MEET the little man of Zurich, Switzerland, who can run about with a spear transfixing his body because, he says, "I don't exist." He is Arnold Gerrit Johannes Henskes, who baffled the medical staff of the Zurich University clinic in a , demonstration of his strange power. At top right an assistant selects the spot to thrust the blade of a rapierlike spear through Henskes' body. In the lower picture the blade is seen half at one side and half at the other of Henskes' torso after piercing some of the vital organs of his body. He ran up and down a flight of steps with the spear in this position. When the blade was withdrawn Henskes iost only a few drops of blood. "I don't just exist, sq I am not vulnerable," he chortled happily.

Chronicle (Levin), 2 July 1947, Page 3

MEET the little man of Zurich, Switzerland, who can run about with a spear transfixing his body because, he says, "I don't exist." He is Arnold Gerrit Johannes Henskes, who baffled the medical staff of the Zurich University clinic in a , demonstration of his strange power. At top right an assistant selects the spot to thrust the blade of a rapierlike spear through Henskes' body. In the lower picture the blade is seen half at one side and half at the other of Henskes' torso after piercing some of the vital organs of his body. He ran up and down a flight of steps with the spear in this position. When the blade was withdrawn Henskes iost only a few drops of blood. "I don't just exist, sq I am not vulnerable," he chortled happily.