Joaquín Argamasilla
Joaquín María Argamasilla de la Cerda y Elío (Madrid, 4 April 1905 – 1985) was a Spanish noble who was the 11th Marquess de Santacara, but he is better known for claiming in the early 1920s a supposed Dermo-optical perception, ability to see through opaque objects. Argamasilla convinced important people of the era such as Gustav Geley and Charles Richet of his powers, but he was exposed by Harry Houdini as a fraud in 1924. Biography Joaquín Argamasilla was encouraged in his parapsychology career by his father, the Marquis de Santa Cara, who was convinced that his son had psychic powers. Argamasilla was promoted as having X-ray vision that could penetrate metal. For example, he was seemingly able to read the time on a watch through a case. Among the audience of these shows was the Spanish writer Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, Valle-Inclan, who was a friend of the father of the psychic and became convinced that Joaquín's powers were real. Argamasilla's fame led him in 1924 ...
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