"He's glowing with happiness", we're talking about a positive, satisfied with himself and others, happy with life. The psychics do see the "happy" shine of his aura. This vision is not available to ordinary people, and we use this phrase as a metaphor. But it turns out that you can glow literally, not figuratively. Scientists have documented many such cases. Unfortunately, this phenomenon is usually associated with some kind of disease. But there are exceptions to the rules.
Firefly Man.
In 1913, Nikolai Yevdokimenko, who performed under the pseudonym of Firefly Man, was especially popular in the Taganrog Circus.
He was a hereditary circus acrobat and spent almost 20 years in the circus arena. But once there was an accident: at the rehearsal, Nikolai unsuccessfully jumped and broke his leg. The fracture was very difficult, the recovery was slow, and although the leg healed over time, but to return the previous abilities, in particular, jump, the artist did not succeed. End of career? But Eriomenco, since childhood absorbed all the vibes of a bright circus atmosphere, did not think for himself another life. And the circus owners did not throw him on the street, offering him a job as a guard.
One night, bypassing his possessions so that the circus prop was not attempted by hooligans, Yevdokimenko noticed that his brushes ... glow in the dark! The frightened guard rushed into his cell and, without lighting a fire, jumped to the mirror. The intense yellowish-blue glow came from both hands, shoulders, and head.
The next morning Nikolai decided to appear to the surgeon who was treating his leg. But, having listened to the heart and lungs, having felt the liver, having knocked with a hammer on knees, the doctor has not found any deviations in Nikolay's health. He only dared to assume that the glow of his hands and head may be due to his trauma. Then he prescribed a sedative for the patient.
After learning about the phenomenon, the circus authorities immediately offered Yevdokimenko to make an unprecedented number. At first glance, there was nothing unusual in it. The artist juggled with burning torches in the arena. But when the light went out, the spectacle acquired a fantastic character: the audience saw only glowing brushes in the air, manipulating the burning torches, and the same glowing shoulders and head, as if detached from the body. As wrote "Taganrog Vedomosti", dedicated to the Firefly Man a great essay, on the daily performances, he always collected adshlags.
The phenomenon of Nikolai Yevdokimenko was of interest to the luminaries of medical science, but he only once allowed them to his body, and then only to confirm to the public that the glow is natural, not artificial. The artist was afraid that if he became an experimental rabbit in the hands of Aesculapius, he could lose his gift, which brought him a good income.
A glowing woman from Pirano.
In May 1934, the newspaper "The Times" told about the "shining woman from Pirano". Signora Anna Monaro suffered from asthma for many years. One day, her relatives discovered that her breasts were flashing blue light while she was sleeping. The doctors who observed this phenomenon could not give him a reasonable explanation.
One psychiatrist suggested that it was "caused by electrical and magnetic organisms that have developed quite strongly in the woman's body and therefore emit a glow. Although he could have said in a much shorter way: "And the hell knows him!
Another doctor proposed the theory of electromagnetic radiation, linking it to certain chemical components in the patient's skin, which was close to the then fashionable theory of bioluminescence - the ability of living organisms to glow with their proteins or symbiotic bacteria.
Dr. Protti suggested that Ms. Monaro's poor health, along with starvation, increased the amount of sulfides in her blood. Human blood emits ultraviolet rays, and sulfides can be forced to luminescence with ultraviolet radiation, which explains the radiance. But the proposed theory did not explain the strange periodicity or localization of blueish flashes.
A "hot" hunter.
Here's what the Chita hunter Valery Sukharev said: "It happened in 1954. My brother and I hunted and spent all winter months in the taiga. One evening a strange hunter knocked on our door in the winter. We offered him hot tea, food. But he refused to take his clothes off, sat down by the stove and dozed off. We thought he wasn't feeling well - he was flinching in his sleep, muttering, his face was in some brown spots...
to be continued in the next part...