In July 1954, an international traveller at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport initiated one of the most significant ontological anomalies in contemporary folklore known to man. His documentation was all in perfect order, but his passport was issued to him by a country that does not have a border or territory today. The name of the country was Taured - a country that exists on no modern map.
When asked which country he came from, the man pointed to an area on the map of Andorra, where he insisted Taured had existed for over 1000 years. The man was detained overnight in a hotel that had security guards on every door and had all of his windows sealed. By morning, the man and his belongings vanished without a trace. This event has remained one of the base stories that multiverse theory is based on, suggesting that there was a very brief time when there was an impossible crossover between our universe and a different universe. Skeptics argue this tale is a distorted version of John Zegrus’s real legal ordeal involving a falsified, non-existent country’s passport.
