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Show Runs Spear Through Body and Enjoys It 'Miracle Man' Stuns Doctors With Gruesome Acts. ZURICH The medical staff of ' Zurich university clinic was stunned! at the sight of a man who calls himself him-self a "miracle" running around with a thin spear through his body, piercing vital organs. i "I am always invulnerable, because be-cause I am subconsciously convinced con-vinced I do not exist at all," said! Arnold Gerrit Johannes Henskes, i i the self-styled miracle man. Henskes, a Dutch advertising man, had an assistant run him through with a long, thin needlelike spear which pierced his liver mid one kidney. He didn't blink an eye. While Prof. Alfred Hrunner and his staff stared, Henskes ran up and down a (light of steps the spear point sticking out of his back. X-ray pictures showed the needle actually had pierced Henskes' organs, or-gans, but Dr. Brunner remained skeptical. it is certainly an uncommon phenomenon, but no miracle," ha said. "I believe the apparent Invulnerability In-vulnerability of this man is due to the fact that the instrument is something like a big needle round, very sharp and extremely thin. "Such an instrument could perhaps per-haps pierce the liver, lungs or kidneys kid-neys without lethal cITect. There is hardly any danger of infection, as any bacteria clinging to the smooth surface of the weapon would be brushed oil when it enters the body." Henskes, however, was jubilant with the experiment. He said he had made it many times before, but never in the presence of medical men. He appeared in good shape. When the spear was drawn, he lost only a few drops of blood. "I just don't exist," he said happily. |