In recent years, the Internet has always seen some mysterious events "records", these stories will always tell some historical "events" that cannot be explained by common sense, and this "unexplainable" is the most attractive highlight of this kind of story. For example, the matter we are going to talk about today is also a seemingly inexplicable thing, and this incident can certainly not be a story made up on the domestic Internet, but has been circulating in the Western world for decades, so what is this?
According to the popular version, this happened in Tokyo, Japan in 1954. One day in July, one of the many passengers at Tokyo's Haneda Airport suddenly caught the attention of airport officials. To say that this person's appearance is actually very ordinary, it is a white man with a beard on his chin, his mother tongue seems to be French, but he is also fluent in Japanese, and seems to speak some other languages.
Early Haneda Airport, which is considered to be the site of the Torah German Incident
But these things weren't the reason he was being watched. There are also different versions of what he brought to the attention of the immigration officer, one of which says he handed his passport to the immigration officer at the airport, and then the immigration officer immediately felt as if something was wrong. Because this passport, while it looks like it's real, was issued by Taured, a country you've never heard of. The two airport officials who were at the scene at the time to process immigration checked with each other and finally determined that there was no country. They then informed the traveler that they needed to take him away for questioning.
In another version, the traveler himself said he was from Torrell Germany, and of course the Japanese immigration official immediately said there was no such country, and then the man took out his passport, which was indeed issued by "Taured". Later versions were relatively uniform, saying that the immigration officer asked the man to point out on a map where his country was, and that he was referring to the location between France and Spain, and Thatorra, which now has many "nominal nationals" because it ranks high in many chat apps. But it was clear that the japanese official gave him the name of the country in the map as Andorra, not Torred, and the traveler was very confused and angry that the name of his country was "wrong" on the map, saying that his country had existed for 1,000 years.
The mysterious man from Tolle Germany is at the heart of the whole affair
Naturally, this attitude of his made the Japanese officials at the scene feel very strange, so they suspected that he may have been involved in some criminal activity, which was why his behavior was so strange. So they took him to a hotel near the airport, locked him in a room, and sent two men to guard him outside the door. The next morning, when the officials returned to the hotel to pick up the man, they found that the man had strangely disappeared, but the two men guarding the door insisted that the door had not been opened all night. What is even more bizarre is that the passport of this person who was detained at the airport is also missing...
If the above is true, then it is indeed bizarre enough. A person insists that his country has existed for 1,000 years, but it is a country that has never existed in this world, and in the end the person mysteriously disappears along with his own documents. So at the same time that this story is popular, many people have proposed that this matter proves the existence of the equal universe, and this mysterious and mysteriously disappeared Tao Le German man triggered the passage of the parallel universe for some unknown reason, from an equal universe to our universe, and in his universe, the place in Andorra is indeed called Tauled, so there will be a situation where he and Japanese officials disagree.
Some argue that the Torrec German event suggests that parallel universes exist
But this explanation, even if it doesn't sound like the plot of a fantasy novel, is very much in line with the characteristics of many pseudoscientific legends. So while this legend is widely circulated internationally, very few people really believe that it illustrates parallel universes. And some people, while not entirely convinced that it is made up, have come up with different interpretations. For example, some people think that this person may be a spy sent to Japan by the Soviet Union or an Eastern European country at that time, and his task is to test the rigor of Japan's entry inspection by fabricating a story of Tao Le Germany, and to accumulate experience for the preparation of subsequent dispatch of spies to Japan.
Others analyzed it from the perspective of language, thinking that this person may be Anorran, and the name Ofolde is because although he speaks Japanese, he uses French to say that he is from Terre d'Andorra, that is, the country of Andorra, and the pronunciation of this word group is indeed similar to Taured, but japanese immigration officials can't understand it, so it causes misunderstanding.
Les Tauredes, France, is about 500 km from Andorra, not far from the world map
In addition, there are people who believe that in fact, this white person who entered the country is French, because in France, there is indeed a river called Tauruedes, and this river is not too far from Andorra, so it is possible that this person is French, he was referring to his hometown of the Tauld River on the map, but because of the close distance from Andorra, he was mistaken by Japanese officials for saying Andorra, and then the two sides insisted on each other, which caused this misunderstanding. Although these reasonable explanations are all said in some ways, they cannot explain why the man and the document suddenly disappeared, so it is still difficult to be completely convinced.
But everything in the world is afraid to be serious, because this story is indeed widely circulated, and the reasonable inferences mentioned above do not seem to fully explain the whole process of this matter, so some people have begun to start from the process of this "story" to try to unravel this mystery.
According to some accounts, the incident was first sourced by a 1954 newsletter published in Japan's English-language newspaper The Japan Times, in which a man with a fake passport attempted to enter the country and was detained by immigration officials. But to say that this matter is the source is actually very disappointing, because this matter is likely to be a normal illegal entry case, otherwise it would not be just a text message. And, more critically, even in Japan, no one can find the initial report of the Japan Times on the matter. Almost all the content related to this matter in the Japanese media comes from European and American sources, so although the plot of this story takes place in Japan, the Japanese who have heard about it in modern times have mainly learned about it through European and American sources.
The Japanese-language newspaper The Japan Times was said by some to have been the first to record the provenance of the Taullad incident, but no one could find the physical objects reported at that time
And below we will talk about the European and American netizens' examination of this matter. According to the research of some netizens, it was found that this incident first appeared in the English-language media in a strange set of events called "The Directory of Possibilities", and its authors were two people, named Colin Wilson and John Grant. But as soon as there is a relatively certain source, the problem of the story immediately arises. Because the book was published in 1982, 28 years after the events described in the story. So this time has actually greatly reduced the credibility of the story in this book. And not only that, in order to verify this matter, some foreign super serious netizens deliberately bought this old book after several twists and turns, and it turned out that only one sentence on page 86 of the whole book mentioned this incident:
In 1954, a passport control point in Japan allegedly encountered a man carrying a passport issued by Tolle Germany.
That is to say, the book "Catalogue of Possibilities", which is considered to be the earliest source of this matter, only has this sentence, and the other details of this story are likely to have been made up by others after countless editions. Of course, some people will say that this is only the earliest publication of the English-language media, and it is entirely possible that there will be earlier sources in other languages. It is indeed possible, and it is true that it is said. Some French-speaking netizens say that there are indeed earlier sources, and the earliest version of this story comes from the French writer Jacques Behegier's "Visa pour un autre terre", and the book was published in 1974, that is, it was 8 years ahead of schedule, only 20 years before the events in the story. But the nature of the book makes the story completely impossible to believable, because the book is a science fiction novel...
Therefore, the so-called Taure German incident, in fact, is very likely that someone got inspiration from Behgier's science fiction novel, and after a slight modification, it was published in some folk magazines and tabloids with the main purpose of curiosity in the 1970s and 1980s, and different magazine tabloids reprinted, in order to make the story more credible, added many details to it, and finally became a widely circulated "strange talk" that was also true and illusory, and in recent years it has been introduced to China.