From: CBS News
A 60 Minutes story you will never forget
CBS News:
The Holland College Golden Knights men’s basketball team is a powerhouse of collegiate sports. It’s played in 10 NCAA championships, winning five. It boasts a list of memorable players like 350-lb center Isaac Moseley, forwards Otis Pooky and Brad Jasmine and a guy nick-named Slappy, whose real name is Sean. But the Golden Knights have never played a real game on a real court. They play all their games inside the brain of a man capable of remembering virtually every day of his life and every one of more than 50 seasons of imaginary Golden Knight basketball.
Meet Bob Petrella, the Golden Knights’ biggest and only fan, and one of only 56 persons known to have a mysterious condition called highly superior autobiographical memory.
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Like others with HSAM, Petrella has obsessions, including the urge to wash his keys if he drops them. But these individuals are not autistic; they live ordinary lives. Dr. James McGaugh, a leading authority in memory and cognition at the University of California Irvine, has studied the 56 people identified with HSAM and says none to his knowledge has created such a fantasy world.
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