Modern Mysteries

Coma patient wakes up speaking French

By T.K. Randall
December 23, 2014

Image: Inside My Head
Credit: Andrew Mason / CC BY 2.0 (adapted) The 25-year-old suffered horrific injuries when his car collided with a lorry in torrential rain and it took firefighters 40 minutes to cut him free. He was rushed to hospital and fell in to a coma in which he remained for six days while doctors battled to save his life.

When he eventually came round however he astonished everyone by suddenly speaking in fluent French despite having never studied the language since leaving school.

"It's quite bizarre to say the least," he said. "I didn't even do French at GCSE so haven't studied it since Year 9 - then all of a sudden I'm fluent in it. I can't explain how it happened.""I wasn't really that good at it at school, so I don't how my brain has managed to do what it has."

Perhaps even stranger still however was the fact that, upon awaking from the coma, Curtis had also somehow developed the belief that he was actually actor Matthew McConaughey.

"When I went to the toilet I went to look in the mirror and I was shocked because I didn't look like him, I didn't know what I was looking at," he said. "I was convinced I was him."

Source: Telegraph

Tags: Coma, Foreign Accent Syndrome