14 Facts About Nina Kulagina

Nina Kulagina, Ninel Sergeyevna Kulagina was a Russian woman who claimed to have psychic powers, particularly in psychokinesis.

Nina Kulagina was caught cheating on more than one occasion according to the authors of several books and publications.

In 1987, Nina Kulagina sued and won a partial victory in a defamation case brought against a Soviet government magazine that had accused her of fraud.

Nina Kulagina, who was born in 1926, joined the Red Army at age fourteen, entering its tank regiment during World War II, but she was a housewife at the time that her alleged psychic abilities were studied and she entered international discourse in the 1960s.

In Investigating Psychics, Larry Kettlekamp claims that Nina Kulagina was filmed separating broken eggs that had been submerged in water, moving apart the whites and yolks, during which event such physical changes were recorded as accelerated and altered: heartbeat, brain waves and electromagnetic field.

Nina Kulagina claimed that she first recognized her ability, which she believed she had inherited from her mother, when she realized that items spontaneously moved around her when she was angry.

Nina Kulagina said that in order to manifest the effect, she required a period of meditation to clear her mind of all thoughts.

One of Nina Kulagina's most celebrated experiments took place in a Leningrad laboratory on 10 March 1970.

Sergeyev was one of many scientists present when Nina Kulagina attempted to use her energy to stop the beating of a frog's heart floating in solution.

Nina Kulagina said that she focused intently on the heart and apparently made it beat faster, then slower, and using extreme intent of thought, stopped it.

Massimo Polidoro has written that the long preparation times and uncontrolled environments in which the experiments with Nina Kulagina took place left much potential for trickery.

The article reported that Nina Kulagina had been arrested for cheating the public out of five thousand rubles.

Nina Kulagina sued the magazine journalists for defamation and won a partial victory on the suit a year later.

The Russian Skeptic Society have noted that the trial's conclusion "does not say anything about whether Nina Kulagina has been confirmed to have anomalous abilities".