The woman, who travelled to New York from Tokyo, Japan, carried a passport from Torenza, which looked legit, except for the fact that there is no record of any such country in the world.
A video has gone viral on social media platforms, purportedly showing a hijab-clad Muslim woman arriving at the JFK Airport carrying the passport of a supposedly uncharted ‘country’ called ‘Torenza’, which does not exist on any map or official records.
What did the video show?
The bizarre video, which has sparked speculations and conspiracy theories about the existence of ‘hidden’, untravelled countries which allegedly do not feature on the world map, shows the elderly woman explaining to stunned immigration officers at the JFK airport that she’s from Torenza, a country located in Caucasus region.
The woman, who travelled to New York from Tokyo, Japan, carried a passport from Torenza, which looked legit, except for the fact that there is no record of any such country in the world. Her Torenza passport featured biometric chips and holograms, as well as stamps from other fictional countries, leaving officials at the airport confused and dumbfounded.
Where is ‘Torenza’?
Nowhere, after the video went viral, fact checkers confirmed that it wss AI-generated, and the JFK airport no records of such a passenger or incident.
The Torenza hoax is reminiscent of a similar incident which took place in 1954 at the Haneda Airport in Tokyo, when a man who claimed to be from a non-existent country called ‘Taured” baffled officials, before mysteriously vanishing.
While the Torenza passport woman hoax has sparked wild conspiracy theories on the internet, from government cover-ups to parallel universes and shape-shifting aliens, the reality is that the video is AI-generated and not an actual event.
