A curious incident took place in Tokyo, Japan during the early 1990s: a man arrived on a flight with a passport from a non-existent country.
The man expressed anger and shock when Japanese customs officials detained him. Although the officials checked their records carefully, the passport had been issued by a country that did not exist. No record showed the country had ever existed.
Although passports exist issued by non-existent countries (known as camouflage passports), this passport was real and had custom officials' stamps on various pages including stamps by Japanese customs officials from previous visits.
The man was well-traveled, caucasian, said the country was in Europe and had existed for almost 1,000 years. He carried legal currency from several European countries, an international drivers license and spoke several languages.
Finally, indignant, he demanded a meeting with higher government authorities. He was convinced some massive practical joke was being played on him.

After being detained for almost 14 hours in a small security room at the airport terminal, some government officials took pity on him and transported him to a hotel. They ordered the mystery visitor to wait there until they decided what to do about the matter. From the reports, the Japanese were just as confused and flustered as the mysterious man without a country.
Although two immigration officials were posted with instructions not to permit the man to leave his room, the next morning the guards discovered he was gone. The only exit was the door they watched and the only window had no outside ledge and was 15 stories above a busy downtown street.
The authorities launched an intensive manhunt throughout Tokyo for the mysterious traveler, but finally gave up the hunt.
The man was never seen again.
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1575/265/Te...es_Up_Here.html

Now that is a very creepy story!

I wonder what was going on there then. It makes the mind boggle :ph43r:

beforeitsnews also report the same story only with more detail and occurring in 1954.

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/2026/509/St...s_In_Tokyo.html

... and there's a "read my new book" at then end. ;)

Ah ha! Got it now. It's a time slip incident. Watch out in 2034 because it'll surely happen again. :D

Perhaps. Or someone will just repeat the same story with a more few distortions.

My version is much better.

I'm guessing some of the incidents may be down to Prosopagnosia, a state where the brain’s ability to recognize and distinguish faces, familiar places and things is impaired by a physiological trauma in the brain. A rather horrifying illness as not only are you unable to recognise family but your own reflection becomes a stranger. Of course there would be fairly obvious damage in the brain that would be detected in these cases unless it was some form of stress related Prosopagnosia.

That would explain the indignation and confusion of the man, but the passport?

I don't think Prosopagnosia explains any part of that particular case but it fits well with some of the others. Of course we are only picking one interpretation and retelling of this story. We would need to examine recounts a little closer to the source and see how much embellishment has crept in unwittingly. You know how that goes, anecdotes always come across larger than the real life account.

Well, whatever it was, one thing's for sure ... it was all a bit odd. Lovely!

In one account it looks like the non-existent country was called 'Toured'. Does that nestle in the mountains between Traveled and Journeyed?

Well, good grief! Of course places have different names in alternate realities. :rolleyes: :D
I suppose another explanation is that he could have been an alien with a failed cover story.

Maybe the story is original and authentic and not the product of retelling.

I wouldn't go betting your house on that theory.