The Government Claimed This Man Did Not Exist (They Were Right) | Tales From the Bottle

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  • This man disappeared for over 20 years, and not even he knows what happened to him during this time.
    ""Benjaman Kyle" was the alias chosen by an American man who had severe amnesia. On August 31, 2004, he was found, naked and injured, without any possessions or identification, next to a dumpster behind a Burger King restaurant in Richmond Hill, Georgia. Between 2004 and 2015, neither he nor the authorities had determined his identity or background, despite searches that had included television publicity and various other methods.
    In late 2015, genetic detective work, which had gone on for years, led to the discovery of his identity as William Burgess Powell, born August 29, 1948. A gap of more than 20 years in his life history still remains without any documented records. With the rediscovery of his Social Security number, he has again become eligible for employment and has received public assistance."
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  • @Qxir
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    • @DoxxBoxx
      @DoxxBoxx ปีที่แล้ว +15

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    • @Quakerino
      @Quakerino ปีที่แล้ว +7

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  • @purplehaze2358
    @purplehaze2358 ปีที่แล้ว +3669

    Him recalling having a first name that started with 'B', perfectly lining up with the initials given to him as a nickname due to where he was found, is certainly an interesting coincidence. And that's not even mentioning the fact that he was found at a Burger King, and his real middle name was "Burgess". If that happened in a book, I probably would've called the writer a hack.

    • @isaacbejjani5116
      @isaacbejjani5116 ปีที่แล้ว +466

      A nickname for William is Bill, that could be why he thought his name began with a b

    • @dillonmoore9810
      @dillonmoore9810 ปีที่แล้ว +75

      borderline jojolions first chapters

    • @jackingwads7513
      @jackingwads7513 ปีที่แล้ว +107

      Real life is stranger than fiction

    • @blakerupp1444
      @blakerupp1444 ปีที่แล้ว +29

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    • @KP-ur9vf
      @KP-ur9vf ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @YeaMan Nah, shit.

  • @PuddingMcMuffin
    @PuddingMcMuffin ปีที่แล้ว +4190

    I remember reading about this case several years ago and at the time his identity was still unknown. It's a shame that he lost twenty years of his life, but I'm glad that he was able to find someone from his family and get his name back.

    • @MadScientist267
      @MadScientist267 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      I wonder how much of that 20 years he experienced in any degree... Meaning was it like the guy with the 7 second memory or did it happen in chunks... Just surviving takes some wherewithal, so this is kinda peculiar in a few ways

    • @FedSmoker64
      @FedSmoker64 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Technically he didnt lose 20 years, he just misplaced it.

    • @JustinKoenigSilica
      @JustinKoenigSilica ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@yeaman3214 I very much doubt that.

    • @richardhobbs7360
      @richardhobbs7360 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@MadScientist267 Probably 7 second memory considering he knew about 9/11

    • @commandercody2980
      @commandercody2980 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@yeaman3214 reply if you're not a bot

  • @dr.ryttmastarecctm6595
    @dr.ryttmastarecctm6595 ปีที่แล้ว +1777

    The 20-year gap in his memory is frightening. During the Summer of 2010, I suffered an attack of Transient Global Amnesia. My brain disconnected from my memory center and I stopped making new memories. During this attack, I finished hanging up the laundry to dry, helped friends launch their sailboat, and rowed a tender out to my sailboat to pump out the previous night's rain. Sometime after that, I encountered my wife who recognized something was very wrong. I returned to my body around 10 pm in a hospital bed. I hadn't recorded about 12 hours of memories. After being discharged from the hospital, I taped a sign on the refrigerator that read, "If you don't remember why this sign is here, dial 9-1-1!"

    • @khalidalali186
      @khalidalali186 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jesus fuck!!

    • @The_Republic_of_Ireland
      @The_Republic_of_Ireland ปีที่แล้ว +103

      Oh my lord...

    • @joshlowman9540
      @joshlowman9540 ปีที่แล้ว +181

      Now this is absolutely terrifying, are there any sort of symptoms before the onset of the amnesia? Sometimes I'm quite forgetful, but this an entirely different level.

    • @agustinvenegas5238
      @agustinvenegas5238 ปีที่แล้ว +164

      Fucked up that you managed to row up to your boat and pump rainwater out while having a serious medical emergency, glad you're seemingly fine now though

    • @leopold7562
      @leopold7562 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      Hang on a mo… How do you know you did all those things if your memory was broken? Hmmm…
      Yeah, I know, someone would’ve told you. But it does sound pretty terrifying. I once had a panic attack brought on by claustrophobia whilst stuck in a packed lift. I recall someone hauling the doors open a tiny bit and the next thing I recall was sitting on the floor, cross-legged, rocking gently, and watching everyone else get out. There were 20-odd people in that lift and I was right at the back of it. I lost maybe 30 seconds there, but that was bad enough

  • @avamasquerade
    @avamasquerade ปีที่แล้ว +1645

    A judge once told me that "technically" I didn't legally exist until he declared it in that exact moment because my parents "forgot" to put a name on my birth certificate. He had a grin across his face the whole time like he was just tickled pink by the whole case.

    • @JoshPhoenix11
      @JoshPhoenix11 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think they may have intentionally trying to save you from the 'Birth Certificate' fraud. Not having a birth certificate means you're a genuine real living Human person and because of that there isnt any law that has jurisdiction over you. Police have no jurisdiction over you, courts have no jurisdiction you dont have to pay tax, you are a complexly free Human Being. And because of that you would be a number one target of the establishment.

    • @ThePaperKhan
      @ThePaperKhan ปีที่แล้ว +205

      For some reason, they forgot to put my gender on mine. My sibling born a few years after me has their gender so I'm not sure why they forgot to put mine.

    • @tryingmybest206
      @tryingmybest206 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@ThePaperKhan maybe because gender is not the same as sex?

    • @alan5506
      @alan5506 ปีที่แล้ว +461

      @@tryingmybest206 maybe leave politics at the door and be genuine? obviously he is not talking about sexual identity

    • @MsTV.00
      @MsTV.00 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      @@alan5506 i mean what they said isnt political, its a fact, also saying "Gender /= sex" isnt referring to sexual orientation, but gender identity, two different things

  • @KubinWielki
    @KubinWielki ปีที่แล้ว +584

    Counter-theory to the burger prince one: His name "Benjaman" was actually Banjo Man, and he had spent the missing 20 years being a wandering homeless bard, playing his banjo for money. One day, someone took offense at his music, seized his banjo, and beat him over the head with it, leaving him in burger king dumpster.

    • @vulpes7079
      @vulpes7079 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Why did they strip him tho

    • @mikemcguffey6458
      @mikemcguffey6458 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@vulpes7079 perhaps to r*** him? perhaps the Burger king employee scared the person off from doing it?

    • @KubinWielki
      @KubinWielki ปีที่แล้ว +102

      @@vulpes7079 He played at a nudist party.

    • @riograndedosulball248
      @riograndedosulball248 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Fuck Piano Man, Banjo Man has a more interesting backstory

    • @jeromeglick
      @jeromeglick ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Naw... Banjo Man is Frank Cassel. He's not this guy

  • @reaganation6000
    @reaganation6000 ปีที่แล้ว +208

    If assuming the fact that he's a homeless drunk initially, then him naked at that dumpster with amnesia is a blessing in disguise. He got treated, chose to turn his life around and have a decent living situation given the circumstances.

    • @michaelchen1046
      @michaelchen1046 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      He literally forgot about his drinking addiction

    • @ericasilva2597
      @ericasilva2597 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      he was not high, the exams proved

    • @Accrovideogames
      @Accrovideogames 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@ericasilva2597 Alcohol doesn't remain in your blood for very young. Plenty of alcoholics are periodically sober. Not all of them are intoxicated 24/7, especially homeless people who can't afford it. There's also a high chance he was left unconscious behind that Burger King for a very long time, enough to sober up.

    • @hen334
      @hen334 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ericasilva2597and he literally had 3 depressions in his head

    • @hen334
      @hen334 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Definitely not a homeless drunk he had three blunt force trauma depressions in his skull

  • @shadetreemetalworks
    @shadetreemetalworks ปีที่แล้ว +403

    I feel like they should take the knives away from Two Knife Man. It just seems negligent to let him run around like that.

    • @mattmarzula
      @mattmarzula ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I agree with you. If only for the sake of the other people in stabbing distance.

    • @nullFoo
      @nullFoo ปีที่แล้ว

      Or maybe they could give him a third knife

    • @Trandhal
      @Trandhal ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So you wish to deprive that poor misguided soul of his one striking feature? For shame. I say we upgrade him and give him TWO MORE knives, one for each foot!

    • @John.McMillan
      @John.McMillan ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Old two knives? Nah he's mostly harmless. Just dont try to touch his Jello.

    • @LTPottenger
      @LTPottenger ปีที่แล้ว +14

      The guy has a theme, and I respect that. You can't take his identity away!

  • @reasonablegamer6199
    @reasonablegamer6199 ปีที่แล้ว +901

    It's crazy to think how this happened and how 20 years of his life are still a mystery.

    • @ReddFoxx1562
      @ReddFoxx1562 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's interesting to think that this can probably not happen to anyone anymore.

    • @current9300
      @current9300 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Similar thing happened to model Julie Strain. She got into a riding accident in her early 20s, and it wiped out most of her memories of her youth prior to that. While she went on to have a profilic career after that and retained her cognitive skills for few decades, the brain damage she suffered unfortunately caught up with her, and she died in her 50s while suffering from serious dementia.

    • @Robin...222
      @Robin...222 ปีที่แล้ว

      @YeaMan its trash

  • @Mephitinae
    @Mephitinae ปีที่แล้ว +219

    Oh man, this is one my biggest fears. To wake up clueless some day and then find out that I'm old

    • @pfadiva
      @pfadiva ปีที่แล้ว +35

      I don't wake up clueless but sometimes it does hit me that I'm old. You go along, minding your own business, then hear on the radio that a favorite band from your youth is planning a FIFTIETH anniversary tour! As Terry Pratchett said, "Inside every old person is a young one wondering what the hell happened."

    • @Mephitinae
      @Mephitinae ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@pfadiva I get that feeling when I watch youtubers in their 20s. Their "childhood" videogames were my "early midlife crisis" coping mechanism.

    • @isaiahdaniels5643
      @isaiahdaniels5643 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It will happen. One day you'll have a dream of your highschool years when you're in your late 50s or 60s. And you'll say, "fuck."

  • @congruentcrib
    @congruentcrib ปีที่แล้ว +205

    One of my favorite things about this story is the fact that he didn’t seem too interested in finding his old self. According to him, it wasn’t his life… he didn’t remember it, why should he care. Being told stories about yourself isn’t the same as remembering stories about yourself.

  • @spaguettoltd.7933
    @spaguettoltd.7933 ปีที่แล้ว +1784

    Hey Qxir, I’ve got a guy for you: in 1993, the Mississippi River was flooding catastrophically, and a man named James Scott was on a bender. James’s wife Suzie was at work, on the far side of the river. Not wanting the wife to end his night of fun, James removed sandbags from the top of the levee in hopes that the floodwaters would strand her at work. His plan was successful. A little too successful. James got to keep partying, but in the process, flooded 14,000 acres of land, destroying structures, bridges, and farms. All so he could make a wild night out last a little bit longer.

    • @DadaistTheater
      @DadaistTheater ปีที่แล้ว +179

      And he got life in prison for it! Which seems harsh and more due to his previous felonies. And some of the witness testimony has been put into doubt

    • @milkyprank4833
      @milkyprank4833 ปีที่แล้ว +146

      real life walking gta biohazard bioterrorist

    • @JTA1961
      @JTA1961 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      My buddy was doin time in the State of Missery (for weed) then but as he was old instead of sandbag making he got to be the "'water boy"'

    • @John-Doe-Yo
      @John-Doe-Yo ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Is that what inspired the south park episode where cartman and Stan flooded a town or something by crashing a beaver dam?

    • @user-ih6we9kq2q
      @user-ih6we9kq2q ปีที่แล้ว +125

      Except he didn't do it. He was framed so the insurance would pay out, as natural flooding wasn't covered, but human caused flooding pays out

  • @behindyou702
    @behindyou702 ปีที่แล้ว +861

    This story is absolutely insane, great work as always!

    • @uniflowin1285
      @uniflowin1285 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      how did you watch the whole vid in 5 minutes

    • @mad_jelly
      @mad_jelly ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@uniflowin1285 that’s what I was thinking

    • @brianlittleforest631
      @brianlittleforest631 ปีที่แล้ว

      @YeaMan no he didn't. That noise you call music is trash. I'd rather listen to a symphony of dogs farting.

    • @mad_jelly
      @mad_jelly ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @YeaMan I asked him he said it’s bad

  • @the4tierbridge
    @the4tierbridge ปีที่แล้ว +586

    Honestly scary how easily this could happen

    • @mattmarzula
      @mattmarzula ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Scary or fortuitous?

    • @the4tierbridge
      @the4tierbridge ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@mattmarzula scary because it Is fortuitous.
      It could happen randomly at any place at any time.

    • @comicbookguy2326
      @comicbookguy2326 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      lol this is not easy to happen

    • @TAKE_BACK_BRITAIN
      @TAKE_BACK_BRITAIN ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Stay sober and it won’t happen to you

    • @spencerlenz5050
      @spencerlenz5050 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Easily? Completely forgetting your entire life permanently isn't exactly common.

  • @Skorpychan
    @Skorpychan ปีที่แล้ว +547

    It's likely the memory loss was related to the head injuries. Concussions, especially repeated ones, can do that. I'm missing a few months because of a particularly bad whack on the head myself.

    • @KingKharibda
      @KingKharibda ปีที่แล้ว +30

      sherlock holmes is that you?

    • @thelastmanonearth2631
      @thelastmanonearth2631 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      I'm missing all kinds of months at a time in my memory. It's called getting older 🤷‍♂️

    • @billy6044
      @billy6044 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Xanax can do that too.

    • @rikuleinonen
      @rikuleinonen ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@thelastmanonearth2631 Getting older slowly fades away your memories, it doesn't suddenly erase a significant portion of your memories from existence in a matter of seconds.

    • @Skorpychan
      @Skorpychan ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Safwaan My guess is that he crossed some sort of organised crime group, so they beat him up to teach him a lesson, went too far, then stripped him and dumped him somewhere far away to avoid all chance of being recognised.

  • @Fierce0Deity0Link
    @Fierce0Deity0Link ปีที่แล้ว +141

    Getting some Disco Elysium vibes out of that story. Searching for your identity is such an interesting game mechanic, but in real life it must be really depressing.

    • @ryanmella9615
      @ryanmella9615 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yeah it’s probably not as fun in real life as it is in a video game.

    • @chev3569
      @chev3569 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I mean its because he looks like the dude from disco elysium

    • @iamsixsyllables9679
      @iamsixsyllables9679 ปีที่แล้ว

      oh shoot it's the funny touhou tf2 mapper :)

    • @Fierce0Deity0Link
      @Fierce0Deity0Link ปีที่แล้ว

      @@iamsixsyllables9679 Hi how are you

    • @zennyzenzen
      @zennyzenzen ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I had amnesia after a major mental breakdown. It's not fun at all and it's nothing like the movies. The most sinister part of it all is: you don't realize you have it. Lon story short - I spent 4 years mourning over my past self before I was able to move on with my life and build a new me.

  • @KROGANLovesKittensAndPuppies
    @KROGANLovesKittensAndPuppies ปีที่แล้ว +14

    This makes me wonder if getting amnesia could actually cure addiction. Like by the time you remember your addiction, the habit is broken and there's no reason to pick it back up again.

  • @MJW238
    @MJW238 ปีที่แล้ว +100

    This makes me think of how you should do a video about the triplets who didn’t know each other existed and accidentally found one another.

    • @Swaggely
      @Swaggely ปีที่แล้ว +6

      very sad backstory to that

  • @klatubaradanikto
    @klatubaradanikto ปีที่แล้ว +60

    The most shocking thing I learned from this is that there was once a Jeff Probst show.

    • @danevertt3210
      @danevertt3210 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yea it was awful

    • @elifishwhat
      @elifishwhat ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yeah theres probably a reason I didn't know about it until now 💀

  • @drosophilamelanogaster3121
    @drosophilamelanogaster3121 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Retrograde Amnesia is more common than you think in heavy drinkers, mainly Korsakoff syndrome. I’m not a doctor but i recommend reading about it, i learned about similar case in a book „The man who mistook his wife for a hat”. Basically his memories were there (in his brain) before, but were „erased” due to damage the drinking did to his neuron bodies. There are so many people living like that, in perpetual state of waking up and realising they are 20 years older and in a place they can’t remember, they can forget their children, loved ones, and more, so much more. Horror.

  • @eddoyle9627
    @eddoyle9627 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Legendary. With our own homeless crisis I shuddered when you mentioned that "they might not be there anymore" and we pay no attention.

  • @celarc99
    @celarc99 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    This is an amazing story. My mother didn't register me at the hospital when I was born, because she assumed my dad did the paper work. But my dad showed up late, and had assumed she did the paper work already. The government of Canada only knew I existed once I graduated High School. I only managed to get legal identification because the principle of my high school pleaded to my local MP to help us out. My best friends mother, who was a police officer at the time, and my family doctor both had to write vouches for my existing, as I needed written proof from people in public offices that I lived within the country for the amount of time claimed. Whole process from start to finish took almost 3 years from the day the request was put in, until the day I finally got my birth certificate and social insurance number in the mail.
    Tbh, in hindsight its remarkable the amount of effort that has to be gone through just to get ID, all because of a simple paperwork mistake in the hospital. I can't imagine how much harder the process would've been if I had no idea what I did the entire 19 years of my life leading up to getting my ID, let alone not being remembered by anyone else as proof of having existed in that time.

  • @eoingilsenan2461
    @eoingilsenan2461 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    Father has posted another most precious video for our pleasure

    • @RaverOperatorGeeza
      @RaverOperatorGeeza ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Qxir is your daddy?

    • @eoingilsenan2461
      @eoingilsenan2461 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@RaverOperatorGeeza our daddy. Brother

    • @klimpomp
      @klimpomp ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@RaverOperatorGeeza We come from His Womb. Brother.

    • @RaverOperatorGeeza
      @RaverOperatorGeeza ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@klimpomp these are modern times we live in.

  • @Ikcatcher
    @Ikcatcher ปีที่แล้ว +35

    It’s honesty terrifying your brain can just suddenly forget everything that makes you who you are

    • @melody3741
      @melody3741 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Its even worse. Everything you have ever experienced including the entire world is all filtered through your brain, you don’t experience the world directly at all, and that means anything that comes between your senses and frontal lobe can change or destroy your literal entire world and sense of self

    • @melody3741
      @melody3741 ปีที่แล้ว

      Something can destroy the moon for instance all within your brain and you’d have no idea whether it was real or not. You could even be in a chair hooked to a computer matrix style

    • @nonosetradome
      @nonosetradome ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@melody3741When you see with your physical eyes you are only looking at the body

  • @ajhoward8888
    @ajhoward8888 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    Makes sense. If you've ever met someone with retrograde memory loss, they act almost like a computer that's looking for programming. They often have a sense of themselves but no access to the details that would make that possible. So their brain unconsciously tries to sponge up context clues from the people and world around them to fill in that big old blank.
    You can literally suggest an identity to them and unless something they do remember contradicts it, they'll invent a new back story on the spot.

  • @tomigon3987
    @tomigon3987 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Burgess? Sounds a lot like Burgers. Burger prince theory confirmed

  • @John-ym9ht
    @John-ym9ht ปีที่แล้ว +84

    Brilliant story telling. I laughed at the doctors...who is gonna pay? reaction. So true.

    • @jmtradbr
      @jmtradbr ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I bet they are charging him now

    • @dakota9821
      @dakota9821 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @YeaMan I checked, it's garbage.

    • @kellydempsey9868
      @kellydempsey9868 ปีที่แล้ว

      @YeaMan no he didn't

  • @skaterocker666
    @skaterocker666 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    My Ex GFs uncle was involved in two motorcycle accidents, one when he was around 20 years old, and another one when he was around 40. After the second accident he laid in a coma for a couple of years. After he woke up, he couldn't remember anything between these two incidents, leading to him honestly believing he is still twenty-something years old (he also suffers from some mental disabilities meaning he isn't really "there" anymore). He lives in kind of a daycare and goes around flirting with all the nurses as if he was actually still an a young adonis. The blunt force trauma that has happened to "Benjamin" seems to indicate that perhaps somerhing like that has happened to him as well. Fascinating stuff really.

  • @charlessaint7926
    @charlessaint7926 ปีที่แล้ว +553

    *Story Time!*
    In 1943, a man's body swashed up on the Spanish coast. With him was a satchel full of papers, love letters, a ring, correspondence with his officers. His identity was that of Major William Martin, Royal Marines. The papers included official plans for the next Allied operations in the Mediterranean in places like Greece. Also with him was a photo of his fiancé, Pam, a couple love letters and an engagement ring.
    After a lot of back and forth between Spain and Germany, the documents were discretely opened and copied before being put back into place. Eventually the information worked its way up through the chain. Alarmed the next Allied invasion was Greece, Germany rushed reinforcements there.
    Problem was, it was an elaborate trap.
    There was no Major William Martin of the Royal Marines. Nor did he have a fiancé named Pam. Everything he carried, and everything he was-was a lie.
    His real name was Glyndwr Michael, a homeless man found dead after eating rat poison. In need of a body discretely for Operation Mincemeat, Glyndwr's body was perfect. He had no known family. No one really knew who he was. It made it easy to build a fake life around him. Some claim that the reason Glyndwr died was he failed to enter military service. The Brits built Major Martin's life. Pam was really Jean Leslie, an MI5 clerk.
    Technically Spain was neutral during World War II. However, they had ties with Germany and shared information. It was hoped that Spain would return the body and paperwork but not before giving the intel to the Germans. The correspondence was marked to know if the briefcase was returned that it had been opened or not. How? A simple eyelash on the papers. If the eyelash was missing, they'd been opened. They were.
    The captured plans lured the Germans away from the real target, Sicily. The campaign was thought to take 90 days was over in 38 days with far fewer losses than predicted. Could it be due to Major Martin? Probably so.
    Major William Martin was buried in Spain with full military honors. It was only after the war that his real identity was revealed. His headstone was changed to "Glyndwr Michael served as Major Martin." Whether he intended to serve the Crown beforehand or not, Michael became "The Man Who Never Was." An unknown hero of World War II. A homeless tramp who served his country more than he ever could have dreamed.

    • @NatetheNerdy
      @NatetheNerdy ปีที่แล้ว +80

      I've heard this before, but I never knew the guy they used was homeless. Makes you wonder if he would have wanted that, to have helped a country that left him cold and hungry.

    • @PJ-oe6eu
      @PJ-oe6eu ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@NatetheNerdy There is a movie about it too. "Operation Mincemeat". Plenty of stuff made up but still a good and somewhat accurate movie.

    • @RonPiggott
      @RonPiggott ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I knew this.

    • @kele8559
      @kele8559 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Oh I remember the video

    • @thewaxlobster7130
      @thewaxlobster7130 ปีที่แล้ว

      I ain't reading all of that!

  • @peegion4742
    @peegion4742 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The ending at 8:20 really hit hard, it's sad to think that some people on the street will never have their story known by anyone but themselves...

  • @HypercopeEmia
    @HypercopeEmia ปีที่แล้ว +332

    Honestly, the weirdest part of the story for me was that he was naked. Like how does that even happen? A normal human can't survive for long naked outside and who the hell strips a random hobo.
    Edit: yeah looking at it he could've survied naked, that assumption came from a guy who lives in a place alot colder then georgia

    • @michaelramsey82
      @michaelramsey82 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      My only guess is maybe another homeless person stole his clothes for themselves?

    • @carpenoctem3257
      @carpenoctem3257 ปีที่แล้ว

      Enough alcohol makes your blood antifreeze

    • @ChaseThePinballWizard
      @ChaseThePinballWizard ปีที่แล้ว +77

      in georgia, yes you can. what makes you think humans cant survive outside naked? we did it for about 20,000 years.

    • @childofcascadia
      @childofcascadia ปีที่แล้ว +54

      @Chase C.
      When hominids didnt wear clothes we a) had more body hair and b) lived in way warmer environments.
      By the time homonids had spread away from the tropics, we wore clothes of some kind. Even Neandertals wore clothes. Theres some evidence H. Erectus wore rudimentary clothes too.
      Georgias pretty warm tho. The fact that he had been beaten on the head n stripped leads me to believe he was intentionally left for dead by someone(s)

    • @ACME_Kinetics
      @ACME_Kinetics ปีที่แล้ว +17

      There have been people over the years who have beaten and killed homeless people basically for sport.

  • @nandoman4769
    @nandoman4769 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Nah my man was just trying to dodge those hospital bills and came up with an extremely elaborate ruse that he couldn't back out of.

  • @glitchy_weasel
    @glitchy_weasel ปีที่แล้ว +24

    What a crazy story. And to think that many people could be in a similar situation is heart breaking. Nice work as always!

  • @everythinge3151
    @everythinge3151 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I am so happy at how far your channel has grown I have been here sence the very first tales from the bottle.

  • @enterusernamefuck
    @enterusernamefuck ปีที่แล้ว +4

    4:35 What's even more impressive than the story is that he found a manual, right-hand drive car in the US.

  • @sonicmeerkat
    @sonicmeerkat ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I'm so used to these crazy story's having a huge time me gap but this being recent enough for Reddit to be used as a resource. Man just makes you think how many others like him there are.

  • @efnissien
    @efnissien ปีที่แล้ว +31

    @Qxir
    The outro you did for this made me think of people falling through the cracks.
    A few years ago there was a chap that used to wander around Dublin.
    He was a rough sleeper and used to live in the city centre, he also had mental health issues.
    While completely harmless, when not medicated you'd find him wandering the city centre screaming at clouds etc.
    Every now and then he'd **Ahem** go on a 'little holiday' to get a little 'rest' and when he returned -
    heavily medicated, he'd wander the streets singing to himself or playing the penny whistle for a
    couple of cent's with a mona lisa-esque smile on his face.
    Obviously, this was down to the metric shit-ton of medication to take between his hospital visits... but mental health
    problems and rough sleeping mean that keeping to any medication regimen is neigh on impossible and he
    would soon relapse. (add to the fact there would be predatory folk that would gather around him like flies around shit
    when he was released from hospital, and would 'look after his pills for him'...).
    Then one day he vanished. I did ask around a few of the other more benign members of the rough sleeping
    community, but they were at a loss too. I checked out his favoured sleeping spots, but nothing. I occasionally
    wonder what happened to him - I'm fairly sure he didn't die... I hope he had family that were able to get him the
    help he really needed (because 'care in the community' wasn't working - because the community doesn't care.)
    I still think of him as I pass his favoured patch - and I don't even know his name (I used to know him as 'Reg')
    Anyhow, just thought I'd mention this so if anything happens to me - the folk that read this hopefully will remember 'Reg'.

    • @JTA1961
      @JTA1961 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks for sharing this with us. When I was locked up, so many people who were mentally disturbed were jailed for compounded offenses (like failure to appear) sad part is being the "'weakest"' link in the chain they were always being used & abused often by the "'screws"'

    • @OCinneide
      @OCinneide ปีที่แล้ว

      Could have fallen into the canal or the Liffey.

    • @efnissien
      @efnissien ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@OCinneide I'd rather think he went to somewhere nice and got the help he needed.

    • @OCinneide
      @OCinneide ปีที่แล้ว

      @@efnissien the joy

    • @efnissien
      @efnissien ปีที่แล้ว

      @@OCinneide OI doubt he ended in the Joy, or Wheatfield. He was a Psychiatric case, not a criminal - and the constitution prohibits detention unless you are a danger to yourself or others(he wasn't) or you've committed an offence. (I doubt he'd be inside for 15 or more years without it making the news (even in the CMH Dundrum).

  • @ckopen7192
    @ckopen7192 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    his middle name being "burges" confirms your theory of him being the burger prince. its literally in his name, burgerking is his birthright

  • @rishabhmayank
    @rishabhmayank ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Didn't expect this to end on such a somber note.!
    Thank you

  • @zencomeseasy602
    @zencomeseasy602 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    You find the wildest stories. I love it!

  • @acoffeewithsatan
    @acoffeewithsatan ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Well, it’s not often these stories end with a happy(ish?) ending - sure, he still doesn’t have his memory back, nor does he know what the heck happened to him for the past two decades, but at very least not only did he found himself, but also one of the only people he could remember, also being part of his family. He left his home very early in his life, so there isn’t much his brother can share with him, though it’s safe to assume not only he never established family elsewhere, but also at this point, he’d otherwise wish to reconnect with his family anyways.

    • @Accrovideogames
      @Accrovideogames 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The incident also snapped him out of his alcoholism and homelessness. He wasted 20 years of his life and would have wasted the rest of it if it wasn't for the kind person who tried to murder him. How ironic that being left for dead saved his life.

  • @muratdalyarak372
    @muratdalyarak372 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This channel helped me out of my depression ty man. I don't know why but series of simple drawings combined with such bizarre stories told at the backgrou are somehow very calming and peaceful.

  • @michelebella677
    @michelebella677 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I was in a detoxification program with Benjaman back in 2005 in Savannah Georgia. They had him in there because they just didn’t know what to do with him because they couldn’t figure out who he was. They kept shuffling him back and forth between shelters and places like this even though he wasn’t a drug user. I remembered the man and then left the program not knowing what happened to him. Years later, I searched his name to see if I could find out anything about him. Much to my surprise, he was on a bunch of different talk shows but I found out that for years after, this poor man fell through the cracks and ended up homeless. I’m so thankful that he finally found out who his family was and what his name was. He was such a nice guy when I met him years back. I’m glad his story came with a happy ending.

  • @benisaten
    @benisaten ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This was a crazy story. Great video. Cheers ✌️

  • @Mr.E-Bachs
    @Mr.E-Bachs ปีที่แล้ว +22

    You are a great historian and tale teller… keep up the good work duder!

  • @timhinchcliffe5372
    @timhinchcliffe5372 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I'm also a loner and a heavy drinker (in Australia, I'm just a drinker... and if I was in England, I'd be considered a teetotaler)... that's why I'm subscribed to this channel.

    • @timhinchcliffe5372
      @timhinchcliffe5372 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Safwaan nah, my liver and kidneys will give out before then.

    • @davidvasey5065
      @davidvasey5065 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@timhinchcliffe5372 you ever wanna talk man

    • @timhinchcliffe5372
      @timhinchcliffe5372 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Chill out everyone... I did embellish a little. My sense of humour is darker than the rum I drink.

  • @channelname1019
    @channelname1019 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for your words on unhoused and abandoned people at the end.

  • @zacharyhenderson2902
    @zacharyhenderson2902 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I could imagine taking a random job and learning that I actually already knew how to do it. Then finding a family I thought I'd lost over 20 years ago. It's crazy

  • @dagoonite
    @dagoonite ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Due to childhood trauma, I woke up one day with my memories gone. I knew a handful of people were safe individuals, I knew their names, I knew my name, and that's it. Whenever something too stressful would happen, my brain would blank out that day. To call it terrifying would be an understatement -- to this day the thought of it happening again can throw me into a panic attack. But I had active support (even if I couldn't explain what was going on due to being too young) of people who knew and loved me.
    Waking up like he did sounds like an absolute nightmare.

  • @zackthomas1031
    @zackthomas1031 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "had the hospital employees terrified as they wondered who would pay the bill" 🤣😂🤣😂 too true

  • @asheep7797
    @asheep7797 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    He did a reverse Amelia Earhart.
    Travel as missing around an entire country, and discovered 20 years later.

  • @Cool_Kid95
    @Cool_Kid95 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What an interesting story, love this video! Poor Benjawilliam!

  • @CrookedSkew
    @CrookedSkew ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Benjaman and Richard Dreyfuss are the same person!
    Thank you kindly for another entertaining and educational video!

  • @ifor20got
    @ifor20got ปีที่แล้ว

    Another Great Story Qxir. Thanks

  • @Cikitabannanna2
    @Cikitabannanna2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks you for doing those videos.

  • @Luc13nTh3M0thM4n
    @Luc13nTh3M0thM4n ปีที่แล้ว +4

    the outro reminded me of something, when you said "one day we will stop walking by them and not even notice they are gone". there was this homeless man i would drive by when i went into the big town, not often but i would always drive past him. he even helped when my car broke down. i always looked forward to that man and i even gave him food and water during the hot months. one day i stopped seeing him and got confused and asked around but nobody even noticed he was there. just really sad.

  • @Shantari
    @Shantari ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Love how the alien abduction angle was just thrown in last second there. 10/10

  • @zombiasnow15
    @zombiasnow15 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent video! Thank you

  • @bulldogstrut1
    @bulldogstrut1 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great story. I am never disappointed with any of your stories. Keep them coming. Erin go bragh!

  • @TheJohnnyCalifornia
    @TheJohnnyCalifornia ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Okay... I feel the fire ants has something to do with. Seriously, a man is sunburned and bitten by fire ants and they never come up again.
    "Oh yeah, all homeless amnesiacs found behind fast fooderies are bitten by fire ants. Don't you know."
    "Burger Prince" was a good theory. He should write a fictional biography of his missing years called THE BURGER PRINCE BATTLES THE FIRE ANTS AND MY MANY OTHER FORGOTTEN ADVENTURES.

    • @evantambolang3052
      @evantambolang3052 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I could see that being played at CN, Adult Swim, or Comedy Central

    • @isaiahdaniels5643
      @isaiahdaniels5643 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Put it in a video, not in a comment. Your ravings could make you money.

  • @Druss2012
    @Druss2012 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Voted. Your videos are always interesting and funny. Love your animation and your sense of humor. I've been watching since the kill dozer. Good Luck dude!

  • @tmn2813
    @tmn2813 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Great video as always

  • @ceejayrox23
    @ceejayrox23 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I 😍.Qxir's hand drawn videos! Another great one. Glad B.K. found out who he was....I was thinking aliens too, or perhaps some undercover government experiment.

  • @Teratoma..
    @Teratoma.. ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I hope Two Knife Man makes appearances in future episodes. I'm captivated by him.

    • @The1nsane1
      @The1nsane1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Don't get too close, he's an edgy guy. Hopefully you don't get his point but get mine...

  • @vexqrrblx1609
    @vexqrrblx1609 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Love your videos!

  • @kieranmorley2833
    @kieranmorley2833 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey @qxir I’m from Richmond Virginia and recently learned about a riot that took place here in 1974, the cherry blossom riot and I think it’s the perfect type of content for your channel thanks, Kieran

  • @beb38138
    @beb38138 ปีที่แล้ว

    Omg I love this channel so much!

  • @davidanspach1624
    @davidanspach1624 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Your description of memorizing dates because of their proximity to shit like Doom's release date 100% there with you, man
    my mind is constantly associating periods of time in my life with the music i listened to around then, that sort of thing
    its why i dont play video games, edit videos, or write when im angry or depressed, which ends up really helping with staying productive,

    • @tjenadonn6158
      @tjenadonn6158 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      There was a point in my life where I was listening to Jethro Tull's "Thick As A Brick" straight through practically every day, and to this day the TAAB is a standard unit of time for me just the same as a minute or hour.

  • @AndrewBrowner
    @AndrewBrowner ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Did Guiness give him the record, for Longest Bender in history? a 20 year black out that ended in a naked fire ant dumpster dive is quite impressive

  • @JonOnFilm
    @JonOnFilm ปีที่แล้ว +2

    1:12 bro lmfaoo
    I know all hospitals only want that sweet sweet 💴

  • @olivervukusic2911
    @olivervukusic2911 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video, very informative

  • @Birtheater4545
    @Birtheater4545 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    3:00 rest in peace Kurt we still miss ya! I actually remember my moms birthday because of Kurt’s estimated time of dying and her age because she was born a month and half after he was lmao

  • @pepperachu
    @pepperachu ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Brother, I just want to say you're narration script and animations make any case you cover tons of fun. You truly created your own way👍

  • @michaelpipkin9942
    @michaelpipkin9942 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey absolutely love your videos.
    Thanks my man!!

    • @FlexBeanbag
      @FlexBeanbag ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/users/shortsBmc9NFfhx74?feature=share

  • @everybodygotthat
    @everybodygotthat ปีที่แล้ว

    Really liked this one, bud. Keep 'em coming.

  • @danisyx5804
    @danisyx5804 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    love these stories

  • @fionngallagher7813
    @fionngallagher7813 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    “Wait where did i put my phone” nah more like “where did i put 20 years of my life”

  • @PlutoTheSynth
    @PlutoTheSynth ปีที่แล้ว +1

    - Found behind a Burger King
    - Knew how to work at Burger King
    - Middle name Burgess
    This dude was definitely the Burger Prince

  • @arandomcomic2993
    @arandomcomic2993 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Here is my theory: he remembers his alias from when he was homeless because they felt the longest to him. In algebra, when i work, the class period seems to go faster to when i do nothing. Maybe he doesn’t remember anything else because there WAS nothing else

  • @kleebeez
    @kleebeez ปีที่แล้ว

    Happy to be the 1000th vote for Qxir - I love your videos, thanks for sharing all these stories! :)

  • @pokecat6122
    @pokecat6122 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Wow. I’ve heard about this before, but I never knew his identity was found. I know this kind of thing has happened a few times in America in the last 150 years, but this is the most recent one I’m aware of.

  • @AAAnonimAAA1st
    @AAAnonimAAA1st ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I still think he might be THE Burger Prince. Firstly he has a striking resemblence to the King himself and secondly his middle name is not that far off from the word "burger". The King must've recognised his struggles drifting from grill to grill and when he hit the rock bottom, the King allowed him to reincarnate as his rightful heir.

  • @loading9110
    @loading9110 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I bet the hospital was thrilled they finally had someone to bill.

  • @user-ex6xc5ox3k
    @user-ex6xc5ox3k ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'd pretend to have lost my memory too just to not have to pay for medical bills...

  • @AJVAJV-rv6ph
    @AJVAJV-rv6ph ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It's always a good day when Qxir posts!

  • @Alphoric
    @Alphoric ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It’s weird how people can remember weird things like some people who can’t remember who they are might automatically know a single phone number or their pin code for a previously owned phone

  • @JaykPuten
    @JaykPuten ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "blunt force trauma" sounds like a good strain of marijuana

  • @DieNextInLINE
    @DieNextInLINE ปีที่แล้ว +5

    There was a really bad recession around the time his social went dark. It's apparently considered the most severe recession since World War II. It wouldn't be completely out of left field to guess that he most likely lost his job and the recession cost him pretty dearly. Probably ended up homeless and lived a paperless life until he got 'rolled' one night and left outside the BK.

  • @OldDryEye
    @OldDryEye ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Would love to see you sell some artwork. Would love to see your cartoon spin on scenes and landscapes 😊

  • @Jagermonsta
    @Jagermonsta ปีที่แล้ว

    your vids be da bomb yo. thanks g

  • @duanelawrence78
    @duanelawrence78 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks Qxir God bless!!✌️🇺🇲

  • @tnhl77
    @tnhl77 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    as a policeman in Georgia you are correct.

  • @frenzalrhomb6919
    @frenzalrhomb6919 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    ...."And his credit card number" ...
    Only in America. Nasty.

    • @mattmarzula
      @mattmarzula ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Only? Are you sure about that?

    • @frenzalrhomb6919
      @frenzalrhomb6919 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mattmarzula No credit card details needed where I'm from, mate. But your right, only in America can one get sick as a young Man or Woman, and spend the rest of their lives, working two jobs, to pay for the privilege of being "well" again.
      And all because a section of the population thinks paying a ten to twenty five dollar, I don't know, call it "Federal Health Insurance" is some kind of slippery slope to "God damn SOCIALISM", or the GULAG, or something similar. Unbelievably, these people are also "allowed to vote," why? I have no idea ... And don't just say that "it's because we're a democracy" because they're the same people who'll say "oh, but we don't have a democracy, we have a Republic", and when you ask them to "explain that to me, please" you either get an answer with no explanation, or no answer at all. And don't EVER try and ask them to tell you what they think "Communism, Socialism or the Left" is, because all you'll get there are "the Democrats" or cricket's!!

    • @frenzalrhomb6919
      @frenzalrhomb6919 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jasonenna3544 That's disgusting, and something that would NEVER happen in Australia.
      We can all thank the Federal Labor Government's of the Hawk/Keating years for that.

    • @frenzalrhomb6919
      @frenzalrhomb6919 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jasonenna3544 But $19 for headache tablet is outrageous. It's bordering on criminal, really.

  • @roxannepearls901
    @roxannepearls901 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliant, you are outdoing yourself!

  • @Yukinebi
    @Yukinebi ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video, idk how I have never heard of this. Qxir is always on point.

  • @misterhat6395
    @misterhat6395 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That Cobain/Doom connection is interesting to think about. My theory is that he became obsessed with the game and was planning to rename one of their greatest hits “In Doom.” This would not stand and he was subsequently assassinated.

  • @blackegret666
    @blackegret666 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Sounds like me after a bad acid trip

    • @mattmarzula
      @mattmarzula ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A bad one?

    • @deropol05
      @deropol05 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or the victim of Gov experiments

  • @barrydysert2974
    @barrydysert2974 ปีที่แล้ว

    i don't think i'd want to remember 20 years on the road !:-)
    Good luck buddy!!!

  • @panqueque445
    @panqueque445 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Government: "This man doesn't exist"
    The man, clearly existing: "Bruh"

  • @sixtoedad
    @sixtoedad ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love your content and your creativity. Lol the cop poking the man with a stick had me rolling