- As we as humans continue to evolve
we become stronger, faster and smarter.
But what if that's not all?
What if I told you that there were people out there
who have taken evolution to the next level
and have actually developed what some would call
super powers?
The question is, could you be one of them?
Here are 10 people with unexplainable powers.
(slow, mysterious music)
Number 10 is aqua vision.
Dubbed the Sea Gypsies of Southeast Asia
the Moken are a semi-nomadic people
living in the Mergui Archipelago,
which is made up of nearly 800 islands
in the Andaman Sea.
These people have somehow developed an amazing ability.
Studies have revealed that Moken children
can see underwater at least twice as well
as the average European child.
Normally when we go underwater
the pupils in our eyes expand.
But the pupils in their eyes actually constrict
meaning that they can see beneath the surface
nearly as well, if not better, than we can on land.
It's been suggested that one potential explanation
for the Moken people possessing such incredible
vision underwater is because of natural evolution.
However the true reason for this fascinating ability
is still unknown.
Number nine is the near perfect memory.
Born in 1951 in Salt Lake City, Utah,
Kim Peek was a savant who became the inspiration
for the 1988 film, Rainman.
Expelled from grade school after only one day
for being disruptive, Peek learned what he needed to
from literature,
apparently being able to read books two pages at a time.
One eye on each page.
But it was his memory that was the most impressive.
Despite only having an IQ of 87,
Peek possessed nearly perfect recall
meaning he could remember nearly everything he perceived.
He was capable of giving driving directions
between any two cities on the planet
and even recite passages from a randomly selected book
he read from memory.
While some doctors believed Peek was autistic
many think he may have suffered from FG syndrome.
To this day it's unknown just how Peek
had his incredible ability.
Number eight is being fearless.
After a very rare genetic condition
called Urbach Vita disease ravaged her bilateral amygdala
an anonymous female patient known as SM or SM046,
found herself in a unique situation.
Dubbed the woman without fear, this now 50 year old woman
is almost completely incapable of feeling afraid
which has made her the subject of several
scientific studies, as well as experiments.
The first time she ever truly experienced
what it's like to be scared, at least in her adult life,
was during an experiment conducted by
the University of Iowa in which she breathed in
carbon dioxide through a mask and began to panic
less than eight seconds later.
Exactly why SM can stare down an armed mugger
without shaking, but becomes terrified of suffocation
can only be speculated as the case continues
to be a bit of a mystery.
Number seven is disease identifier.
When Joy Milm began noticing a strange musky smell
coming from her husband, Les,
she thought little of it,
telling him to clean himself better.
However as the years passed
and Les was diagnosed with Parkinson's,
she realized she could somehow smell the disease.
To prove her mysterious ability to scientists
Joy was given 12 t-shirts from patients,
six with Parkinson's and six without the condition.
Joy claimed seven of the shirts were from people
with the disease, correctly identifying the six
worn by Parkinson's patients.
The remaining shirt was the only mistake
until three months later
when it was discovered that that patient
also coincidentally suffered from the disease.
After a final promise to her husband who died in 2015,
Joy said that she would try to use her strange ability
in order to help others.
Something she still does to this day.
Number six is sculpt the unseen.
Born in 1959 in Boulder, Colorado,
Alonzo Clemmons suffered a fall as a child
leaving him with brain damage.
Unable to tie his shoes or even feed himself
it seemed like Clemmons's life would be bitter
and only full of hardships.
Until it was discovered that he had an uncanny ability.
Even before the injury he was showing signs
of heightened creativity using Play Doh at just
two years old to make various shapes.
However, now considered a savant,
Clemmons can sculpt animals he's never even seen
accurately to the tiniest detail.
He doesn't need hours to study his subjects
and can make a perfect miniature replica
of a creature in less than 30 minutes
copying the image created in his own mind
even when he's in the dark.
This unique ability has made Clemmons some decent money
but has also left a number of experts very confused.
Number five is super strength.
Born on October 10, 1863
in Saint-Cyprien-de-Napierville, Quebec Canada,
Louis Cyr discovered that he possessed an unnatural strength
at an early age.
At just 17 years old he bested Canada's then strongest man,
Michaud of Quebec, in a lift contest
and went on to win multiple competitions
and set several world records that he still holds today.
In a truly jaw dropping display,
Cyr managed to hold back four horses
who were running from him and once lifted a platform
with 18 men on it.
Ben Whedder, the former International Federation
of Body Building and Fitness chairman
has gone on record saying that Louis Cyr
was the strongest man ever to have lived
and Cyr's mind blowing feats of strength
back up at claim.
To this day nobody could say how he could
do the things that he did
or where his abilities came from.
Number four is echolocation.
At just three years old Ben Underwood lost his sight
when retinal cancer ravaged both of his eyes
and they had to be surgically removed.
Refusing to give up, Ben's determination pushed him forward
and by the age of five he'd somehow taught himself
how to use echolocation to see.
By making clicking sounds with his tongue
he could sense the objects around him
through the reflecting sound waves
that bounced back off of them.
Ben managed to learn how to run, play basketball,
Rollerblade, skateboard and even ride a bike,
much to the surprise of his doctors.
Sadly, the same cancer that took his vision from him
took Ben's life on January 19, 2009,
but the 16 year old had already made a name for himself
as not only a medical miracle but as a super human
that defied logic.
Number three is enhanced vision.
While she might not have Superman's X-ray vision
Veronica Seeder's own ability to see
is truly extraordinary.
Yet nobody seems to know why or how she has it.
A person who can see normally is considered
to have 20 20 vision.
Meaning from a distance of 20 feet,
or 6.1 meters, they can see the same details
as the average person.
But Seeder has 22 vision.
Meaning she can make up the same details
but at a distance of over 1.6 kilometers away.
Additionally, while looking at a television
she can not only make out the individual frames
but the individual colors they're made of.
Seeder's uncanny visual accuracy
is still baffling doctors and scientists to this day.
Number two is Pyrokinesis.
Imagine staring at something intently for a moment
only to see it to suddenly burst into flames.
Not because there was an open flame or heater close to it
but because you were staring at it.
This is the reality a teenage boy in Italy
named Benedido Supino allegedly faced
when he suddenly realized that he had the uncanny ability
to ignite flammable items just by being in close proximity
to them.
One day in 1982 Supino was reading a comic book
in a dentist waiting room when the pages ignited.
Later his bedsheets and pajamas went up in flames
while he slept, leading to severe burns
to the young boy's body.
It seemed that wherever Supino went, fire followed.
Until he was taught by doctor Demtro Croche,
a parapsychologist, to control them.
How the boy managed to do these things
is still a mystery to this day.
And number one is invisibility.
If you were making a list of superpowers
that could help make you rich,
invisibility would likely be pretty high on it.
It happened to top that of 20 year old Bernardo Vasquez,
a resident of San Juan, Puerto Rico
who is 1936 declared to his mother
that he'd figured out how to give himself
such an ability through black magic
and the mutilated corpse of a cat.
The young man claimed to be able to become
completely invisible at will
by placing one of the feline's bones under his tongue.
After Vasquez barricaded himself in his bedroom,
his mother called the police who had to break in,
as the door was locked from the inside.
It was there that they found a disemboweled black cat,
a tin can with pieces of burnt wood from a coffin,
but no Bernardo.
The case was never solved and Bernardo Vasquez
remains invisible to this day.