PSYCHIC TRAINING
E. Frenkel, one of the Soviet Union’s growing number of psychic healers and mentalists, claimed he used his powers to stop bicycles, automobiles and streetcars. He thought he was ready for something bigger, so he stepped in front of a freight train. It didn’t work. The engineer of the train that ran Frenkel over said the psychic stepped onto the tracks with his arms raised, his head lowered and his body tensed. The Daily Sovietskaya Rossiya on Sunday said investigators looking into Frenkel’s decision to jump in front of a train near the southern city of Astrakhan found the answer in the briefcase he left by the side of the track. “First I stopped a bicycle, cars, and a streetcar,” Frenkel wrote in notes that the investigators found. “Now I’m going to stop a train.” Frenkel apparently felt he had found the secret of psychic-biological power and that his effort to halt a train would be the ultimate test of his powers,…
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