Superheroes and villains in comics and movies are known for their incredible superpowers. Now, some real people claim to have supernatural abilities like telekinesis. Is telekinesis real? Let’s explore a few reported cases.
Previously, I published an article about the controversial research on telekinesis along with general information about this phenomenon. Today, we will not focus on scientific experiments but will talk about the reported cases of telekinesis. Let’s explore a few cases of real people who claim to have telekinetic powers and try to decide whether telekinesis is real or not.
One young girl was said to hold unbelievable power and to be able to move multiple objects at one time.
One reported case of spontaneous telekinesis happened to a French girl named Angelique Cottin when she was 14 years old. On the evening of January 15, 1846, she and three village girls were doing some embroidery. Suddenly, embroidery fell out of their hands and a lamp was thrown in the corner. The girls accused Angelique because, in her presence, strange things always happened: furniture moved on its own, and scissors fell on the floor out of a sudden.
Angelique’s parents organized a show in Mortane in order to earn some money on their daughter’s abilities. The girl caught the attention of a Parisian scientist, François Arago. When the girl was in her “electrified” condition, almost everything that was in contact with her clothes bounced off. When Argo tried to touch the girl, he experienced a shock, much like touching a source of electric current.
If Angelique was anywhere near a magnet, without her knowledge, she would shake. A compass, however, didn’t react to her presence. This is because most items, which moved around the room, were made of wood.
According to skeptic Frank Podmore, many of Angelique’s manifestations of telekinesis were “suggestive of fraud”. Some examples included: the contact of Angelique’s garments necessary to manifest any supernatural ability as well as witnesses who observed some kind of double movements as if the girl threw the object extremely fast so that it was difficult to detect.
Angelique was not the only one who claimed to have telekinesis. In 1888, Dr. Ercole Ciaia from Naples described a wonderful medium, Eusapia Palladino, who seemed to be able to move objects during spiritualist seances:
“This woman attracts the surrounding items and lifts them into the air. She plays musical instruments without touching them.”
A well-known psychiatrist, Professor Cesare Lombroso was shocked by what she did. She was moving furniture in the direction of the audience and materializing some kind of ‘ghost’ hands in the air, which looked real.
Finally, magician Joseph Rinn caught Palladino cheating while allegedly levitating a table. In reality, she was lifting the table with her foot. Later, psychologist Hugo Münsterberg found out that she was using magic tricks to move objects in the air.
One of the most mysterious and famous people who claimed to have telekinetic abilities was a Soviet housewife Nina Kulagina. She exhibited a number of very unusual abilities, studied by more than 40 scientists for nearly twenty years, and many of these experiments were filmed. But no one managed to find a scientific explanation for the phenomenal abilities of this woman, neither was the scientific community convinced with the existing evidence.
So what was Nina Kulagina capable of? Was her telekinesis real? She claimed to be able to move small objects with the power of thought alone or change the trajectory of their movement without touching them. She was also said to have the ability to emit ultrasonic waves. Till now, the nature of these powers and how they developed, remains a mystery.
However, skeptics and researchers who watched videos that showed Kulagina moving objects with her mind said that the evidence could have easily been manipulated. For example, Kulagina could have used concealed threads, mirrors, or magnets.
You can judge for yourself:
Nina Kulagina was not the only one of the reported cases of telekinesis. A mysterious person, Uri Geller, born in Tel Aviv in 1946, repeatedly demonstrated his ability to deform metal objects. From the age of four, he claims to have revealed the ability to bend metal spoons by the power of thought.
The so-called “Geller effect” became well-known as scientists observed him. It was said that he could read minds, bend keys and other metal items simply by touching them or even looking at them. Did Geller indeed have telekinetic powers? The results of the experiments were inconclusive and Uri Geller was neither caught cheating nor demonstrated consistent patterns of observable psychic phenomena.
In 1966, a British psychologist, Kenneth J. Batcheldor, after 20 years of studying the phenomena of telekinesis, published several reports that concluded that psychokinesis was possible. However, the scientific community never accepted his studies as valid and the results were widely criticized.
After reading these reported cases of telekinesis, are you convinced? It seems that all we are left with is an incredible number of hypotheses and assumptions. Many of these cases were debunked and the people who claimed to have telekinesis turned out to be frauds. Some other cases remain questionable.
The only thing is for sure – till now, there is no conclusive evidence that telekinesis is real. So I guess, for now, this remarkable superpower will remain on the pages of comic books.
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I don't know if I really can but I feel like I can predict what directions things are moving or where its going to come from, I live near a road that barley any cars pass threw, It splits into 4 directions, I randomly think that I have powers so I ask myself if I do then where will the next car come from, my guts tell me a different thing then i want to say but when I say it I correct it and go with my guts but they are wrong it's the first one. I was told that I have rare eyes because of its colour (Gray) but it changes colour from Green in the morning to Blue in the night and when foggy and cloudy Grey my true colour; I was told the change of colour is an illusion and that its adjusting to the light but idk if it affects me i'm not sure if this is a power or if i'm guessing but I find it cool.
i hear voices and the people that omit these voices have the ability of taking my body away from me. It has been three years and im still waiting to feel my body again. I;m sure they are using telekenisis. They use their superpowers for bad though for the time being because I take medicaation and i dont feel the medicine anymore thats also been happening forthe past three years. If anyone can help me and tell me what to do or who should i contact to get rid of this curse that would be great.
Seek clergy. Protect yourself from psycic attack. Let me know if i can help
Here in Payette, Idaho you can see telekinesis in action, the good side of it & the bad side of it. Remember society does have bad people around, if you decide to stop by, I live in the trailer park, & G., lives in the other trailer park, that faces the side of my window. G., has Autisim & the gift that goes with it, he focus on telekinesis & other things. There is a bad crowd that follows us, but, all the evidence for researching telekinesis is here, &other things. I was told to go to India for research & answers. People indulge & impose on my life everyday like I am a celebrity. EAVES dropping he can do this with no problem. It will probably end man's EXISTENCE if more people were made like G., THE ENTIRE WORLD SHOULD come see him this way this will BECOME A FACT.
I didnt have a change being at school to read this word for word but what i did read was quiet nice.
being one of these people i am unsure if its safer to stay hidden or step into the light and risk being put in
a nice tight box and shipped off some where.
im trapped in the world of i want to be with my own kind and the is it safe to even let it be known that i am
different.
for my ability i can to a degree alter weather and smoke.
and to a lesser degree intensity of fire.
its one of those handy things when camping
allowed me to get a fire started for my friends on our camping trip when their attempt with i might add
1/2 a gallon of lighter fluid failed to get any thing light on fire at all well accept the fluid its self.
and well i got it going with flent and steel and a single 8 1/2 x 11 piece of notebook paper. and my
ability of course.
and had it hot enough to cook on in under 1 minute.
sadly it got me dubbed as the fire starter each day ie no sleeping in.
ah well made for a good trip.
anyways thx for your article and glad that at least in some small way word is getting out and hopufully
people with out the abilities will be able to accept those of us with them.
Has anyone heard of people being able to affect PCs and other electronic devices using this ability? Seems that this is actually peer reviewed, in the form of the "Pauli Effect" and only happens with certain components.
Watches not working when worn by certain people are one manifestation, possibly due to the counter components on these being quite large so more sensitive to some particles.
I did some work on this and it appears that one sign of this ability is Geiger counters "spiking" near certain people but still well within safe limits.
The method used is to increase the voltage on the specific tube used but still well within its maximum: this appears to make it sensitive to 40K and other low energy isotopes and I documented this experimentally using selective crystallization.