‘Gentleman Taured’: Mysterious tourist living in a fictional country and a conspiracy theory from a parallel world
The story of “Gentleman Taured” – a man who claimed to be from the Taured nation – is considered one of the strangest stories recorded in the 20th century.
Whether it is a scientific mystery, a form of crime behind powerful organizations or just a staged joke, the story of ‘Taured Man’ still has nuances of horror. period until today.
Strange event at Tokyo international airport
One hot day in July 1954, Tokyo International Airport was still busy with people coming and going as usual. In the airport, a bearded white man appeared. He looks like a European, speaks French as his main language, and knows several other languages including Japanese. At first, this man did not show anything unusual.
Things only got weird when he went through the checks at the airport check-in counter. The man handed his passport to airport staff to have it stamped. At this time, Japanese staff discovered a strange thing in the passport.
The passport showed no signs of forgery, but the country where it was issued was unheard of. The country ‘Taured’ is a country that has never existed and has never been known in the past or present. To be sure, the check-in counter staff contacted the police and consulting departments to ask about it. Whether a country named Taured exists or not? Of course, no one recognizes the presence of this country.
The strange thing is that the passport has stamps from many countries that the man has visited, including Japan! When calling the company where the man’s business meeting was to take place, management said they had never had any cooperation with a country called Taured. The hotel where he booked the room did not have this person’s name, and even the bank where he deposited the money did not exist.
Airport police appeared and expressed their desire to investigate the incident more closely. The man appeared particularly angry, pointing to the location of the Taured nation on the world map. The area the man pointed at corresponds to the location of the principality of Andorra (in 1954), a territory located between two European countries, France and Spain.
The strange guest affirmed that the Taured nation has existed for more than 1,000 years of history and has never been called Andorra. The Japanese police also firmly insisted that no Taured nation had ever been recognized in history. Both sides refused to give in and Japanese police suspected that the mysterious man was actually some kind of transnational criminal.
Ultimately, the man was detained by Japanese police. They took him to a nearby hotel for the night while conducting an extensive investigation. To ensure the man did not escape, two police officers were assigned to guard outside the hotel room. But surprisingly, the next morning, when the investigating officers found the man, they discovered he had disappeared in an extremely confusing way. No signs of escape were found, as if the man had spontaneously evaporated out of the room.
What is even more surprising, all personal documents collected by the police about the man completely disappeared right in the storage room of the airport security area. There were no remaining artifacts left, the incident about the Taured man was as if it had never happened that day. However, a large number of witnesses at the airport caused the story to spread quickly.
One of the most interesting explanations for the Taured Man event comes from the parallel world theory. According to this theory, there is another Earth operating at the same time as the Earth where we live. That parallel Earth has the same properties as our Earth, but events there take place in a slightly different direction.
Maybe because of a plane crash on parallel Earth, the strange man was lost in another world. As a result, the flight on parallel Earth brought him to Tokyo International Airport.
The second explanation suspects that the man is actually a dangerous criminal belonging to a powerful underground organization. Many underground organizations around the world also often recognize themselves as separate countries. According to this explanation, the man and the documents at the Tokyo International Airport security room were rescued and taken away by the organization’s undercover agents.
The final interpretation belongs to those who do not believe in the truth of the story. They think this is just a staged joke, a fabricated story, nothing more, nothing less.
