Maybe he was living with a family of Sasquatch that used hypnotherapy on him to erase the memory of his journey. Maybe. Or the Loch Ness Monster?
I call Reginald Perin on this (you probably have to be above a certain age, and most likely British, to get that one ) I've had the dubious pleasure of going to Seaton Carew (it's about 15-20 miles away from me) and most of the locals do bear an uncanny resemblance to Sasquatch, now you mention it...
I saw this story this morning and thought it would be a clever way to leave your wife, without a messy divorce. Then I realized that that is not clever at all. it was a rough morning.
I really wish he didn't forget everything. It'd be interesting hearing what he was up to over the past 5 years. Though I have a feeling it was a giant hoax/ scam of some sorts. Can't remember my ass.
Well, considering he was on a canoe trip I hope he didn't run into some kind of Deliverance scenario and he's been 'squealing like a pig' for the last 5 years with a creepy kid providing music on his banjo.
Maybe he fell through a wormhole, with one end traveling at relativistic speeds resulting in Time Travel 5 years into the future. What? Science hasn't yet proven that that cannot happen!
Yeah, maybe he's got the "Memento" thing going, where he can't make new memories - but if that's the case, how would he survive in the wilderness?
Alien Abductee. Gotta be, unless its not... I read stuff in the past about people vanishing off the face of the Earth for a while, then returning with no memory of what happened, but that was generally for a few hours at most? 5 years? Get this guy to a hypnotist, make him remember, I want to hear his crazy adventures. That would suck, 5 years of your life gona and you don't remember 1 bit? Talk about a letdown. I realise I come off sounding like a nut in the first part of this post. It's hard to phrase things seriously when talking about little green men from Uranus, or wherever.
Maybe he was falsely imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, then promptly escaped to the Los Angeles underground where he has been living as a soldier of fortune.
