Hanoi — An 11 year old girl from Vietnam has an unusual mutant-like power that sets things on fire.
A Vietnamese website reported that the young girl had almost burned down the entire 3rd floor of the house owned by the girl’s family. The father says that she was never given any object that can induce fire but the fire was caused by the energy that comes from her body.
The girls’ parents noticed something unusual when the electricity at their home short circuited and every time their daughter goes near power plugs, they just burn. Interestingly, same incidents happen in different places for as long as the young girl was there. Series of tests were done and an expert in radiation studies detected something unusual in the right hemisphere of the girl’s brain. There seems to be a ‘halo’ in that part of her brain that can be hypothesized as the cause why things are set on fire around her. The girl was medically examined and nothing abnormal was found.
Pyrokinesis, derived from the Greek words ??? (pûr, meaning “fire, lightning”) and ??????? (kínesis, meaning “motion”), was the name coined by horror novelist Stephen King for the ability to create or to control fire with the mind that he gave to the protagonist Charlie McGee in the movie Firestarter.