Electric Human

All over the world, there are cases of human beings who claim they can harness the power of electricity. Who are they, what are there powers and can their claims be proved?

40 year old Jose Rafael Marquez Ayala from Puerto Rico looks like an average man; he earns his keep working as a TV repair man, and lives a bachelor existence in a small one bedroom flat. But outside of his seemingly unremarkable life, Jose hides an amazing secret, which, until now, not even those closest to him knew about. Jose can harness electrical power, and regularly withstands electric shocks from all kinds of items, and even mains from large buildings, with absolutely no adverse effects.

With an obsession for creating electrical devises in his workshop, Jose’s love for electricity began when he was a teenager, when he accidentally electrocuted himself and realised he couldn’t feel any pain. Since then, he claims that he has been able to harness electrical power and allows himself to be electrocuted as he goes about his work. He can also charge himself up from a TV, light cigarettes and even illuminate bulbs.

The scientific community is completely baffled by Jose’s gift, and rumours circulate that he is either a miracle man or a hoax. But he is not an isolated case; in the UK, others claim to have discovered strange electric powers.

Debbie from Brighton, claims that she can turn lights on and off with the power of her mind. Called Street Light Interference syndrome, or SLI, her ability is triggered by heightened emotions, so that every time Debbie gets stressed or excited, she claims her mind emits energy that interferes with everything from household appliances to streetlamps.

Her powers have been laboratory-tested and left experts either baffled or sceptical. Are Debbie’s electricity powers real or just wishful thinking?

And 72 year old Zhang Deke, a grandfather living in northwest China, claims that he routinely charges himself with 220V of electricity – known to his friends and neighbours as ‘Wonder Man’, Zhang is able to cook a live fish on his abdomen in just 2 minutes, and uses his electrical power to heal and cure.

Dr Suwan Jayasinghe, in University College London’s Biophysics department, is on a mission to establish the potential of the electrical fields they claim to emit - but what will he unearth?

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