“Imagine for a moment that from this day forward you will have no memory of who you are, where you’re from or the identities of any of your loved ones. It’s a scary thing to contemplate, but for one man in Savannah, Ga., that harsh scenario is all too real.
Meet Benjaman Kyle, a 60-something man who can remember what he had for dinner last week but has no recollection of his parents or the high school from which he presumably graduated.
“It’s like having something on the tip of your tongue. You know it is there, but you can’t quite remember,” Benjaman said in a telephone interview with AOL News.
Benjaman’s life took this bizarre turn on the morning of Aug. 31, 2004, when managers of a Burger King in Richmond Hill, Ga., found him lying on the ground next to a trash container behind the restaurant.
“He was naked, he had bug bites from red ants, he appeared to have been beaten and he was taken to the hospital,” Bill Kirkconnell, a special agent with the FBI’s Savannah field office, told AOL News. “Ever since then, he has had no recollection of who he was.”
Benjaman said he does not know how he got behind the Burger King or any of the events surrounding his alleged beating. His memories, he says, begin inside the emergency room of Savannah’s St. Joseph’s Hospital, where doctors discovered he was legally blind, with cataracts.
“I remember hearing the doctors or nurses making jokes about what they were going to call me because they already had a John Doe and they couldn’t call me that,” Benjaman explained. “So there was a joke about calling me Burger King Doe.”
Benjaman says the nurses kept pestering him for a name, and that’s when he came up with Benjaman Kyle.”"
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