Historical sources have preserved information about mysterious people who claimed to have come from countries or cities that no one had ever heard of. Who were they - crazy, mystifiers, or maybe the inhabitants of parallel worlds, very similar to ours? In any case, the latest version still has the right to exist …
In 1852 John Timbs' Book of the Year on Facts in Science and Art was published. It quoted the following story: “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."
Vorin explained that the Abramian language is written and is used by the clergy, and the common people in his country speak Laxar … The religion of the Laxarians, according to him, was not much different from the Christian. Laxaria itself, he argued, is located across the ocean, and it is separated from Europe by hundreds of kilometers.
The man also said that he went overseas in search of his missing brother. However, on the way, his ship was shipwrecked … When Jofar was asked to show on the map which route he was sailing to Europe, he found himself in difficulty … The fact is that there were supposedly five continents in his world, but they were called Sakria, Aflar, Aslar, Auslar and Eflar …
It doesn't look like Jofar Vorin was lying. In the end, he was sent to Berlin, where scientists began to study him. How this story ended and what became of this man is not known.
The Man of Taured
Similar cases are described in the book "Directing Opportunity" by Colin Wilson and James Grant (1981).
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“In 1905, a young man was arrested in Paris who spoke an unknown language,” the authors write. - He managed to explain that he was a citizen of Lisbia, not to be confused with Lisbon. And in 1954, a man with a passport issued in the country of Taured was detained at customs in Japan.
Confused customs officers took the inhabitant of the mysterious country to the interrogation room. It turned out that he was fluent in at least three languages - French, Spanish and Japanese. He also had a driver's license issued in the same mythical Taured …
Then the man was asked to indicate the location of his homeland on a map. First, he pointed to Andorra, located between France and Spain. But then I got nervous: it was a completely different country! The traveler stated that he had never heard of Andorra and that Taured had existed on Earth for 1000 years …
The most surprising thing was that in the passport of the mysterious stranger there were several stamps of the Japanese customs: it turns out that he had visited Tokyo several times over the past five years!
Until the situation was resolved, the man was accommodated in one of the rooms on the top floor of a nearby hotel. At night, the door was locked from the outside, setting up armed guards just in case … But in the morning a man from an unknown country disappeared without a trace. The investigation has yielded nothing.
Travelers between worlds
Colin Wilson, one of the authors of Directing Opportunity, is a renowned writer. His most famous work is the novel The Outsiders, published in 1956. In addition, Wilson wrote several works on the occult and parapsychology. He believed that incidents like that of the "man from Taured" were related to the existence of parallel dimensions.
The theory of portals through which the inhabitants of parallel worlds can penetrate to their "neighbors" is far from new. We can assume that life in other worlds, at least those close to ours, is quite similar to ours, but at the same time there are differences - for example, the names of continents and countries may be different. So misunderstandings arise, similar to what happened to the "man from Taured." And the strange disappearance is explained very simply - an alien from a parallel reality just returned to his world!