Alright. Yeah I know this isn’t really on schedule. Whatever, I still didn’t want to post it at all. And I know you all asked for it, so I’m gonna do so, but let me explain why I’m not eager to post this guy’s story.

I’ve posted examples of photos or articles in the past noting how they are not good evidence for this phenomenon. I didn’t want to railroad people into believing this by just continually posting all the case elements for it and ignoring possible other alternatives. But those items were different. They were anonymously submitted and clearly meant either to see how gullible I was or to poke fun at the whole idea. No one asserted that they were real – most of them didn’t even come with messages!

But this guy asserts he’s telling the truth and that he himself is an open, bragging time travel here in Winona.

His communications started with me about a month ago. He messaged the blog’s Facebook page, not with a request for interview, but to ask whether or not I’d publicize his fight video with someone who doubted the truth of his claim. He’d been told by a friend from the 80s he’d met up with in the present day to write me about posting it. I told him that that really wasn’t the purpose of this blog.

I mean, I’ve started posting my own random asides here or the comments have some drama, but a fight video is just a step too far.

I didn’t think he was too serious either, because after I’d flatly said no about the video, I sent him some interview questions. He sent back this wall of very canned sounding text.

He said his name was Chad and that he was from 1986. He got off a train coming home from Oktoberfest – too hungover to remember any real details about the trip, apparently – and found himself in Winona. None of this is that weird compared with the other stories the blog has gathered.

But his whole delivery was just so… flippant. He said he thought his purpose was “to show everyone how to party again, kids today dont [SIC] know how to kick it and be rad”. And of course, his response finished that the only problem with his fun life now was that he was going to have to fight this guy who said he wasn’t from the 80s “cause hes [SIC] dumb”.

Honestly, I just thought his whole story was complete bunk. I think treating him with the same seriousness as say Elizabeth the Runaway Mom or even those weird news stories about the costumed bank robbers severely harms the credibility of this blog.