Ninel Sergeyvna Mikhaylova Kulagina (Nina Kulagina) was a Russian woman who was able to move light objects, deflect compasses and perform other psychokinetic feats. She was, and still is, attacked and GlycoMode Review vilified by skeptics, but was never proved to be fraudulent, despite their claims. Kulagina was an unassuming housewife and former Russian soldier from Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. She discovered her unusual powers one day when she was extremely upset and angry. She walked toward a cupboard in her kitchen and saw a glass pitcher move to the edge of a shelf, fall off, and break to pieces on the floor. That incident set off a series of poltergeist-like events: moving objects, lights going on and off, doors opening and closing-in other words, the usual poltergeist stuff-except that she was in her forties, a little older than the usual adolescent subject. Possibly because she was mature, she was aware that she was the cause of the disturbances. Also unlike most RSPK subjects, Kulagina found she could control the "force" with her will.
Reportedly she made use of it by causing a toy to move closer to her while she held her grandson in her arms, or by moving a bottle of nail polish without touching it and smearing her still-wet manicure. Kulagina was a very brave woman. She was only about 14 when Hitler’s army invaded Leningrad. She, like many Russian youngsters, joined the Red Army and endured terrible hardships: bitter cold, starvation, lack of fuel or electricity and constant bombardment and artillery fire for three years. She served as a radio operator in a tank and became senior sergeant of her regiment. She and her family later served in an armored train bringing provisions to the besieged city. Her fighting days ended when, at 17, she was seriously wounded in the abdomen by artillery fire. She would later demonstrate this courage and self-sacrifice again in her work with scientists. At the end of 1963, married with three children and having endured a nervous breakdown possibly owing to her chronic pain from her war wound and PTSD, she heard about a woman who could "see" colors with her fingers.
She declared, "I can do that! While she was hospitalized she could pick different colors of embroidery thread out of her bag without seeing them and know what color she was choosing. She demonstrated for her husband and they found she could not only "read" colors by touch, but read words and the dates on coins as well. She could also reproduce simple drawings he made while she was in another room. A Russian professor of physiology Leonid Vasiliev, who had written a book on psychokinesis, invited her to his lab to demonstrate her abilities under carefully controlled conditions. Kulagina would generally warm up by moving a compass needle. Gazing intently at it, she would move her hands over it and to its sides, her face showing the strain of her efforts. Her body would lean forward and sometimes circle around as if its movement could cause the needle to do the same. After a (sometimes long) while, the needle would deflect slightly, and eventually spin around.
Often the case would turn as well. In the many films that were made of her you can see her causing small objects to move along a table top. The items were light in weight such as wooden matches, small boxes, and pen caps and such. She was adept at getting tall slim objects to move standing on end without falling over. At first she seemed to always draw the objects toward herself, which debunkers pounced upon to allege that she was using hidden threads to pull the objects. Did they really think she managed to pull a cigarette standing on end without having it fall over? This tendency was remarked upon by skeptical observers of a film that Felicia Parise, who emulated Kulagina, saw at Maimonides Hospital. It was part of the reason Parise learned to move objects away from herself. As she developed, Kulagina was able to selectively move one object among many, move two or three objects in one direction and another few in a different one.
She could stop a pendulum from swinging or cause it to change direction. By concentrating on a lab scale she could make one side move downward while loads of up to an ounce were placed on the opposite side. She could also levitate and "suspend in air" objects such as a Ping-Pong ball. One such suspension was captured on film of rather inferior quality but reliable witnesses confirmed that she was able to do this on many occasions. Shields of many different materials-plastic, paper, lead, steel, copper-proved ineffective in blocking the force. Fluorescent crystals, which usually must be exposed to a light source to glow in the dark, would luminesce after Kulagina concentrated on them. She was also successful in getting substances that normally only begin to react at temperatures of about 158 degrees Fahrenheit, to react at room temperature. Kulagina was able to create invisible barriers in plastic cases containing insects and in glass aquariums so that the insects or fish turned and changed directions when they came up to the "psychic boundary" she imposed.