Two babies raised by strangers after hospital 'swapped them at birth' reveal how they finally discovered truth
The families of two babies who claim they were switched at birth are suing the hospital where it happened decades on from the incident.
Back in 1988, Kyle Bylin and Jeremy Morrison were born at Unity Medical Center in Grafton, North Dakota, but they and their parents allege that the infants were mistakenly sent home with the other's family and then lived for another 36 years before learning the truth.
According to KKTV, Jeremy only found out what had happened after he used an ancestry website where his aunt gave some DNA and Kyle's name came up as a nephew.
Jeremy said he didn't have any cousins so this man was a complete stranger to him, but it helped a piece of a puzzle he'd been wondering about all his life slot into place after wondering why he didn't resemble anyone in his family.
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He said: "I didn’t have anyone that looked like me in my family. I was that blonde-haired kid that stood out in a family full of brown-haired people."
A DNA test told Jeremy that the people he'd spent 36 years thinking of as his parents weren't his biological mother and father, they were Kyle's.
He said if he'd been sent home with the 'right family' then he'd have been 'working the farm with my older brother that I never knew I had'.
When they were children they didn't grow up in the same area so he dismissed the idea of being 'switched at daycare or anything like that'.
The men who reckon they were swapped at birth haven't met, but their parents have met the child they believe is biologically theirs and have launched a lawsuit.
The hospital have denied the allegations made against them and asked a court to dismiss the case, and in a statement they said they were 'currently working to better understand a highly unusual situation'.
"Both men were born at our hospital on the same day in 1988, and we recognize the profound impact this discovery has had on them and their families," they told KKTV in a statement.
"Unfortunately, because of the passage of nearly four decades, the medical and staffing records that might have provided additional clarity no longer exist, and no members of the delivery team from that time are still employed by the hospital.
"While we deeply sympathize with the men and their families, we have found no evidence to support claims that Unity Medical Center or its staff were responsible for what occurred.
"As caregivers, our hearts go out to both men and to everyone affected by this difficult situation. We can only imagine the range of emotions they and their loved ones are experiencing."
Joe Harker