The dude could fly.

Daniel Douglas Homes (pronounced "Humes") is a lesser known psychic medium that perfomed crazy acts of wonder in the mid 1800's. His claim to fame is the title "the man who could fly." He worked mostly for the rich and the elitists, performing seances in broad daylight for proof that he had nothing to hide and his gifts were real. The guy's seances sound pretty awesome-- he could levitate, invoke "phantom hands" which the sitters could hold, and it is said that he could manipulate his body, elongating it as much as 11 inches (which is totally weird, like, why would you do that?), and probably his most intense performance (and there are only 3 witnesses to this), he held a seance in his apartment and levitated off the ground and flew out the window where he hovered 3 stories above the ground. CRAZY! Now, many people thought this dude was a fraud, mostly because he claimed to be a medium and not a magician. Even Harry Houdini claimed Holmes to be a total poser and said he could perform the same acts.....BUT HE NEVER DID!!!

Of the 1,500 recorded seances D.D. Homes performed not once could one person figure out how he did the things he did and was never once "proved" wrong. Pretty bad ass.