According to Dang Xu Bac and his parents, the 14 year-old boy from Thanh Hoa has been able to cure sick people without the use of medicine since he was eleven.

The boy and scientists.

According to Bac’s parents, beginning 13 days after his birth, the boy cried unceasingly for four years. The parents brought him to many hospitals but the boy didn’t stop crying.

The boy then experienced many strange symptoms. His body became very hot. His skin was red and he had to soak his body in water. After that the flesh on his legs cracked to the bone,wide enough to insert a finger, but the cracks didn’t bleed. The couple tried to send the boy to school but they had to bring him home because he couldn’t stop crying. Many doctors of oriental medicine said that Bac suffered from rheumatism, but hospitals couldn’t find evidence of the disease.

When Bac grew weak, the family took him to a hospital, where, it is said, the boy died and revived three times. Doctors told the family to take him home so he could die at home. On May 20, 2006, Bac died again at the hospital. His grandfather cried out “Please live to go home with me!” The boy revived again. He died again on May 21, then revived and has survived until now.

“We could see death passing his body, from legs to body and then his face,” said Bac’s father, Dang Xu Linh.

The boy’s family says Bac can cure diseases without using any kind of medicine. When he was only 11, they related, Nguyen Van Sau, 57, who suffered from heart disease and couldn’t walk, crept from his house to Linh’s home to visit Bac. The boy offered to cure Sau’s diseases.

Sau didn’t believe Bac could help him, because the boy couldn’t treat himself but he allowed the boy do anything he wanted. Bac rubbed the man’s legs, from his knees down to his feet. Sau gradually felt numb on his legs and then he could walk again. Sau and his family returned to Bac’s home to thank him.

Since then many people have come to the simple farmhouse to ask for treatment and many people have recovered from illness. Fearing that the boy was himself not healthy enough to treat the diseases of strangers, the family took him far from home for one month in 2006. When he returned, however, people again came to him for treatment.

Other strange things have happened. Young Bac can read though he never studied how to read. He doesn’t have a computer and nobody in his family can use a computer but the boy can work with a computer. He can also drive a motorbike and car though he has never learnt how to use them, his father said.

This is a strange phenomenon that merits scientific research. The Centre for Research of Human Potentials under the Union of Vietnamese Scientific and Technological Associations are investigating this case.

Nguyen Duoc