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.
I saw this guy on The Learning Channel the other night. Truly freaky.
They don’t have the equipment to measure the current? I do, and I could even lend it to them. It’s called an Ammeter.
What a bunch of hooey!
What a load! At least he seems well grounded.
I call BS. There are so many holes in this story.
“Professor so-n-so feels they don’t have the equipment capable of measuring the potentially high currently flowing in to Jose’s body.”
Yea, right. Jose is touching an electrical source with one hand. They can measure that source with multi-meter. I didn’t get the impression that they are hooking him up to anything stronger than an electrical outlet, so any meter used by an electrician can measure it.
Also, Jose works on electronics. It would seem reasonable that he owns the tools for the job, such as a meter, that either he or the professor could use to see how much juice is going though.
Electricity can be conducted across the skin, with moisture or some other conduct that he has applied to himself. That would explain (a) no burning, (b) how his heart doesn’t stop.
My gut tells me that Jose is using some shield on his fingertips, coated with a conductor jell or fluid across his body. The shield would be used to help prevent burning when the electricity leaves or enters the conduit on his body. I also think that he is using low amperage current in order to make it appear dramatic while reducing the actually potential electricity to interfere with the heart.
Some people’s bodies just have something different about them and don’t seem to be very much affected by electricity. Years ago, when I had a window air-conditioner installed, the old electrician grabbed the 220 lines at the box and I almost flipped out. He said electricity didn’t bother him and he could tell what was hot by grabbing them… so I think this story is probably true.
They should’ve had some professional magicians there- they would be more likely to spot the ways he could be hoaxing.
Reminds me of Wes Craven’s ‘Shocker’. Only BORING!
Okay… Looks like a Magicians trick to me. Chris Angel’s done far better stuff.
I want to see him do a regular light bulb in the month, like Uncle Fester!
It’s on TV so it must be true. It’s 12v and mini wiring that can’t even be seen. HOAX.
#3. Save your criticism till you’ve seen the whole show, the problems you mention are addressed.
#10,
Fair ’nuff. I don’t have a TV, or cable, so I won’t be able to catch the program.
I’d like to see him touch the end of a spark plug on a running lawn mower engine. It’s a good test of the power of electricity to contract one’s muscles involuntarily.
#12. Better than that he grabs the business end of a flyback transformer while the TV is juiced.
This guy is a fraud, it’s just good ol’ fashioned sideshow tricks…
youtube.com/watch?v=F6FX8cJRMYc
http://youtube.com/watch?v=F6FX8cJRMYc
I have a friend who used to be an electronics tech. The only way you could tell that he’d been shocked was by catching him looking around to see if anyone had noticed.
#12 and #13 – Better yet, poke around the magnetron on a microwave oven while it’s cooking.
Just have a medic and a defibulator handy for when it kills him dead.
I knew an old guy that could touch a 400Hz main frame motor generator and tell us if it was in or out of phase.
I can levitate birds but nobody seems to notice.
This is a poorly written article! Right in the lead is, “what are there powers”. Ack! “Jose’s love for electricity began when he was a teenager, when he accidentally electrocuted himself”. Uh… NO! If he “electrocuted” himself, then he should be dead right now. Notice the difference between the words “electrocute” and “execute”? They both have to do with killing someone.
He may have some tricks, but what I see in the video is possible. He is connected to the to the high voltage lead of the flyback transformer which has been disconnected from the side of the picture tube. Not to the “mains”. The potential at that point is about 25 KV at a frequency of 15,750 Khz. High voltage, low current, not normally lethal. He is standing on a bucket, insulated from the floor. The only pain he might feel would be if an arc started from his skin.(if he has done this a lot he’ll have scar tissue) If he held something so the arc would emit from the object he would not feel much. The physics dept probably wouldn’t have any equipment to measure current at this frequency, they need to go to the electrical engineering dept. Been bit myself several times from this source.