Tang Yu
Tang Yu was a twelve-year-old boy in China who, according to Chinese press reports of 1979, could read with his ears.
Tang Yu was a twelve-year-old boy in China who, according to Chinese press reports of 1979, could read with his ears. His case, which was publicized in the Sichuan Daily, sparked the Extraordinary Powers Craze, a period of intense interest in paranormal phenomena in China.1
Tang Yu's alleged ability to perceive written words through his ears was investigated by local and provincial officials, and eventually by the national Science Commission in Beijing. He was one of the first individuals to be identified as possessing Extraordinary Human Body Function (EHBF), and his case played a key role in the Chinese government's decision to officially sanction research into these phenomena.1
Sources
- Jacobsen, Annie. Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis. Little, Brown and Company, 2017. ↩
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