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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.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 8 points 1 month ago

You may be on to something - his good is the old geezer with a hammer?

[–] drasglaf@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Most curious.

To add a little more context, from https://www.unilad.com/news/vasile-gorgos-missing-30-years-mystery-580501-20240806:

“We don’t understand him. He doesn’t know what he’s saying," he said. "He talks to us about the period when he was involved in raising and selling cows. We ask him one thing, and he tells us another.

"Who knows where he has been, who kept him, maybe he was forced to work… who knows what kind of life he led?”

[–] ValorieAF@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Where did he come from, where did he go?

[–] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I'd've been married, a long time ago....

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

Where did he come from, Cotton-Eye Joe?

[–] dhhyfddehhfyy4673@fedia.io 11 points 1 month ago
[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bizarre. Truly sounds fishy to me.

[–] makyo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Totally reminds me of the Sergei Ponomarenko time traveler mystery. It was a pretty convincing story until people tried to actually verify the sources and evidence. Joe Scott did a great video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH3lkiq4WqI

[–] rozwud@beehaw.org 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or institution...

Occam's razor.

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is there an Occam’s razor when someone shows up in the clothes they were wearing 30 years ago?

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, prison.

[–] Redfox8@mander.xyz 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Err where did their old car come from if he left by train? And how did 'they' question him if he sped off? And who asked the questions? Was he just in excellent physical health? Did he have dementia? So many holes in this story!

[–] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was confused by the wording too. I think it means to say some random car and unknown driver stopped at the same house they had for 30 years, dropped Vasile off, then sped away before they, the unknown driver of the random car, could be questioned.

[–] Redfox8@mander.xyz -3 points 1 month ago

I don't think so as they said they couldnt question him at that point. That would've been quite a coincidence to have the same car they had 30 years ago as well!

[–] julianschmulian@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

maybe a dissociative fugue? don‘t know if they can last that long though

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.
...
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

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Something something racism something something.