289: Found Behind A Burger King Had No Idea He's Been Missing For 20 Years: The Benjaman Kyle Story

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🗓️ 7 March 2024

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Article: https://newrepublic.com/article/138068/last-unknown-man

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Benjaman Kyle Statement from Owner of Websleuths.com. (2010, April 3). Websleuths. https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/benjaman-kyle-statement-from-owner-of-websleuths-com.99607/

Benjaman1. (2012a, November 25). I am Benjaman Kyle, an amnesiac who woke up with no memories in 2004. Nobody knows who I am. AMA. Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/13rs46/i_am_benjaman_kyle_an_amnesiac_who_woke_up_with/

Benjaman1. (2012b, December 19). I am Benjaman Kyle, an unidentified amnesiac with no memories, and the country’s only “invisible person” without a SSN. AMA. Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/154h48/i_am_benjaman_kyle_an_unidentified_amnesiac_with/

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0:00.0	Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. So,
0:19.0	you're going to. Hey, what's up everybody. Welcome back to Mile Higher Podcast episode 290. Today we're
0:41.6	going to be looking at a very interesting case, a story of a man's life that honestly I can't believe isn't more well known.
0:51.7	Yeah, I'm surprised this hasn't been like adapted into a movie yet or something.
0:55.0	Me too.
0:56.0	It's a crazy crazy story.
0:58.0	It's a little bit different than what we typically cover here.
1:01.0	Yeah, it is different, but it is a mystery. Yeah the FBI is involved so technically I guess it could fall into kind of the true crime world a little bit. Well, we don't know though. Yeah, I was going to say for all we know there could be
1:14.4	other elements to this that would that we may never know exactly but it's one of those
1:19.2	mysteries that really makes you think and appreciate your life because what this man has gone
1:27.3	through will blow your mind it's insane it's truly insane and I think talking about
1:32.4	things like this is really important because so many people suffer from similar
1:38.1	You know diagnosis that he had or the straight up the same situation and it's just it's unbelievable.
1:45.0	So we're taking a look at the story of we're gonna we're not gonna give away the
1:52.0	ending here.
1:53.0	No. But a man who went by Benjamin Kyle for many, many years.
1:59.0	And Benjamin Kyle had amnesia or has amnesia and he doesn't know what happened during 20 years of his life.
2:09.0	No.
2:10.0	Many people say he was born on August 31st 2004 and at that point was possibly around 50
2:19.6	years old they didn't quite know at that time but his life kind of began at that point
2:24.8	Which is really crazy to think about what that would be like sort of starting your life
2:29.5	Waking up one day having no idea who you are or where you came from or even where you are now.
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