7 People Who Claimed To Be Time Travelers

After capturing the attention of an internet forum at the turn of the millennium, alleged military time traveller John Titor supported his claim that he had been sent to the year 2036 with a series of predictions about the near-future.

You might have expected these to be vague and bereft of detail in the tradition of doomsday preachers, who regularly claim that the end of the world is definitely, maybe, perhaps coming in the next 10 to 200 years. But, in fact, many of them were pretty specific.

Titor claimed, for example, that the Olympic Games would soon be discontinued, that United States would descend into civil war in the aftermath of the 2004 US Presidential Election, and that long-awaited sequel World War III would finally break out in 2015.

Needless to say, none of this actually came true, although for some that's still not evidence enough that the whole thing was little more than an elaborate hoax concocted by someone with too much time on their hands. Supporters of Titor would subsequently suggest that his predictions actually pertained to a timeline other than our own, which is an easy mistake to make.