He continued to levitate for the next 40 years - often in front of hundreds of people. Even the Emperor Napoleon III saw Home levitate. The Indian rope trick has been performed for centuries and travellers to India paid huge sums to watch this gravity-defying feat. What you can't see is that the boy is in fact balancing on thin, taut wires. Flying saints Hundreds of Catholic saints have been credited with the power of levitation.
People can do strange things when they are hypnotised.
Believe it or not, the man in this picture went into a deep trance and became as stiff as a board. In the USA the police sometimes hypnotise victims to help them remember vital evidence. Dr Prem Misra treats people in Scotland who are still suffering from hypnosis after volunteering at hypnotic shows. And explode The case of the exploding doctor On 5 December 1966, postman Don Gosnell called in on Dr John Bentley of 403 Main Street, Coudersport, Pennsylvania. Some scientists have shown that spontaneous combustion coincides with magnetic surges through the Earth, but no one knows if there is a definite connection.