Time Traveling FanFiction Cryptids

Chelsea is back! And she has a story to tell that is definitely not a cheap rip off of every time travel movie from the 80s. Meanwhile, Cristina tells us about a Cryptid from Australia with a name that Chelsea can't stop giggling at (Also it's Australis so there's like a 50% chance it actually exists).

Presented by: Chelsea
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John Titor was a time traveler from the year 2036 who began appearing online in 2001. He was a mission, he said, to collect an IBM 5100 computer needed for backwards compatibility on certain programs. He was chosen, because his grandfather had help develop that and that somehow mattered. While he was here, explained certain events of his future and of the nature of time travel. Traveling to the past, according to Titor, created a new timeline, though in some versions of his story it was possible to return to your own timeline. Supporter of Titor's use this to explain the time traveler's false predictions. They had been prevent in our reality by Titor himself.

It was, however, impossible to travel beyond 2064.

By 2036, the U.S. would have been divided, with the new capitol being in Nebraska. At the time of his arrival to the past, we were a few short years away from civil war, which would end in 2015 with WWIII due to lack of resources and overpopulation.

The story was eventually linked to a failed ARG and is widely accepted to be a hoax. However, the details regarding the IBM 5100 are true, giving the story some lasting credibility.

Takeaway: Time travel stories are fun, but don't take them too seriously.

Presented by: Cristina
Category: Cryptid

The Yaoi, not to be confuse the genre yowie, is an Australian cryptid and therefore real. As hairy as any bear, the Yaoi is 6 foot tall at the minimum and can reach heights up to 12 feet. Thought to be related to the Northern American Bigfoot, the Yaoi is known to leave behind large footprints. The size and number of toes vary in the reports and some even claim the feet are backwards on the Yaoi.

Sightings of the Yaoi are ancient, dating back to aboriginal folklore. Europeans began seeing the creature in the late 1800s, with one of the first documented sightings coming in 1870. A boy named Johnny Williams, who saw the Yaoi one his way home from school (Johnny, not the Yaoi). He watched as the creature run away and stub it's toe, yelling out it's own name. That's where the name Yaoi comes from.

Twelve years later and amateur naturalist Henry James McCooey saw one and threw a rock at it, apparently unaware that he lived in Australia. He made a bet that he could find the Yaoi. He lost. A picture purporting to show the creature was taken in in 1936.

Like Big, it is speculated that that Yaoi is either gigantopithecus, the extinct magefauna ape, or it's descendent. However, gigantopithecus never lived in Australia.