The Man Who Could Survive Being Impaled by a Sword

Mirin Dajo with rapier piercing his thorax from back to front On June 23, 1947, Time Magazine reported from Switzerland on what it called the “Miracle Man“ -- a mysterious 35-year old Dutchman by the name of Mirin Dajo who confounded onlooking scientists, doctors and ordinary spectators when, apparently without any pain or internal injury, he was skewered straight through the chest with a 28-inch fencing foil. The skin on his torso appeared to bulge as the solid steel blade was pushed through by an assista