12 Facts About Mirin Dajo

Arnold Gerrit Henskes, known by the pseudonym Mirin Dajo, was a Dutch performer.

Mirin Dajo became famous for radically piercing his body with all kinds of objects apparently without injury, even surprising the medical community at the time.

Mirin Dajo would go on to start a career in the Beaux Arts, heading a design firm in his twenties.

Notorious for his radical "body piercings", Dajo considered an esoteric lecture a vital part of his performance.

Mirin Dajo claimed that a God was using him, through his invulnerability, to show us there was something better out there.

Mirin Dajo's conviction was that materialism only resulted in misery and war.

At that time he adopted his stage name Mirin Dajo, which is based on the Esperanto noun mirindajo meaning "wonder".

Mirin Dajo supported this by exhibiting two scars allegedly from the shots, one in the centre of the forehead and the other above his right eye his autopsy showed no traces of any injuries to the head.

In 1947, Mirin Dajo moved to Switzerland and initially was only granted a license to perform without the ability to speak to the public.

On May 11,1948, Mirin Dajo alleged that he was instructed by voices to eat a steel needle.

Ten days later, when De Groot picked up his wife from the airport, Mirin Dajo lay down on a bed and went into a trance-like state.

Mirin Dajo was claimed to have died from an aortic rupture.