Deciphering the 1954 Crosser's Mystery
China's engraving and printing technology began in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty, so the Song edition book is a good thing that collectors can encounter but cannot seek. When Lao Sa was in college, he listened to the teacher Jia Weimin, who was teaching version studies, and told a story that Mr. Zhang Taiyan accidentally found a broken book in the bookstore, and after grinding with the boss for a long time, he bought it at a low price, and he was ecstatic on the way home. This is because he had long found out that this was a Song edition of the book, but others did not have the eyesight, and came back to write an article specifically for the book. Mr. Jia hung up on Mr. Jing Yunxue Binglin and said, "Non-old eyes can't recognize it." ”
The result?
The result was unfortunate, and it was later confirmed that it was reprinted during the Qing Dynasty. It is not that Mr. Zhang is confused, but because he only got fragments, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, people found that in a library in a certain place in the southeast, there was a whole book of this book, and the reprint process was explained very clearly in the preface.
▲ The real Song edition of the book
It can be seen that whether the information is comprehensive and rich is of great significance to making judgments.
In fact, with all kinds of information resources available today, it is much easier for people to solve some mysteries than in the previous era. Of course, there will be more information, there will be more smoke bombs and interference, and if Holmes is resurrected today, he will not have no clues, but will go to Wu Cunjing, otherwise he can be fooled to death.
This is how I felt when I saw the so-called "Capture of the Crosser Incident" in Japan in 1954. You know, this incident is one of the "ten weird stories about time travel", which looks like a mystery.
"Crossing" does not belong to the patent of "Tang Brick" or "New Song"? How could Japan catch the crossers in 1954?
This incident, internationally known as "the man from taured", according to the description, the whole story goes like this —
One day in July 1954, a tall white man appeared in front of customs officers at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, Japan. When the staff inquired according to the custom, there was nothing wrong with the man, and he said very frankly that he had come to Japan to talk about business. Then when the staff checked his passport, they couldn't help but look at it and said to him, there is a problem with your passport, as far as we know, there is no country in Europe.
It turned out that the white man's passport was filled with the nationality "taured", which was transliterated as Tarid and also translated as Taulade.
The man did not panic, but showed an impatient look, claiming that he had come to Japan several times and had never encountered such a ridiculous problem. And his country is thousands of years old, how could a customs officer not know.
He pointed to his passport, which did contain his previous visa stamps for flying to Japan and many European countries. The customs officer was also puzzled and asked where his country was located. The man said, right in the middle of France and Spain. The staff looked at each other and pulled out a map and asked him to point to his country. He was referring to the border between France and Spain, a small and pocket country, Andorra.
The predecessor of Andorra dates back to the 11th century AD, originally a parish set up by the Charlemagne Empire, becoming a duchy by the 13th century. The "Tared" state described by the man was completely different except that it existed and was close to Andorra.
The man was confused and angry, not understanding why there was no "Tared" country on the map.
During the dispute, the staff found that the man knew several European languages, especially fluent in French and good at Japanese. The man asked customs officers to call his Japanese business partner. The phone number and company name he provided were correct, but the Japanese man on the other end of the phone said he had never heard of the man or his company. Customs officers had no choice but to take control of the white man and check his belongings. Aside from some business documents and the currencies of several countries, there is nothing suspicious about it.
Until things were clear, the Japanese customs officers certainly couldn't let the man go. So the authorities booked him a room at a nearby hotel and sent two security guards to guard the door, and the next step was to let the police department intervene.
The next morning, the customs security personnel could not open the man's door, so they had to let the hotel open it for them. To their astonishment, the man was gone. The windows of the room are equipped with protective bars, and people cannot go out. And the man never seemed to have entered the room, and there was no trace left on the scene.
This incident was once very noisy in that year, and many newspapers and magazines in Japan, Europe and the United States reported it. Opinions are widely disagreed and difficult to explain. Years later, many people thought it was a space-time overlap event, and the mysterious man may have come from another parallel universe.
This is based on a description by an author named Terrence Aym on the website before it's news. If you look at the description of this story on the Internet, there are many more in-depth contents, such as the man's description of his country has never been at war, such as he brought a checkbook from a bank that did not know which national bank, and so on.
On time travel, a Japanese website that discusses the issue of crossing, this case was spread as some kind of truth. The content on the website appeared around 2008, and it is said that earlier, there were already print media books telling the story.
▲ There is even a passport photo of the so-called person
I wonder, did Japanese Customs take color photos of visitors' passports in 1954?
If it is true as written here, it is undoubtedly a mystery of the world, and even a real hammer to prove the theory of crossing. however......
The story is very magical, but I think few people will really make efforts to check the origin of this matter, which is a pity, you think, now that the information is so developed, if you can find some more primitive records, saying that there can be no wormholes, aliens and other interesting discoveries.
The old sa is a bit of an axis, but I am very interested in checking it out.
As a result, it didn't take much effort... Old Sa began to wonder.
Contact the "Before News" website, the other party replied quickly, it seems that many people are interested in this story. The reply indicates that they only published the incident as a story, not to confirm its authenticity, and that Em was not the original creator of the story, but was written with reference to an online work under the pseudonym prufrock's love, and provided the URL.
However, continuing to chase, it was found that the website colonization headquarters of the article published by prufrock's love had been closed, and there was no response to attempts to communicate according to the contact address left. The article is still there, and the only historical source mentioned in it is "In 1954, the Crime Column of the English edition of the Times Weekly of Japan recorded this incident with a short message, saying that 'a certain man was ordered to be detained by the immigration administrator for trying to enter Japan with a fake passport'"
However, it was found that there was no publication at the time, and even if it did, the relevant reports did not seem to indicate that there were details of this person's reference to deer as a horse, or even his subsequent disappearance. In addition, this article does not mention the historical provenance of any story, which belongs to the typical three no-no works without author, no provenance, and no censorship, this kind of thing, in our country's Internet to grab a big handful, it seems that foreigners are so serious about it, or lonely and unheard.
▲ The earliest online source of this story
The site was closed in 2010, and the article seems to have been written shortly before that, and there is no online description of the event earlier than it does, so the mystery of one of the "ten weird stories about time travel" does not seem to have spread widely. Friends who copied books probably did not expect that the source of the story was a dead end.
However, this is certainly not the end of the story. It soon became apparent that when it came to this story, many articles listed two earlier reference books—
The list of possibilities, published in 1981 by Colin Wilson and John Grant
Strange but true: mysterious and bizarre people, published in 1999 by Thomas Slemen
It is said that the incident is recorded in both books.
Could it be that there was really a crosser who went to Japan in 1954?
Again, let's look it up. Joke, was the literature retrieval taught by Teacher Li Guangjian of Beijing Normal University and the Western reference book taught by Teacher Ni Xiaojian learned in vain? Lao Sa is relatively lazy among his classmates, and the diligent one in our classmates is not a problem in forcing a few mouths to die by the ability taught by Mr. Li Ni.
The results of the investigation are well...
There is indeed a similar account in the first book, but there is only one sentence: "A man with a passport issued by Tauld came to Japan."
In the second book, which is more detailed, it is that "someone came to Japan from the unheard of so-called Tauld, and after full investigation by the customs, the country is not on the earth, and this person did not say too much detail about Therade, a country that had never been seen before, and soon left the country."
Considering that the second book was released, 44 years after the mentioned year of 1954, I prefer to think that the description of the first book may be more valuable, which may be far closer to things like forged passports, illegal entry, etc. than crossing. Moreover, even according to the description of the second book, he did not have any strange things such as daytime rise and evaporation of the world, but only deportation.
It seems to be an over-exaggeration of ordinary events.
Just as I was about to close the relevant case file, A strange idea suddenly arose--I looked up the name of the country in Japanese for "Taured", which was originally used as トレド.
When I looked up the トレド, I suddenly felt a little stoic -- maybe I can't tell the truth yet, but at least I see a logic.
The so-called "トレド" is the Autonomous Region of Toledo in Spain!
▲ Here
And where is it said that the Torre Germany, that is, Andorra, which crossed the guest finger, is?
▲ Just on the northern border of Spain, just two hours' drive from Toledo
Considering that Toledo is a highly autonomous region, can this incident be explained in this way?
In 1954, a Spaniard flew to Japan (of course, what french, with a check, has been to Japan several times, now it seems that they are all added to the process of going abroad), because they are not familiar with the process of going abroad, this Toledo bun did not take a passport, only with a certificate issued by the local self-government, and was rejected by the Japanese side.
So the Japanese said, "We have refused entry to a person holding a travel document (note that passport and travel document are the same word in Japanese). ”
When the Western media translated, it became " A person with a taured passport was detained by Japanese customs." ”
Toledo was translated into Japanese as "トレド", and when he translated it into Spanish, he made a mistake and became taurued — this can not be blamed for the translation, he may not have known that there is still this place in The world.
Lo and behold, a crosser travelling with a German passport from a country that does not exist in the world, has thus appeared.
Of course, this is only the author's speculation, but logically, the answer to the mystery of the world may be so simple, and there may be more complex truths, but the news changes in circulation, and it can change to the point of crossing, there is no doubt.
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