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  • Writer's pictureDiana Ross Sumalinog

The Mysterious Man from "Taured"

Updated: Mar 11, 2021


Do you believe in a multiverse or parallel universe?

How about the butterfly effect?

Do you think all of these do exist?


Multiverse was hypothesized in 1952 by an Irish physicist named Erwin Schrödinger. According to his theory, there are multiple universes out there where live multiple-versions of us too! A person who looks exactly like us but living the opposite situation.

It's kind of like a butterfly effect where all these choices lead to all different kinds of bridges that you could have been. I'm sure you have seen many videos from the internet about unexplainable pieces of incidence where people claim that they are from a different universe.


Tonight, I will be talking about the mysterious man from Taured, one of the most famous mysteries out there. Many people, even these days, are still debating about this, whether it is real or a hoax.


It happens way back in July 1954, when a mysterious plane passenger landed at the Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan,

The passengers from the plane started collecting their luggage and head to the immigration line, they noticed this male passenger who looked peculiar. He is a very slender, well-put-together European man carrying a leather briefcase and luggage and speaks multiple languages.


The man was visiting Japan for a business trip. He took out his passport and gave it to the immigration officer. Upon checking his passport, the officer was surprised as his passport says that he was from a country called "Taured."


He was suspicious of this man because we all know that a country "Taured" doesn't exist here. However, the passport doesn't look fake because there were stamps from other countries that he visited before. Some countries that do exist in our world today, and some countries that don't even exist in our world. He actually has a stamp from Japan on it which proves that he has already been to Japan multiple times.

The immigration officer called the authorities to interrogate this man because he thinks that this man has a mental illness and the documents that he had with him is fake. During the interrogation, the police officers asked him to pull out any of his identifications or anything that can be used as proof that he came from that country. Apparently, he pulled out some currency, banknotes, and other things that came from his country that he said he was.


The officers were still baffled so they decided to get a map and let the man point where the country "Taured" is. The man looked at the map and was confused because he didn't saw his country. He pointed on the border between France and Spain where a place called "Andorra" is located and said this is where Taured should be. He argued that the kingdom of Taured was about a thousand years old and was confused why it was not even on the map. He told the officers that he visited Japan three times already and he never had this problem before.



The man soon got angry and thought that the Japanese officers are playing a joke on him. However, the immigration officers did not allow him to go, So, they decided to call the government officials to take over the case. The officers put him on the top floor of the hotel in the airport. Two guards are guarding the hotel doors so that there’s no way for him to escape. In the evening, they tried to knock on the door when the government officials arrived to interrogate the man. Unfortunately, when they opened the room, the man mysteriously disappeared along with his luggage and other belongings. It seems like he vanished into thin air.


According to the officers, the only way to escape is the windows because there were guards in the front door. However, It is also impossible to escape through the windows because he was on the top floor, and if he jumped out he would have died. Thus, they don't believe that he jumped out of the window at all. After that incident, he was never seen again.


Some people say that this man could be from another dimension who ended up in the wrong dimension, like what we talked about the parallel universe or the multiverse. Notice that a lot of details he said was technically existing in our world such as, Japan, the language that he spoke, his luggage, and even his appearance; I mean, he doesn't even look like an alien, except for this tiny tweaking detail, the place where he lives.


Do you think our universe is like a computer experiencing glitches sometimes? or is it just one of the tales or hoaxes made by humans? What do you think?



"The world is vast and full of wonders." - Lemony Snickets



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