Skeptoid #961: The Man from Taured
Skeptoid
Brian Dunning
4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
A mysterious man is said to have arrived in Japan in 1959 from a country that never existed.
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| 0:00.0 | Who was the mystery man who appeared in Japan with a passport from a country that never existed? |
| 0:09.7 | How did he get there? |
| 0:10.9 | And what became of him? |
| 0:12.4 | Some say he could only have come from another dimension. |
| 0:16.7 | But is that truly the most likely explanation for a fake country name being written on a document? |
| 0:23.1 | We're going to find out today. |
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| 1:16.3 | You're listening to Skeptoid. |
| 1:19.3 | I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com. |
| 1:21.4 | The Man from Toread. |
| 1:27.8 | Welcome to the show that separates fact from fiction, science from pseudoscience, real history from fake history, and helps us all make better life decisions by knowing what's real and what's not. |
| 1:34.9 | The man from Toread is one of those perennial internet legends that never goes away. |
| 1:40.7 | You can find it on archives from 20 years ago, and you can find it being |
| 1:45.3 | refreshed and reposted on TikTok today. It concerns a man who flew into Japan and happily |
| 1:52.6 | presented his passport, but suddenly found himself in a country where nobody recognized his |
| 1:58.3 | homeland, nobody spoke his language, and suddenly he was under arrest. |
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