Joe Matheny has admitted to being the person behind the Titor prank: https://jmatheny.wordpress.com/2015/01/11/episode-138-the-legend-of-time-traveler-john-tito

Joe Matheny has admitted to being the person behind the Titor prank: https://jmatheny.wordpress.com/2015/01/11/episode-138-the-legend-of-time-traveler-john-titor-with-joseph-matheny/ https://jmatheny.wordpress.com/2015/01/11/episode-138-the-le... This is, of course, completely reasonable and believable. A certain number of people suspected it in the first place. After all, Matheny was behind the Incunabula / Ong's Hat hoax, and was later brought on to create Majestic, the first commercial ARG. The Titor story has enough in common with both Ong's Hat and Majestic for Matheny to be one of the usual suspects.