The Man Who Was Declared Dead

A Swedish man named Karl Strand went out drinking one night in London. He blacked out completely.

When he woke up, he was freezing, bleeding, and surrounded by trash.

He had zero memory of how he got there. He eventually made it back to Sweden… only to discover

something insane. While he was missing, his family reported him dead. The police closed

the case. The government issued a death certificate. His bank accounts were frozen.

His apartment was gone. Legally? Karl Strand did not exist anymore.

It took years of court battles, DNA tests, and paperwork to convince the government

that he was, in fact, alive. For a long time, the law literally