This article was originally published on Feb. 11, 2019.
One year ago, Danny Filippidis was standing in Sacramento, Calif., wondering where exactly he was.
Unknown to him, the 50-year-old Toronto firefighter was the subject of a massive manhunt on the other side of the country. Searchers on and around Whiteface Mountain where searching for the Toronto firefighter who vanished Feb. 7 while he was on an annual ski trip with co-workers.
The hunt included at least six government agencies, two ski patrols and several local volunteers. More than 135 people spent a combined 7,000 hours on the rugged mountain in varying winter weather conditions, officials said Monday. Helicopters and search dogs were also called in.
A truck driver had dropped Filippidis off in Sacramento and Filippidis couldn’t remember how he had gotten there or who he was.
Filippidis story captured international attention but a year later there is still no clear answer to what exactly happened to him or the mystery person who drove him across the UFilippidis declined an interview request last week.
"He is happy with his progress and wants to continue to move forward," said Frank Ramagnano, president of the Toronto Professional Fire Fighters' Association.
He has since returned to work.
Over the last year Filippidis spoke publicly only once, telling the Canadian Press in August he thinks it all began when he took a wrong turn on a solo trip down to his car. He wanted to grab his phone to take photos of his trip.
When he still hadn't returned to the ski lodge by 4 p.m., his friends began looking for him.
Investigators later determined that Filippidis likely fell near a children’s ski slope and ended up at a hub used for children’s programming that would have been closed at the time, according to the Canadian Press.
Three sets of tests and multiple visits to neurologists and neuropsychologists in Toronto, confirmed that he suffered some sort of head injury, Filippidis told the Canadian Press.
At some point he came across a truck driver. State Police have never been able to determine who the man was or where the truck was coming from.
Six days later he turned up in California. He had somehow gotten a haircut and bought a new iPhone.
Sacramento County Sheriff spokesman Shaun Hampton said deputies found Filippidis wandering around the rental car area of the airport. He was clearly in need of medical attention and was still wearing his ski gear, Hampton said.
Hampton said that deputies believe Filippidis spent the night near Richards Boulevard along the Interstate 5 corridor. It's unclear how Filippidis moved from Richards Boulevard to the airport, which is about 13 miles away.
Filippidis told the Canadian Press he and his family are just happy he’s back at work and not suffering from major consequences from his injury beyond gaps in his memory of his trip to California.
"There was a lot of despair and a lot of stress on them in the sense that it just didn’t look reasonable that I would be found OK,” he said in August. “But … we can almost talk about anything now.”
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So, any hypnotherapist should be aware of that, as well...
Also I've heard of missing persons, but in the case of Filippidis, he was found....So not a missing person, just someone who lost memory due to a brain injury, which caused a case of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)...Now, that is more logical than a mystery agency looking to abduct him for a "weird reason." Why would they release him...?? having gone to all that trouble...
Yes, people are abducted, for a variety of reasons....Some may be of German heritage....Most are simply children and women, trafficked for sex...In Canada, natives claim to be a special target for this, as well....
I would suggest that this particular case is more likely a case of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) caused by an accident...while skiing.....And that sport causes numerous falls, broken limbs, deaths and concussions, each year..
More probable cause than any other....Lest we stray into the realms of pure conjecture..
A logical explanation is probably the best way to go in this case but my gut says he was abducted by someone, or a group, for some weird reason.
I'm sure you've heard of the Missing411 concerning people missing from national parks and other locations. As a side note, a lot of the missing are of German heritage and involved in different scientific disciplines.
https://missing411.com/
"A blow to the head can sometimes cause a rare condition called Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS), where a person's speech pattern changes to sound like a foreign accent, but it doesn't involve actually switching to a different language. While there are rare cases of individuals waking up from a coma speaking a different language, this is not the same as FAS and is often related to how the brain recovers from injury. "
Science understands these matters, but has not yet concluded the relationship between the consciousness and the sub-conscious memories, from previous lives...Lived in other lands...and often triggered by damage to certain centres of the brain, which would normally block access to the higher mind, beyond the brain...
And one can train oneself, also, to obtain such access...it need not always be a blow, or electric shock, etc...
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