10 Amazing People with Real Super Powers

The world of comics and movies is full of superheroes and characters with extraordinary abilities that amazed us. We enjoy these stories because we can escape our reality and imagine what it would be like to have amazing powers like our favorite superheroes. Yet, a few gifted real world people don’t have to imagine because like the superheroes in comics and movies, they too have super powers beyond normal humans.

Here we will look at selected 10 real world people with remarkable powers and abilities that will amazed you.

Stephen Wiltshire - "The Human Camera"

Stephen Wiltshire is a British architectural artist with autism. Wiltshire can look at a subject once and then draw an accurate and detailed picture of it. He frequently draws entire cities from memory, based on single, brief helicopter rides. For example, he produced a detailed drawing of four square miles of London after a single helicopter ride above that city. His nineteen-foot-long drawing of 305 square miles of New York City is based on a single twenty-minute helicopter ride. He also draws fictional scenes, for example, St. Paul's Cathedral surrounded by flames.

Daniel Browning Smith - The Rubberboy

 Daniel Browning Smith, also known as The Rubberboy, is an American contortionist, actor, television host, comedian, sports entertainer, and stuntman, who holds the title of the most flexible person in history, owning a total of seven Guinness World Records. He can do literally anything with his body including bending backwards and forwards, dislocating his arms and legs and rotating his trunk 180 degrees.

Dean Karnazes - The Man Who Can Run Forever

Dean Karnazes  is an American ultramarathon runner, and author of Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner, which details ultra-endurance running for the general public. Karnazes has completed a number of endurance events, mostly running events, but also a swimming event. Most notable achievements include, Ran 560 km in 80 hours and 44 minutes without sleep in 2005. He Ran a marathon to the South Pole in  (−25 °C) temperatures without snowshoes in 2002. He Ran a marathon in each of the 50 states in 50 consecutive days in 2006.

Michel Lotito - ("Mr Eat-All")

Michel Lotito was a French entertainer, famous for deliberately consuming indigestible objects. He came to be known as Monsieur Mangetout ("Mr Eat-All"). His performances involved the consumption of metal, glass, rubber and other materials. He disassembled, cut up, and consumed bicycles, shopping carts, televisions, a Cessna 150. The Cessna 150 is a two-seat general aviation airplane that was designed for flight training, touring and personal use. The Cessna 150 took roughly two years to be "eaten", from 1978 to 1980. 

Daniel Tammet – Brainman

Daniel Tammet is an autistic savant. He can perform mind-boggling mathematical calculations at breakneck speeds. But unlike other savants, who can perform similar feats, Tammet can describe how he does it. He speaks seven languages and is even devising his own language. Now scientists are asking whether his exceptional abilities are the key to unlock the secrets of autism. Daniel Tammet a mathematical genius who can figure out cube roots quicker than a calculator and recall pi to 22,514 decimal places. He also happens to be autistic, which is why he can't drive a car, wire a plug, or tell right from left. He lives with extraordinary ability and disability. Tammet is calculating 377 multiplied by 795. Actually, he isn't "calculating": there is nothing conscious about what he is doing. He arrives at the answer instantly. Since his epileptic fit, he has been able to see numbers as shapes, colours and textures. The number two, for instance, is a motion, and five is a clap of thunder. "When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's mental imagery. It's like maths without having to think."

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/

Natasha Demkina - 'X-ray Girl’

Natasha Demkina is a Russian woman who claims to possess a special vision that allows her to look inside human bodies and see organs and tissues, and thereby make medical diagnoses. Natasha was a normal kid up until the age of ten according to her mother.  At that age her abilities began to manifest.

Natasha says “I was at home with my mother and suddenly I had a vision. I could see inside my mother’s body and I started telling her about the organs I could see. Now, I have to switch from my regular vision to what I call medical vision. For a fraction of a second, I see a colorful picture inside the person and then I start to analyze it.”

Slavisa Pajkic – Battery Man

Slavisa Pajkic has an ability that has helped him set two world records. His first record was set in 1983 when he was able to take 20,000 volts of electricity without sustaining any injuries to his person. His second world record came in 2003. This time he was able to conduct electricity for long enough to heat a cup of water to about 97 degrees Celsius (206.6 F). It took just over 1 minute and 37 seconds to do this. He claims to be a conductor, an insulator, a heater or an accumulator of electricity depending on what he wants to do or what is expected of him. What is even more puzzling is that scientist are unable to figure out exactly what it is that enables him do all of these things.

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Kim Peek - The Real Rain Man

Kim Peek, the genius who inspired Dustin Hoffman's character in Rain Man, has died from a heart attack at the age of 58. Kim Peek was classed as a mega-savant and had memorized 12,000 books, including the entire Bible, but had difficulty with ordinary tasks like getting dressed and combing his hair. His astonishing abilities included being able to read one page of a book with his left eye and the other with his right. It took him just eight seconds to read and remember a page. Source: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com

Tori Allen - Spider Woman

Tori Allen is our human spider woman. She can climb up a massive cliff or wall, making it look like she is going for an afternoon stroll in the park. By the time Tori was 11 she had set a national outdoor climbing record, and by 12 years of age, she had become a professional rock climber.

Veronica Seider - Eagle Vision

Veronica Seider holds the world record for being able to see the smallest object without assistance from technology. In 1972 the University of Stuttgart, in then West Germany, reported that one of their students; Veronica Seider had a visual acuity 20 times better than average person. For example she could identify people at a distance of more than a mile away (1.6 km). The typical person would need a set of binoculars to be able to accurately accomplish that.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org