Tipperary ETB Adult Learning Scheme
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Mystery Man
It’s July 1954; a hot day. A man arrives at Tokyo airport in Japan. He is white and normal looking. But the officials are suspicious.
On checking his passport, they see that he comes from a country called Taured. The passport looked real, except for the fact that there is no such country as Taured.
The man is interviewed, and asked to point out where his country exists on a map.
He immediately points his finger towards Andorra, but becomes angry and confused. He’s never heard of Andorra, and can’t understand why his homeland of Taured isn’t there.
According to him it should have been, for it had existed for more than 1,000 years!
Customs officials found him with money from several different European countries.
His passport had been stamped by many airports around the globe, including previous visits to Tokyo.
Baffled, they took him to a local hotel and placed him in a room with two guards outside until they could get to the bottom of the mystery.
The company he claimed to work for had no knowledge of him, although he had large amounts of documents to prove his point.
The hotel he claimed to have booked a room in had never heard of him either.
The company officials in Tokyo he was there to do business with had never heard of him either.
Later, when the hotel room he was held in was opened, the man had disappeared.
The police established that he could not have escaped out of the window – the room was several floors up, and there was no balcony. He was never seen again, and the mystery was never solved.
On checking his passport, they see that he comes from a country called Taured. The passport looked real, except for the fact that there is no such country as Taured.
The man is interviewed, and asked to point out where his country exists on a map.
He immediately points his finger towards Andorra, but becomes angry and confused. He’s never heard of Andorra, and can’t understand why his homeland of Taured isn’t there.
According to him it should have been, for it had existed for more than 1,000 years!
Customs officials found him with money from several different European countries.
His passport had been stamped by many airports around the globe, including previous visits to Tokyo.
Baffled, they took him to a local hotel and placed him in a room with two guards outside until they could get to the bottom of the mystery.
The company he claimed to work for had no knowledge of him, although he had large amounts of documents to prove his point.
The hotel he claimed to have booked a room in had never heard of him either.
The company officials in Tokyo he was there to do business with had never heard of him either.
Later, when the hotel room he was held in was opened, the man had disappeared.
The police established that he could not have escaped out of the window – the room was several floors up, and there was no balcony. He was never seen again, and the mystery was never solved.