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Speaker 1: Welcome to Unexplained Extra with me Richard McClain smith. For

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Speaker 1: the weeks in between episodes, we look at the stories that,

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Speaker 1: for one reason or other, didn't make it into the show.

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Speaker 1: In last week's episode, Time Out of Joint, we looked

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Speaker 1: at two instances of a supposed time slip. In both stories,

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Speaker 1: we find ourselves questioning the validity of someone's belief that

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Speaker 1: they unwittingly stepped back into the past. But what instead,

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Speaker 1: if we were on the other side and it was

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Speaker 1: us witnessing them arriving miraculously from the future, how could

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Speaker 1: we possibly believe them? Fans of the recent TV show

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Speaker 1: The OA may be familiar with the film's Sound of

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Speaker 1: My Voice, also written by The OA creators Britt Marling

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Speaker 1: and Zal Batman Man Gleage, the film is a mesmerizing

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Speaker 1: portrayal of an alleged time traveler and the lengths it

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Speaker 1: requires going to in order to convince others of her veracity.

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Speaker 1: What is perhaps most remarkable about the film, however, is

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Speaker 1: the likelihood that it was in fact inspired by true events.

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Speaker 1: The story begins on July twenty ninth, nineteen ninety eight,

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Speaker 1: with the facts read out live on air by broadcaster

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Speaker 1: Art Bell on his show Coast to Coast Am Dear Art,

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Speaker 1: It read, I had to facts when I heard other

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Speaker 1: time travelers calling in from any time past the year

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Speaker 1: twenty five hundred a d Please let me explain. Time

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Speaker 1: travel was invented in twenty thirty four. Offshoots of certain

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Speaker 1: successful fusion reactor research allowed scientists at CERN to produce

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Speaker 1: the world's first contained singularity engine. Unfortunately, it was also

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Speaker 1: discovered that anyone going forward in time from my twenty

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Speaker 1: thirty six hit a brick wall in the year twenty

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Speaker 1: five sixty four. Everyone who has ever been there has

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Speaker 1: reported that nothing exists. When the machine is turned off,

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Speaker 1: you find yourself surrounded by blackness and silence. Now, most

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Speaker 1: time travelers are trying to find out where the line

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Speaker 1: went bad by going into the past, creating a new universe,

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Speaker 1: and proceeding forward to see if the same thing results

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Speaker 1: in twenty five sixty four. It appears the line went

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Speaker 1: bad around the year two thousand. I'm here now in

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Speaker 1: this time to test a few theories of mine before

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Speaker 1: going forward. The Facts goes on to list a number

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Speaker 1: of dystopian disasters that were set to before the planet

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Speaker 1: as a result of the Millennium bug. Of course, despite

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Speaker 1: some hysterical concerns at the time, the millennium bug never

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Speaker 1: truly bit. The name of the facts sender was not disclosed,

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Speaker 1: and like the Millennium Bug, the incident was destined to

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Speaker 1: fizzle out, consigned to the dustbin of post apocalyptic paranoia.

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Speaker 1: That was until two years later, on October the fourteenth,

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Speaker 1: two thousand, when a new contributor popped up on Internet

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Speaker 1: relay chat and joined a conversation with a user named

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Speaker 1: Yaresa and another named g Degrees. The new entrant called

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Speaker 1: themselves time travel Underscore zero Greetings. They wrote, my name

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Speaker 1: is John, I'm thirty eight, and I'm a time traveler

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Speaker 1: from Florida. The other users were understandably intrigued, if not

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Speaker 1: wholly convinced. In the ensuing conversation, John proceeded to outline

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Speaker 1: his story, which contained a number of similar elements to

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Speaker 1: that of the original facts read out by art Bell,

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Speaker 1: such as the fact that he had also traveled back

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Speaker 1: from the year twenty thirty six. It seemed to suggest

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Speaker 1: that both the mystery poster and the author of the

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Speaker 1: facts were the same person, only this time they had

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Speaker 1: major breakthrough happens at CERN in about a year, he says,

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Speaker 1: but there has been some controversy over the damages of it.

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Speaker 1: Some are concerned that it may be quite hazardous. Is

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Speaker 1: antimatter involved? Asks G Degrees. No, says John. Wasn't there

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Speaker 1: something about creating a black hole? Says Euresa. Yes, says John,

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Speaker 1: you've heard of it. It's a black hole about the

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Speaker 1: size of an electron. John goes on to explain that

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Speaker 1: he is visiting the year two thousand as part of

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Speaker 1: a promise made to his grandfather in nineteen seventy five,

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Speaker 1: a sort of scenic route, before returning to the year

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Speaker 1: twenty thirty six. Why would you do that, they ask?

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Speaker 1: I was sent back to nineteen seventy five to get

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Speaker 1: a computer, says John. It's an IBM model fifty one ten.

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Speaker 1: We need it in twenty thirty six to recode Unix,

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Speaker 1: which dies in twenty thirty eight. Who needed a fifty

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Speaker 1: one ten? You lost me there, says G Degrees. The

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Speaker 1: fifty one ten is able to read the old IBM

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Speaker 1: mainframe code. We need it in twenty thirty six. So

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Speaker 1: have you tried changing the past yet, says g Or

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Speaker 1: have you found that everything you do has already been done? Actually,

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Speaker 1: replies John. Our worldlines are not fixed, they are all different.

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Speaker 1: There is no one time. But you have a past,

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Speaker 1: says G. You remember things and if one changes, yes,

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Speaker 1: says John, but they are different. The fact I am

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Speaker 1: here changes this world line. In fact, I've noticed small changes,

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Speaker 1: incidental news, stories that haven't happened, books not written, small

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Speaker 1: stuff like that. Have you ever been in a room

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Speaker 1: infinite worlds with infinite possibilities theory, yes, cries John. Multiple

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Speaker 1: Asks G. The military, replies John, I'm a soldier, but

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Speaker 1: civilian travel is not far off. Wermkin underscore thirty seven

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Speaker 1: continues John. When time travel was invented, they built prototypes

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Speaker 1: and then return, but they never returned. It was later

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Speaker 1: discovered that the machines were ending up about fifteen miles

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Speaker 1: this classified? Said G. I know you think I'm nuts.

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Speaker 1: Who would believe me? That's why I love these chat rooms.

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Speaker 1: I know that nothing I say will make a bit

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Speaker 1: of difference. I'm not feeling sorry for myself I'm actually

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Speaker 1: learning to like the people here. You have a very

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Speaker 1: bad reputation in twenty thirty six, who me, says Wormkin?

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Speaker 1: In general, says John. This period is thought of as

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Speaker 1: the time when they had it all but squandered it.

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Speaker 1: But fun was had, jokes Wormkin. There is something you

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Speaker 1: can tell me, says G. What happens in December two

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Speaker 1: thousand and twelve? Anything nothing, says John. But there is

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Speaker 1: a nuclear war around two thousand and fifteen, Bugger, says G.

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Speaker 1: It's not that bad, says John. There's a civil war

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Speaker 1: in the US. Then Russia launches against China Europe and does.

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Speaker 1: From my point of view, Russia helps us we win.

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Speaker 1: The civil war has two sides fought on one side

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Speaker 1: the other side got nuked by Russia. Not North and

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Speaker 1: South again? Was it? Asks G? No? More like city

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Speaker 1: against country, says John. Well, it's been interesting talking to you,

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Speaker 1: says G. But it's way past my bedtime. Look me

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Speaker 1: up when you get back to twenty thirty six, will

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Speaker 1: you if I'm still here, I will try it, says John. Well,

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Speaker 1: good night, then, good night. All elements have unexplained are

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