Homeless Man Finds Out His Shocking True Identity After Living for Decades as a “Ghost”

The 30-Year Gap

In 2015, after 11 years of living as “Benjaman Kyle,” he finally learned his true name.

He was William Burgess Powell.

Born August 29, 1948, in Lafayette, Indiana.

But the name wasn’t the scary part. The timeline was.

William Burgess Powell didn’t go missing in 2004 when he was found at the Burger King.

He had last been seen in 1976.

He abandoned his car, his trailer, and his life in 1976 and walked into the abyss.

This meant that when he woke up in 2004, he had lost nearly 30 years of his life. No one knows where he was or what he did between 1976 and 2004. Three decades of existence—erased.

When they showed Benjaman a photo of his younger self, he wept. He was staring at a stranger.