The crowd giggled when they saw her. A fragile, paper-thin woman slowly made her way to the center of the X Factor stage. Her back slightly hunched, face wrinkled by time, and hands trembling as she held what looked like… a bottle of water? The murmurs started immediately—was this a joke?
“How old are you, dear?” Simon asked, half-smiling.
“One hundred and forty-two,” she answered, with a voice so soft, it barely echoed.
Laughter rippled through the crowd. Even the judges exchanged amused glances. But then she lifted the bottle, took a sip… and something unthinkable happened.
Before their very eyes, the woman straightened her posture. Her skin began to glow. Her hair shimmered, changing color. And in what felt like seconds, standing on that stage wasn’t an elderly lady anymore—it was a radiant young woman in her 20s. The crowd gasped in unison. Simon dropped his pen.
She nodded at the DJ. Music started. And the moment she opened her mouth… silence.
Not a single soul in that auditorium could speak. Her voice was unreal—silky, rich, and hypnotic. It wasn’t just singing—it was spells in the form of sound. She wasn’t performing a song. She was casting an enchantment.
Tears rolled down cheeks. Goosebumps covered arms. Judges stared, wide-eyed, as this mysterious woman floated through her performance like something out of a fairytale. By the final note, every person in the room was on their feet. It wasn’t a standing ovation—it was pure, unfiltered shock and awe.
Simon stood up first, blinking like he had seen a ghost. “I don’t know what I just witnessed,” he said. “But I know I’ll never forget it.”
The woman didn’t speak again. She simply smiled, took one last sip of the bottle… and vanished.
To this day, no one knows who she was. But one thing is clear: the night a 140-year-old woman took a sip of magic water and turned into a singing goddess… X Factor was never the same again.