Ninel Kulagina
[related:Pyrokinesis]
In the early 1970's, Soviet Scientist Edward Naumov began documenting the case of Ninel Kulagina. A female soldier in the Red Army, Kulagina found that her anger often became manifest in the seemingly magical movement of objects around her. Naumov initially attempted to debunk her claims through a series of tests, inadvertently and irrefutably supporting them in the process. Straining and shivering, Kulagina is shown, time and again, to be capable of telekinesis - moving matches across a table, speeding and slowing the beating of a frog's heart, and separating egg whites from the yolk. Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky in particular was fascinated by her abilities, and ends his film Stalker with a young girl named Monkey pushing a glass off a metal table with her mind. Kulagina was also reportedly capable of pyrokinesis.