A Florida Man Woke Up In A Motel Room Speaking Only Swedish. Could It Happen To You?
A cheat sheet for the strange case of Michael Boatwright, the 61-year-old who reportedly forgot his native language. Michael Boatwright, a Florida man found unconscious in a California Motel 6 months ago, woke up in a Palm Springs hospital in February speaking exclusively Swedish. News of Boatwright's strange memory loss has been making headlines in the past few days, garnering attention across the U.S. and in the U.K. and Sweden. The 61-year-old Navy veteran doesn't recognize himself in ID photos, has no memory of who he is, and calls himself Johan Elk, The Desert Sun reports. According to the paper, he has been diagnosed with Transient Global Amnesia, an inability to make new memories, and as well as being in a fugue state, a kind of blackout that can cause people to wander away from home unexpectedly and create new identities. Though details on Boatwright's specific case are still...