X-Ray Eyes

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7242, 23 August 1933, Page 2

X-Ray Eyes

A MIRACLE GIRL. A pretty 26-year-old London girl whose eyes act liko X-ray apparatus is puzzling ophthalmic experts. By some .inexplicable freak of Nature she possesses tho power of actually seeing through people and animals. She is Miss Hilda Attlee, the daughtee of a commercial traveller. “The first time I realised that my eyes possessed this peculiar penetrating power it gave me a frightful shock,” she told a Sunday Chronicle representative. “I was bathing a baby. Suddenly I saw, quite distinctly, the child’s bones through its skin. At first I thought it was my imagination, but a second experience a few minutes later convinced me, most unpleasantly, that it most certainly was not imagination. “I stooped to stroke a cat, and to my horror I saw its skull and spine quite clearly through its fur.” Alarmed by these queer X-ray manifestations, Miss Attlee consulted several ophthalmic experts, who, after repeated testing, have been baffled. They cannot account for them. Another curious feature of her strange power is that it does not enable her to see through inanimate objects, only human beings and animals. “I am beginning to get used to it now,” she said. “But sometime I still find it very embarrassing. It is rather disturbing, for instance, to see the jawbone through the face of a person who is talking to me;”