In past centuries, there were cases when people claimed that they came from countries and cities that do not exist on Earth, and spoke in unknown languages. Who are they? Travelers from parallel universes?
In 1850, a strange man named Jofar Vorin appeared in a small German town near Frankfurt.
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This story is described in John Timbs's Book of the Year on Facts in Science and Art (1852). Timbs wrote: “At the end of 1850, a strange man appeared in a small town in the Lebas region, near Frankfurt an der Oder. Nobody knew where he came from. He spoke German with an accent and outwardly looked like a European. He was interrogated by the burgomaster of Frankfurt. The stranger said that his name was Jofar Vorin, he came from the country of Laxaria, located on the continent of Sakria. He does not understand any European language, except German, but he writes and reads in Laxarian and Abramian languages."
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“The Abramian language, he said, is the written language of the clergy in Laxaria, and Laxarian is spoken by the common people. He said that his religion was the same in form and doctrine as Christianity. Laxaria is located hundreds of kilometers from Europe and is separated from it by the ocean.
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He arrived in Europe in search of his missing brother. On the way, he was shipwrecked, but could not show his route on a map or globe. According to him, there are five continents on Earth: Sakria, Aflar, Aslar, Auslar and Eflar. Scholars from Frankfurt an der Oder studied the stranger's words and believed him. Then Jofar Vorin was sent to Berlin. In the Prussian capital, he became the subject of rumors and scientific discussions."
This and two other similar cases are mentioned in the book "Directing Opportunity" by Colin Wilson and James Grant (1981).
“In 1905, a young man was arrested in Paris who spoke an unknown language. He managed to explain that he was a citizen of Lisbia, not to be confused with Lisbon, - write Wilson and Grant. "And in 1954, a man with a passport issued in the country of Taured was detained at customs in Japan." But there is no such country on Earth!
In the video below, it is said that the Japanese customs officials, bewildered, took the strange man to the interrogation room. During the interrogation, it turned out that the man spoke fluent French, Spanish … and even Japanese. He had a Taured Country driver's license.
The customs officials asked him to indicate on the map where his country is. He first pointed to the region of Andorra, a small country located between France and Spain, but then quickly realized that his country was not on the map!
An eerie silence settled in the room, the man and the customs officers looked at each other in complete disbelief. The man said that he had never heard of Andorra, and his country, Taured, had existed for over 1000 years.
In addition, the passport of this man had customs stamps for five years, he came to Tokyo many times and there were no problems. Not knowing what to do, the man was placed in a room on the top floor of a nearby hotel and locked up. Two armed guards stood outside the door all night. The next morning, customs officers arrived at the hotel room and found that the man had disappeared as mysteriously as he had arrived. All further investigations in this case have yielded nothing.
All references to the "man from Taured" on the Internet refer to Wilson's book. Wilson is a famous writer. He worked in the art genre (his most famous novel The Outsiders (1956)) and wrote research papers on parapsychology and the occult. His obituary, published in the Telegraph in 2013, states: "He was often criticized for his constant generalizations and the habit of citing from memory without reference to sources."
“Much of the criticism comes from misunderstandings,” Wilson said. - I have long come to terms with the main problem of my works - they cover too broad topics. Even sympathetic readers cannot see the forest for the trees."
The description of these cases is too incomplete to prove the possibility of traveling between parallel worlds, but they feed the imagination.