An 81-year-old Englishman stunned doctors when he came to after a stroke and started speaking Welsh.
Alun Morgan, from Bathwick in Somerset, was evacuated to Wales during the Second World War but never picked up the language.
But when Mr Morgan suffered a stroke he was astonished to find words coming from his mouth in a tongue he had not heard spoken since the 1940s.
“I don’t remember anything from the time of my stroke,” Mr Morgan told the Bath Chronicle.
“But gradually I started speaking a few words in Welsh. This was strange because I’d not lived in Wales since I was evacuated there during the war.”
Mr Morgan had been watching television when his wife Yvonne noticed he because unresponsive and called an