Long story short: Man chases his dog in the desert, trips in a rabbit hole, knocks himself unconscious until he wakes up in a parallel universe where he steals a Beatles cassette tape, builds a website about his experience and puts the music on there as proof.
(the music is pretty good though, if you like the Beatles)

http://www.thebeatlesneverbrokeup.com/

So, of all the things he could have found there
all the potential different parallel universes
he only brings back an unreleased cassette
as a souvenir!

2. The music is muffled, anyone could be singing and the beatles is one of the most copied music style out there it wouldn’t be hard to fake this

3. The cassette is handwritten (it fits with the muffled music I guess) If he truely went to a P-D you’d think he’d get a proper recording, maybe even a CD
Personally I’d go out of my way to get as much convincing proof as possible.

Sharruma - 06 November 2009 08:15 AM

Personally I’d go out of my way to get as much convincing proof as possible.

What? You don’t think going to a parallel universe was far enough out of his way?

I suppose he’s an Edgar Rice Burroughs fan.  If I didn’t know Lin Carter was dead, I’d think it was him.

Sharruma - 06 November 2009 08:15 AM

  ........ If he truely went to a P-D you’d think he’d get a proper recording, maybe even a CD…..... 

Maybe CDs are a product of NASA technology somehow so were therefore never invented on his dimension (or any he visited….)

I have always thought that it might be interesting to travel to an alternate reality ala Sliders.  It;s fun to imagine what some of the tiny, yet significant changes might be…... But that is all it really is, a mind exercise. 

Basically, if it is true, the guy has ZERO real proof. (The cassette, as mentioned before is very muddled and hand made.)  I know that if ‘I’ had wanted to grab something from an alternate universe, it would have been something mass produced or printed. (Heck, the newspaper or a magazine would have been enough…or the store made Sgt. Peppers Band album with its ‘minor changes’!)

So….fun story, but that’s it.  A story.

daveprime - 06 November 2009 02:16 PM

I know that if ‘I’ had wanted to grab something from an alternate universe, it would have been something mass produced or printed. (Heck, the newspaper or a magazine would have been enough…or the store made Sgt. Peppers Band album with its ‘minor changes’!)

And those are all things that could (relatively) easily be faked and we’d be saying the same things if he brought those back.

Exactly why i posted it in hoaxes.
The music on the tape is a ‘mashup’ of different solo albums of the individual Beatles.
Cleverly done, that’s why it sounds very familiar.

His explanation for this is in the FAQ:

3. Thanks for posting the download and sharing your story about this pretty cool collection of songs. After listening to all of it, however, it sounds like a collection of previous Beatles and post break up albums from this dimension mixed into new songs.
I didn’t recognize Sick to Death, but everything else just seemed like a mix from other songs that could be made using modern mixing equipment.  Has anyone else given you the same feedback?  - Steven

A: I have heard that feedback actually, and infact I had a feeling some of the songs had a familiar sound to them as well. The only conclusion I can come up with is even though in the alternate universe The Beatles hadn’t broken up, that didn’t mean their future music ideas disapeared. I wish I grabbed this other tape that had a song very similiar to “Imagine” on it that Jonas played, only it sounded like it had a big band behind it with horns and huge orchestral sections, though the lyrics were practically identical to the original “Imagine”. I wouldn’t be surprised if in the alternate dimension when The Beatles were songwriting they brought melodies and lyrics they had in their head to the songwriting table and hashed them out with the rest of the group, where as in our dimension they didn’t have the other band members influences.

Tah - 06 November 2009 03:49 PM

daveprime - 06 November 2009 02:16 PM

I know that if ‘I’ had wanted to grab something from an alternate universe, it would have been something mass produced or printed. (Heck, the newspaper or a magazine would have been enough…or the store made Sgt. Peppers Band album with its ‘minor changes’!)

And those are all things that could (relatively) easily be faked and we’d be saying the same things if he brought those back.

Yep still fakable
but would’ve been more convincing.

daveprime - 06 November 2009 02:16 PM

I have always thought that it might be interesting to travel to an alternate reality ala Sliders.  It;s fun to imagine what some of the tiny, yet significant changes might be…... But that is all it really is, a mind exercise. 

Of course, in all probability most of those other worlds would be totally impossible for humans to survive on, so you’d better bring along your heat-proof cold-proof radiation-proof meteor-proof vacuum-proof water-proof magma-proof plasma-proof toxic-gas-proof pressure-proof singularity-proof dragon-proof id-monster-proof boots.

Accipiter - 06 November 2009 04:38 PM

daveprime - 06 November 2009 02:16 PM

I have always thought that it might be interesting to travel to an alternate reality ala Sliders.  It;s fun to imagine what some of the tiny, yet significant changes might be…... But that is all it really is, a mind exercise. 

Of course, in all probability most of those other worlds would be totally impossible for humans to survive on, so you’d better bring along your heat-proof cold-proof radiation-proof meteor-proof vacuum-proof water-proof magma-proof plasma-proof toxic-gas-proof pressure-proof singularity-proof dragon-proof id-monster-proof boots.

  And a very sharp sword…..

Or a Assault Rifle? If the laws of Physics still apply…

Maybe he could travel to the parallel universe where everybody is influenced by Tiny Tim’s fashion sense.