In 1979, 10-year old Orlando Serrell was struck in the head by a baseball. After this event, he remembered every detail of his life and was suddenly able to perform complex calculations.
Orlando continued playing baseball that day, and never told his parents about the blow from the ball. After a series of headaches, the boy found himself able to perform complex calculations and easily recall every detail of his life.
Serrell’s own biography notes:
Soon, the media became interested in this “calendar-brain” and he began to appear in various local newspapers. On June the 17th, 2002, he received a telephone call from NBC News (Dateline). They invited Orlando to visit the University of Columbia in New York to perform a functional MRI testing on his brain. During the procedure, the news staff video taped Orlando undergoing the MRI which would be used to compare his brain functions to that of other people who are not savant or at the genius level of brain functionality. On January 13th, 2003, NBC News televised a documentary on “savants” on the Discovery Channel and included Orlando in the program.
Watch a 2003 Discovery Channel segment on Orlando below:
Source
Orlando Serrell (Orlandoserrell.com)
