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A Romanian man has become known as the Human Magnet because things stick to him like glue.

Hospital worker Aurel Raileanu can even make a 50lb TV set cling to his chest, reports The Sun.

Aurel, who lives in a run-down area of the Romanian capital Bucharest, is building a career on his strange abilities.

He works as a kineto-therapist - using the healing qualities of his powers to help people recover from accidents.

The 40-year-old bachelor, who lives with his mum, doesn't even know how it works. He says he just focuses his mind on something, releasing a feeling of magnetic attraction that makes even the heaviest object stick to him.

Aurel said: "I tend to keep it secret from people in my home town because I am afraid of being branded a freak in their eyes.

"I might have had a sort of magnetism since I was a child, but it wasn't until about six years ago that I realised the objects would stay as if glued on to me.

"At the time I was wearing a fairly heavy necklace and the clasp broke. I saw it in the mirror - it was open and yet still stuck to my neck.

"I became curious about this and tried it with other objects - spoons, books, lighters and even the TV set, which is kind of heavy. They all stuck to me."