This is fantasy, of course. My guess is that it's some college course doing a social experiment rather than an individual troll. Perhaps it's called The Creation of Myth (user's name is CM-NL). There's probably some college class out there patting themselves on the back for convincing so many people through a cleverly-crafted-but-just-a-little-too-perfect story that was tailor-made for Redditors.

After all, the follow-up is basically created from the most popular responses to the original post.