Real Deathbed Confession
Take this for what you will. The cancer had spread to his brain, and we were administering morphine, but he was completely lucid when he said this.
My dad worked for the federal government for most of his life. He never talked about his job, and everyone in our family understood you simply didn't ask.
A few days before he passed away, he brought up Art Bell out of nowhere. He asked if I remembered the late-nineties broadcast where a frantic caller claimed to work at Area 51, talking about disasters and wiping out population centers right before the show got knocked off the air. I told him I didn't, but I have since listened to it.
He looked at me and told me it wasn't a hoax.
Then he said something that sounded completely unhinged to me at the time. He told me time travel exists, and that observers are arriving right now just to witness what life was like before everything falls apart. He kept fixating on one number. He said that once the war begins, over five billion people will die from starvation.
I wanted to share this, but reddit keeps censoring it so I had to post to my own subreddit.