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Date Posted: 20:07:02 10/18/02 Fri
In reply to:
Ade Bliss
's message, "RE: real super heros" on 14:35:13 05/20/02 Mon
>Hi i'm new here and i'd like to add my two cent but as
>i'm British i'll add a couple of pence.
>I run a independent paranormal investigation agency in
>my local area called Bliss Investigations and there is
>no refrence to that damned Angel show and have come to
>find out a few things on the subject and yes my
>friends do call me Mulder.
>ok super heros. Actually there are reported cases of
>people having super human powers, some think genetic
>mutations and i know what your thinking x-men well
>yeah ok kinda but if they use theses powers to help
>people is diffrent some of the powers aren't strength
>or anything like that but kinda bizara follows is a
>account of the ones i've come across and its quite
>long but there you go hope this enlightens you. So
>here you go these people are actully refered to as the
>real x-men.
> Lightning Man
>When storm clouds gather, courageous Lightning Man
>stands in defiance of nature to draw deadly bolts of
>electricity from the heavens.
>
>Roy Cleveland Sullivan was a Forest Ranger in Virginia
>who had an incredible attraction to lightning... or
>rather it had an attraction to him. Over his 36-year
>career as a ranger, Sullivan was struck by lightning
>seven times - and survived each jolt, but not
>unscathed. When struck for the first time in 1942, he
>suffered the loss of a nail on his big toe.
>Twenty-seven years passed before he was struck again,
>this time by a bolt that singed his eyebrows off. The
>next year, in 1970, another strike burned Sullivan's
>left shoulder. Now it looked as though lightning had
>it out for poor Roy, and people were starting to call
>him The Human Lightning Rod. He didn't disappoint
>them. Lightning zapped him again in 1972, setting his
>hair on fire and convincing him to keep a container of
>water in his car, just in case. The water came in
>handy in 1973 when, seemly just to taunt Sullivan, a
>low-hanging cloud shot a bolt of lightning at his
>head, blasting him out of his car, setting his hair on
>fire and knocking off a shoe. The sixth strike in 1976
>injured his ankle, and the seventh strike in 1977, got
>him when he was fishing, and put him in the hospital
>for treatment of chest and stomach burns. Lightning
>may not have been able to kill Roy Sullivan, but
>perhaps the threat of it did. He took his own life in
>1983. Two of his lightning-singed ranger hats are on
>display at Guinness World Exhibit Halls.
>
>BeastMaster
>With just the power of his mind, he can command
>animals to do his bidding.
>
>Vladimir Durov was no ordinary animal trainer. As a
>veteran performer in a Russian circus, he claimed to
>use a remarkable method for communicating with his
>canine coworkers - through telepathy. Professor W.
>Bechterev, head of the institute for the Investigation
>of the Brain in St. Petersburg, decided to test
>Durov's claim. Bechterev created a list of tasks that
>he wanted one of Durov's dogs to perform in a specific
>order, without any time for training. After hearing or
>reading the list of tasks, Durov went to his fox
>terrier, Pikki, took his head in his hands and stared
>straight into the little dog's eyes - psychicly
>transferring his thoughts directly into Pikki's brain.
>Durov released the dog and it immediately went about
>performing the assigned tasks. Thinking that perhaps
>Durov was giving the dog subtle clues with his eyes,
>the test was repeated with a new set of tasks, but
>this time with Durov blindfolded. Pikki still
>responded to his psychic commands.
>
>The Electromagneto Team
>Charged like superconducting human batteries, they
>roam the countryside thrilling all they meet with the
>electrifying power at their fingertips.
>
>There have been several documented cases of people who
>apparently possess inexplicable electromagnetic
>properties:
>
>For just a 10-week period in 1846, 14-year-old French
>girl Angelique Cottin's mere presence made the needles
>of compasses spin wildly; objects as heavy as
>furniture would slide away from her if she tried to
>touch them; objects near her would vibrate
>unnaturally.
>Jennie Morgan of Sedalia, Missouri could emit
>highly-charged sparks from her fingertips that were
>strong enough to knock people unconscious. Animals
>would shun her.
>After an 18-month undiagnosed illness, Canadian
>teenager Caroline Clare became so magnetized that
>metal objects, like forks and knives, stuck to her
>skin. The force was so powerful that another person
>was required to pull them off.
>Inga Gaiduchenko, a 14-year-old Soviet student was
>also highly magnetic. Before members of the Moscow
>Technological Institute, she showed how spoons and
>pens stuck to her hands. Even non-metallic objects
>such as china plates and books were affected.
>The Amazing Kinetitron
>With her thoughts alone, a steely glance or a subtle
>gesture, she can move inanimate objects at will.
>
>Nina Kulagina became one of the most famous psychics
>in the Soviet Union in the 1960s because of her
>amazing feats of telekinesis or psychokinesis. In
>films smuggled out of the country, Kulagina was shown
>to be able to move small objects placed before her on
>a table. Under close scientific observation, Kulagina
>would hold her hands a few inches above the objects,
>and in a few moments they would being to slide across
>the table top. Wooden matches, small boxes, cigarettes
>and Plexiglas would all react to her intense
>concentration. At times, objects would continue to
>move even when she took her hands away. In the early
>1970s, Kulagina was even recruited by the Soviet
>government to see if she could somehow help a sick
>Nikita Khrushchev.
>
>Pyro-Elasto Man
>Watch him stretch his body to incredible lengths and
>handle red-hot flaming embers in his bare hands.
>
>Daniel Douglas Home was either one of the most
>incredible psychic mediums of the mid-1800s or one of
>the era's cleverest magicians. The feats this Scotsman
>performed at close range astounded the elite and
>royalty of his day. In one demonstration, he entered
>his usual trance state and announced he was in touch
>with a guardian spirit that was "very tall and
>strong." While being watched by two witnesses who
>flanked him, Home shot up an additional six inches in
>height, and it could be clearly seen that his
>slippered feet were planted flatly on the floor. Home
>could also hold burning embers in his bare hands
>completely without harm, a feat he performed on a
>number of occasions. Sir William Crookes of the
>British Society for Psychical Research, once saw Home
>pick up a hot coal as big as an orange and hold it
>nonchalantly in both hands. Home even blew on the coal
>until it became white hot and flames flickered around
>his bare fingers. Crookes then inspected Home's hands
>and affirmed that they did not appear to be specially
>treated in any way - and showed absolutely no sign of
>blistering, scarring or burning. Crookes remarked, in
>fact, that Home's hands were as soft and delicate as
>"a woman's." In yet another performance, Homes floated
>out of a second-story window, paused, then floated
>back inside to the utter astonishment of three
>witnesses on the ground.
>
>The Incredible X-Ray
>There's no hiding evil deeds from the Incredible X-Ray
>whose penetrating X-ray vision sees all.
>
>Koda Box, a stage performer who billed himself as "The
>Man with the X-Ray Eyes," astonished audiences in the
>early 1900s. Box first allowed audience members to
>completely blind him by putting coins over his eyes
>and fastening them in place with adhesive tape. His
>entire head was then bandaged in cloth, assuring
>everyone that he could see nothing. He then proceeded
>to read messages that audience participants had
>written on paper. He could also read books and
>accurately describe objects held up by members of the
>audience. With is elaborate blindfold in place, Box
>once even safely rode a bicycle through the busy
>traffic of New York's Times Square.
>
>Microscopo and Telescopique
>Like super-powerd human scientific instruments, these
>heroes use their fantastic vision to see microscopic
>details or great distances.
>
>Two gentlemen might share the title of Microsopo, both
>having the ability to distinguish vinyl phonograph
>records merely by looking at the grooves with their
>unaided eyes! Alvah Mason first demonstrated this
>talent in the 1930s, and more recently, Arthur
>Lintgen, a resident of Philadelphia proved to none
>other than The Amazing Randi that he could do the same
>thing. Veronica Seider, a German dentist, apparently
>had telescopic vision. In several demonstrations she
>showed that she could identify people from more than a
>mile distance. Seider also claimed that she could see
>the individual red, green and blue dots that make up
>the picture on a color television set.
>
>Medictron, the Healer
>With the unknown force emanating from his miraculous
>hands, Medictron has the power to heal all forms of
>injuries and maladies.
>
>John D. Reese of Youngstown, Ohio never studied
>medicine. In fact, it wasn't until he was about 30
>years old that Reese discovered his remarkable if
>latent power to heal. One day in 1887, an acquaintance
>of Mr. Reese had fallen from a ladder and seriously
>injured his spine - a "severe spinal strain" his
>physician called it. Reese, for some reason, ran his
>fingers up and down the man's back, immediately after
>which the man announced that his pain had ceased
>entirely. He got up and went back to work. Reese
>likewise healed Hans Wagner, a shortstop for the
>Pittsburgh Pirates, who had been carried from the
>field with a back injury; he also instantly cured a
>politician whose hand and wrist became useless to him
>from so much handshaking. Doctors had told him he
>needed weeks and weeks of rest. After his encounter
>with Reese, he has perfectly fine.
>How do we explain the abilities of these astounding
>individuals? Are they conduits for some unimaginable
>interdimensional power? Are they mere tricksters and
>hoaxers? Or are they genetic mutants who, like the
>X-Men, might be forerunners of the future of the human
>race?
>Well you dicide, if you have any more questions on the
>paranormal or such like don't hesitate to ask.
>Ade Bliss
he he he
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