Many people know the famous novel by Stephen King "Igniting with a Glance", the heroine of which was able to set fire to objects at a distance with just one glance. However, not everyone knows that such a superpower exists in reality and is a phenomenon, the secret of which has not yet been revealed.
Burning love
This tragic incident took place in 1965 at one of the Parisian discos. During a fire that suddenly broke out on it, 20 people died and about a hundred were injured and burned. As established by the investigation, the cause of the fire was a mysterious ignition of decorative plastic decorations on the ceiling of the room. At the place of the fire, no wires passed, so that a short circuit was excluded, there was no room and the use of open fire or pyrotechnics. The cause of the fire remained undisclosed.
A few days after the fire, a certain Jean Ducolle came to the police to surrender, who claimed responsibility for the fire that broke out at the disco. The young man explained to the police that in front of the disco he had a quarrel with his girlfriend, who was going to go dancing with another. It was then that he decided to set fire to the disco room. Ducolle stood in front of the building on the street, through the huge windows he saw everything that was happening inside. Jean concentrated his psychic energy, glared at the plastic parts on the ceiling and began to give them mental orders to light up until they burst into flames.
Imagine the amazement of the police officers who listened to the young man's story. Of course, they assumed that the guy had a mental disorder and sent him home, and Jean's parents were strongly advised to show their son to a psychiatrist. Alas, a week after his visit to the police, Ducolle threw himself out the window, committing suicide. For some servants of the law, such an act served only as proof of the guy's upset psyche, however, some police officers still have the feeling that they missed something very important in this story.
Apparently, thanks to such doubters, after a few years, the Ducol case underwent a thorough and careful review.
In Jean's testimony, a number of points were noted that were left without attention during his visit to the police. So, Ducol very accurately indicated the place of fire and spoke about the first minutes of the fire. Most importantly, even before the fire in the disco, he was able to ignite objects with his eyes. One of his former classmates reported that even in the sixth grade, Jean could set fire to paper with his eyes, and in high school even ignited a log from a distance. It turned out that he was telling the police the truth!
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Is there a fiery breath?
In the first half of the 20th century, a very unusual patient came to the American doctor L. Woodman. It was a young negro named Underwood, who asked him to get rid of a rather unusual ability. According to him, as soon as he took a handkerchief, pressed it to his mouth and began to breathe through it, in a moment the handkerchief caught fire and turned into ash. At first the doctor thought Underwood was crazy, but he readily showed him the fire of the handkerchief.
Then Woodman suggested that the patient was trying to play him, demonstrating some kind of trick. Underwood, almost crying, assured him otherwise. He even agreed to a lengthy medical examination, just to get rid of his uncomfortable gift. The mysterious patient said that he was very afraid in his sleep with his breath to accidentally set fire to the house, and even while awake, he breathed very carefully, fearing to burn something.
When examining Underwood, doctors first decided to completely exclude the possibility of any joke on his part. The Negro completely undressed, rinsed his mouth with water, was carefully examined, was forced to wear rubber gloves, but even after that he set fire to paper or cloth with his breathing without any problems.
In 1927, American newspapers reported that the President of the United States himself became personally interested in the phenomenon of A. Underwood … Michigan Medical and other print media published reports on the medical examination of the only one on their pages. Alas, doctors, despite their efforts, were unable to give this phenomenon at least some digestible explanation. It is curious that now in the United States there is an association of people who call themselves "breathing with caution."
The association is led by Seattle-based Jimmy Borisson. According to him, the gift of fire breath once even helped him cope with two robbers. He just exhaled deeply right into the face of the attacker, and he immediately howled in pain, receiving a severe burn. It is curious that the injured robber even had the audacity to go to the police with a complaint about Borisson.
Jimmy has repeatedly demonstrated his gift, setting fire to small wood shavings and pieces of paper suggested by the experimenters with his breath. By the way, the question arises: if there are such people, then fabulous fire-breathing dragons once could really exist? Incredibly, this assumption is seriously considered by some researchers.
Not a gift, but a real disaster
The phenomenon discussed in this article is called pyrokinesis. According to the existing definition, pyrokinesis means the ability to cause fire or a significant increase in temperature at a distance with the power of thought, as well as the ability to control fire with the power of thought. People with this ability are called pyrokinetics. Fiery breath is still not so typical for the phenomenon of pyrokinesis; objects are set on fire at a distance mainly with the help of the eyes.
Here is another example from life, testifying to the reality of the phenomenon. It's about a woman named Golda Kutz, who once lived in Israel. The first manifestation of the phenomenon occurred in Golda's childhood. One day she had a fight with her classmate, and she hit her. As soon as Golda glanced angrily at her abuser, her dress flashed on her. The girl received serious burns and was admitted to the hospital.
When Kuts was thirty years old, she was accused of setting fire to the house of a neighbor with whom she had a fight in the market with her gaze. Alas, in her entire life, Golda never learned to manage her gift, often she herself suffered from her ability. It got to the point that she was even threatened with a ban on visiting public places. To avoid it, Kutz, while on the street, even wore dark sunglasses in the evenings. Everything that gives it comfort was absent in her house - furniture, carpets, books, paintings. Golda excluded from her life everything that she was able to spontaneously ignite. The unhappy woman slept curled up on the dirt floor among the bare stone walls.
Is psychic energy to blame for everything?
Perhaps, on the positive side, only a primitive man could appreciate the gift of pyrokinesis, who spent a painfully long time making fire by rubbing two dry pieces of wood, or an involuntary Robinson who found himself without matches on an uninhabited island, remember the wonderful film “Outcast”. It is said that once upon a time there was a whole tribe on the island of Kalimantan, whose members kindled fires only with a glance and did not even know about other ways to do it.
Researchers of the pyrokinesis phenomenon argue that the Alaskan and Aleutian shamans have a special ritual of making a fire. Shamans stand around a heap of brushwood or dry grass, only one of them sits down a few steps from the prepared fire and begins to stare at it, the rest begin rituals. They jump around the fire, hum something, performing certain ritual movements. According to researchers, they generate energy in themselves and transmit it to the first shaman. After a while, a fire flares up from his gaze.
Officials in most cases shy away from studying pyrokinesis for fear of undermining their reputation. The phenomenon is left to the mercy of enthusiasts who do not always have the necessary qualifications and instrumental base. In our time, several hundred reliable cases of ignition with the help of a glance have already been recorded.
Officials in most cases shy away from studying pyrokinesis for fear of undermining their reputation. The phenomenon is left to the mercy of enthusiasts who do not always have the necessary qualifications and instrumental base. In our time, several hundred reliable cases of ignition with the help of a glance have already been recorded.
Researchers believe that a fire occurs when an excess of psychic energy accumulates in the body of individual unique individuals, which leaves the human body through the eyes. The eyes "splash" this energy in various stressful situations (outburst of anger, any danger, etc.). True, a number of unique people, fortunately, have the ability to control their flammable gift.