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| Added | Wed, 21/07/2021 |
| Author | July N. |
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Karlssin was arrested on suspicion of insider trading and taken for questioning. That's where it all turned into a really strange thing. During the interrogation, Karlssin quickly began to confess, but what he said was not at all what was expected.
A few years ago, a strange story about a stock analyst who claimed to be a time traveler appeared and became popular on the English-language Internet.
According to this story, in 2003, a 44-year - old American man named Andrew Carlssin (Andrew Carlssin) attracted the attention of the FBI and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) - an independent agency charged with enforcing the law against stock market manipulation.
Presumably, what caught their attention was that Karlssin suddenly and inexplicably increased the initial investment from just $ 800 to a staggering $ 350 million in just two weeks, making a series of very risky investments - a total of 126 stock trades.
All these trades passed for him without delay and without a single mistake, and all this at a time when the market was in turmoil and was incredibly volatile even for the most experienced hot traders, so Karlssin's luck was considered an extremely unlikely and very suspicious case. Especially considering the huge amount of money he had earned in such a short period of time.
Then Karlssin was arrested on suspicion of insider trading and taken for questioning. That's where it all turned into a really strange thing.
During the interrogation, Karlssin quickly began to confess, but what he said was not at all what was expected from him. The fact is that he told me that he is a time traveler.
"A good joke," the interrogators said and began the interrogation again.
Again Karlssin answered them in the same way, this time causing them to raise their eyebrows in surprise. They realized that Karlssin was not joking at all and that he was completely calm and serious.
Karlssin further stated that he came here from the year 2256 and, since he knew the history of the stock market, he could easily travel back and in time to take advantage of this for his own monetary gain.
"It was too tempting to resist such a chance. In 2256, knowledge about the instability of the stock market has become so commonplace that anyone who knows the history of the stock market can use it. I can't help myself, and I tried to look natural, forcing myself to lose a little money here and a little there, but it seems that I got carried away with your environment," Karlssin said.
Then there was more. When the Securities and Exchange Commission allegedly conducted a background check on Karlssin, it found that there were no records of his existence anywhere before 2002. Nothing at all.
It was very difficult to explain, but it was even more difficult to believe his story about time travel. However, when the interrogators finally began to ask Karlssin about the location of his Time Machine, he refused to talk about it, and also refused to tell how exactly this Machine works. He said that there are fears that this technology will fall into the wrong hands.
Karlssin went on to claim that he could give all sorts of amazing technologies, predictions of the future and even a cure for AIDS if they just let him go. However, there was still no evidence of his words and the investigators more and more believed that this was a mentally ill person.
However, it was still a mystery where he got the information about the right stocks and the chances that he would make so many right risky investments at the right time were infinitely small. And he still didn't mention any names of his likely partners, because he adamantly stuck to his story about time travel.
One of the SEC investigators commented on this:
"We don't believe this guy's story - he's either crazy or a pathological liar. But the fact is that with an initial investment of only $ 800, two weeks later he had a portfolio worth more than $ 350 million. Every transaction he made was based on an unexpected business development, which simply cannot be pure luck. The only way to achieve this is to use illegal insider information. We are still trying to find out the source of information about where Karlssin gets his confidential information. He will sit in a prison cell on Rikers Island until he agrees to give up his sources."
After that, an unidentified person allegedly appeared out of nowhere to post a $ 1 million bail for Karlssin, and when Karlssin was released, he simply disappeared and never came to the attention of the FBI again.
Considering how amazing all this sounds, this story became a sensation all over the world and it was published not only in blogs and social networks, but also commented on in ordinary newspapers.
However, skeptics eventually got to the source and found that something similar was published on the pages of the newspaper Weekly World News-tabloid entertainment fiction with extremely dubious stories from the point of view of truthfulness. Then, by some miracle, this story got into Yahoo news in the "Entertainment News and Gossip" section, after which it was perceived as real and took on a life of its own.
Meanwhile, the FBI and the SEC received a stream of calls with questions about the mysterious Karlssin and they had no choice but to deny everything, which, by the way, rather added weight to the story than debunked it.
One representative of the FBI commented on this:
"I very much doubt the veracity of the story. I do not know a single person who would earn 350 million on the stock market starting with $ 800. In any of our field offices, there could well have been a person with that name arrested for fraud - we arrest hundreds of people every week, but the thought that there could be a time traveler there... We have received a huge number of calls from the media about this. It was just amazing. Of course, we should have studied this, but as far as we know, this is not true. This story is pure fiction. There is no truth in this. This is a story from the same section as "The Elvis Temple found on Mars"."
On top of that, even if he was a real person, the story he presented not only had absolutely no proof, but also didn't make much sense. One comment on an article about Karlssin in the Edinburgh Evening News sums it up pretty well:
"Even a non-time traveler could tell him that making a profit from 126 consecutive high-risk trades within two weeks would definitely attract his attention. A few others would point out that any time traveler with a half brain wouldn't bother to go back to 2003, just when the stock market is in free fall, and anyone who actually makes any money will stand out from the landscape as a giant green alien with two heads."
However, despite all the signs that this story is probably a fake, a huge number of people still believe in it.
Original news
Andrew Carlssin was supposedly arrested in March 2003 for SEC violations for making 126 high-risk stock trades and being successful on every one. As reported, Carlssin started with an initial investment of $800 and ended with over $350,000,000 which drew the attention of the SEC. Later reports suggest that after his arrest, he submitted a four-hour confession wherein he claimed to be a time traveler from 200 years in the future. He offered to tell investigators such things as the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and the cure for AIDS in return for a lesser punishment and to be allowed to return to his time craft, although he refused to tell investigators the location or workings of his craft. A mysterious man posted his bail and Carlssin was scheduled for court hearing but was never seen again; records show that he never existed.
The Carlssin story likely originated as a fictional piece in Weekly World News, a satirical newspaper, and was later repeated by Yahoo! News, where its fictitious nature became less apparent. It was soon reported by other newspapers and magazines as fact. This in turn drove word-of-mouth spread through email inboxes and internet forums, leading to far more detailed descriptions of events.
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All one need know about this video detailing the arrest of a ‘time-traveling’ stock trader is that it originated with the Weekly World News, an entertainment site devoted to inventing fantastically fictitious stories while keeping its tongue firmly embedded in its cheek to a depth not measurable by any instrument known to man:
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
Wednesday March 19, 2003By CHAD KULTGEN
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January 28.
“We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
“But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over $350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be pure luck.
“The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
Unfortunately, back in 2003 when Yahoo! was a primary news source for many Internet users, they reprinted some Weekly World News articles in their TV News section under a heading of “Entertainment News & Gossip,” a title that didn’t convey a strong “bogus” warning to readers who failed to notice the original source was the Weekly World News (or didn’t know what the Weekly World News was).
Despite this item’s tabloid origins (and the fact that it was covered nowhere but in the Weekly World News), it showed up in a variety of magazines and newspapers, reprinted verbatim as a “real” news item — to the amusement and consternation of FBI and U.S. Security and Exchange Commission officials, who were flooded with a rash of inquiries from journalists seeking confirmation for a bit of fiction:
The spokesman at the US Security and Exchange Commission in Washington gives a weary sigh and then a slightly strained chuckle when he hears the words “time traveler” and “inside trader”.
“This story is pure fantasy. There is no truth in it at all,” he says. “This is the kind of story that belongs in the same file as ‘Elvis Shrine Found on Mars.’
“You know something? We have had an enormous number of calls from the media on this one. It has been absolutely amazing. Of course, we had to look into it, but as far as we know, it’s just not true.”
As if this tale weren’t already implausible enough on its face, the Edinburgh Evening News wryly noted:
“Even a non-time traveller could have told him that profiting from 126 consecutive high-risk trades over two weeks was sure to get him noticed,” commented the Guardian.
A handful of others pointed out that any time traveller with half a brain would not bother popping back to 2003, just when the stock market is in free fall and anyone who actually makes any money at all would stick out like a 25-ft. tall green alien with two heads.
In a follow-up article in their 29 April 2003 issue, the Weekly World News reported that mysterious time-traveling Andrew Carlssin had been bailed out by an “unidentified benefactor” who ponied up $1 million, then jumped bail before an April 3 court hearing and disappeared without a trace.
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By CHAD KULTGEN
NEW YORK -- Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading charges -- and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January 28.
"We don't believe this guy's story -- he's either a lunatic or a pathological liar," says an SEC insider.
"But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks' time he had a portfolio valued at over $350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can't be pure luck.
"The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He's going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers Island until he agrees to give up his sources."
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall Street watchdogs.
"If a company's stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret, Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance," says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing investigation.
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mind-boggling four-hour confession.
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
"It was just too tempting to resist," Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. "I had planned to make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn't look too perfect. But I just got caught in the moment."
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge "historical facts" such as the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his "time craft."
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear the technology could "fall into the wrong hands."
Officials are quite confident the "time-traveler's" claims are bogus. Yet the SEC source admits, "No one can find any record of any Andrew Carlssin existing anywhere before December 2002."
Weekly World News will continue to follow this story as it unfolds. Keep watching for further developments.
Hypotheses
Deliberate falsification
This version includes any falsifications that imitate unexplained phenomena both from the outside: practical jokes, flash mobs, fake news, witness fraud, staging, etc.
There are many ways to make something similar to a ghost or a flying saucer from improvised materials, without using video and photomontage.
Many homemade things made for the sake of a joke, a practical joke or a direct imitation of a mystical being or event can be taken as unexplained not only in photos and videos, but also in reality.
Investigation
A scan of this fictional article was found in the satirical newspaper Weekly World News. The very page of this article in weeklyworldnews.com it exists (it is often referenced), but it does not work.
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Deliberate falsification
This version includes any falsifications that imitate unexplained phenomena both from the outside: practical jokes, flash mobs, fake news, witness fraud, staging, etc.
There are many ways to make something similar to a ghost or a flying saucer from improvised materials, without using video and photomontage.
Many homemade things made for the sake of a joke, a practical joke or a direct imitation of a mystical being or event can be taken as unexplained not only in photos and videos, but also in reality.
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