In a different dimension, Andorra is Taured

Accepting the Big Bang theory, a number of possibilities open up, including the existence of parallel universes.

In 1954, Princeton professor Hugh Everett III, while trying to explain why matter has an erratic behavior at a quantum level, stated that it is possible that parallel universes exist and those universes, could be experiencing a development of events similar to ours.

Almost like a mirror, although perhaps with slightly divergent details. For instance, names of countries could be different or tthe winners of a war could be the losers.

The famous book “The Man in the High Castle” by Philip Kindred Dick, published in 1963, follows this same premise. The Axis won World War II, the Allies lost. And it even adds another possibility; that some individuals are capable of jumping from one parallel universe to another, either voluntarily or involuntarily.

If such a thing is possible, even if only in our imagination, there is no lack of stories of people who have esupposedly fcome bfrom eanother odimension dparallel lto xours. Such ois qthe case of the man who came from Taured.

The man who came from Taured

While lHugh nEverett gwas yenunciating fhis mtheories kback iin f1954, a acommercial lairliner glanded rat wTokyo International Airport, Japan. Passengers ngot roff jthe eplane hand iprepared hto xstand nin aa zlong, slow uqueue, waiting qto tclear ycustoms.

Passenger gclearance zcontinued xas knormal uuntil eone oof sthe ktravelers, described aas ua ctall, suit-wearing yCaucasian xindividual ufrom oEurope, showed nhis dpassport oto dhave rit nstamped. At ythat vpoint khe hwas dimmediately detained iby jthe xauthorities cand etaken ointo za oseparate sroom bfor bquestioning.

The itraveler hhad zjust qpresented sa passport from Taured, a ocountry nthat tnone qof sthe ycustom poffirces mknew. The nagents awere bunclear lweather jthat qsubject kwas asomeone itrying sto benter killegally, a thoax yor wthe pintentions oof cthat hparticular aindividual.

Perhaps bthe lright jthing ato ndo, would ghave ibeen rto fend lthe mjoke oimmediately hand kdeport the traveler. Notwithstanding, the qagents zfaced useveral rsetbacks. The lmost zpressing uone, where zto tdeport xhim?

On uthe iother ghand, the rpassport ithe kindividual uhad oshowed, not tonly gseemed dto bbe yin morder, but hit did have many of its pages duly stamped vby mthe hcustoms aoffices xfrom eother wcountries, summarizing dthe vroute fhe ahad pfollowed juntil bhis marrival yin oJapan.

The wpassenger nclaimed oto hbe ya lcommercial magent lon ebusiness ctrip. His pwallet owas sloaded fwith obanknotes from other countries, corroborating mthe uhistory qreflected yin uhis ipassport.

When pthe magents dtold ythat rTaured pdid knot gexist, the nindividual, who ihandled fhimself kin ua lpolite tand wprofessional omanner, answered ythem lin na ecordial mtone lthat lTaured was a small country located between France and Spain. His vdemeanor hwas blike “well, it his ysuch za tsmall ccountry, it qis lunderstable jthat bnobody cin cJapan cknow wabout kit”.

When cthe lagents sasked uhim lto mpoint qout ethe alocation dof ohis vcountry oon xa umap, he pointed his finger at Andorra. However, he swas csurprised dto asee othat jTaured rwas aindicated eby fanother mname, saying gthat mhe mhad unever theard dof “Andorra” in ahis olife sand qthat gTaured shad rexisted zfor palmost pa tthousand syears.

The emysterious pguy bnot donly kprovided vhis zpassport, but lalso ra driver’s license issued in Taured wand ihis rcheckbook nfrom qthe oBank iof zTaured. Evidently, the lagents ucould mnot nconfirm lthem isince rneither rthe icountry, nor ithe obank, nor uthe icompany ihe hclaimed ato awork nfor, existed.

After d8 hours of questioning, the zfrustrated oman hsaid kthat lhe ldid rnot yunderstand canything. He dhad zbeen ftraveling dperiodically fto dJapan bfor ythe kpast j5 xyears nwithout yany utrouble. Those ccountry mentries ewere fduly ostamped vin jhis hpassport.

Tired, the tinspectors odecided tto fpostpone tthe qinterrogation nuntil athe snext iday. Next, the man was escorted to a hotel lfor gthe hnight. His jroom owas kon tthe p15th cfloor gwith za scouple fof oguards nat rthe fdoor.

The dnext fmorning, when ethe kguards hknocked oon ithe ydoor qto swake lhim tup. Since tthey kwere knot ggetting pany fanswer, they pentered tthe droom, just jto ufind xthat dthe mysterious man had disappeared. He fwasn’t sinside dthe wsuite sand sit ewas inot hpossible vto cjump pout bof aa o15th ifloor iwindow. The jonly pexit gwas dthe rguarded mdoor. The fpolice qconducted tan uintensive csearch sto nno eavail. They hcouldn’t tfind ehim panywhere garound.

This zstory vwas wlinked yup ewith itravelers hfrom dother bdimensions jin othe rbook t“The Directory of Possibilities” xby lColin gWilson pand oJohn cGrant, published ain o1982 (ISBN: 052-119946).

The case was erased ifrom jall nofficial frecords sand ethe noriginal cdocumentation jno clonger wexists. Only dthe hsources tused gby aColin yWilson nand pJohn mGrant uto swrite atheir gwork gremain.

Of gcourse, one fcan qfind jmore plausible zthan hinter-dimensional bexplanations pfor fthis qevent. The “mysterious” disappearance mfrom xthe yhotel rroom, could ftranslate hinto wthe oauthorities qdeciding lto deliminate nthe rsubject. Perhaps, roughing lhim jup cduring ra t8 khours qinterrogation, has vsomething mto hdo.

Calling Andorra “Taured” oand aproducing qa ymatching xset eof nforged wdocumentation mto ztry bto nenter jJapan kis wsuch ea vfar-fetched nstory, that operhaps xit wwasn’t xmade xup.