A 13-year-old Croatian girl who fell into a coma woke up speaking fluent German.

The girl, from the southern town of Knin, had only just started studying German at school and had been reading German books and watching German TV to become better, but was by no means fluent, according to her parents.

Since waking up from her 24 hourcoma however, she has been unable to speak Croatian, but is able to communicate perfectly in German.

Doctors at Split's KB Hospital claim that the case is so unusual, various experts have examined the girl as they try to find out what triggered the change.

Hospital director Dujomir Marasovic said: "You never know when recovering from such a trauma how the brain will react. Obviously we have some theories although at the moment we are limited in what we can say because we have to respect the privacy of the patient."

Psychiatric expert Dr Mijo Milas added: "In earlier times this would have been referred to as a miracle, we prefer to think that there must be a logical explanation – its just that we haven't found it yet.

"There are references to cases where people who have been seriously ill and perhaps in a coma have woken up being able to speak other languages – sometimes even the Biblical languages such as that spoken in old Babylon or Egypt – at the moment though any speculation would remain just that – speculation – so it's better to continue tests until we actually know something."



So weird.

Crazy stuff. I remember hearing something similar to this too, it was an old geordie woman who woke up with a Jamaican accent

This would have made a perfect Unsolved Mysteries episode.

What made her land in a coma?

I've heard of people supposedly gaining psychic abilities after being in car crashes and such, but never heard of anything like this before. Very strange.

I tried to gain more informations but it seems she just fell into coma after having a high fever - according to this article.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne ... erman.html

There are actual areas of the brain that can do that. I remember a case where a girl who got into a car accident with brain trauma went from being American and having a new york accent to having an entire British accent, British vocab and everything.

^Even if they can inpoint the reason in the brain, I still think it's incredible.
I can semi-understand that a girl can start speaking German when she had a grasp on it already. But how on earth can someone speak a biblical language? (unless they're a professor or someone else very interested in that language).

On a radio show about memory I heard about this woman who was one of the many who emigrated to the US about a century ago. When she grew old she somehow forgot how to speak English and only remembered her childhood Norwegian. She couldn't make herself understood in the old people's home where she lived, nor was she able to comprehend them, and so she died lonely and confused.

Anyway, the brain is remarkable!