The Story of the Man from Taured

The legend of the Man from Taured can be found in many places on the Internet. Here's one such example. It's usually worded a bit differently from place to place, but here are the general highlights:

It's July 1954 in Japan. An unremarkable, Caucasian man disembarks from a plane. Officials check his passport, which looks perfectly legitimate and has been stamped by many countries (including previous visits to Tokyo), except it says he comes from a country called Taured.

After being questioned, the Man from Taured is shown a map, where he points to the Principality of Andorra. It confuses him that it's labelled Andorra, as he's never heard of the country and it's supposed to be Taured, in his mind. In fact, he says, Taured has existed for 1,000 years.

On his person, officials find a variety of European currency, and the man spoke almost as many varieties of languages. His employer has no record of employment there. The hotel where he'd made reservations hadn't heard of him, and neither had the business he'd come to work with in Tokyo. Unsurprisingly, the bank that had issued his checks didn't exist.

The airport officials take him to a hotel and place him under guard. The hotel room is several stories up with no balcony, but when they returned, he had disappeared. And - alas - all of that documentation disappeared from the airport, too.