The girl slept for 9 years and woke up as a young woman.

Ellen Sadler has been sleeping since she was 11 years old and when she woke up she was 20 years old.

“Sleeping Beauty” is a world-famous fairy tale that has been around for hundreds of years and we all know it is fiction and imagination. The fact that humans can sleep for years without being in a vegetative state has never been recognized by modern medicine, even though there have been similar examples.

Ellen was born in the early 19th century, the 12th child in a normal family. To help her parents, when she was 11 years old, she left home to work as a nanny in a nearby town. Away from her family and surrounded by strangers, Ellen began to feel bad. She often had headaches, felt uncomfortable and always sleepy. These symptoms gradually became so severe that she could not work normally.

In the village of Turville, England in 1871, a real-life "sleeping girl" was recorded.

Ellen had to return home and her parents took her to the hospital. Doctors were unable to diagnose her condition because it was such a strange symptom that had never been seen before. After 18 weeks of trying to save her, they had to discharge Ellen despite her not improving.

After returning home, she had a severe headache and felt sleepy. Ellen Sadler only felt worse and worse. And then, one day, she quietly lay down on her bed and fell asleep, and when Ellen woke up, it was already 9 years later.

During this time, Ellen’s mother was constantly caring for her. “Sleeping Girl ” was fed tea, milk, and liquid food daily to sustain her life. Ellen’s weight and physical condition declined dramatically.

Soon the whole village knew about Ellen. People began to come to her house to see her. Gradually, the news of the sleeping girl spread throughout the country. Ellen became an unwilling celebrity. People from all over England came to the village to see what a person who had been sleeping for years looked like.

Doctors and reporters of course did not miss this strange case. A journalist from the Daily Telegraph described the girl's body as weak and her flesh as soft as a human's. Her feet were cold and her lips were pale blue. Ellen's breathing was barely perceptible.

The strange thing is that this story has a happy ending. One day, Ellen Sadler woke up. She had no memory of what happened and was very surprised when her family told her about her 9-year sleep . When she woke up, she was 20 years old but still very small and skinny.

The Sadler Family House

Ellen was later noted to have a slightly slower physical development than normal people and her eyesight also gradually deteriorated . However, overall, the “sleeping girl” was in good health. Ellen married and had 6 children. In 1911, Ellen Sadler passed away at the age of nearly 50.

Controversy surrounding the story

Ellen Sadler may have fallen into a coma or suffered from another condition unknown to 19th century science. It may have been a chronic sleep disorder, in which the sufferer experiences uncontrollable bouts of sleepiness. Ellen grew up in a large family and was used to heavy work from an early age. Some speculate that her chronic fatigue and lack of sleep caused her to develop narcolepsy.

There is also a theory that the whole story of the “sleeping girl” for 9 years is just a scam by the Sadler family. During those 9 years, her family received charity donations to take care of their daughter. For some reason, the mother did not allow the doctor to stay and diagnose Ellen for a long time. Some people rumored that Ellen’s mother gave her sleeping pills every day to keep her daughter from waking up.

At that time, there were also people who claimed that they saw a conscious girl sitting by the window, meaning that Ellen was just an “actress” . In addition, the girl’s mother also refused the doctors’ request to undergo a medical examination at a hospital in London. But the real answer will never be known to future generations because there is no official diagnosis from the doctors.