On July 1954, a man allegedly flew into Tokyo, but upon landing at the Tokyo International Airport, his seemingly normal trip had taken a very drastic turn for the weird. When he handed over his passport to be stamped, the man was immediately interrogated as to the whereabouts of his origins. It wasn’t a case of racial profiling: While his passport looked authentic, it listed a country no one had ever heard of called Taured.
The mystery man claimed his country was located between France and Spain, but when he was asked to point it out on a map, he pointed to the Principality of Andorra, but becomes angry and confused. He’s never heard of Andorra, and can’t understand why his homeland of Taured isn’t there. According to him it should have been, for it had existed for more than 1,000 years. He claimed that he was in Japan on business, something he had been doing for the past five years. His passport had been stamped by many airports around the globe, including previous visits to Tokyo and he carried with him legal currency from several European countries. He even had a driver’s license issued by the mysterious country and a checkbook containing checks from an unknown bank. Baffled, they took him to a local hotel and placed him in a room with two guards outside until they could get to the bottom of the mystery.
The mystery man claimed his country was located between France and Spain, but when he was asked to point it out on a map, he pointed to the Principality of Andorra, but becomes angry and confused. He’s never heard of Andorra, and can’t understand why his homeland of Taured isn’t there. According to him it should have been, for it had existed for more than 1,000 years. He claimed that he was in Japan on business, something he had been doing for the past five years. His passport had been stamped by many airports around the globe, including previous visits to Tokyo and he carried with him legal currency from several European countries. He even had a driver’s license issued by the mysterious country and a checkbook containing checks from an unknown bank. Baffled, they took him to a local hotel and placed him in a room with two guards outside until they could get to the bottom of the mystery.
After more interrogation and confusion for both parties, the mysterious man was sent to a nearby hotel until an official decision could be reached. There, two immigration officials stood outside the hotel door until morning. It was then that they discovered the mystery man had vanished without a trace, which was troubling, since the only possible exit was a window with no ledge 15 stories above a busy street. The Tokyo police department conducted an extensive search but continually came up empty-handed. He was never seen again, and the mystery was never solved.
Sources:
http://coolinterestingstuff.com/the-strange-mystery-of-the-man-from-taured
http://listverse.com/2014/05/05/10-creepy-tales-of-interdimensional-travel/
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