Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the internet.
I am your host, Rebecca Felgate, and today we are talking the Top 10 accidents that gave
people superpowers…
it is like a real life superhero movie!
Before we get into this list, I just want to ask you guys who your favourite superhero
is and also ask you to leave this video a thumbs up if you like our work…
it just makes us pretty happy!
Okay, here are ten people that emerged somewhat better off after dicing with death!
10 - The Surgeon Who Became a Piano Genius after Being Struck by Lightning
In 1994, Tony Cicoria was struck by lightning at a lakeside family pavilion.
He said he then had an out of body experience, feeling as if he was being drawn up together
before being slammed back into his body.
Over the next few months he had a burning desire to listen to piano music, something
he had not previously had an interest in.
He then began feeling like he was having music hallucinations and was totally overcome by
his draw to create a piano piece.
Eventually he took lessons and created his now seminal work, Lightning Sonata, a piece
of music inspired by his ordeal.
It seems like the music always lived within him, only the lightning fired it up.
9 - Taking it one step further, we have a man who plays 8 instruments after nearly drowning.
Derek Amato went to a party in 2006 when he drunkenly jumped in a pool and hit his head.
Then in his mid 30s, Derek was rushed to hospital when he collapsed following the incident.
Suffering a serious concussion, he lost 35 percent of his hearing as a result of the
accident.
Interestingly, prior to the accident, Derek describes himself as being a bit very hard
on his luck, sleeping in his car for three months.
After the accident, though, Derek was suddenly filled with a passion for music and began
to read and understand music, learning 8 different instruments.
He said the music was drawing him to it.
Derek now has a career in music and has produced 2 albums.
8 - Unbreakable John So, rather than the accident giving someone
superpowers, this guys powers, so to speak were discovered as a result of an accident…
a la Bruce Willis style.
Echoing the movie, Unbreakable, in 1994 a man, who has simply been called John by Doctors,
was involved in a serious car accident.
Following an X Ray, it seemed that John had no internal bleeding or broken bones, he didn’t
have so much as a fracture.
It turns out that he had a mutation of LRp5, which is kind of the opposite of osteoporosis.
A link to John was made by baffled medics who struggled to fit another patient with
thick bones with a hip replacement.
When doctors compared notes, they saw he and John were related.
7 - The Real Life Magneto A 12 year old boy from Russia was nearly killed
by a huge electric shock, but woke to find he had gained super powers.
Warning, trying to pronounce a long Russian name alert…..
Nikolai Kryaglyachenko…. was walking home from school when he leant against a faulty
lamppost that knocked the boy off his feet due to dangerous bad wiring.
He said he eventually came round and made his way home to tell his mother what had happened.
What happened next was totally unexpected; Nickolai realized he had become a human magnet!
It started when he woke to find coins stuck to him, and he soon realized he also could
attract spoons and other larger metallic objects.
So, I don’t know about superpowers, but you need to see these lightning scars at number
6 This is JUST like something from a comic book….
Getting struck by lightning can give you some super serious but cool looking scars….
These are more than just Harry Potter lightning scars, these are Lictenberg figures… and…
oh my god.
These are fractal patterns generated by the branching electric that struck the body, leaving
streams of scar tissue.
I have a huge scar that sometimes bothers me, sometimes doesn’t… but honestly, these
are fascinating.
If anyone has superpowers, surely it will be these lightning scarred survivors?
Child who developed a superhuman memory after a baseball accident coming in to number 5
In 1979, 10 year old Orlando Serrell was smashed on the left side of his head by a baseball.
Although he fell over and was hurt, he didn’t seek any medical attention and he got back
to playing the game.
Although he didn’t tell his parents, Orlando suffered an intense headache.
After this had passed, though, he discovered he had the ability to remember things with
scary accuracy and could perform calendar calculations.
Orlando can remember exactly what he was doing, what day of the week it was and what the weather
was like on any given day following his accident.
4 - We have the man whose seizures turned to sensational works of art
Franco Magnai travelled to the United States from his home in Italy, filled with a desire
to live in California and see the Golden Gate Bridge.
On arriving to the states, Franco was struck with a serious illness that resulted in the
then 32 year old having violent seizures.
It was following this illness that Franco started having vivid dreams about his childhood
home in Pontito.
He felt a calling to paint the images in his dreams, and despite having no training as
an artist, he picked up a paintbrush and discovered he could create astonishing works from memory.
Despite not stepping foot in Italy for decades, he was able to create amazing works of art.
I am not quite sure how to say this, but an accident on the toilet led this man to become
an incredible artist at number three.
Tommy McHugh had a chequred past involving drugs, crime and even jail time.
The British man was 51 when he strained too hard on the toilet, leading to him bursting
an artery in his frontal and temporal lobe, causing him to have a stroke.
Whilst this sounds awful, following the accident and subsequent medical struggle, he actually
benefited from a continued stroke of artistic genius.
The Liverpudlian started writing poems and creating incredible artworks.
He would spend up to 19 hours a day painting when before, he joked, he only went to an
art gallery to steal something.
Before his death in 2912, he worked closely with Harvard Medical School and University
College London, who both took interests in his personality change following his stroke.
2 - A near death beating turned this man into a Maths Genius
Jason Padgett was out with friends at a karaoke bar in 2002 when the furniture salesman from
Washington was jumped by two thugs.
The men beat him within an inch of his life, leaving him with concussion and post-traumatic
stress disorder…although that wasn’t the only thing he was left with….
It seems the whole ordeal had somehow jolted his brain into a new understanding of mathematics
and geometry.
It seems the attack has brought on Savant Syndrome, where a normal person develops prodigy
like genius following injury or disease.
Jason also seemed to develop synesthesia.
Finally at number one, this guy didn’t sleep for 40 years after he was shot in the head
Sadly Paul Kern is dead now, but he escaped death in 1915 when he was shot in the head
during World War One.
In the Hungarian army, Paul took a Russian bullet to the head that pierced his craniumThe
survivor had the bullet removed from his frontal lobe, but once he regained consciousness,
he didn’t sleep again until his death in 1955.
The veteran became the subject of intense study and medics were baffled by his lack
of sleep and apparent lack of desire to do so.
Paul was encouraged to lay down for two hours every day, but during this time he was totally
responsive.
So, what a treat!
Some incredible people on this list!
Do any of you guys watching have any
special powers?