A Georgia teenager went into a coma after a soccer injury and came out fluent in a language he barely knew. Doctors couldn’t explain it, his parents couldn’t believe it, and linguists are still trying to wrap their heads around it.
16-year-old Reuben Nsemoh was playing a usual soccer game when suddenly, he lost consciousness. He had dived for the ball during a routine play in 2016 when another player’s cleat slammed into his head. The blow knocked him unconscious. He began having seizures on the field before being airlifted to the hospital, where doctors placed him in a medically induced coma.
