A BOY FREAK

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 55, Issue 3929, 21 July 1937, Page 8

A BOY FREAK

HAS X-RAY EYES. Thirteen-year-old Pat Marquis, who lives in Glendale, California, is known as “the boy with X-ray eyes.” With his eyes bandaged tightly and bound with adhesive tape, he can still see as clearly as if his eyes were uncovered. He can drive a car thus blindfolded play billiards and table tennis, recognise cards pulled from a pack. He can even fence. The man with whom he fences is tutor to many Hollywood film stars. He says that no expert alive could fence blindfold as well as Pat. Otherwise Pat is a normal boy. He has rosy eheeks, is quite healthy, likes swimming and playing marbles. Doctors and professors who have tested him can detect no trickery. Dr. Cecil Reynolds, who holds degrees from the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Surgeons in London, discovered Pat’s strange powers three years ago. Pat went into a trance and declared that he was a Persian named Napeju, living in the eleventh century. To see blindfold Pat says that he always goes into a trance, and assumes this personality. He sees blindfold as Napeju, and can even read and talk Persian,, although he has never been in contact with anything Persian in his life. Dr. Reynolds believes that Pat sees through his forehead. If he covers his head with the bandage Pat cannot see. This has led Dr. Reynolds to believe that short-wiave rays penetrate Pat’s skull and reach a light-sensit-ive part of his brain.