UNCANNY POWER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 May 1939, Page 2

UNCANNY POWER

MAN WHO SEES WITH EYES BANDAGED. Mr Brown, a 32-year-old groundsman employed on the Walthamstow Corporation sports ground, London, claims to see through his skin. Cover his eyes with dough, cover the dough with cotton wool, wind as many bandages over his eyes as you like, and put a newspaper’ into his hands, and he will read it to. Equally handicapped he will ride a motor-bicycle, play darts, or billiards, or table tennis, cricket and football — for, although blindfolded, he can still see. “I simply can’t attempt to explain how it happens,” he said, “but however closely and tightly my eyes are blindfolded I can see just as well as if nothing were over my eyes. “I first got an idea of this power as a child when playing blind man’s buff. I was always accused of cheating, because when it was my turn to be ‘blind man’ I was able to go straight to the one I wanted to touch, seeing him or her quite clearly. “When my powers became known I was offered stage engagements, and ‘such big money was offered to"me that I was urged to give up my job as groundsman. I made big money for a few months, but I prefer this open-air life and I don’t like capitalising my uncanny power. “I've seen all sorts of doctors and specialists, and all have different theories to account for it. I myself do not try to ..explain it. It just happens—that’s all.”