Ryan Lochte claims his dog is eternally 8 years old

It's been a heartbreaking year for fans of America's golden boy, Ryan Lochte.

Last night, more fuel was added to the eternal flame of wildly inaccurate things he says and does.

Twitter user @wholegrainne realized that for the past three years on Oct. 23, Ryan Lochte has tweeted that his dog turned 8 years old.

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We can be fairly certain that Lochte's dog was born on Oct. 23. We have, unfortunately, no idea what year. Here, in 2014, Lochte claims that Carter was born eight years ago.

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Then in 2015, Lochte claimed that his dog was born "Eight years ago to this day" again.

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Lochte deleted yesterday's tweet in which he stated Carter turned eight for the third time. He corrected the mistake by tweeting that Carter was born nine years ago, which still doesn't explain his tweets that Carter was eight years old for two years in a row.

If Lochte had been correct the first time he tweeted that his dog was eight, Carter should have just turned 10.

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Lochte, who fabricated an entire story about being robbed in order to try to cover up his own drunken stupidity, is no stranger to lying.

However, because this is the spookiest week in the spookiest month, it's possible that something more sinister is at play.

Several theories exist surrounding the mystery of the dog's age:

-Lochte's dog a time-traveller. -Lochte himself is a time-traveller. (This might explain the futuristic silver hair and grills.) -Lochte owns three different dogs of the same name, born on the same day in different years.

We're filled with questions. But, for now, we've got "Ryan Lochte's Time Traveling Dog/Son, Carter" in our Halloween costume arsenal.