00:00This man was missing for over two years, and when he returned to his family, they quickly realized
00:04something was horribly wrong. In 1939, Howie Do-It was working as a coal miner in West Virginia to
00:10support his wife and kids. One day, while working deep underground, Howie slipped and fell down a
00:15mining shaft. After several rescue attempts, there was nothing more they could do. His family was
00:20devastated. Weeks turned into months, and eventually, they had to move on without him. Then, in 1941,
00:26a group of miners discovered a man stumbling through the tunnels, covered in dust, eyes vacant.
00:31When they asked his name, he whispered, that is I. It was Howie. They rushed him to a hospital,
00:36then back home to his shocked and speechless family. But from the moment he stepped through
00:40the door, something was off. He barely looked at his wife or children. He didn't speak,
00:45didn't smile, didn't blink. Every night, he'd sit on the couch, staring at the television for hours,
00:50even though it wasn't turned on. One evening, his wife tried to wake him for dinner. That's when
00:54she noticed the stitches along his jawline. Thick, uneven, almost surgical. Then she looked at his
00:59hand, all five fingers. But Howie had lost his pinky in a mining accident, seven years earlier.
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