Ninel Kulagina: a woman with superpowers or the most popular quack in the USSR
'04.07.2020'
Source: Russian Seven
The abilities of Ninel Kulagina have been studied by physicists and psychologists for about 20 years. However, for a long time, neither one nor the other could explain its phenomenon, writes Russian Seven.
In the Soviet Union, extrasensory perception and similar phenomena were rather skeptical. But, nevertheless, these phenomena were studied. One of the objects of specialist research was the Leningrad Ninel Kulagina.
Former war veteran
Nineli Sergeyevna Kulagina (maiden name - Mikhailova) has a heroic biography. In April 1942, a young girl volunteered for the front. She served as a radio operator in the tank troops. She was wounded and deserved the Order of the Patriotic War I degree, numerous medals.
Even in her early youth, Neli (that was her name in the family) showed amazing abilities. For example, she “moved” her gaze with various objects - slices of bread on a table, a carafe of water. She also managed to control a clock pendulum from a distance. True, he knew about this only a narrow family circle. Ninel Sergeyevna herself did not attach much importance to her abilities for quite some time.
The woman got married, gave birth to a son, lived like everyone else. Once, already in the early 1960s, she had a heart attack. In the hospital, Kulagina brightened up boredom with knitting. And once the nurse noticed that the patient takes the balls of wool from the basket without looking. She did not need to look to take a ball of a certain color.
KGB Experiments
Later, someone introduced Kulagin to Professor L. L. Vasiliev, who investigated the mysterious phenomena of the human psyche.
Vasiliev conducted a series of experiments with her, during which it became clear that she can not only move her gaze, but also read other people's thoughts, “see the back of her head”, as well as affect the operation of technical devices and even change the chemical composition of water. The maximum distance of its impact was two meters.
Since then, Kulagina has constantly taken part in various scientific experiments. Some sources testify that she was allegedly summoned to the KGB, where she was given a condition: either she collaborates with the office, or will go on trial in a trumped-up case. Of course, Ninel Sergeyevna agreed to everything. She was given the pseudonym Nelly Mikhailov.
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In particular, employees of the Leningrad Institute of Precision Mechanics and Optics were engaged in Kulagina. For several years, they conducted experiments during which she “extinguished” the laser beam, moved various objects and burned holes in them with her eyes, illuminated the photographic film and forced the magnetic needle to rotate, separated egg white from the yolk in the water and even stopped the heart of a frog. Its capabilities were studied using instruments that recorded the magnetic field emanating from Kulagina’s hands. By the way, during experiments, sparks from Nineli Sergeevna’s palms sometimes flew up to 10 centimeters in diameter!
In 1977, Kulagin was invited to take part in the research program of the Institute of Chemical Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences. This time tested her healing abilities. At the first stage, the researchers took a dozen white mice and grafted them with a subcutaneous hematoma. Then five of them were transplanted into a glass vessel, which Kulagina “irradiated” with a biofield for several seconds. After a quarter of an hour, the experiment was repeated. Rodents exposed to Kulagina lived for more than 10 days, while the rest died only half an hour after they were vaccinated.
At the second stage, the mice received a dose of radiation - 700 x-rays. After that, Kulagina began to work with part of the rodents. And again, the mice “irradiated” with it were able to survive for about 10 days, and the rodents from the control group, “grabbing” the dose, lasted no more than 15 minutes.
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Subsequently, Kulagina was entrusted with the treatment of people. It turned out that it can, through its field, contribute to the rapid healing of wounds and cuts of patients, improve the condition of those suffering from various types of inflammation, certain diseases of the internal organs, migraines, radiculitis.
However, the experiments negatively affected the health of Nineli Sergeevna. Long and strenuous experiments led to a sharp deterioration in her well-being. She developed fatigue, dizziness, a pulse of up to 240 beats per minute, increased pain in the back of the head and spine, and a metallic taste appeared in her mouth. Sometimes she experienced bouts of nausea turning into vomiting. Medical examinations after the experiments recorded her an increase in blood sugar, weight loss, reaching up to 700 grams per day.
A phenomenon or a quack?
Studies have not been advertised. Basically, only specialists knew about Kulagina. It was only during perestroika that a black-and-white documentary filmed back in 1968 was released, in which the psychic showed how she was able to move small objects and rotate the arrows of magnetic devices with the help of passes.
The press began to write about Kulagina, television programs were made about her. But many did not believe in her ability, considered a clever swindler. For example, Academician Aleksey Ivanitsky claimed that Kulagina moves objects with the help of kapron threads, and the instrument arrows - with the help of a magnet attached to the finger. In 1988, the magazine "Man and the Law" called Ninel Sergeyevna a charlatan. She filed a lawsuit and won the process, as the scientists who worked with her witnessed her gift.
In 1990, Ninel Sergeevna Kulagina died. Apparently, her health was seriously undermined by frequent experiments. Today they continue to write and argue about Kulagina, but the phenomenon of this woman has remained unsolved.
