Michael Boatwright, who refers to himself as Johan Ek, a 61-year-old Florida man who awoke with no memory of his past speaking only Swedish and no English, in Palm

Michael Boatwright, who refers to himself as Johan Ek

 Michael Boatwright, who refers to himself as Johan Ek

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Michael Boatwright, 61, woke up with amnesia, calling himself Johan Ek, The Desert Sun reported

 Boatwright was found unconscious in a Motel 6 scope in Palm Springs in February. After keeping watch over inwards, he was transported to the Desert Regional Medical Center somewhere he woke up.

Hospital officials believed Boatwright may perhaps comprise been in town in place of a tennis match in the Coachella Valley. He was found with a duffel bag of bring to bear clothes, a backpack and tennis rackets. He plus agreed four forms of identification — a passport, a California identification certificate, a veteran's checkup certificate and a Social Security certificate — all of which identified him as Michael Thomas Boatwright.

Palm Springs keep watch over comprise familiar his in sequence in instance any person lists Boatwright as missing or wanted, the powers that be believed.

Here tramp, doctors diagnosed Boatwright with Transient Global Amnesia, a condition triggered by substantial or emotional disturbance with the purpose of can take in place of several months.

The rare mental disorder is characterized by recollection loss, "sudden and unplanned travel," and potential adoption of a brand new identity, according to the Sun.

 After an extensive search, checkup personnel and social workers comprise been unable to locate Boatwright's after that of relations. Authorities are still unsure of his native land, listed on his identification as Florida. Photos musical him in Sweden at an adolescent age.

The Desert Sun  reported it had located Boatwright's sister in Louisiana but she was unable to shed every light on come again? Had happened to him.

"I haven't talked to him in years. Him in a minute disappeared," Michelle Brewer believed Monday in a phone booth interview.

Brewer estimated she had taken verbal with her brother as regards 10 years since and couldn't even walk into strike home with him after their care for dying take days.

He's at all times been in a minute an itinerant," Brewer believed. "Then he'd move toward back after he wanted about money or something of a name. Then he'd take rotten again."

Swedish open records musical Boatwright lived in the Nordic realm on and rotten amid 1981 and 2003. Several Swedes on Tuesday believed they knew of him as an American with an older be of interest in medieval history and banter.

Swede Olof Sahlin believed he met Boatwright around 1985 through their location be of interest in medieval history. He believed he aphorism the American on banter proceedings recurrently in the 1980s and sporadically in the in the early hours 1990s.

"He was pleasant, sympathetic and talented on fighting in plate armor," Sahlin told The Associated Press. "A little small piece snobbish maybe."

Salina believed him on no account knew how Boatwright made a living at some point in his moment in time in Sweden but has at this time heard from other associates with the purpose of his sketchily worked as a not public assistant and in the construction sector.

Sahlin believed their take call was in 1999 and he doesn't know come again? Happened to him behind with the purpose of.

Boatwright doesn't recall how to switch over money, take an open transport or seek temporary housing like living rough shelters or hotels, the social member of staff assigned to his instance, Lisa Hunt-Vasquez, told the Sun.

He doesn't remember his son and two ex-wives