- How are ya?
All of us know at least one person
with a really amazing ability,
maybe they have the gift of basketball
or they're just really good at school and it's likely
that you've always known them to be that way,
but then there are others who through some event
suddenly woke up one day with a superhuman ability,
that they did not have before.
(light upbeat music)
Here are 10 People Who Gained Superhuman Abilities.
Number 10 is A Genius From a Fight.
(light upbeat music)
In 2002, while leaving a karaoke bar in Tacoma, Washington,
Jason Padgett was jumped by two assailants,
now unfortunately they beat him mercilessly
and mugged him and even left him with a nasty concussion,
but despite that horrible ordeal,
it wasn't too long before Padgett started noticing
that things were a bit different.
Prior to the attack, Jason's math abilities
were almost non-existent,
but now the subject came naturally,
he was even seeing shapes and patterns
in everything around him.
Padgett was diagnosed with Acquired Savant Syndrome
and was drawing complex geometric constructs,
while having no real understanding of what they even were.
Completely baffled, experts encouraged Jason
to do the mathematics world a favor and go back to school,
which is exactly what he did.
As of today, he's an accomplished number theorist,
author and public speaker.
Wait, so my terrible, terrible math skills
can be fixed with a little bumpo to the head?
Excuse me, argh! (thudding)
Number nine is Finally Like Family.
(light upbeat music)
For most of her life, 43-year old, Sandy Allen
had pursued a life of science,
going against the mold of her family
as many of them, particularly her mother and sister
were much more creative than they were logical.
But while Sandy was content
sticking with her side of the spectrum, fate intervened,
she was told that she had a malignant tumor
growing in her brain, one which needed to be removed
right away to save her life.
Doctors had no choice, but to operate,
taking out part of the poor woman's brain
in an attempt to get all of the tumor.
However, when she woke up,
Allen suddenly saw things differently and turned her life
towards being more creative, than logical,
out of nowhere, she started creating gorgeous collages
and other pieces, that she had no chance of making
before she had half of her brain taken out.
See, you don't have to be very smart to be creative.
Oh, we're still recording.
Number eight is Memory and Paint.
(light upbeat music)
In 1965, Italian born restaurant worker, Franco Magnani
arrived in San Francisco, delighted to finally be able,
after the long war, to be able to see the Golden Gate Bridge
and experience everything
that the United States has to offer.
Unfortunately what he ended up getting
was a pretty serious illness, which had him studying
more of the hospital room ceiling, than any landmarks.
Magnani found himself suffering fevers,
that brought with them some crazy, intense dreams
and a strange ability, that he never had before,
he could suddenly picture a place
in his hometown of Pontito, Italy in his mind,
one that he hadn't seen in several years
or even since he was a small child
and then draw what he pictured.
When compared to the actual photos,
the similarities are unreal and the artistic talent
that Franco had suddenly acquired
shocked everyone around him.
You know, my background is also Italian,
except I didn't have anything wrong with me,
so I'm still stuck on drawing stick figures.
Number seven is Art Before Science.
(light upbeat music)
In 1986, Dr. Anne Adams walked away from her work
as a teacher, mathematician and bench scientist,
choosing instead to become a professional artist.
The West Vancouver mother had taken some time
away from her job to look after her son,
who'd been in a serious car accident.
But once he was back on his feet,
Adams chose not to return to her career
and in a move that surprised her family,
focused on her newfound creative undertakings.
No one really knew what was going on,
but it turned out that doctors discovered
that Anne had Frontaltemporal Dementia,
which was damaging her frontal and temporal lobes,
while enhancing her artistic ability.
She started losing her ability to speak in 2000,
but her art continued to improve drastically
right up until her death in 2007.
Number six is Art Added Through Removal.
(light upbeat music)
One day in 1988, successful 35-year old chiropractor,
John Sarkin was out playing golf with a friend
at Cape Ann Golf Course in Essex, Massachusetts,
when he, out of the blue suffered a cerebral hemorrhage
and subsequent stroke.
Later after a touch and go operation,
he woke up in the hospital
and got some shocking news from his doctors,
they explained that they actually had to remove
small parts of his brain, in order to save him
and that it would take some time to make new connections.
Now eventually those connections did come
and Sarkin found he'd changed in some pretty huge ways,
all of a sudden, he had urges to draw and sculpt,
so he did, but amazingly today,
John is always taking on new art projects
and his sudden talent has paid off
as he regularly sells his pieces for more than $10,000.
Wait, art can sell for that much and it's subjective?
This is a rare, YouTube slipper artwork,
I call it the You, the Demonetizino, okay, never mind, $5.
Number five is A Stroke of Color.
(light upbeat music)
In 1986, 30-year old engineer, Ken Walters
was in the prime of his life,
when one tragedy after another struck,
leading to 19 years of a broken back,
an empty bank account and two heart attacks.
Already miserable, it almost came as par for the course,
when Walters found out he'd suffered a stroke,
but while he laid in a hospital bed
contemplating if he was somehow haunted,
Ken suddenly found himself doodling,
something that he'd never really done before.
It wasn't long before he was fully obsessed
with making fantastic artwork using a tablet and a computer.
His doctors, explaining his newfound creativity
as a result of his brain rewiring itself.
Walters eventually regained his ability to speak
and now he sells his artwork online
and has worked with impressive companies, such as EA.
Number four is a Miracle Sculptor.
(light upbeat music)
As a child, after a severe head injury
left Alonzo Clemons with a developmental disorder,
he was barely able to feed or even dress himself.
However, the Boulder, Colorado student wouldn't be kept down
and took up an amazing hobby,
that as far as his friends or family could determine,
came from the injury itself.
Using anything from modeling clay
to tar found in the pavement cracks around his school,
Alonzo began sculpting animals
just from memory in near perfect detail.
Flash forward to today and Clemons can sculpt
any animal he's laid his eyes on, even just for a moment,
usually in less than an hour.
This unbelievable skill hasn't helped the poor man
become able to feed himself, but his work is in high demand,
he's even sold one of his pieces for $45,000.
Okay, that's another person making money off of art,
I am in the wrong industry.
Number three is Baseball Calculations.
(light upbeat music)
On August 17th 1979, 10-year old, Orlando Serrell
was playing baseball with his friends,
when an accident changed him forever.
As Serrell ran to first base,
a rogue ball struck him in the left side of the head,
he collapsed to the ground,
but was soon back up and playing again.
However, he neglected to tell his parents
and so he was never given any medical treatment
for the injury.
Okay, stop, no one there decided to maybe get him checked?
What's wrong with people?
Okay, anyway, let's continue.
However, a headache lingered, that eventually stopped,
but what that headache left behind was an uncanny ability,
suddenly Serrell could solve complex mathematical equations
in his head almost instantly,
he also gained the ability to recall events
in incredible vivid detail,
he could tell you where he was, what he was doing
and even what the weather was like
on any day after the accident.
This is not a joke, I literally have such a bad memory,
I can't remember what I did this morning,
it's kind of an issue ongoing, so this guy's blessed.
Number two is an Electric Piano.
(light upbeat music)
If there's someone who's lived a truly miraculous life,
it's Tony Cicoria.
One fateful evening in 1994, the then 42-year old,
Albany, New York based physician was at a payphone,
when lightning struck the structure,
sending a bolt through the receiver
and straight into Cicoria's face,
the charge went through him, exiting his left foot
and the doctor collapsed to the pavement.
A registered nurse just happened to be
the only other person in the area
and actually managed to resuscitate him,
but what came back wasn't the same doctor who left.
No, no, he couldn't shoot lightning bolts out of his eyes,
sorry to disappoint you.
But instead, Cicoria had never really been a fan of music,
but a few days after he was electrocuted,
he taught himself how to play piano
and was soon writing his own compositions.
Today he performs at various venues and is writing a book
about the miracles that brought him his gift
and number one is Daniel Tammet.
(light upbeat music)
Daniel Tammet is a 38-year old author from London, England,
who grew up experiencing epileptic seizures,
but instead of breaking him,
those events brought him a new form of understanding,
Tammet saw shapes and colors,
where numbers should be from an early age
and quickly developed that into a quick way to process them.
He can now solve difficult equations
almost as fast as a calculator
and has proven that he can learn a language
in less than a week, he's even established his own way
of teaching people how to learn
their own languages on their own.
On top of the linguistic and logical enhancements,
the author has also been gifted with incredible memory,
at one point, breaking the world record,
when he recited pi to, get this,
22,514 digits.
Consider Daniel the closest thing
to a real-world X Man or X Lady,
it's 2018, we don't discriminate.
And that's it, if you enjoyed this video
and you'd like to see more like it in the future,
subscribe to my channel
and turn on notifications for my new uploads.
Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video.
Have a great day.