The Man From Taured

Toroid

Founding Member
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It certainly was a busy and muggy day at a feverish Tokyo airport one day in 1954. Those passengers who had just deplaned stood in a somber queue, waiting for the Customs agents to review and properly stamp their passports.
As the hordes of passengers spill out from the terminals, one passenger, a tall mysterious man, stood apart from the rest.

The man presented an authentic looking European passport and carried European currency from several countries and carried himself in a professional manner but that wasn’t what alerted the authorities. No matter how much they had searched, the Customs agents could not find the European country that had issued him the passport anywhere in their maps. The unheard country of Taured. When they asked the Caucasian man to point on their map where Taured was located, he answered them in fluent Japanese. The man told them that it was a small country in Europe, nestled between France and Spain. When the agents produced a map, he pointed to where the Principality of Andorra, Spain, rests.

The mysterious man took a step back when he realized his country did not exist on any of the maps. He claimed that the country of Taured has been there for almost 1,000 years and that he has never heard of Andorra. He produced a driver’s license issued by the government of Taured and accompanying documents such as bank statements and business papers but they were found to be invalid, alongside his bank account. There was an eerie silence in the interrogation room as all of the Customs agents stared at the new arrival. The tall mysterious man from Taured looked as confused as they were.

The Arrival
It had been nine years since the end of World War II and Tokyo was busier than ever. The city began to sprawl as more and more countries landed . Most of the travelers to the Island country found themselves in long queues waiting to get their passport stamped and allowed entry into the country. Life in Japan was returning to normal except of course for the high strangeness that was going on inside the Customs interrogation room.

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Eight hours after landing, the mysterious man from Taured sat tired and frustrated in the cramped interrogation room. He kept insisting that he was from the country of Taured and was in Japan on a business trip. The man told the officials that he had been traveling to Japan from Taured for the last five years without problems. He pointed to the past stamps that were issued on his passport to prove that he’d been traveling back and forth from Taured to Japan without any problems in the past.

Airport officials then placed a phone call to the company the man claimed to work for and found that it did not exist. Tired and getting nowhere, they decided to send the man to a guarded hotel room so that he could rest while the proper authorities were contacted and a follow-up investigation was planned. The mystery man left the Tokyo airport escorted by police and Customs officials.

Vanished!
He was placed inside a hotel room high above the hustling city streets. With only a small window and no ledge. After a light dinner at the hotel’s kitchen, he was escorted back to his room where he stayed the entire night. The guards reported not seeing or hearing him after the door was closed. When morning approached, they knocked and received no answer. Upon entering the room they officials were shocked to discover that he had vanished. With no possible escape routes other than the well guarded front door, Japanese officials scratched their heads in total bewilderment.

An extensive search was subsequently launched by the Tokyo police department only to come up empty handed. There was no sign of him anywhere. As mysteriously as he had appeared on that Tokyo airport that fateful day in 1954, the man from Taured vanished.

Mysterious Arrival: The Man From Taured
Some of these events seem to be an error made by the AI that controls our reality. Once caught the person or object is returned to the appropriate location/dimension. Other incidents appear to be choreographed experiments by our conscious reality. Maybe this man was a test run for a potential migration, due to a cataclysmic event in his dimension. I've heard of two adjacent realms. One is a reality where the Nazi's won WW2 and the other people still live in castles and get around in blimps. The series Fringe explored this where in another reality the twin towers didn't fall because according to Nimoy's character different decisions were made.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_go1SU1oJ0
 

Kchoo

At Peace.
I had one experience with time slip. This is a true story, but I still don’t know how it could be true...

I tried to google the location, but this building is no longer to be found, I know the general area, but not the exact position... Anyway, could not find it... the building is no longer there.

The Old Diner
 

Toroid

Founding Member
You gave her nearly three times the cost of the meal in a tip. Did she think you were propositioning her? We all need to go there because it's so cheap. Did you happen to look at the dates on the ones?
 

Sheltie

Fratty and out of touch.
I had one experience with time slip. This is a true story, but I still don’t know how it could be true...

I tried to google the location, but this building is no longer to be found, I know the general area, but not the exact position... Anyway, could not find it... the building is no longer there.

The Old Diner

Assuming you had gone back in time before 1965, the $1 bills you received would have been silver certificates instead of federal reserve notes. They would have looked noticeably different.
 

Kchoo

At Peace.
Assuming you had gone back in time before 1965, the $1 bills you received would have been silver certificates instead of federal reserve notes. They would have looked noticeably different.
They weren’t noticeably different... so I don’t know what year it was... but whenever pancakes were .75 cents...
 

Toroid

Founding Member
In the 1980 movie The Final Countdown a modern aircraft carrier travels through a time portal and ended up in the year 1941 just before the Pearl Harbor event. They had the opportunity to stop it and change history then the portal opens again and they return to the present. If DOD allowed use of their ship(s) and aircraft for the filming of the movie then the pattern would state something similar to that actually happened. The Air Force helped during Stargate SG-1 filming.
The Final Countdown (film) - Wikipedia
The Final Countdown (1980) - IMDb

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Kchoo

At Peace.
IHOP just ran a special for 58 cent pancakes to celebrate their 61th birthday and opening in 1958. I don't know if that helps with the pancake mystery. I would guess your experience took place in the late 50's to early 60's.
IHOP selling 58-cent pancakes Tuesday to celebrate 61st birthday
kitchenhell

I really like that emotion. :)

Thanks for the info on IHOP... that really helped.

Considering money looked basically the same as It did in the 80’s, it must have been after 1965...

I just looked up inflationary rates and used 58 cents as a starting point in 1958, and I think 75 cents would be within a 1967 to 1969 timeline.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
If DOD allowed use of their ship(s) and aircraft for the filming of the movie then the pattern would state something similar to that actually happened

Agreed, but I think the pattern DoD is dialed in to is 'we like to help make movies that make us look good, especially those with Kirk Douglas in them, because we are an all volunteer force and always need recruits'

Maybe someone will come forward from DoD out of their altruistic public concern over the mistreatment of time slip cases, and maybe even admit they were part of a secret DoD time travel program. Something else to wedge in between episodes of Ancient Aliens.

Final Countdown was a good movie. When you look at the timeline the F-35s and F-22s we use now are almost as advanced relative to the F-14 as the Tomcat was to the A6M, sort of.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Not great but interesting and fairly recent time slip book:
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This Astonishing Legends series about Flight 19 (no time portals involved there, sorry) Ep 65: Flight 19 (Part 1) interviewed Bruce Gernon who did have a good time slip story to tell, or maybe a good tail wind story hard to tell. But I really liked the interview so I picked up his book about the phenomenon he calls electronic fog. It included the story of buzzing the old airfield in the UK and seeing a time that has passed.
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The book was so wretchedly awful I left it in the bin at the gym and even there it hasn't had much traction. What a stinker.
 

nivek

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