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We've all had those dreams, the thought of what it would be like to have super powers.
Well, for these select individuals around the world, it's more than just a dream.
From super strength to inhuman perception, we're counting down our picks for the Top
10 Humans With Real Super Powers!
Oh yeah, we've given these individuals our own monikers - let us know in the comment
section what you think their super-hero names should be!
10.
Stephen Wiltshire - "Shutter" Stephen Wiltshire was born in London, England
on April 24th, 1974.
Growing up, he was diagnosed with autism around the age of 3 after his parents had noticed
a delay in his learning.
At age 5, he would be enrolled in a school in West London, where he would grow to meet
his true potential.
Stephen would become officially named a member of the Order of the British Empire in January
of 2006, for his commitment and services to the world of art; bringing us to his astounding
power.
Stephen is known for his truly amazing ability to view objects such as a city landscape,
and completely commit it to memory.
Sure photographic memory is common in the world of powers, but Stephen seems to go beyond
most individuals, as he is able to transcribe the images into his very detailed drawings.
9.
Miroslaw Magola - "Magnetix" Born on May 29th, 1958, in Gorzow Wielkopolski,
Poland, Miroslaw Magola exhibits an amazing grasp of control over psychokinesis - the
ability to use nothing but one's own mind to manipulate physical objects.
He illustrates this by generating a magnetic field throughout his body that is strong enough
to attract and hold some metallic objects.
Though many have gone on to claim he was fraudulent with his powers, Magola wishes to prove this
is not the fact, looking to do a live television event, so that he may prove he is genuine
to his skeptics.
Miroslaw has claimed that he achieved the awakening of his magnetic powers through experimenting
with psychokinesis, meditation and yoga. 8.
Dean Karnazes - "Marathon Man" Dean Karnazes was born in Inglewood, California,
August 23rd, 1962.
His genetics are truly amazing, making him sort of a mutant type hero on our list; his
body seems to handle the recovery of muscular tissue in a vastly different manner than that
of normal people.
On his 30th birthday, Dean was sitting inside a bar having some drinks and commemorating
with friends, until suddenly he stood up, Forrest Gump style, walked out of the bar
and ran 30 miles, one for each year of his life.
Finding fame in becoming the man who ran 50 marathons in 50 days in all 50 states of the
U.S, he would appear on an episode of "Stan Lee's Superhumans" where tests were run on
him, finding that he produces very little lactic acid, meaning that he doesn't fatigue
and his muscles don't cramp, giving him an ability to effortlessly run without tiring.
7.
Liam Hoekstra - "Herculad" Perhaps stories of ancient gods of strength
were less far-fetched than originally thought.
It turns out there are few people like our number 7 pick, Liam Hoekstra, born in Roosevelt
Park, Michigan in 2005.
At the incredibly young age of 5 months, yes we said months, Liam would complete an iron
cross competition.
At the age of 3, he possessed a 40% body muscle ratio.
Liam would, eventually, be taken to the doctors, who would diagnose him with a very rare genetic
condition called muscle hypertrophy; a condition where the body compounds muscle while restricting
the production of body fat.
Lucklily, as of now, his muscle mass and skeletal structure hasn't showed any negative side
effects to his heart, nor have there been other recorded side-effects.
6.
Daniel Tammet - "Brain Wave" Born Daniel Paul Corney, January 31st, 1979,
he would later change his identity to that of Daniel Tamet.
Suffering from epileptic seizures as a young child, medical treatment would prove helpful,
but then at age 25, he would be diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome.
Despite these things, Daniel has a tremendous memory, perhaps some would say, at a superhuman
level; he is described as a "prodigious savant" by Dr. Darold Treffer, who has studied savant's
for over 40 years.
Daniel has the ability to do massive calculations in his head, and has been able to since he
was a child, has an acute memory, being able to count off 22,514 digits of PI (pie), which
took 5 hours to do by the way, and has a remarkable ability to learn languages, being able to
learn new ones within a week; that's pretty superhuman to us.
5.
Slavisa Pajkic - "Current" Born in Serbia's Pozarevac county in 1957,
Slavisa Pajkic, is one of a very, very few amount of people able to withstand deadly
amounts of electricity as it is surged throughout their bodies.
Slavisa had first discovered his unusual ability at the age of 17, and has forged a remarkable
relation with electricity since.
He has gone on record as being able to withstand up to 20,000 volts in 1983, which is far higher
than the 50 required to cause serious injury to the human body; this feat had allowed him
to set his first of 2 world records.
His second outstanding record breaking achievement was in 2003, when he would conduct through
his body, enough electricity to bring a cup of water to 97 degrees Celsius, or 206 degrees
Fahrenheit, in just over 1 minute and 37 seconds.
As if to go on and develop his powers even more, he is also able to store electricity
within himself, and release it at will.
Scientists have ran numerous studies and tests, and are currently unable to figure out how
exactly Slavisa is capable of doing such things.
4.
Tori Allen - "Monkey Girl" Born July 30th, in Savalou, Benin, West Africa,
in 1988, Tori Allen, is a master of climbing, a skill which she credits to her childhood
pet monkey, Georgie.
Growing up and emulating the style and method her monkey used to climb objects, Tori went
on to rapidly set records such as a national outdoor climbing record at age 11, and by
age 12 was a professional rock climber.
By age 13, she had obtained all four major domestic titles in rock climbing; she went
on to achieve a great deal of other achievements, such as being the youngest female to summit
El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, and winning the X-Games at age 14.
The story of her learned powers, gives a whole new meaning to the adage, monkey see, monkey
do.
3.
Isao Machii - "Ronan" The Iaido master, Isao Machii, was born August
20th, 1973, in Kawanishi, Hyogo, Japan.
A holder of multiple Guinness World Records for his expert prowess level with his sword
skills; including "Most martial arts sword cuts to one mat", "Fastest 1,000 martial arts
sword cuts", "Most sword cuts to a mat in three minutes", and "Fastest tennis ball cut
by a sword" which by the way, was traveling 820 kilometers or roughly 520 miles per hour.
Isao is actually considered to have superhuman sensory powers that are beyond any normal
human being.
He is even capable of slicing bullets and pellets out of the air with a single swing
of his sword; taking part in a project which attempted to get a robot to mimic his sword
strokes.
Isao's impressive superhuman skill isn't genetic, but a learned power, which he is willing to
teach to some at his very own samurai school in which he runs as headmaster.
2.
Scott Flansburg's - "Calcula-TOR!"
The human calculator, as dubbed by Regis Philbin, Scott Flansburg, was born on December 28th,
1963, in Herkimer, New York.
At the early age of 9, Scott would discover that he possessed, what some would describe
as, mental calculator abilities, finding that he can solve math equations his teacher's
gave without having to write down any numbers.
As a youth, he would come to realise that numbers and shapes of angles in numbers correlated
to their values - resulting in his refusal to count 1 to 10, instead preferring to think
in the term of 0 through 9.
His grasp of astounding ability to grasp and computate mathematics is so vast, he can get
an answer faster than a calculator, and can even tell you what day any past date fell
on.
1.
Stig Severinsen - "Gill" The Danish freediver, Stig Severinsen, was
born in Aalborg, Denmark, in 1973.
Severinsen has a Ph.D in medicine, and has represented Denman in both swimming and Underwater
Rugby events, holding four Free-diving AIDA world records, and two Guinness World Records.
Stig is able to hold his breath longer than any other human on the planet, at a record
of 22 minutes.
He would also appear on "Stan Lee's Superhumans"; after testing, it
was revealed that he stores red blood cells in his spleen that aid him in this astonishing
feat, much like that of a dolphin.
To master such things, Stig has had to train nearly his entire life to hold his breath
for what must seem like an eternity.
Through discipline and training, Stig has pushed himself into the realm
of the superhuman.