Meet Benjaman Kyle, The Only Living Man With an Unknown Identity

Silence Followed By Tantrums

Around the eighth day of B.K.D.’s stay in the hospital, he began throwing fits, which was very unusual for a man in his 50’s that exhibited the symptoms he did. He began getting violent, and started calling his nurses and doctors demons, he would spit and swing his fists at them if they got close to his bed. The medical staff dosed him with a powerful anti-psychotic and he was moved to the psychiatric ward of the hospital…

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