From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.

You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.

A production of I Heart Readie.

Hello, welcome back to the show, my name is Met.

My name is No.

They call me Ben.

We are joined as always with our super producer Paul Mission Control Deckent.

Most importantly, you are you, you are here, and that makes this stuff they don't want you to know.

We're entering today's episode with an image that may be familiar to everyone,

especially fans of film in the West.

And it's a somewhat stereotypical image.

That of the Indian mystic often called a fake ear, F-A-K-I-R.

So what using the power of the mind to accomplish seemingly extraordinary feats?

A fake ear is a Muslim or Hindu religious ascetic traditionally, a minticant monk who is

sometimes thought of as a miracle worker.

And we've heard the tales, right?

They sound, they have, let's be diplomatic, they range in plausibility.

The idea is this, through intense meditation, these individuals are able to do things

like walk on fire without being burned.

They can be buried alive for days at a time.

They can lie on a bed of nails with no injury.

And allegedly, they can even do things like levitate or survive for 40 days without food or water.

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