Time Traveler of the Year 2256
When can the people of the internet draw the line between truth and a hoax?According to a Youtube video, in March, 2003, a man that nobody really noticed, supposedly put $800 into the stock market. About 2 weeks later he had a stockpile of $350 million dollars. At this time the stock market was at a very low point so for him to win this much raised eyebrows of many, high profile, stock brokers. His name was Andrew Carlssin and he was the new face of Wall Street. Taken in for questioning, he immediately confessed to time travel, saying he was from the year 2256. Very bewildered, it was easy to understand the officers skepticism. Put at bail for $1 million, Carlssin was bailed out and disappeared along with the person who was said to bail Carlssin out of jail (Youtube). Throughout research and reading this tired legend, it is obvious to readers that this entire story was a sham along with the many links and articles online. The importance of this story is to not be gullible and fooled by what can be made on the internet. Andrew Carlssin did not time travel.
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Such as FBI.gov, there are no results of “Andrew Carlssin” “Year 2256” or anything to do with “time travel.” If there really were such a man that was reported of time travel or even stealing $350 million, he would be in the FBI database. Even a simple search from the New York Times, there was no sign of Andrew Carlssin or any type of time travel from any newspaper. And for this incident to be taken place in New York, that draws a big flag that the New York Times did not report anything. Further research into the www.wsj.com (Wall Street Journal), shows that nothing of Andrew Carlssin can be displayed. This whole circumstance was said to have started with the stock market of Wall Street, and still nothing comes up. This is major evidence to the hypothesis that Andrew Carlssin did not time
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