and like subscribe comment share that stuff really helps the channel and like most topics we cover on the channel today's topic was recommended by you if there's a story you'd like to see or learn more about go to the yfiles.
