Frankenstein Sound Lab's Song "The Man from Taured"

If you start to look into the Taured mystery you may notice the band Frankenstein Sound Lab has a song called "The Man from Taured." The "guy responsible for" it posted on a forum in 2012 explaining his thoughts about the mystery. It's mostly what I have found so far, but it's interesting nonetheless.

One interesting thing - he says

I might add that when "The Man From Taured" album was released in 2004 I did an internet search for "Taured" and variations thereof, and drew a complete blank - the story didn't seem to be on the net back then, or at least I didn't find it.

So, the line about Taured shows up in a 1981 book... and then sometime after 2004 a greatly expanded version shows up on the internet.

Sources Cited (Update 11/13/15)

Most posts about the Man from Taured don't cite any sources, but those that do usually include the following two:

The Directory of Possibilities, 1981
The Directory of Possibilities is the most often cited source of the story. It is basically an encyclopedia of strange/paranormal/weird events. The man from Taured gets only one sentence in the book, on page 86. It's in Part 3, "Strange Creatures and Unusual Events," under "Appearing People."

And in 1954 a passport check in Japan is alleged to have produced a man with papers issued by the nation of Taured.

The text of the book where the Man from Taured is mentioned. Click to enlarge.

To say this is disappointing is to say the least.

Strange but True: Mysterious and Bizarre People, 1999
I haven't yet read this one, but have requested it from another library in my system. I am expecting essentially a retelling of the same story that's everywhere on the Internet, but I'm hoping for another source to hunt down.

Update - I received this book today, November 13, 2015. The book is copyright 1998, not 1999. The Man from Taured shows up on page 64, chapter entitled "The Alencon Spaceman." 

In 1954, the Japanese authorities detained a man trying to enter the country with a passport that revealed he was from an unheard country named "Taured". A thorough check was made by the customs officials to see if there was such a place anywhere on Earth, but they drew a blank. The stranger refused to throw light on the whereabouts of the mysterious nation of Taured and quickly left Japan.

Interestingly, the man doesn't disappear in this story (copyright 1998), he just "left," which seems unlikely.

Frustratingly, the author, Thomas Slemen, does not cite any sources in his book at all. If his source was The Directory of Possibilities - he certainly expanded upon that one sentence. If it wasn't - where did the story and the extra details come from?

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.