English speaking woman found on Croatian Island

[Susannahmoody]

This is an odd one.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10005995/Mystery-woman-speaks-perfect-English-remember-Croatia.html

Adding thread in the hope that someone might know her

What's the Web address for the ethnicity estimate?

This is the one I found - not sure if everyone else is using the same one?

en.vonvon.me/quiz/9447

However, I’m not convinced it’s accurate

I do think that ethnicity site is a joke... rather interesting results there!

This reminds me of the Benjamin Kyle case. Poor woman.

I think she looks Slavic.

I hope her family see the story and that she gets the help she needs.

@SevenOldLadies

This is the one I found - not sure if everyone else is using the same one?

en.vonvon.me/quiz/9447

However, I’m not convinced it’s accurate

😂😂😂

I know this is totally beside the point, but why is she described as having 'shoulder-length hair'? Is that not her in the photos? Shoulder-length is sort of a long bob, at the very least, to me!

@WithMyEncyclopedia

I know this is totally beside the point, but why is she described as having 'shoulder-length hair'? Is that not her in the photos? Shoulder-length is sort of a long bob, at the very least, to me!

I wondered that too. She's also described as emaciated in several articles I read. It made me question if the photos were actually her too but why would they use someone else's photo?

Perhaps just an opinion/translation issue?

How peculiar!

You would hope someone is missing her somewhere?!

How sad if not though 🥺

"She speaks perfect English" - In that case we know for sure that she's not British, Australian, New Zealander, North American or South African

A friend of mine had a stroke and woke up speaking another language. It was a language they didn’t know and they were very good apparently. They had worked abroad and lived with native speakers of this language but everyone swore they didn’t ever speak it.

A few comments on that article suggest her accent is South African. No idea where that has come from though.

Its very strange. I hope its nothing sinister.

The poor woman has obviously been through a very distressing experience and I hope the authorities get to the bottom of it soon.

 at @SevenOldLadies

I'm cynical. I think she has got mixed up in something - drugs smuggling maybe - and now wants out. She needs police protection so is faking amnesia just like the missing canoeist did a few years ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JohnDarwinndisappearancecase

@Choux

I'm cynical. I think she has got mixed up in something - drugs smuggling maybe - and now wants out. She needs police protection so is faking amnesia just like the missing canoeist did a few years ago.

[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John]]Darwinndisappearancecase

Most people from a loving family would have been identified by now which makes me think that people are deliberately not coming forward as they don’t want her identified.

Well, the Piano Man - mentioned at the end of this article - www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/20/croatian-police-seek-to-identify-mystery-woman-found-on-perilous-rock - wasn't identified by his parents for ages as they just didn't see the news story. I can't believe that was that long ago.

@SevenOldLadies

I just tried that ethnicity calculator and it was completely wrong because I know my family tree for many generations (and it's very boring, all south Londoners), it said I was 80% American???

Perhaps she's a Russian spy.

[quote gogohm]@SevenOldLadies

I just tried that ethnicity calculator and it was completely wrong because I know my family tree for many generations (and it's very boring, all south Londoners), it said I was 80% American???[/quote]
It’s a joke. Not to be taken seriously.

That ethnicity checker is hilarious. I’m pale, freckly and blonde. People always think I’m scandi or Dutch. But these are my results

I got 25% 'European'. Vague enough?

I would say she's early 60s, and Eastern European.

@SwedishEdith

Well, the Piano Man - mentioned at the end of this article - www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/20/croatian-police-seek-to-identify-mystery-woman-found-on-perilous-rock - wasn't identified by his parents for ages as they just didn't see the news story. I can't believe that was that long ago.

That article states she has shoulder length brown hair. So whyever are they showing a picture of a lady with short blonde hair? Who says journalism is going to the dogs??

That article states she has shoulder length brown hair. So whyever are they showing a picture of a lady with short blonde hair?

I'm a bit baffled by that as well.

Re the clothes, there’s an entire chain of shops in Croatia that sells virtually nothing but blue and white stripey stuff. There are at least two branches in every tourist town. You have to work quite hard to wear something else.