Visitor from a Parallel Universe | Who Was The Man from Taured?

imagine you wake up one morning and. notice everything around you is just a. tiny bit different. maybe you're in the same house but. furniture is slightly out of place your. favorite coffee mug is there but it has. a crack you don't remember and you could. have sworn your coffee maker was black. but this one is chrome. and just as you think that you're going. crazy you feel a strange tingling. sensation and hear a buzzing in your. ears a flash of light the buzzing stops. and you feel dizzy as you regain your. balance you look around.

everything seems back to normal the. coffee maker is black your mug is not. cracked so. what was that a dream your imagination. it seems so real are you just over tired. or are you going crazy or maybe you. somehow slipped through the multiverse. for a brief moment you squish lives with. yourself in an alternate reality there. are documented cases of this happening. to people all over the world this. happened to a man traveling through. tokyo airport when he presented his.

passport the authorities were baffled. the passport was genuine the only. problem was the country that issued it. didn't exist. quantum mechanics sounds like science. fiction things happen at the quantum. level that we just don't understand for. instance we can measure the position of. an electron but where things get weird. is before you measure the position of. that electron it behaves like a wave and. this is proved by the double slit.

experiment i won't go into that now but. we covered in detail in our episode. about simulation theory which is linked. below if you watch that video make sure. you've got a brain bucket handy. anyway you can think of the wave. function as the sum of all the positions. of an electron simultaneously. so it exists everywhere it exists. everywhere at the same time oh boy do we. have. i get a headache i know i know even. famous physicist john wheeler said if. you're not completely confused by. quantum mechanics you don't understand.

it he was right about that as soon as. you measure that electron it locks in. that one unique position but many. scientists believe there are universes. that exist for every position of that. electron and in those infinite universes. there are infinite versions of you this. is called the many worlds theory every. time a quantum measurement is taken the. universe branches off into another. parallel universe since there are an. infinite number of these universes out. there somewhere is a reality where.

dinosaurs didn't go extinct there's a. universe where americans lost the war. for independence even a universe where. you're a big movie star they're all out. there but nobody thought those realities. could interact with each other. until 2014 scientists proposed a theory. based off many worlds called many. interacting worlds this theory says that. not only do infinite parallel universes. exist but they can and do interact with. each other this might explain why lorena. garcia woke up one morning wearing.

different pajamas she went to work and. someone else was in her office she. worked in the same building but now was. in a different department and worked for. a boss she didn't know and when she got. home her ex-boyfriend was there. but they broke up months ago. or in 1851 joseph warren was found. wandering around frankfurt germany when. authorities asked him where he was from. he said the country of laxaria when he. was shown a map he knew the geography of. the earth perfectly well but to him the.

continents were named sacria aflar aslar. oslar and uplar. another incident happened in 1905 a man. was caught stealing a loaf of bread in. paris when he was captured by police he. spoke a language no one could recognize. they figured out he was saying he was. from lisbia thinking he meant lisbon. portuguese interpreters were brought in. they said they have no idea what. language he's speaking but it's. definitely not portuguese and that takes. us to the story about the man from turid. who somehow drifted out of his own.

universe and into our own launching a. mystery that would last for almost 70. years. when you mention parallel universes. the eyes sort of roll up and you giggle. and you say to yourself ah this is just. silly this is nuts. however things have changed now the. paradigm has shifted the multiverse idea. once thought to be so crazy it only. belonged on evening night television. has now become the dominant theory in.

cosmology it's unavoidable you cannot. avoid the theory of the multiverse in. 1952 seven years after a brutal war with. the allies and subsequent occupation by. american forces japan was once again. free it shifted its economy from. military focus to industries like. technology and finance and this new. market created tremendous opportunities. and people from all over the world. poured into japan daily usually coming. through hanita airport in tokyo it was a. hot afternoon in july 1954 and the.

airport was buzzing these were the days. before a full body scanner or something. remove your laptops tablets and place. them in their own dirty plastic tray. that's still wet from the last guy for. some reason right take off your belt. your shoes and remove any lotions creams. and gels and place your personal items. in another dirty plastic tray once you. step through our x-ray machine that may. or may not cause cancer we may decide to. put on plastic gloves and fondle you in.

front of a group of strangers. this is what we in the tsa call the. cherry on top. you good. i've been wanting to get that off my. chest for a long time. travelers back then didn't have to deal. with all that nonsense but they still. had to present a passport to airport. security and customs agents a. businessman middle aged caucasian with. dark hair and a beard made his way to. the front of the line he handed over his. passport which was filled with stamps of. the countries he'd recently visited the.

customs agent looked puzzled he glanced. up at the man back to the passport. up at the man again and asked his name. broderick gennansfer said the man date. of birth the man replied 11th of. september 88. so far so good then the agent asked. country of birth the man replied very. casually i'm from torred. the customs agent had never heard of a. country called torred but there are 200. countries in the world and some of them. are smaller than even the smallest.

states in the u.s so the agent called a. colleague over the second agent was also. confused he too had never heard of a. country called torrid neither did the. agent's supervisor then the customs. agent asked mr gennansfer do you think. you could show us on a map where torret. is now gin answer was getting annoyed. but what's he supposed to do so he says. of course and then he's taken to a. private room to prove to the officers. that he was telling the truth. [Applause].

and so the multiverse is not just some. invention out of the ether. it flows out of an application of. quantum mechanics to general relativity. we're not completely there yet with a. full solution. but it's why the idea is taken seriously. it's not just an invention. broderick genansfer the man from torred. was visibly upset now the officers. brought him a map of europe asked him to. point out tored and without hesitation. he pointed to a small country on the.

border of france and spain now this made. sense to the customs officers because. even though jinnansfer was speaking. japanese he did have a french accent but. the problem wasn't his language it was. his country the officers told him that. he was pointing to the principality of. andorra and there's no such place as. torred janaz first started arguing he. said the kingdom of torrid is a thousand. years old and he'd never heard of. anything called andorra which he thought. sounded fake jennansfer then said he had. traveled through this very airport twice.

this month and never had a problem he. had stamps in his passport to prove it. now this was easy enough to check the. customs agents confirmed that the stamps. were authentic but they still weren't. convinced of his story ginanford took. out his wallet to show the agents as a. business traveler he carried different. currencies with him the customs agents. examined the money he had currency from. japan and several european nations but. he also had money from torred. which seemed like real currency except. for the fact that there's no such place.

he also had travelers checks. unfortunately for him the checks were. issued by a bank that didn't exist the. agents started to suspect ginanfur might. be up to no good maybe a criminal or a. spy they asked where he was staying. gennan's first gave them the number of. his hotel and assured the agents he had. been on the phone with them that morning. making his reservation they called the. hotel which was there but they had no. reservation under this man's name now. the hotel could have made a mistake so. jansfer instructed the agents to call.

his office in tokyo surely this would. settle the matter they called the. company had no record of an employee. named broderick genansfer the man from. torred and the customs agents were. stunned they had no idea what to do then. the phone in the corner of the room rang. an agent answered listened for a moment. then turned to gennansfor and said sir. you're coming with us. the customs agents were stuck they had. never seen anything like this before but.

they couldn't let the man go without. investigating they confiscated broderick. gennan's for his passport his money and. other documents they told him that he. wasn't being arrested but he was being. detained until this matter could be. cleared up he was put up in a hotel near. the airport for the night two armed. guards were stationed outside his door. at all times he was instructed that the. phone would only work to call room. service the evening passed without. incident ginance for complained of a. headache but he hoped a meal might make. him feel better he ordered room service. and settled in for the night the.

following morning the customs agents. called ginance for his room but got no. answer the guards were instructed to. open the door when they entered the room. the man from torred was gone the room. was spotless the bed was made there was. no sign that anyone had eaten a meal or. that anyone had even been there the. guards were chewed out by their. supervisor for letting this man slip. away but they insisted that they did not. leave their post the windows didn't open. and the door was the only way in or out. aside from a hotel employee delivering.

food nobody went in or came out of that. room all night. now back at the airport customs was. still investigating when they went to. retrieve janan's first documents even. though they were stored in a locked. security office they were gone the. passport wallet checkbook everything. vanished it's as if the man from torred. never existed and word of the. investigation quickly went up the chain. of command in the japanese government to. avoid embarrassment the story was. censored classified and everyone.

involved was told to never speak of it. in the years since the man from taured. arrived and disappeared there have been. a lot of theories one was that he was an. intelligence agent working undercover. his passport and documents were fake to. ensure that the government he worked for. would never be revealed and this was the. 1950s the cold war was gearing up and. spies were everywhere a highly trained. covert operative might be able to find a. way out of that hotel room without. alerting the guards but it doesn't. explain how his documents disappeared.

from a secure room in the airport the. theory that's most popular is that the. man from torred was actually from an. alternative universe. somehow during his flight he crossed. over into this one nothing on the flight. changed that much that he noticed he was. just unaware that the country he was. from no longer existed and that night. when he was complaining of a headache it. could have been our two realities trying. to get back into sync and when they did. the man and his belongings went back to. the correct universe and maybe at the.

very same time in the other universe a. businessman from andorra was having a. difficult day and maybe that man was. detained by security officers who. insisted there's no such place as. andorra and the country that man pointed. to on the map was actually the kingdom. of torrent a nation that had existed for. a thousand years. or maybe. [Music]. the man from torred is an urban legend. that's been around for a long time the. current version of the story the one.

that you heard today goes back to 1981. that year a book was published called. the directory of possibilities which was. a collection of stories strange events. and theories and in that book there was. one interesting passage and in 1954 a. passport check in japan is alleged to. have produced a man with papers issued. by the nation of torret the author got. this from a news article that goes back. to 1960. there was a man named john alan. zegrus who wanted to travel the world so.

he invented a country a capital a. language and put all these on a passport. that he created himself and zegras. claimed to be working as an intelligence. agent for colonel nasser who was then. prime minister of egypt he said the. passport was issued at tommen rossett. the capital of tuareg nataman rasat is a. real city in algeria but tuareg is a. country he made up still he traveled all. over the middle east using this story. not only did countries accept his. tuiretian passport but because he said.

he worked for the egyptian prime. minister they rolled out the red carpet. for him but zegras ran into a snag when. he got to tokyo they didn't buy any of. it he was arrested for having a forged. passport and possessing fake checks the. country he used on that passport wasn't. tuared he said he was from nagusi habisi. esprit which doesn't mean anything well. at least that one has a little pizzazz. it does but zegra stuck to his story the. whole time even while he was in a. japanese courtroom he said he was an.

intelligence agent working for egypt. under the direction of the united states. that story didn't pan out and he was. sentenced to a year in prison and that's. how the legend of the man from torad got. started and like every good urban legend. there's some truth to it zagrus was a. real person. multiple universes may exist and. sometimes they could interact the only. real mystery left is. what happened to john allen zegras after. he got out of prison nobody's been able.

to track him down he seems to have. disappeared once again. who knows maybe he went back to his own. universe after all. thanks so much for hanging out with me. today my name is aj that's hecklefish. this has been the y-files if you had fun. or learned anything do us a favor and. like subscribe comment share that stuff. really helps out a small channel and. until next time be safe be kind and know. that you. are appreciated.

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