The Human Magnet

The human magnet: Mother has amazing power to  make metal stick to her body
(and she also sets off car alarms)  
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1304481/The-human-magnet-Mother-powe
r-make-metal-stick-body.html
 

Looking on the bright side, she should never  lose her keys.
 

But for mother-of-one Brenda Allison, her mysterious  *power* that means
metallic objects stick to her body has long since lost its  attraction.
 

Dubbed **the human magnet**, Miss Allison says she is  often embarrassed by
the effect, which she has been told is down to a heightened  
electromagnetic current running through her body.
 
 
PICTURE with various metal devices stuck to her  body...........
 
 
Brenda Allison, 50, is so magnetically charged that metal  objects
including coins, keys and even tin lids stick to her for up to 45  minutes without
falling off.
 

The accounts manager says coins, safety pins, magnets,  spanners and even a
metal lid from a Vaseline pot can stay on her body for up to  45 minutes
without falling off.
 

When the pulse is at its strongest, she says she can  even dance in her
living room without them coming off.
 

For as long as she can remember, she explains, her  body has set off car
alarms, interrupted the TV signal and blown out light  bulbs.
 
 
PICTURE
 
 
Mrs Allison was once accused by a cashier of deliberately  cursing his till
when her magnetism caused it to develop problems
 

When she was a child, she said, her parents stopped  buying her watches
because her magnetic field kept interfering with the timing  mechanism.
 

Every person has a subtle electromagnetic field  flowing through their
bodies - but most of us are unaware of its presence.  However, Miss Allison, 50,
says she first noticed the effects of her magnetism  when she was in a
nursery school.
 

As she grew up she started to keep a diary and  realised the magnetic pulse
s were strongest at the end of each menstrual cycle.
 

**People laugh when I put metal objects on my skin and  they don't fall
off,** Miss Allison, of Holloway, North London, said: **But  sometimes my
condition can be extremely embarrassing.
 

**On one occasion I had a dreadful experience at the  supermarket. When I
reached the check-out the till machine started to misbehave  and it was
obvious I had caused it.
**The man on the  checkout started shouting at me and accused me of putting
a voodoo curse on his  till.**
 

Doctors have told Miss Allison that her magnetism may  be caused by high
stress levels and have urged her to take steps to relax.
 

During strong magnetic periods she has been advised to  grip the kitchen
taps as they are *earthed*.
 
 
AMUSING PICTURE
**She'll call you back -- she's stuck on the fridge door  again.**
 

She said her one wish was to be tested by  electromagnet specialists so she
can understand the cause behind her condition,  adding: **When I was a
child my parents knew there was something different about  me - but they never
entertained the idea of taking me to the doctor.
 

**What would they say - *We think our child is a  magnet?* Medicine was
very different back then and I think if my mother had said  that to a doctor
she would have been taken away by the men in white coats.
 

**When I was a child we constantly had the TV repair  man round because I
had interfered with the electronics in some way. **
 

**And they gave up buying me watches because they  would just stop.**
 

It was only earlier this year that Miss Allison  discovered that metal
objects would stay on her skin when she placed them there.
 

She says her body can emit a negative or positive  charge, depending on the
time of the month.
 

This means she will repel some objects and attract  others, and vice versa,
depending on the charge.
 

She added: **Metal objects don't fly towards me, but  when I put them close
to my skin I can feel a pull. They tend to stay on for  longer if they are
near a bone - I don't know why.**
 

**They can stay on me for up to 45 minutes without me  touching them.
Sometimes I feel like a fridge covered with magnets.**
 

**My son has grown up with my magnetism so he finds it  normal. But he did
used to complain when it stopped his battery-operated toys  from working.**
 

Kathy Geminiani, an electrotherapy expert, said it is  possible that Miss
Allison has a stronger charge in her body.
She said: **Everyone has a charge, all slightly different. It sounds  like
Brenda is highly charged.**
 

Sandy Lawrence of Electrosensitivity UK said: **This  condition is
affecting more and more people, many of whom have to leave their  jobs and can*t
even go to the shops.
 

**It's great that this woman*s condition has been  highlighted as it is not
officially recognised in the UK although it is in other  countries.**
 
 
 
Secret of attraction
Everyone in the world has an electromagnetic field in  their body that
helps keep them alive.
But most people do not notice its presence because the  *current* from
which it is generated --- particularly in brain impulses -- is  too subtle.
 
However there are a small minority who have abnormally  high magnetic
fields in their bodies.
Common traits are often high levels of static or an  ability to interfere
with electronic equipment.  
In one especially bizarre case in South Africa it was  claimed that a
woman's magnetic fields was so strong  that she  spontaneously combusted, burning
down the house she was in,  Although some  studies have been conducted on
this issue, scientists are no  closer to  finding out why some people have
high levels of magnetism in their bodies.
Electromagnetic expert Kathy Geminiani, director of Bemer  Health Centre
Limited in Surrey said: **Lots of research has been done but there  is still
no explanation into the causes of this, other than we know it's not  genetic.
*Lots of people don't realize that their brain is a  magnetic field. We
wouldn't be alive if  we didn't .  
But there are no answers yet. It's what we call a work in  progress.**
 
 

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]