A torrid mystery. I'm Rebecca Leib. I'm Jason Horton.

And this is Ghost Town. In July 1954, 1954, a man arrives at Haneda Airport, which is Tokyo Airport.

He's Caucasian, regular looking guy, but people are a little suspicious.

They check his passport and they see he comes from a country called

Torrid, T-O-U-R-E-D. Passport looks legit, except for the fact that Torred doesn't exist.

Country is suspect in that it doesn't appear on the globe. Okay, okay, can we work with that? Yes, we can.

So they interrogate him and ask to point on a map map where is Torrid and he points to

And, the Principality of Andorra which is real

Mmhm it is on the border of France and Spain.

Okay, okay.

They actually have their own language that not a lot of people speak,

and I was listening to people speak it.

I think we've talked about languages that are kind of

Yeah hybridizations of different things. It seemed a little bit like that and it's its own I don't know what a

Principality really entails. Yeah, but it's on the border of France and Spain.

Yeah, well France, I mean I just know this from literally high school and middle school

dialects vary so much like Corsican which Corsica is an island in France has its own language that kind of sounds like France but again it's not quite it's

feels like it's off.

So like, there's so many different variations of languages

in these small European spaces

just from isolation, essentially.

Jean-Mappelle Jason?

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