SEES THROUGH

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 435, 17 May 1937, Page 5

SEES THROUGH

BOY WITH X-RAY EYES Amazing Demonstration San Francisco, March 30. Growing up now, and filling out his s.uits of clothes about as fast as they are bought for him, 13-year-oldi Pat Marquis, the boy with the X-ray eyes, is to-day trying to find a way to help scientists, who have been examining him in California, to explore the mysterious realm from which he gets knowledge that is usually regarded as “impoesiblck” The boy, who permits his eyes to be bandaged with heavy cloth and adhesive tape and then picks up and correctly reads playing cards, draws weird sketches and writes and reads Persian script. Apparently he has some means of perception that does not diepend upon plain eyesight. At the home of his friend, Dr. Cecil Reynolds, Glendale, the boy gave a demonstration recently. He had his eyes covered, then walked freely about a room cluttered with tables, small chairs and i'ty walls hung with many clocks —a hobby of Dr. Reynolds. The boy found a comfortable chair without stumbling and began his demonstration. Like many others who have some uncanny ability to see via the fourth dimension, or by means of some mysterious radiation that falls well outside the realm of the spectrum, Pat has to appeal to the strange manipulations of a “spirit

control” to get in the mood, but psychologists believe that this is an effort of the subconscious mind and does not necessarily mean that there is really a spirit control. In Pat’s case, he calls his shadowy pal Napeji, and fancies he is a Persian astrologer who lives in exile in Tibet, in the early part of the eleventh century. But when one talks to Napeji through the boy, one gets no discussion of studied points of Persian religion or philosopy. “I don’t re. member,” he says, when asked if he has read 'the Zend Avesta, or knows the workings of Zoroastrian religion. Dr. Reynolds' is making tests that show that when certain substances, like heavy lead foil are placed in front of Pat’s forehead, he ceases to perceive objects Still further physical tests are to be made to eliminate the possibility that rays of any type may be causing the phenomenon. The heavy lead foil cuts off the hard penetrating X-rays, thereby preventing Pat realising the objects before him. Otherwise, he has the amazing ability of “seeing via the fourth dimension.”