DailyDirt: Mystery Men With No Memories

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Wed, Apr 9th 2014 5:00pm — Michael Ho

Every so often, there are intriguing stories of a man who speaks multiple languages, waking up with complete memory loss, and carrying no paperwork or identification on them. Sometimes these men are well-dressed when they're found. Sometimes they've been mugged or beaten, but not always. Doctors can't tell if these men are faking amnesia. Police can't figure out identities from fingerprints if they have no criminal records. Here are just a few examples of these mysterious men called John Doe.

A man in his mid-20s was recently found in Oslo in "a bad condition" -- without any memory of his identity. This guy speaks English with an east European accent and understands Czech, Slovak, Polish and Russian. Oslo police are stumped, so they're asking the public to see if anyone recognizes him. [url]
A 50yo man mysteriously woke up in Seattle without any recollection of his name. Someone recognized him as Edward Lighthart -- but there's still no explanation for how he got lost with $600 in cash in his sock with no idea who he was. [url]
A supposed amnesiac was admitted to a Toronto hospital without any identification and only vague clues about his identity. He called himself Philip Staufen, but he turned out to be a fraud -- a Romanian named Ciprian Skeid. [url]

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Filed Under: amnesia, ciprian skeid, edward lighthart, john doe, mystery, philip staufen

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Anonymous Coward, 9 Apr 2014 @ 6:13pm

and the tech connection is?...
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- art guerrilla (profile), 9 Apr 2014 @ 6:20pm
  
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  checksum error in the wetware ?
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- Anonymous Coward, 9 Apr 2014 @ 6:23pm
  
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  Maybe it has something to do with an unsolved mystery that tech may fix with enough time?
  
  Or perhaps it's just interesting like most of the "Daily Dirt" articles are. I dunno...
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- Wally (profile), 9 Apr 2014 @ 7:05pm
  
  Response to: Anonymous Coward on Apr 9th, 2014 @ 6:13pm
  More than you know...
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- Anonymous Coward, 9 Apr 2014 @ 7:12pm
  
  Re: um
  I'm sure it does, i just can't remember.
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- Anonymous, 10 Apr 2014 @ 3:29pm
  
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  Perhaps government experimentation or extraterrestrial abduction?
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Vic, 9 Apr 2014 @ 6:28pm

Oh, look, the man in Oslo has been ID-ed (report from today)!
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- Anonymous Coward, 9 Apr 2014 @ 8:04pm
  
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  That's what the aliens want you to believe. Don't be fooled!!!!
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Anonymous Coward, 9 Apr 2014 @ 7:49pm

Aliens!!!! I knew it.
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Harry Fudd, 9 Apr 2014 @ 8:53pm

I know exactly what happened to this guy....it's scary
He was found in what sounds like a park (Discovery Park) with some ties to the military it sounds like.
Please listen to this you tube video about how this is going on all around us and not being reported. Scary.
He's one of the lucky ones to be found alive. Most victims(the few that are found) are dis-oriented and don't know how they got to where they were finally found

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-dbwe0Olm0
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Anonymous Coward, 10 Apr 2014 @ 5:07am

They were warned about going to Rekall, must have been a schizoid embolism.
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Gaurav Dutt, 10 Apr 2014 @ 5:30am

The Oslo guy will definitely be someone related with CIA otherwise how on earth anyone know that much language unless he's a secret agent
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- Clark, 10 Apr 2014 @ 6:37am
  
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  Mormon?
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- Jake, 10 Apr 2014 @ 2:44pm
  
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  Czech and Slovak are so similar that they'd be considered one language if the two countries didn't have a relationship not unlike the English and the Welsh, and Russian and English are both commonly taught in schools there. It's just as likely the guy works as a tour guide in Prague.
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