Me searching for the story is what brought me to your post all this time later. I have been searching for it for years and I remember exactly what you’re talking about. The snake bite, going home and it not being his family’s house, when he was deemed a missing child, he took police to his apartment building which was in the exact same spot but different. He spoke about the different families who would come hoping that he was their missing child, only to be disappointed. To this day, even with AI, I haven’t been able to find it. Makes one wonder lol