You have a "magnetic" personality!

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Registered: 08-07-2007
You have a "magnetic" personality!
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Thu, 09-09-2010 - 2:17pm
If Brenda Allison's refrigerator door should ever get too covered in metal trinkets, she can always start adding them to her forehead.

That's because Allison, 50, happens to be a human magnet.

A recent report in The Sun states the bizarre British woman can hold coins, safety pins and magnets to her head and chest for nearly 45 minutes, and her presence can blow light bulbs and set off car alarms.




A British mother is so magnetic, metal objects can stick to her for 45 minutes. It looks like an elaborate practical joke, but this assortment of metal objects stays on Brenda Allison's skin because she apparently has a heightened electromagnetic current running through her body.



"Metal objects appear to stay put more on my bones than muscles," she told The Sun. "It makes people laugh when I show them. I feel like a fridge covered in magnets."

Allison also says she'll set off her son's battery-operated toys simply by walking into his room.

The Daily Mail reports she discovered her unusual abilities in nursery school. As a child, her family made constant calls to the television repairman because she caused interference with the set. And wristwatches simply didn't work.

Allison says doctors have suggested her magnetism is caused by stress. However, electromagnetic expert Kathy Geminiani, director of the Bemer Health Centre in Surrey, England, says everyone has an electromagnetic field in their body, and Allison's may simply be heightened.

While the magnetic mother has attracted her share of press over the past week, according to Ripley's Believe It or Not, she's not alone in possessing such powers.



READ MORE and tell us.... do you have a magnetic personality?

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Registered: 10-23-2009
Fri, 09-10-2010 - 2:12pm
I do seem to possess a higher than average electromagnetic field. Metal doesn't stick to my body, but I can't wear some digital watches because the display will turn to "88:88" and then go blank — just as it does when the watch is too close to a magnet. It's actually kind of comforting to know it's not as uncommon as I thought.






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Registered: 08-07-2007
Fri, 09-10-2010 - 2:30pm

Interesting!



I haven't had the problem with digital watches, but one expensive watch that I own will just NOT keep time when I wear it.

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Registered: 10-23-2009
Mon, 09-13-2010 - 11:44pm
Hmmm, how odd about the watch keeping perfect time whenever you're NOT wearing it, only to stop when you are. Often the most expensive instruments are also the most sensitive, so maybe it's reacting to something that doesn't faze the less finely tuned watches.






bunsofclay