AMA /r/IAmA", "Benjaman Kyle Indianapolis Birth Announcements, 30 Aug 1948", "Powell Surname DNA Project by Jim Barrett", "Davidson/Davison/Davisson Research DNA Study Project", "I am Benjaman Kyle, an unidentified amnesiac with no memories, and the country's only "invisible person" without a SSN. Kyle says he has been met with skepticism about the case.[6]. He was born on August 29, 1948, in Lafayette, Indiana, and was raised there. Nobody knows who I am. He came up with the surname "Kyle" from his police and hospital placeholder name. [34], On November 21, 2016, Kyle's true identity was revealed to be William Burgess Powell. It is now the", "No-man's land: Amnesia stole his identity for 11 years", https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-amnesia-20151004-story.html, "Man With Amnesia Finds His Family After 11-Year Search", "Florida man with amnesia knows real identity after 11 years", "Man with amnesia still searching for his past", "The Last Unknown Man" | New Republic | 2016-11-21, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benjaman_Kyle&oldid=1147251400, Fingerprint comparison to databases of military personnel and government workers, Searches on Y-DNA online databases such as Ybase.org, Ysearch.org, usystrdatabase.org, smgf.org, and DNAAncestry.com, Searches on mtDNA online databases such as mitosearch.org, EMPOP.org, and smgf.org, Research of the birth announcements published in Indianapolis newspapers around the time of Kyle's remembered birthdate, This page was last edited on 29 March 2023, at 19:05. [citation needed], Kyle also had memories of being in the Denver Metropolitan Area. The later date is based on his recollections of a 2% retail sales tax that was enacted by the State of Indiana in 1963,[28] and that the popular WLS Chicago radio station disc jockey Dick Biondi left the station that year over management issues. His family filed a missing persons report at the time, and police found he had moved to Boulder, Colorado, where he had moved on a whim with a coworker. A reporter was able to find some Social Security records of him working in various jobs until 1983, after which no records could be found for the remaining period of more than 20 years before his discovery in 2004. [12], More specific memories placed him in Indianapolis between at least 1954 and 1963. [32], The Orlando Sentinel reported on September 22 that Kyle had received a Florida identification card with the help of IDignity, an Orlando-based organization that helps the homeless and others obtain identification documents. [33] IDignity also assisted in establishing Kyle's identification. With Tenor, maker of GIF Keyboard, add popular Burger King Man animated GIFs to your conversations. Oct 24, 2020. T [2] Two weeks later he was transferred to Memorial Health University Medical Center, where records state he was semiconscious. "Benjaman Kyle" was the alias chosen by an American man who had severe amnesia. Although the RTD Bus & Light Rail system in Denver went into operation in 1994, public debate over the construction of the system dates back to about 1980, consistent with the time period of the other memories that Kyle has of Denver and Boulder.[30]. A gap of more than 20 years in his life history still remains without any documented records. Hypnosis suggested that Kyle had two or three brothers, whose names or faces he did not remember, but otherwise he could not recall any other people from his life. The Burger King plane guy got kicked off ANOTHER flight - Reddit Secret Flying on Twitter: "'Burger King Man' kicked off flight for