People: Sep. 29, 1986

What does Captain Eo, a.k.a. Michael Jackson, do to relax after a hard day of defending the galaxy? Why, he just pops into his custom-made $125,000 hyperbaric chamber, of course. Jackson’s spaced-out method of getting his beauty rest came to light in a photograph of the Gloved One looking like the star of a B-grade sci-fi flick. Jackson got interested in the idea after he was hospitalized for burns two years ago and learned that hyperbaric chambers could speed up the healing of damaged tissue by enabling a patient to breathe oxygen for an hour or two under double the barometric pressure at sea level. “Michael says it is good for his body,” Manager Frank DiLeo told USA Today. “I don’t think so and neither does his doctor. I can’t figure him out sometimes.” Strange goings-on indeed, but so far, at least, the villagers are not charging his castle keep with lighted torches.