#joseph nuzum

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PYRO-TALENT

On March 14, 1990, in Pennsylvania, Joseph Nuzum underwent testing of his psychokinesis and pyrogenesis abilities. Dr. B. E. Schwarz, who documented the examinations, discovered that Joe could melt the insulated wires inside his new nine-volt radio without being anywhere near it. Even as a child, Joe could cause papers and ice cubes to spontaneously ignite; he could hold molten metal and extinguish cigarettes telepathically.

Other feats Joe was credited with are:

* telepathically turning on light bulbs from a distance;

* focusing on a cardboard safety match, which suddenly flew off a countertop, and then minutes later smelling smoke from a nearby paper bag that had caught fire;

* psychokinetically igniting candles, charring paper inside closed jars, setting fire to the sails of toy sailboats on a pond, and opening a jar of apple juice and causing it to burn;

* gazing at a tissue in his home and having a towel in a friend's home eleven miles away catch fire;

* causing keys and business cards that were wrapped in plastic and mailed in a cardboard box from Florida to Joe's home to arrive twisted and charred.

Joe likened his ability to that of a martial artist, who concentrates energy from the body into the hands and directs it.

Text from: Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored by Juanita Rose Violins, published by Weiser Books, 2009

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