Lots of people wholeheartedly believed Titor while other people obsessed over errors and inconsistencies, becoming online detectives trying to uncover his truth.
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A multimedia artist said that the John Tritor story “was created as a literary experiment by people who were observing what I was doing with Ong’s Hat [a pioneering early alternate reality game].”
“And these people wanted to do something like that. I was a consultant on the project, [but] it wasn’t my project,” Joseph Matheny added, according to Thrillist.
Richard O’Connor, who listened to the radio station, said: “There was always the sense that Art was fully aware of the con.”
“This made the gullibility of the callers even better,” O’Connor stated.
He added: “John Titor, probably to lesser than most of the other ‘time travelers,’ didn’t seem to have a strong enough grasp of history (or the present, for that matter) to concoct particularly compelling stories.
“But Art had this fine skill of constructing drama from the little they said and pulling out just enough bits to make it fun,” O’Connor said.
Joseph Matheny 