Skip to main content

She Woke Up With A Completely Different Accent: The Bizarre Story of Australia's Angie Yen

What would you say if I told you, you could wake up with a complete foreign accent one morning?

You would probably call me crazy.

But that’s what happened to 27-year-old Angie Yen from Brisbane, Australia. 
Angie underwent an operation to get her tonsils removed. Ten days later, on 28th April 2021, she found herself singing in the shower with an Irish accent. She had nothing to do with Ireland, never even visited the country in her life. She was born in Australia and always spoke with an Aussie accent.

27-year-old Angie Yen from Australia

Angie was perplexed. She made a video speaking in her newfound accent and posted it on TikTok. The video titled I woke up with an Irish accent #Sendhelp went viral.

You can watch her viral video below:



People responded, equally perplexed and bewildered by her claim. Most users accused Angie of faking it for attention, while the rest were having a good laugh.

But Angie knew she was not faking it. Feeling her identity is lost and facing ridicule from people online, she sought the help of medical experts.

Angie was diagnosed with what is known as Foreign Accent Syndrome. It is a very rare form of brain disorder triggered by neurological or psychological damage. Foreign Accent Syndrome distorts a person’s native speech and makes him sound like he’s speaking in a different accent.

31-year-old Kate Baggs from Australia
 

Angie is not alone. In Australia itself, 31-year-old Kate Baggs from Darwin started speaking in an Irish accent after suffering a rare form of migraine in 2019. In Kate’s case, her accent shifted to Irish, mid-sentence, while she was speaking.

Kate and Angie met on 60 minutes Australia.
 

Angie and Kate recently met on 60 minutes Australia where they both got emotional seeing each other.

Kate said, she too, has been accused of faking the accent and understands what Angie is going through.

Neuroscientists ran scans on Angie’s brain and found neurons firing abnormally in the language section, which could be the reason for her Irish accent.

There have been 100 cases of Foreign Accent Syndrome all over the world since 1907. In 1941 Norway, a 30-year-old woman named Astrid started speaking in a German accent after a head injury. Unfortunately for her, Norway was under German occupation in those years. People were not very kind to her as they thought she was German. She had to stop speaking outside her home altogether to keep herself safe.

Linda Walker, from Newcastle, UK, woke up in a hospital after a heart stroke in 2006 and sounded Italian to her sister-in-law, Slovakian to her brother, and French or Jamaican to others.

The condition can last months, years, or might stay forever.

Angie has not been advised when her Aussie accent will be back if it ever will. She is currently undergoing speech therapy.

 

 

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Thanks for your comment!!

Popular posts from this blog

India's Amityville Horror-The Burari Deaths

India's Amityville Horror-The Burari Deaths The Ghastly Discovery of 10 Members of a Family Found Hanging From the Ceiling Raises Questions - Was it Murder, Suicide ....or Something Else? The Chundawat Family of Burari (Top from left): Bhavnesh, Savita, Dhruv, Lalit, Shivam, Tina and Priyanka. (Below from left): Maneka, Neetu, Narayani Devi, Pratibha. Source- Link   Location: Sant Nagar in Burari, North Delhi, India. The Discovery of the Bodies On July 1, 2018, Gurcharan Singh is on his daily morning walk routine. He heads to the local grocery shop to buy his morning milk, but finds the shop still not open. It was already past 7am, and the shop always opened at 6am. Singh knew the owner — Bhavnesh, a family friend and neighbor, who lived just around the corner. He called his number, but there was no response. At 7:15 am, Singh arrives at the house to find the front door unlocked. He opens it and walks in to proceed to the first floor. What he see’s next coul...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Leaping Lawyer Urban Legend

The Leaping Lawyer - The Lawyer Who Plunged To His Death The Urban Legend You May Not Know Is Based On A Real Incident Photo by photo nic on  Unsplash You have probably heard of this Urban legend: A lawyer crashes himself into the window of his top-floor skyscraper office, only to find himself taking the aerial route to the ground floor. In other words- plunging to his death as the window gives way. The urban legend is not fiction. This incident indeed took place in Toronto in the year 1993. The fall guy(literally) was Garry Hoy, who worked as a corporate and securities law specialist on the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre. Before you JUMP to conclusions, Garry Hoy was not drunk or high on any drugs. He was not stupid, and he was not possessed either.  Garry Hoy - Source :  Link The 38-year-old was a successful lawyer at the Holden Day Wilson Law firm in Toronto. Life was good for Garry; he was young, well respected, and had a promising career ah...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Man From Taured

It is 1954. A Caucasian businessman arrives at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, for a conference. The man communicates in several languages including Japanese and professes to have been to Japan on various occasions.  Nothing appears to be strange until a customs official looks at his passport. The customs official is perplexed; he has never heard of the country the man's passport was issued from. It is from a country called Taured.  The official thinks he is simply uninformed and requests his manager to take a look at the passport. His manager does not recognize it either; none of the officials at the airport do. The passport looks genuine and has many stamps from different nations including Japan.  Clueless about a country called Taured, the custom officials request that the man show them where his country is on a world map. He highlights Andorra ( a little country among Spain and France) on the map. Whenever the officials let him know that the spot he pointed at was actually a...
Post a Comment
Read more