[Mrrr leave it to Captain Pessimist to put a wrench in his awesome. Also he lost possession of his bears D: ]
And why should we trust this information? Because I mean, if this were my multi-verse prison thing the first thing I'd want to do is convince the population that they try to escape, they die.
So who's this source? Were they suspiciously sentinel-shaped? Wind-up mechanism on the back, tinny voice?