He was only 19 when he was stolen and may not have had a science based education.
Reminds me a bit of the Jaycee Duggard case, she ended up interacting with lots of people without telling them that she was being held by a kidnapper.
Comment on Algerian man found alive after 26 years in neighbour’s cellar
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 5 months agoMr Bin Omran told his rescuers he had at times seen his family from his prison, but claimed he had been unable to call out for help “because of a spell that his captor had cast on him”, local media reported.
i uh… huh.
livus@kbin.social 5 months ago
june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Bad translation/cultural interpretation? Maybe they meant something along the lines of “if I spoke he would have hurt my family” which is a verbal phrase that holds power over him, sort of like a spell.
Flyswat@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
No translation issue there. Northern Africa is quite known for witchcraft. People here might have trouble coming to termd with this, but it is what it is.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
We have no idea about the conditions he lived in, but i think 26 years is easily enough time to turn a humans brain into complete goo. You can train anything into and out of a human in that timeframe.
Thats basically what the most extreme forms of military training do aswell. You take a human that has empathy and a fear of death and you just completely eliminate those things from that persons entire existence.
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Fucking sad. Like fuck
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 5 months ago
still, i’m shocked to read that his survival instincts wouldn’t overcome his conditioning. that doesn’t happen by accident, his captor knew what he was doing.