Superpowers of people. The most amazing human superpowers

1. An autistic from the UK Daniel Tammet (Daniel Tammet) hardly speaks, does not distinguish between left and right, does not know how to insert a plug into a socket, but at the same time easily performs complex mathematical calculations in his mind.
“I represent numbers as visual images. They have color, structure, shape, says Tammet. - Numerical sequences appear in my mind as landscapes. Like pictures. It's as if the universe with its fourth dimension is emerging in my head."
Daniel knows by heart 22514 digits after the decimal point in pi and speaks eleven languages: English, French, Finnish, German, Estonian, Spanish, Romanian, Icelandic (learned in 7 days), Lithuanian (gives his preference), Welsh and in Esperanto.

2. A young man from Sacramento (California) - Ben Underwood (Ben Underwood) - was born a completely healthy child, but his eyes were removed surgically due to retinal cancer at the age of three. However, Ben continued to live a full life as a sighted person.
However, he never had a guide dog or cane; he does not help himself with his hands, even if he moves in an unfamiliar room. Instead, Ben uses his tongue to make clicks that bounce off nearby objects.
Doctors' studies showed that the boy's hearing did not become aggravated as a compensation for the loss of vision - he has the hearing of an ordinary average person - it's just that Ben's brain has learned to translate sounds into visual information, which makes the young man look like a bat or a dolphin - he is able to capture the echo, and on based on this echo determine the exact location of objects.

3. Daniel Smith, a gutta-percha man from the US who is a five-time Guinness World Record holder, began twisting his body at the age of four, believing that he was not doing anything special. But soon Daniel realized what talent he had, and at the age of 18 he ran away from home with a circus troupe.
Since then, the "rubber man" has taken part in many circus and acrobatic performances, basketball and baseball matches, and has been a guest on most famous television shows and programs. Among them: Men in Black 2, HBO's Carnivale, CSI: NY, and others.
The most flexible person alive today does incredible things with his body: he easily crawls through a hole in a tennis racket and through a toilet seat, and also knows how to curl up into incredible knots and compositions, and move his heart across his chest. Doctors believe that incredible flexibility was given to Daniel from birth, but he himself brought it to the maximum possible limit.

4. Frenchman Michael Lotito (Michel Lotito), born in 1950, discovered his amazing abilities at the age of 9 - after scaring his parents to death, he ate a TV. From the age of 16, he began to entertain people for money, eating metal, glass, and rubber. Interestingly, Lotito's body never showed any side effects, even when the food contained toxic substances.
Usually the object is disassembled into parts, cut into pieces, and Lotito swallows them with water. The omnivorous Michael, nicknamed "Monsieur Eat it all", got into the Guinness Book of Records for eating the Cessna-150 plane. He ate it for two whole years - from 1978 to 1980 - using about a kilogram of the plane in a day.
The latest x-ray showed that there were still pieces of metal left in Lotito's body. And he did not die just because the walls of his stomach are twice as thick as those of the average person.

5. Rathakrishnan Velu, known as the "Tooth King", also has a rare ability. This Malaysian practiced pulling vehicles with his teeth.
On August 30, 2007, on the eve of Malaysia's 50th Independence Day, this man broke his own record by pulling a train with his own teeth.
This time the train consisted of 6 wagons and weighed 297 tons. Harikrishnan managed to drag the train 2.8 meters.

6. Liew Thow Lin is a magnet man. In his 70s, Harikrishnan's compatriot Velu managed to drag a car through with an iron chain attached to an iron plate on his stomach.
Liv Tou Lin considers the ability to attract metal objects to be hereditary, since besides him, 3 of his sons and 2 grandsons are endowed with the same amazing and incredible gift.
Scientists, meanwhile, are trying in vain to explain this phenomenon: there is no magnetic field around the Malaysian, and everything is in order with his skin.

7. Thai Ngoc (Thai Ngoc), 64-year-old Vietnamese, forgot what sleep is after he had a fever in 1973. Since then, Tai per
"I don't know how insomnia affects health," he says, "but I'm quite healthy and I can run the household just as well as others." As evidence, Ngoc mentions that he carries two 50-kilogram bags of fertilizer every day several kilometers from home.
And during the medical examination, the doctors did not find any diseases in the Vietnamese, except for minor abnormalities in the liver.

8. Tim Cridland (Tim Cridland) - a man who does not experience pain. Even at school, the “King of Torture” amazed classmates when, without batting an eyelid, he pierced his hands with needles and painlessly withstood any heat and cold.
Today, Tim is demonstrating terrifying things to large audiences across America. To do this, he had to study anatomy for a long time. After all, when the admiring eyes of the audience look at you, safety is above all.
Scientific studies have shown that Tim has a much higher pain limit than the average person. Otherwise, he is no different from ordinary people. Including - the degree of damage caused by piercing the body with hairpins, as well as the chance of death with these injuries.

9. Kevin Richardson, relying on instinct, is friends with the cat family, but not domestic, but predatory. Without the slightest fear for his life, Kevin can spend the night with the lions.
Cheetahs and leopards, capable of tearing a person apart in a split second if they wish, take the biologist for their own. Even unpredictable hyenas are so used to Kevin that the female hyena, for example, allows him to pick up newborn cubs.
“I rely on my intuition when weighing my chances when interacting with animals. I will never approach the animal if I feel that something is wrong, says Richardson. - I don't use sticks, whips or chains, just patience. It's dangerous, but for me it's a passion, not a job."

10. Claudio Pinto (Claudio Pinto) from the city of Belo Horizonte is better known as a man with goggle eyes, because he is able to goggle his eyes 4 cm, that is, 95% of the orbits of the eyes.
Pinto has undergone many medical examinations, and doctors say they have never seen a person who can do this to his eyes before.
"It's a pretty easy way to make money. I can goggle my eyes 4 centimeters - it's a gift from God and I feel happy," says Claudio.

Some believe that a person uses his potential by no more than 10%. Moreover, this applies to both the brain and the body. In this article we will tell you about the incredible human abilities.

• The ability to hold heavy objects on the forehead, chest, and other vertical parts of the body is now demonstrated by about 60 people around the world.
• The hypnologist Vul demonstrated the ability of suggestion at a distance. He sent a letter in the mail, in which was written in his handwriting the word: "Sleep!" If the patient had previously been seen by Wool, then as soon as such a note fell into his hands, he immediately fell into a deep sleep.
• Frenchman Michel Lotito, nicknamed "Monsieur Eat Everything" really eats everything. At the age of 9, he ate a TV, and from the age of 16 he began to entertain people for money, eating metal, glass and rubber. Lotito got into the Guinness Book of Records for eating a Cessna-150 plane.
• Biologist Kevin Richardson can spend the night in a lion cage. For unknown reasons, the lions accept him as their own.
• Vietnamese Thai Ngoc has not slept at all since 1973, from the very moment he had a fever.
• An autistic from the UK, Daniel Tammet, speaks with difficulty, does not distinguish between left and right, does not know how to insert a plug into an outlet, but at the same time easily performs complex mathematical calculations in his mind. Daniel knows by heart 22514 digits after the decimal point in pi and understands eleven languages, including Welsh, Esperanto and Icelandic, which he learned in 7 days.
• Jody Ostroit is able to notice details that are impossible to see with the naked eye. For example, the internal structure of a plant leaf, which can only be seen with an electron microscope.
• Ben Underwood is blind due to illness, but thanks to his super hearing, he is able to distinguish even very quiet sounds coming from any object. In principle, Ben can be called a human dolphin, since it is dolphins that use biological sonar to navigate in space. Doctors' studies showed that the boy's hearing did not become aggravated, as compensation for the loss of vision - he has the hearing of an ordinary average person - it's just that Ben's brain has learned to translate sounds into visual information, which makes the young man look like a bat or a dolphin - he is able to capture the echo, and on based on this echo determine the exact location of objects.
• Peter Terren can handle frenzied tension. In the pose of a thinker, wrapped in foil, he remains alive and well after a 500 kilovolt electric shock.
• The imaginary death was demonstrated in 1950 by yogi Babashri Ramdazhi Jirnari. He climbed into a chamber studded with nails, after which the chamber was filled with cement and filled with water. A day later, they took Babashri Yogi out of it, rubbed it and he came to life.
  Michael Lotito has an enviable ability to eat what he wants and not experience any negative feelings. No, we are not talking about the usual pastries, fatty foods or, for example, mushrooms. The fact is that Michael can eat not only all of the above, but also metal, glass, rubber and other inedible things. It is Michael who can boast of having eaten the plane. True, the process of eating took almost two years, but now it is known to everyone. Michael began performing in 1966, demonstrating his abilities to the general public. By the way, he does not experience any problems after such a meal. To prepare for the performance, Lotito consumes about a kilogram of all sorts of inedibles every day, mixing it with vegetable oil and drinking relatively large amounts of water.

Memory World Records

1. Russian chess player world champion Alexander Alekhine in 1938 in Chicago blindly played for 12 hours simultaneously on 32 chessboards, operating with a thousand pieces on more than 2000 squares.
2. South American politician Jan Christian Smuts memorized 5,000 books in his old age.
3. On October 14, 1967, the Turk Mehmed Ali Khalisi recited 6666 verses of the Koran in six hours.
4. In May 1974, the Burmese Wisittabm Wumsa recited 16,000 pages of Buddhist canonical texts by heart.
5. American Barbara Moore during the concert, which lasted from October 25 to November 13, 1988, performed 1852 songs from memory.
6. Armenian Samvel Gharibyan in July 1990 in Moscow accurately repeated 1000 words dictated to him in 10 languages, including such difficult ones as Farsi, Pashto, Bengali and Khmer.
7. On June 24, 1996, the Japanese Hidayeki named the number "pi" from memory with an accuracy of 40,000 decimal places.
8. American Dave Farrow memorized a random sequence of 52 decks of cards shuffled together on June 24, 1996 in the premises of the Guinness World Records Museum in the Canadian city of Niagara Falls. The total number of cards was 2704. Farrow had only to cast a cursory glance at them to then retell their order. True, he made six mistakes.
9. Chinese Gu Yang-lin at the age of 26 knew by heart 15,000 telephone numbers of subscribers in his hometown of Harbin.
10. Paula Prentice, a 23-year-old telephone directory operator based in Tasmania, remembers not only 128,603 phone numbers, but also their names and addresses, as well as the names of all companies and institutions, which can sometimes be quite intricate.

Doctors, scientists, anthropologists, biologists and other specialists have been studying the human body for centuries. Therefore, it is not surprising that today we have such comprehensive knowledge about how the human body works and what it is capable of.
Naturally, the physical abilities of a person and his athletic performance have certain limitations. Despite them, there are many examples of incredible human abilities that go far beyond what most people think is possible.
From the man who tried to climb Everest in shorts, and the teenager who lived for 18 days without food and water, to the man who ate the plane, learn about the 25 most incredible human abilities and feats!

25. Lifting a car with bare hands

In 2012, in Glen Allen, 22-year-old Lauren Kornacki saved her father, Alec Kornacki, after the jack supporting a BMW broke off and pinned a man under her. Lauren lifted the car, then performed CPR and saved her father's life.

24. Longest ice bath

Known as "The Iceman", Dutch extreme sportsman Wim Hof ​​holds 20 world records, including the world record for the longest ice bath. In 2011, he broke his own previous record by staying submerged in ice for 1 hour 52 minutes 42 seconds.

23. 50 marathons in 50 days

Calling it 50/50/50, American ultra runner Dean Karnazes ran 50 marathons in 50 states over 50 consecutive days, starting with the Lewis and Clark Marathon in St. Louis on September 17, 2006 and ending with the New York City Marathon on November 5, 2006. After completing his 50/50/50 project, he ran home from New York to San Francisco.

22. Balancing a car on your head

In 1999, John Evans, known as the "professional head balancer", lifted a 159 kg Mini Cooper by holding it on his head for 33 seconds. The holder of another 32 world records, he thus kept other things in balance on his head, including 101 bricks and 235 mugs of beer.

21. The longest insomnia

In 1964, Randy Gardner, a high school student in San Diego, California, did not sleep for 264.4 hours (11 days and 24 minutes), setting a world record for insomnia. Gardner appears to have fully recovered from his sleep loss, as it had no long-term psychological or physical effect on him.

20. Longest breath hold underwater

On February 28, 2016, Aleix Segura Vendrell, a professional freediver from Spain, set a new world record for the longest free breath hold, surviving underwater for 24 minutes and 3.45 seconds.

19. Helicopter that was dragged by the ear

Georgian Lasha Pataraia earned himself a place in the Guinness Book of Records by dragging a 7,734-kilogram military helicopter with his left ear. He set a world record by dragging the Mi-8 26 meters 30 centimeters.

18. Spiderman

Known as Spider-Man, French climber and urban climber Alain Robert is famous for his solo ascents and skyscrapers without climbing equipment. Robert has conquered landmarks such as the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Sydney Opera House, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur and the Willis Tower in Chicago.

17. Lightning Rod Man

American gamekeeper from Shenandoah National Park, Roy Cleveland Sullivan, survived 7 lightning strikes between 1942 and 1977. Known as the "Lightning Rod Man," he holds the Guinness World Record for being struck by lightning more times than any other person.

16. Walking on a tightrope over Niagara Falls

The holder of 9 Guinness World Records, American acrobat, tightrope walker, aerialist, stuntman, tightrope walker Nicholas Wallenda (Nikolas Wallenda) is best known as the first person to walk the tightrope stretched directly over Niagara Falls. To do this incredible acrobatic stunt, it took him 2 years to get permission from the Canadian and US authorities.

15. Jump into the water, performed from the highest height

In August 2015, 27-year-old extreme Lazaro "Laso" Schaller (Lazaro "Laso" Schaller) entered the Guinness Book of Records as the person who jumped from the tower (and at the same time from the cliff) from the highest height. An intrepid cliff diver jumped off a 58.8m high cliff in Switzerland.

14. Surfing on the biggest wave

American professional surfer and extreme sportsman Garrett McNamara set a world record by conquering the biggest wave. In January 2013, McNamara broke his own previous record by breaking a 30m wave off the coast of the Portuguese town of Nazare.

13. The longest survival without food and water

In April 1979, 18-year-old Andreas Mihavecz from Austria survived for 18 days without food or water in an isolation cell where he was placed as a passenger in a car that got into an accident. The police completely forgot about him, so Mikhavets holds the record for surviving without food or water for the longest time.

12. Heroic Rescuer

Shavarsh Karapetyan, a Soviet diver, multiple world, European and USSR champion, saved the lives of 20 people in a road accident involving a trolleybus that occurred in Yerevan in September 1976.

A trolleybus with 92 passengers fell into Lake Yerevan 10 meters deep. Shavarsh Vladimirovich jumped into the water, smashed the rear window with his feet and began to pull the passengers of the trolley bus out of the water. He managed to save 20 people before he himself passed out from overwork and hypothermia.

11. The largest weight lifted by a person

American weightlifter and powerlifter Paul Anderson (Paul Anderson) performed a back lift, lifting a barbell weighing 2844.02 kilograms and hitting the Guinness Book of Records as "the largest weight ever lifted by a man." Anderson may have lifted even more weight, but only this attempt was officially recorded and documented.

10 The Man Who Moved The Plane

Canadian Kevin Fast drags a CC-177 Globemaster III military transport aircraft weighing 188.83 tons by 8.8 meters at the Canadian Air Force Base in Trenton, Ontario, Canada, September 17, 2009.

9. Buried alive for 10 days

In 2004, Czech fakir and magician Zdenek Zahradka spent 10 days buried alive in a wooden coffin. During the stunt, he was without food and water supplies, and could only breathe through the ventilation pipe. Zahradka spent most of the experiment sleeping and reflecting on his life.

8. Rescue after falling without a parachute from the highest altitude

Former Serbian flight attendant Vesna Vulovic holds the world record for surviving a fall without a parachute from the highest altitude of 10,160 meters. Vulovich fell out of the exploding plane. As a result of the fall, she received multiple fractures and was in a coma for 27 days, but after that she fully recovered.

7. Deepest Dive

Austrian freediver Herbert Nitsch, known by the nickname "the deepest man on Earth", holds records in all 8 freediving disciplines.

The reigning freediving world champion has set 69 official world records, usually surpassing his own previous records. His last record dates back to June 2012 when he dived to a depth of 253.2 meters.

6. Climber in shorts

In 2009, Wim Hof ​​(the "iceman" of point 24) climbed Mount Kilimanjaro (5,895 meters above sea level) wearing only shorts. Two years earlier, he climbed Mount Everest to a height of 6.7 kilometers, also wearing only shorts and shoes, though he did not reach the highest peak (8848 meters) due to an injured leg.

5. Catching cannonballs with your bare hands

Danish stuntman John Holtum, also known as the "king of cannonballs", was able to catch a 23-kilogram cannonball fired at him from a cannon fired by his assistant. Unfortunately, the first attempt to catch the core ended in the loss of three fingers.

4. Twilight Math

English writer, essayist, translator and autistic savant Daniel Tammet is endowed with an amazing memory, ability for complex mathematical calculations and languages.

According to Tammet, every positive integer up to 10,000 has its own shape, color, texture, and feel. He holds the European record for reproducing the number Pi: ​​he listed 22.514 digits after the decimal point in 5 hours 09 minutes. Daniel Tammet speaks 10 languages, and using the example of Icelandic (which is one of them), he proved that you can learn a completely unfamiliar language in a week.

3. "Gutta-percha boy"

American contortionist, actor, TV presenter, comedian and stuntman Daniel Browning Smith is the owner of the title "the most flexible person in the world." During one of his tricks, he folded his arms so that he could fit through the rim of a stringless tennis racket.

2. Metal eater

Michel Lotito, known as "Monsieur Eat Everything", was a French entertainer who became famous for eating indigestible (inorganic) objects.

During his performances, he ate metal, glass, rubber and other materials. He disassembled, cut and ate bicycles, shopping carts, televisions and even a Cessna 150 aircraft. It is estimated that between 1959 and 1997, Lotito ate almost 9 tons of metal.

1. Torture King

American sideshow performer Tim Cridland, known by his stage name Zamora the Torture King, performs extremely painful stunts for fun: eating fire, swallowing a ball, piercing the body with sharp objects, and even electric shock.

Polyglot, heat generator, magnet, amphibian, computer. Do not understand what can be common between these words? And this is all about people who have incredible abilities.

All people are different, but among us there are real unique people with incredible abilities. Their phenomenon is being actively studied by scientists, but some personalities are still a mystery to everyone. We invite you to meet these unique people.

1 Amphibious Man

Danish diver Stig Severinsen is known for his ability to hold his breath underwater for as long as 22 minutes, while the average person can't hold his breath for more than a few minutes. Swimming training has been a part of his life since the age of six. There are many records in his piggy bank, for example, he was able, wearing a wetsuit and fins, to swim 152 meters under water in 2 minutes. 11 sec.

2. X-ray girl

At the age of 10, Natalya Demkina, a resident of Saransk, discovered she had the ability to see people through, that is, she can look at the state of internal organs, identify existing problems, and so on. People began to turn to her for help, and they claim that everything the girl said turned out to be true. In 2004, Natalia took part in an experiment organized by the English media. She described in detail all the injuries that the woman received as a result of a car accident. Demkina decided to devote her life to medicine.

3. Camera Man

Artist Stephen Wiltshire is autistic but has an incredible memory. He can paint a landscape in great detail after seeing it just once. It's like he's recording everything on tape and then playing it back. He was able to create detailed panoramic drawings of Tokyo, Rome and New York, and before starting work, he simply flew over them in a helicopter. The image of America's capital can be seen on a giant billboard at the John F. Kennedy International Airport.

4. Megasavant

Let's start with a definition, so a savant is a person with incredible abilities caused by brain pathology. Lawrence Kim Peak was the only person in the world who had the ability to read two pages of a book with each eye at the same time. His father said that Lawrence began to memorize everything from the age of 16 months. He quickly read books and memorized the contents from the first time. By the way, Kim Peak is the prototype of the protagonist of the famous movie Rain Man.

5 Eagle Vision

With her unique eyesight, the German Veronica Seider attracted the attention of others when she studied at the university. She could easily see a person who was at a distance of 1.6 km from her. For reference: the average person can hardly see the details at a distance of 6 m. Studies have shown that her vision is 20 times better than other people, so it is compared to a telescope.

6. Perennial insomnia

In 1973, a Vietnamese man suffered from a fever that left him with severe insomnia. At first, Ngoc Thai thought that this was a temporary phenomenon, but more than 40 years have passed, and he has never slept. Doctors' studies have not found any serious health problems, while the man himself says that he is irritable due to lack of sleep. Doctors believe that Thai lives so long without rest, thanks to such a phenomenon as micro-sleep, when, due to extreme fatigue, a person falls asleep for only a couple of seconds.

7. Magnet Man

A seemingly ordinary man, Liu Tou Lin, lives in Malaysia, but he has a unique ability. His body, like a magnet, attracts various metal objects. Lew discovered his ability only at the age of 60, when the tools began to stick to his hands. Experiments were carried out and it was found that a Malaysian can hold up to 36 kg without hands on his body. In addition, with the help of his magnetism, he managed to drag a real car for some distance. Scientists in bewilderment conducted research and did not find a magnetic field in the man's body.

8 Gutta Percha Boy

From early childhood, Daniel Smith discovered the ability to twist his body, and when he became an adult, he began to tour with a circus troupe and became very popular due to the fact that he took part in various performances and television programs. There are several Daniel records in the Guinness Book of World Records. It can not only fold into different knots and compositions, but also move the heart along the chest. Doctors say that Daniel received good flexibility from birth, and then worked hard and developed his abilities to incredible heights.

9. Human-computer

Shakuntala Devi possessed incredible mathematical abilities. From early childhood, her father taught her card tricks, and after a while she memorized cards much better than her parent. She surprised with the ability to make incredible mathematical calculations not only teachers at school, but also people, holding street performances. Her name is in the Guinness Book of Records, as Devi was able to multiply two 13-digit numbers in just 28 seconds. Shakuntala took part in an experiment where she competed with a UNIVAC 1101 computer. She was able to extract the 23rd root of a 201-digit number in just 50 seconds, and the technique took 62 seconds to do it.

10. Feels no pain

From childhood, Tim Cridland realized that he did not feel pain and began to show everyone his skills. At school, he scared classmates and teachers by piercing his hands with needles. Now Tim takes part in various entertainment programs in America, mocking his body. It is worth noting that Tim takes this seriously and carefully studied the human anatomy to ensure safety, since he only has a high pain threshold, and injuries remain with him, like all people.

11. Iron lover

The French artist Michel Litoto was known for being able to eat any object, such as glass or metal, without any harm to the digestive system. People around him called him "Mr. Omnivore" for this. Doctors explained this phenomenon by the presence of very thick walls of the stomach and intestines. According to existing information, from 1959 to 1997, he ate about 9 tons of metal. During his extreme meal, he broke off pieces of iron and ate them with water and mineral oil. It took him two years to eat an entire Cessna 150 plane.

12. King bee

Usually people are afraid of bees like fire, which cannot be said about Norman Gary, who is a beekeeper and an ardent lover of these insects. He can command and control a huge swarm of bees by keeping them on his body. An interesting fact is that such friendship with insects allowed Norman to take part in the filming of several films, for example, The X-Files and Invasion of the Bee Girls.

13. Generates warmth with hands

A well-known personality in China is Zhou Ting Jue, who practices kung fu, tai chi and qigong. A man is able to generate heat through his palms and it is enough to boil water. Another of his unique abilities is to shift the weight of the body from the legs to the chest area. Thanks to this, he can stand on a sheet of paper and not push through it. In addition, Zhou claims that he is a healer and can even dissolve tumors. Famous personalities turned to him for help, for example, there is information that he even treated the Dalai Lama.

14. Vacuum cleaner man

Wei Mingtang accidentally discovered his unusual talent - inflating balloons and extinguishing candles with his ears. From that time he began to develop his skill, for example, he began to use a small tube and with it he began to inflate balloons. He performs at various events, entertaining the audience. Wei even sets records, for example, with his ears he was able to blow out 20 candles in 20 seconds.

15. Iceman

A huge number of records related to the cold were set by Wim Hof. His body is able to withstand very low temperatures, so he was able to climb Mount Everest and Kilimanjaro wearing only shorts and boots. In addition, he ran a marathon in the Arctic Circle and the Namib Desert without water. In the Guinness Book of Records there is his achievement - Wim Hof ​​was able to plunge into the ice for 1 hour 44 minutes.

16. Using echolocation

A boy was born in Sacramento who was diagnosed with a rare disease - retinal cancer. As a result, doctors removed Ben Underwood's eyeballs. At the same time, the guy lived a full life, without a guide dog and even a cane. Ben used his tongue to make clicks, and their sound bounced off nearby objects, helping him figure out what to get around. Doctors believe that the brain of a unique boy has learned to translate sounds into visual information. Bats and dolphins have similar abilities. The guy, like animals, captured the echo, and determined the exact location of the nearest objects.

17. Unique marathon runner

Admire people who run marathons? And you imagine that Dean Karnasis was able to run without stopping and rest for three days. He was able to handle the most difficult endurance test - he ran a marathon at the South Pole without snowshoes at a temperature of minus 25 ° C. In 2006, he set another record by running a 50-state marathon in 50 days.

18. Super strong teeth

A resident of Malaysia, Radhakrishnan Velu bears the title of "King Tooth", because he is only able to pull a huge weight with his teeth. In 2007, he set one of his many records - he stretched a train, including six cars. Doctors have not yet been able to unravel the secret of the man, but he is sure that everything is due to a healthy lifestyle, meditation and regular exercise.

19. Unusual polyglot

If a person speaks more than three languages, then he is already called a polyglot, but this is incomparable with the result of Harold Williams, who knew 58 languages, yes, this is not a typo. He said that since early childhood he was interested in languages. He applied his knowledge in diplomacy, as he could communicate with all representatives of the delegation of the League of Nations in their native language.

20. Musician with synesthesia

Under such a concept as "synesthesia", understand the intersection of the senses. For example, a person who eats something red can taste another food, or there are people who can perceive colors with their eyes closed. Elisabeth Sulser is a musician who has mixed vision, hearing and taste. Thanks to this, she can see the color of the sound wave and understand the taste of the music. Sounds incredible, but it's a fact. She considered her abilities normal for a long time. They help her compose melodies from flowers.

21. Speedy Samurai

Isao Machii is a Japanese iaido master who is able to move at incredible speeds. A modern samurai was able to cut a flying bullet into pieces. The action was filmed on camera, and to see the movement of the sword, the video was slowed down 250 times. There are several of his achievements in the Guinness Book of Records, for example, he performed the fastest thousand sword strikes and was able to cut a tennis ball moving at a speed of 820 km / h.

Despite the uniqueness of each person, in terms of anatomy and physiology, we are all similar. That is why people with unusual abilities or external characteristics always cause a rush of interest. There are few such individuals, and in most cases these phenomena are carefully hidden from the public for their own good. This material contains real facts about the most unusual people that have received wide publicity.

In May 1934, a sensational event took place, which was called the "luminous woman from Pirano." Messages about this moved from the pages of medical publications to newspapers around the world. Signora Anna Monaro suffered from asthma, and for several weeks during her sleep, a blue light emanated from her chest. Many doctors have observed this phenomenon, which lasted intermittently for several seconds each time.

One psychiatrist suggested that "the phenomenon is caused by electrical and magnetic organisms which have developed sufficiently strongly in this woman's body to give off a radiance" (in other words, another way of saying "I don't know").

Another doctor, talking about firefly people with unusual abilities, proposed the theory of electromagnetic radiation, associating it with certain chemical components in the patient's skin, which was close to the then fashionable theory of bioluminescence. Dr. Protti, who made a lengthy statement regarding his observations of Signora Monaro, suggested that her poor health, together with starvation and piety, increased the amount of sulfides in the blood. Human blood emits rays in the ultraviolet range, and sulfides can be made to luminesce with ultraviolet radiation - this explains the radiance emanating from Signora Monaro's chest.

The proposed theory about people with such unusual abilities did not explain the strange periodicity or localization of bluish flashes, and soon the confused researchers finally fell silent. Harvey talked about luminous bacteria that feed on human sweat, but according to Protti, Anna Monaro began to sweat profusely only after her chest emitted a radiance, and just at that moment her heart began to beat twice as fast as usual. Many textbooks and scientific papers on toxicology describe wounds that emit radiance. This is explained, as a rule, by the presence in the wounds of luminescent bacteria or secretions, which contain the biochemical substances luciferin and luciferase, as well as ATP (adenosine triphosphate), which, as a rule, do not combine, and if they are combined, they begin to emit light. A similar process occurs with the glow of fireflies and fire flies. However, if these theories could be applied to the case of Signora Monaro, then her whole body would have to glow.

In Death: Its Causes and Related Phenomena, Hareward Carrington tells of a child who died of acute indigestion. When the neighbors were preparing a shroud for him, they noticed that the boy's body emits a bluish glow and heat spreads from him. It felt like it was on fire. Attempts to extinguish this radiance did not lead to anything, but after a while it stopped by itself. When they moved the body, they found that the sheet under it was burned.

In the medical literature, cases of the unusual ability of a person to glow are usually associated with pathology. For example, in the monumental monograph "Anomalies and Curiosities in Medicine" (1937), they talk about a woman who suffered from breast cancer: the light emanating from the damaged area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe breast was sufficient to see the dial of a watch several feet away.

The only case in the world when unusual people "emit light" being practically healthy (not counting, of course, saints) is described in the journal "The English Mechanic" dated September 24, 1869. One American, going to bed, discovered a glow in the upper part of the fourth finger of her right legs. When she rubbed her leg, the glow increased and some unknown force pushed her fingers apart. The stench came from the foot. Light emission and smell did not stop even when the leg was immersed in a basin of water. Not even soap could extinguish or reduce the glow. This phenomenon lasted three quarters of an hour, and the husband of this woman watched him.

Perhaps these are the most unusual people on the planet, since such phenomena are quite rare, while they have absolutely no explanation.

"Electric" people with unusual abilities

One of the very first cases of scientists studying very unusual people dates back to 1846. We are talking about the so-called "electric" people. On January 15, Angelique Cotin from La Perriere (France), who turned 14 that day, experienced a strange condition that then lasted 10 weeks. As soon as she got close to the objects, they immediately began to bounce off her. The lightest touch of her hand or her dress was enough to make even the heaviest furniture start spinning and jumping around the room. It was absolutely impossible to hold something if Angelica was holding it too: the object immediately began to twitch and slip out of her hands.

The French Academy of Sciences appointed a special research group to study this one of the most unusual abilities of people, one of whose members was the famous physicist of the time, Francois Arago. In the February issue of the Journal de Deba for 1846, his report on the investigation was published. According to the scientist, the power possessed by the girl is akin to electromagnetism (in her presence, for example, the compass needle began the real “St. Witt’s dance”); it usually increased in the evenings and seemed to be concentrated on the left side of Angelica's body, more precisely, in her left wrist and elbow. The poor thing would sometimes convulse when this power was especially active; while her heart rate was 120 beats per minute. She herself was so frightened of what was happening that she often ran away from home headlong.

Probably the most famous example of such the most unusual people in the world was the case of Lulu Hirst, who even demonstrated her extraordinary abilities in front of the public. In 1883-1885. she acted like a "wonder from Georgia" until she retired from the stage by marrying her entrepreneur.

She, as expected, in the classic version with "evil spirits", began to feel her abilities in herself after 14 years. Porcelain cups were beating in her presence, and at night in the bedroom where she was, incomprehensible knocks on the door and heavy blows began to be heard, which frightened her younger sister to death, with whom they slept together. The day after the strange noises began, Lulu handed over a chair to one of her relatives, which at the same time began to spin in her hands, clearly not wanting to move to a new owner. The four men could not pull it over, eventually the chair broke into pieces and all four fell to the floor.

Relatives persuaded the girl to turn her illness into art. The number with which she performed was that Lulu had to demonstrate her superiority over several adult men. Let's say a girl held one end of a billiard cue, and two strong men tried with all their might to no avail to snatch the cue from her hands, bend it to the ground, etc. She lifted three men sitting on each other's knees in a chair, with a simple touch of the palms on his back, lightly touched a heavy object - and he moved away, although before that five strong men could not move him. Edwards described such unusual human abilities in his book Strange People (1961). He wrote about Lulu that, according to the testimony of many contemporaries, she let in any "checkers" who could make sure that she did her numbers without any tension, without resorting to tricks and tricks.

These photos show unusual people of the planet with non-standard appearance and abilities:

The most unusual people on the planet, immune to fire (with photo and video)

It is unlikely that anyone in their right mind would risk walking barefoot through a pit filled with burning coals or red-hot stones. It can be assumed that people demonstrating this are in some special state. No one has yet explained how, while walking through the fire, they manage to perform this incredible trick without any damage to themselves.

One of the first experiments with walking on fire was organized in September 1935 in Carshalton, Surrey, at the initiative of the University of London. The experiment involved a young Muslim man from India, Kuda Bax, who walked through a 20-foot-wide coal pit four times without being burned.

In all parts of the world, immunity to fire is achieved by a wide variety of methods. Apparently, among the Indians (whether in India, Sri Lanka or Fiji) the most important element of the ritual is a state of trance or religious ecstasy. However, Kuda Bax and many others showed their immunity to fire while in a completely normal state. However, some require complex preparation, which includes singing, dancing, and sexual abstinence, while others may walk on coals with no preparation at all or after a simple symbolic ritual.

As you can see in the photo, such unusual people do not receive any damage by walking on hot coals:

E. D. Dinguall's book, Amazing Cases of People (1947), details a certain Marie Saune who lived in Paris in the 1950s. 18th century This woman, who suffered from the attacks of St. Medara, was nicknamed "fireproof". Wrapped in a sheet, she could lie over the fire for a long time, leaning her head and legs on the chairs. She could put her feet in stockings and shoes into a brazier with coals and keep them there until the stockings burned to the ground. In this regard, the question arises, why did the stockings and shoes burn down, but not the sheet? By the way, this is not the only such example. In the book "Secrets of Science and Miracles" M. F. Long cited the story of D. G. Hill about a walk on hot stones on one of the islands of the Tahiti archipelago with the participation of a certain European. Although the pit was so hot that the skin on his face was peeling off, his leather boots were completely undamaged by the fire.

What happens while walking on fire? Most likely, the walker is in an exalted state, in which pain sensations are suppressed, as, for example, during hypnosis sessions. However, in some cases, participants do without trance or ecstasy. At the same time, there is no evidence that damaged tissues heal so quickly that no traces remain at all (a similar phenomenon is sometimes observed among dervishes, residents of Bali and other "initiates" who know the art of piercing their bodies).

The author found the most daring explanation for such an unusual deviation in people in the work of D. Pierce "Crack in the Cosmic Egg", devoted to the issue of different degrees of perception of "reality". Pierce believes that walking on coals is a classic example of the creation of some kind of new reality (albeit only temporary and on a local scale), in which the fire does not burn as usual. Everything goes well as long as this reality persists, but in the history of walking on fire there are cases of monstrous victims and terrible injuries of those whose faith suddenly broke, and they again found themselves in that world where the fire burns. The magical state in which a person becomes immune to fire appears to be created by the person directing the fire-walking ceremony.

Probably, the ability to walk on fire cannot be explained by spiritual or psychological reasons alone, and here we are talking about some physical phenomenon that has not yet been understood and has not found its explanation.

How else can one explain the fact that in Bulgaria tourists are still taken to one of the villages, where every evening the locals walk on hot coals.

Here you can watch a video of unusual people immune to fire:

Very unusual people with abnormal deviations: "boiling" person

One of the most unusual people on earth is the so-called "boiling people." When scientists from Lima, having climbed very high in the mountains, met Augusto Moravira, they were terribly surprised, says Echo of the Planet. The fact is that the snow, falling on the body of an Indian, instantly melted, flowing down in jets. And the mountaineer's handshake was incredibly hot and humid.

When Augusto's body temperature was taken, the thermometer went off scale. And a special laboratory thermometer, which measured the temperature of this person, showed 43.5 ° C.

However, the phenomenon of people with such abnormal deviations is explained quite simply. According to scientists, the normal high body temperature is due to high blood pressure, and it in turn depends on the high atmospheric pressure. However, after living for some time in Lima, Augusto lowered his body temperature to 37 ° C at a pressure of 120/80. At the same time, he began to freeze even on fine days. But he is not going to return to the mountains. It's nice to feel at the center of a sensation.

The most unusual abilities of people on earth: super-acute hearing and vision

Jozef Povollo-Rzeszowski's parents moved from Poland to Sweden when he was only two years old. At first, the father and mother did not notice any abnormalities in the child. But one day, four-year-old Jozef recounted to his mother a conversation between two people who were a little more than a kilometer away. Of course, Jadwiga did not believe her son. And he actually had super-acute, simply supernatural hearing: the boy freely caught human speech, sounding one and a half kilometers away.

After some time, he began to amaze others with another unusual ability - super-sharp vision, thanks to which he could freely read a newspaper text at a distance of 1 km.

And cases of such unusual possibilities in humans are far from isolated.

People with an unusual appearance by nature and their photos

The most famous people with an unusual appearance are considered a child with a dog's face and a tower woman with a gigantic stature.

When puppy whining was heard in the delivery room of a Toronto (Canada) clinic, the doctors who delivered the babies were shocked.

Linda and Derrida Jemisson were a wonderful couple, but they lacked a child to be completely happy. The specialists could not help them in any way, and the couple had to turn to the services of a sperm bank. No one can now tell how Linda was impregnated with dog sperm. The course of pregnancy was monitored by doctors, and if they had timely established which fetus develops in the womb, the state of emergency could have been avoided. But a man was born with an unusual appearance by nature: the body of the child was human, and the face was dog. And he burst into puppy barking.