HOUSTON — Authorities are investigating a perplexing case. A Texas man who went missing more than eight years ago, when he was a teenager, has been found alive.

The development was reported by Texas Center for the Missing.

Rudolph “Rudy” Farias IV went missing on March 6, 2015. He’s currently being treated in a hospital. According to CNN, citing Houston ABC Television affiliate KTRK, someone called 911 after spotting him outside a church.

Farias had cuts and bruises, and it’s believed he had been badly beaten.

Farias, who is now 25, disappeared while he was walking his dogs in northwest Houston back in 2015.

KTRK additionally reported that his mother said he will only speak a few words before going into fetal position.

Where Farias has been for the past eight years and what happened to him are unknown.