  We present in this paper optical and X-ray follow up observations for three
X-ray selected objects extracted from the ROSAT North Ecliptic Pole survey
which is a flux-limited, completely identified survey. All three objects have
X-ray luminosities in the 10^44 erg/s regime and show narrow emission lines in
their optical discovery spectra, typical of QSO2 type objects. Spectroscopic
data for the three QSO2 candidates, obtained with the Telescopio Nazionale
Galileo, confirm the widths of the Halpha or Hbeta emission lines are less than
750 km/s. On the other hand XMM-Newton data do not show any sign of obscuration
as expected for this class of objects. The X-ray spectra of the three objects
are all well fit by a single power law model with Gamma~1.7 with low energy
absorption fixed to the Galactic value along the line of sight to each object.
Most observational evidence supports the scenario where optical and X-ray
obscurations are linked, contrary to our findings. We discuss the unanticipated
results of these observations, and compute the space density in soft X-ray
surveys of this possibly new class of objects. Their spatial density in the
ROSAT NEP survey is 2.8{+2.7 / -1.5} 10^-8 h^3 Mpc^-3 in a Lambda-CDM model
with h=0.7. Unobscured QSO\2 candidates could go unrecognized in current X-ray
surveys where the low hydrogen column density is inferred by a hardness ratio
rather than a more precise X-ray spectrum measurement.
