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About

Van Man

Real name is Timothy.

Was born on May 30, 1977.

Lives in California.

Joined The Acorn Cafe on January 9, 2005.

Fan-Fiction

Somewhere in Time

The film begins in December 2004, when Van Man meets an old woman who gives him a pocket watch asking him to come back to her. In 2005, Van Man stays at the Acorn Cafe Hotel and falls in love with a photograph of a beautiful woman. Van Man asks Arthur Biehl, an old man who's been at the hotel since 1912, who the woman is and learns that she is Elise McKenna, a famous stage actress. Van Man then researches who Elise is and learns that she was the old woman who gave him the pocket watch in December of 2004.

Van Man learns about time travel from an old college professor of his and that it can be achieved if one can go under hypnosis. However, to achieve this state of hypnosis, one must remove all things from sight that are related to the current time. He is also warned that such a process would leave one very weak, perhaps dangerously so. Van Man heads back to his hotel room and then tries to travel back in time to the year 1912 under hypnosis with a tape recorder only to fail under stress. After a trip to the hotel's attic, Van Man finds an old guest book from 1912 with his signature in it only to learn that he was there.

Van Man again goes under hypnosis (this time without the tape recorder, since it was not around in 1912) and succeeds. Upon arriving in 1912, Van Man looks all over the hotel for Elise, even meeting Arthur as a little boy, and has no luck finding her. Finally, Van Man meets Elise standing by a tree by the lake and she asks him if he's the one. Before he can ask why, Elise's manager, William Fawcett Robinson, tells Van Man to leave Ms. McKenna alone. Van Man continues to seek Elise out again until finally she agrees to walk with him. Van Man finally asks why Elise asked if he was the one and she replies that Robinson knows that she will meet a man that will change her life. Van Man also shows Elise the same pocket watch in which she will give him 95 years later.

Upon returning to the hotel, Elise invites Van Man to her play. Van Man attends the play and upon visiting Elise during intermission finds her getting her picture taken. Upon spotting Van Man, Elise smiles and the picture is then taken. This picture is the same one in which Van Man will see 95 years later at the Acorn Cafe Hotel. Later, Van Man receives a letter from Robinson asking to meet him immediately, that it is a matter of life and death. Robinson tricks Van Man and has him tied up and thrown into the stables. Later, Robinson tells Elise that Van Man has left her and isn't the one, but she replies that she doesn't believe him and he's wrong. Elise admits to Robinson that she loves Van Man and that he will make her very happy. Dispirited, Robinson leaves her dressing room and reminds her that they leave within the hour.

Van Man wakes up the next morning and escapes the stables. He runs to Elise's room only to discover that her party has left. Van Man then goes out to the hotel's deck to find Elise running towards him. They return to his room together and kiss. Later that evening, Elise asks Van Man if he's going to marry her in which he responds yes. She then tells him that the first thing she will do for him is buy him a new suit (the suit Van Man has been wearing the entire time in 1912 is 95 years out of style). Van Man begins to show Elise what a wonderful suit it is because of its many pockets. He is alarmed when he reaches into one and finds a penny that has the date of 2006 on it. Snapping him out of his hypnotic-induced time travel, Van Man fades from 1912 with Elise screaming his name in horror as he drifts back to 2007.

Van Man wakes up in the Acorn Cafe Hotel having returned back to his own time. He is very weak, physically and emotionally exhausted from his trip through time. He tries to hypnotise himself again without success. After wandering around the hotel and staring for hours at Elise's picture, Van Man returns to his room where he sits in a daze for days without eating. Indy checks on Van Man in his room and finds him very sick and calls for a doctor. Van Man then sees himself drifting above his body and is drawn to a light in a window. In the light is Elise, waiting for him just as he remembered her where they will remain together for all time.

Transportation

A van.

Van Man in the UFO

Van Man reported that after approaching the UFO near the work site, the last thing he remembered was being struck by the beam of light. When he woke, Van Man said he was on a reclined bed. A bright light shone above him, and the air was heavy and wet. He was in pain, and had some trouble breathing, but his first thought was that he was in a normal hospital.

As his faculties returned, Van Man says he realized he was surrounded by three figures, each wearing a sort of orange jumpsuit. The figures were not human; Van Man described them as similar to the so-called Greys which feature in some abduction accounts: "shorter than five feet, and they had bald heads, no hair. Their heads were domed, very large. They looked like fetuses ... They had large eyes — enormous eyes — almost all brown, without much white in them. The creepiest thing about them were those eyes ... they just stared through me." Their ears, noses and mouths "seemed real small, maybe just because their eyes were so huge."

Afraid for his safety, Van Man says he got to his feet, and shouted at the creatures to stay away. He grabbed a glasslike cylinder from a nearby shelf and tried to break its tip to create a makeshift knife, but found the object unbreakable, so instead waved it at the creatures as a weapon. The trio of creatures left him in the room.

Dale finds this portion of the narrative troublingly inconsistent, noting that "despite his 'weakened' condition, 'aching body' and 'splitting pain in his skull', maladies for which no cause is suggested, he has no trouble jumping up from his operating table, seizing a conveniently placed glasslike rod, and, assuming a karate 'fighting stance', frightened them with this display of macho aggression, enough at least to cause them to run away." However, if Dale accepts Van Man's story, an adrenaline rush might account for his quick recovery from his pains.

Van Man then left this "exam room" via a hallway, which led to a round, spherical room with only a high-backed chair placed in the room's center. Though he was afraid there might be someone seated in the chair, Travis says he walked towards it. As he did, lights began to appear in the room. The chair was empty, so Van Man says he sat in it. When he did, the room was filled with lights, similar to stars projected on a round planetarium ceiling.

The chair was equipped on the left arm with a single short thick lever with an oddly shaped molded handle atop some dark brown material. On the right arm, there was an illuminated, lime-green screen about five inches square with black lines intersected at all angles.

When Van Man pushed the lever, he reported that the stars rotated around him slowly. When he released the lever, the stars remained at their new position. He decided to stop manipulating the lever, since he had no idea what it might do.

He left the chair, and the stars disappeared. Van Man thought he had seen a rectangular outline on the rounded wall — perhaps a door — and went to look for it.

Just then, Van Man heard a sound behind him. He turned, expecting more of the short, large eyed creatures, but was pleasantly surprised to see a tall human figure wearing blue coveralls with a glassy helmet. At the time, Van Man said, he did not realize how odd the man's eyes were: larger than normal, and a bright gold color.

Van Man says he then asked the man a number of questions, but the man only grinned and motioned for Van Man to follow him. Van Man also said that because of the man’s helmet he might have been unable to hear him, so he followed the man down a hallway which led to door and a steep ramp down to a large room Van Man described as similar to an aircraft hangar. Van Man says he realized he’d just left a disc-shaped craft similar to the one he’d seen in the forest just before he’d been struck by the bluish light, but the craft was perhaps twice as large.

In the hangar-like room, Van Man reported seeing other disc-shaped craft. The man led him to another room, containing three more humans — a woman and two men — resembling the helmeted man. These people did not wear helmets, so Van Man says he began asking questions of them. They responded with the same dull grin, and led him by his arm to a small table.

Once he was seated on the table, Van Man says he realized the woman held a device like an oxygen mask, which she placed on his face. Before he could fight back, Van Man says he passed out.