cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/16021002
Vasile Gorgos was 63 years old when he left his home in eastern Romania to go on a short business trip.
As a cattle farmer and trader, Vasile often made such excursions and, this time, had bought his train ticket in advance.
The difference here was that on this fateful day in 1991, he didn’t return home.
Knowing that he was due to come back the same day, his family immediately called the police who launched a search effort.
But after days turned into weeks, then months, then years, with neither sight or sign of Vasile, his loved ones were forced to assume the worst.
With no leads or traces to follow, they suspected foul play, but endless questions were left unanswered.
But then, on 29 August, 2021, three decades after Vasile’s disappearance, his family was faced with the ultimate plot twist.
A car stopped in front of their home – the same one they’d had for the past 30 years – and out stepped an old man, looking confused.
That man was none other than 93-year-old Vasile, wearing the same clothes he left in all those years ago. His pocket even contained the same train ticket he was due to travel with.
The car allegedly raced off before anyone had a chance to question the driver, but when asked where he’d been, a baffled Vasile replied that he’d been “at home”, Medium reports.
He subsequently underwent a thorough medical examination but doctors concluded that he was in remarkably good health.
People do occasionally with no memory and this is an explanation given but it often turns out it not to be the case - I’m thinking of the Piano Man. However, some of these states have been known to last over a decade or come and go over a similarly long time span.
Then a concerned Mike received a call saying the executives weren’t going to use his pictures because they believed the man was an asylum-seeker and it was an elaborate hoax. But Mike was welcome to sell the pictures to anyone else.
The Mail was not alone. The manager of a pub near where he was found maintained the stranger was “just another illegal immigrant” who had either jumped ship or been pushed overboard by people smugglers as coastguards closed in.
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Back in Britain, Grassl was denounced as a ‘fraud’ for not being mute and as a ‘sham’ for not really being able to play the piano.
Why is Britain like this