I Always wondered if strange things have hidden logics behind them, something like that has happened to me ten years ago.

I was working as an official at the American airport authority.

One morning as usual, while I was at the counter checking the passports of the people, a man who seemed to be in a hurry handed me his passport.

“Mr Charles, I am sorry your passport is not valid. Please provide the valid one.”

"I'm telling you, my passport is valid, I renewed it TWO days ago!" He replied impatiently.

"I'm sorry, I can't help you we are not allowed to let people on flights without valid passports. I may be able to help you if you give me some identification."

He handed over his birth certificate and I looked it over. For a moment I stared at him in disbelief, “The country that you claim to be from does not exist. There is no such place as Afferaron sir!"

“There seems to be a misunderstanding, for five years, I am flying to this country every four months on business purposes, had never been into this trouble.”

While I was checking his old passport it has the stamps of almost all the countries on it including America. Which shows that he visited here earlier!

He continued “Please look into it as soon as possible, I have an important business meeting to attend in an hour.”

“Sir I need to inform my higher officials in this case. Please give me some time.”

Higher Officials arrived and looked into the passport. With confusion spread across their faces, they searched for the country named Afferaron. There was no such place on the earth! In spite of the details and landmarks that person said nothing of it is proved to have existed.

He was interrogated and asked to point out where his country supposedly exists on amap. He immediately points his finger towards the Principality of some other place but becomes angry and confused. He’s never heard of that place, and can’t understand why his homeland of Afferarun isn’t there.

That person claiming to be from a mysterious place which had no proof of existence caused chaos in the country. Various claims were coming up in media Some saying that he is from a terrorist group, some believed that he is a ghost. While others said he was lying to get public attention. Either one of these was true or none was! 

He was found suspicious so He was kept in a separate room on a hill cliff, asking him to wait until this matter gets sorted. That’s where some of the High profile Criminals were kept for a while so that they don’t escape. It had no windows, no ventilators, no AC Vents or chambers, it has only one door made of heavy iron making is impossible for even the air to pass. Two guards were allotted to make sure he would not escape.

Meanwhile, serious discussions were happening between top detectives and criminal investigators to solve this strange case.

48 hours later:

After multiple attempts and numerous efforts in finding who’s this person, and where he belongs to, it was a Dead End. Even the CCTV footage of the Airport had no signs showing that he visited the country earlier contrary to the stamps which were found on his passport. Nothing useful came up and there was absolute silence among the frustrated officials.

Suddenly A beautiful woman in her late thirties enters into the cabin and hands me over a piece of paper which looked like a torn part of the atlas. That piece shows a place called "Afferarun" in the middle east of Canada.

She claims that Charles was herhusband and hands over their wedding photos. There was something mysterious about that woman. The way she looked at others, the way she talks everything was sounding a bit weird.

After careful examining, they needed time to cross verify the details until then they decided to put her in a similar room alike where Charles was kept.

While the food was served that night, by the next morning both of them disappeared without any trace from their captive rooms and were never found. Both the guards claimed that there is not even a 0.001% chance of them escaping. They were awake the whole night. 

It was practically impossible to escape from there. When the detectives looked at the paper which that mysterious lady gave the earlier day, it was found to be a plain paper! Nothing was printed there, the same happened with the wedding photos and passport.

On checking the CCTV footage, it was found missing! some people still claim that these people are from the Parallel universe. There was absolutely no proof that the mysterious couple ever came to that airport!

- Meghana Cheekati

(Based on the real mystery called Mysterious man from the Taured. Improvisation has been done to the story.)