Are there documented cases of people with 'super magnetic fields' stopping their watch batteries quickly?

Question

This hedges on an urban legend, and for a while I thought that it was nothing more than that. But I have found that I can't seem to wear a watch for a month or more before the battery dies, no matter how often I replace it. I do have terrible luck with electronics also, but I assumed that was just that- bad luck. If there's something to it that has actually been studied, I'd be interested to hear of it.

Answer 1

...an article on psychic phenomenon where a man claiming to be psychic was able to alter a very strong magnetic field...
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=17410

Neurological Magnetic Fields and Altered States -
Magnetic Components of Brain Activity:
The important implication is that this phenomenon of synesthesia suggests that the learning process could be directly linked to emotions, rather that to sensory stimuli alone. The common feature of so-called "synesthetics"20 is that they have phenomenal memories, amazing visualisation abilities, like seeing vivid shapes and colours, and also remarkable psychic abilities, such as precognitions, deja-vu, clairvoyance, telepathy and remote viewing and sensing. But, unfortunately, these abilities are regard ed as "abnormal" or "strange".
http://www.rialian.com/rnboyd/magnetic-brain-activity.htm

There is a link between bioelectric fields and psychic phenomena. People generally have psychic experiences around strong magnetic fields, eastern medicine involving chi lines in the body match with the western mapping of electromagnetic fields in the body, and it has been shown in some select studies that electromagnetic fields might alter brainwaves slightly. ..We know that psychic energy can interact with objects and people over long distances. This suggests that the phenomenon we know as magic is a rather stable waveform. If this is true and if it can interact with electromagnetic fields under certain circumstances there may be something to the idea that strong lead paint and cold iron might be used to protect from magic...
http://www.angelfire.com/oz/lessthanlucid/magic11.html

It is presumed that circulating electric fields in the earth's core causes the earth's magnetism. The exact mechanism remains a mystery. It's rather interesting that the first magnetic effects ever discovered are still not satisfactorily explained!
How did they levitate the frog? Actually, all materials, including you and me and frogs, are slightly magnetic. The response of our bodies to magnetic fields is billions of times weaker than the response of iron and steel, but in the presence of fields much higher than those of common experience, the electrons in every atom in our bodies can alter their motions and produce a small magnetic field opposing the external field. Provided we or the frog are not carrying any iron or steel, the resulting magnetic force is not attractive but repulsive. So if the magnetic field is vertical, the magnetic force can oppose gravity and yield levitation. With a strong enough magnetic field, anti-gravity becomes science fact.
http://www.spellmaker.com/frog.htm

How are these things possible? Do our pets - perhaps even all animals - possess some innate psychic ability that allows them to tune in to human brainwaves or even to see the future? Or are they just more sensitive than humans to visual, aural, magnetic and other subtle environmental factors and changes - and because we are not aware of these subtleties, their actions seem miraculous?
http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa012201a.htm

You must have occasionally experienced “electro-static shock” when a small stinging current shoots from your fingers when you touch an object. Some people can make their hair stand just by cycling in a certain place.

Then there are others who can make metal objects stick to their bodies. Sometimes even heavy objects get stuck to their magnetic bodies. These have often been reported in the newspapers.
http://thestar.com.my/health/story.asp?file=/2006/8/27/health/20060827084812&sec=health

Answer 2

The Earth already has a magnetic field around it (or compasses would not work). Scientists could not build one. It would likely take all the money there is in the world, and even then, I doubt it would be enough. Besides, the existing field didn't work before; why would one work next time? And, why would they even want to?

Answer 3

This is quite natural and is more body makeup than anything mystic. I and others in my family can walk past a "wireless" speaker and it crackles. The balance wheels in the old fashioned windup watches would slow When I wore them. Sometimes, I can just get near to or touch a CRT screen to send it crazy. I collect static electricity and I've never been all that happy about it. It can sure screw up a first kiss and some more serious nearness.

Answer 4

my mom is like that, she can't wear a watch, she is always shocking people, and we used to have these toys as kid when that had metal contacts that when you touched them to you hand the would do something ( ours were little chicks and when you set them on your hand they would cheep) my mom could make them work,
nor could she make the claping things work, like the Clap On for lights or the things you could by to attach to something you lose constantly and you would clap or make noise and it would start flashing and making a beeping noise till you found it.
i frustrates her to no end. but all of us kids ( there are 5 of us) do not seem to have this problem. i think it has to do with the type of blood people have and if they are Anemic(?) or not. ( you know lack of iron in the blood.)

Answer 5

My father's the same way. If he wears a watch, it will stop working within a month or so.

Answer 6

Yes, I had a classmate like that, she would buy a watch, wear it a few hours then it would die!!!???!!! It is totally true.