You probably think that you can only meet superhumans in movies and comic books, but
in reality there are some genuinely extraordinary people out there that were just born with
unbelievable and straight up unusual traits that make them closer to superhuman than human.
Today I’ve gathered up for the most incredible of these wild individuals who have naturally
become famous sensations from their insanely unique traits.
After watching this video you’ll never forget about these unusual people for as long as
you live.
Ready to meet them?
Let’s get it on!
TRAN VAN HAY Sometimes you might feel lazy and put off
getting a haircut for a while, but Tran Van Hay seems to have never gotten around to it.
The 73 year old Vietnamese man is said to be the man with the longest hair in the world,
not having cut his hair in nearly half a century!
Van Hay says that after he fell ill following a haircut he got at age 25, he swore to never
cut his hair again, and he never went back on that promise.
His absurd head of hair measures an unbelievable 22 feet and 3 inches long at the most recent
measure, and with its naturally dreading nature, it’s realistically probably even longer.
Plus it all weighs in at over 24 pounds, meaning that Tran Van Hay might not just have the
longest hair in the world, but also the strongest neck to be able to hold up all that weight
all day.
JAMIE KEETON If you thought superhumans only existed in
movies and comic books, Jamie Keeton would like to have a word with you.
This real life X-man has a completely unique and as of yet totally unnamed skin condition
that gives him the gravity defying ability to stick objects to his skin, which he’s
managed to turn into a career by showing it off.
He goes by the nickname Can Head because he famously sticks bottles and cans to his head
naturally, even casually pouring a drink from a bottle stuck to his head during an interview.
According to specialists, what gives Jamie his amazing superpower is his pores having
a property that makes them act just like suction cups, but a really cool party trick isn’t
all Jamie’s got.
His body temperature is naturally higher than the average human, which somehow allows his
wounds to heal faster and makes him age more slowly and get sick less often than most people.
One definite upside to his power is being able to talk on the phone without having to
use his hands at all.
ERIK WEIHENMAYER One of the biggest reasons people climb mountains
is to see the incredible view at the peak, but that couldn’t be less the case for Erik
Weihenmayer.
Blinded by a rare eye disease at the young age of 13, Erik never allowed this impairment
to be anything but a motivator to him, and has spent his life training to conquer one
of the hardest things in the world for even a sighted person to do: climb mountains.
And not just any mountains, but the 7 highest mountains in each of the 7 continents.
While naysayers told him throughout his entire life that his ambitions were impossible, Erik
never let that get him down, and he managed to summit the 7 tallest peaks on each continent,
including Mount Everest by the time he was 50 years old.
Still that doesn’t mean Erik is anywhere near satisfied, and he keeps training to top
his already seemingly impossible feats every single day.
KYLE MAYNARD Kyle Maynard is without a doubt one of the
most extreme and determined people ever to have lived.
Born with a condition called congenital amputation, meaning in simple terms that he was born without
any arms or legs, he’s accomplished more with zero limbs than most people with four
ever will.
From a young age Kyle was interested in sports and athleticism, and he’s participated in
mixed martial arts, published books, and possibly the most unbelievable accomplishment he’s
ever attained, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, the tallest free-standing mountain
in the world.
Oh, and did I mention he did it without any prosthetics?
Using custom-built equipment made for his condition, Kyle was able to summit the mountain
all by himself, setting an incredible example for all of us who have a dream that might
seem impossible in the process.
SEVEN Bangalore in India is a big bustling city
full of all sorts of people, but among all the people who get dressed to get through
the day is the most unique man in the city, who has made dressing up into a lifestyle.
Seven is a man with an incredibly interesting story.
He only ever wears red and white, following a tradition in his religious family who only
wore white when he was growing up, until he had to get a tie for work, got a red one,
and well, the rest was history.
Seven was the 7th child born to his parents so they had probably run out of names and
just gave him the number, but he’s taken it to heart, making his phone number, his
license plate, and the number of buttons on all his red and white clothes seven!
He’s even gone out of his way to learn seven languages, which is more than most people
could even name!
Seven’s entire life is centered around red and white.
His cars are custom painted red and white, all his clothes are of course coordinated
with the colors, and his house is full of an ever-expanding collection of fascinating
red and white items.
Whenever he’s driving around and sees something red and white, even if it's something as simple
as a ladder, he stops his red and white car to buy it.
Seven became pretty famous around India, with his color coordinated family and him appearing
on magazine covers for their unique passion for the match color scheme.
For as long as Seven’s around, Bangalore will be a lot more colorful… at least, in
the red and white department.
RICHARD LUPKES Richard Lupkes has well earned the title of
the biggest arm wrestler in the world.
Weighing in at 315 pounds, most of which has to be in his massive arms, it’s not hard
to tell that his age isn’t at all going to stop him from being someone you seriously
wouldn’t want to mess with.
Richard began arm wrestling way back in the 1970s, and after only 4 years he was ranked
as the second best in the world at the sport.
Several years and major victories later, the incredible athlete was scouted for a contract
by WCW to become a professional wrestler, but he ended up leaving the career in order
to stay close to his family, which just goes to show that even the toughest of guys put
family above all else.
Richard actually retired from professional arm wrestling in the 1990s, but unlike most
athletes, he actually came back more than 10 years later and despite being nearly 60
years old at the time, he was back on top of the rankings in no time.
To this day Richard holds more wins than losses in his career record, and he continues to
train to maintain his champion physique all year round.
SHAUN ELLIS Based on popular conception most people think
wolves are some of the most fearsome and vicious animals on the planet, and well that's correct!
Shaun Ellis, however didn't heed the warnings, and decided to try and join a wild wolf pack
himself.
Known by many as The Real-life Wolfman, the British naturalist went into the wilds of
Idaho and found a pack of Grey Wolves who were caring for their young.
By staying nearby and observing their ways from a distance, the wolves came to trust
him over time, and grew to view him as one of their own, even giving him the incredibly
important job of caring for the pups while the rest of the pack hunted.
Ellis ended up spending a full year among the wolves, eating only what they ate.
During this time, the pack treated him like a wolf by feeding him and playing with him,
but occasionally even by fighting with him if he ever broke the pack's wolf laws.
After a year he went back to society, which must’ve been hard after pulling off something
as out there as joining a wolf pack.
The wild lifestyle wasn’t something the incredible naturalist could quite leave behind,
and to this day he works with wild and captive wolves.
SULO KARJANAINEN Hand feeding a one thousand pound grizzly
bear might seem like the absolute quickest ticket to an early grave around, but for Sulo
Karjanainen, it’s just another average day on the farm.
This 73-year-old Finnish man has become famous and renowned in his home country for his unique
and frankly unbelievable bond with all sorts of large carnivores.
He’s affectionately referred to as The Bear Man in Finland, and he’s even used by the
country’s tourism board to advertise the incredible wildlife and rural countryside
of the Nordic country.
Sulo runs the Kusaamo Large Carnivore Center with his brother, a wildlife refuge that has
been the lifetime home of over 20 orphaned bears, all of whom Sulo has the innate talent
to bond with, and who seem to turn into puppies, not predators whenever he’s around.
Sulo’s even able to hand feed the bears, or share his own meals with them right off
his plate.
While you would expect a one-ton bear to be ripping a person’s head off if they were
to get this close, when Sulo’s around any bear they just lick him or try to give him
a warm embrace.
SPENCER SUDERMAN Usually when you train to fly planes, rule
number one is doing everything you can to avoid tailspins, yet when it comes to acrobatic
pilot Spencer Suderman, it seems like he does everything humanly possible to perform as
many seriously death defying tailspins and other incredibly daring maneuvers as he can.
This daredevil pilot is totally obsessed with pulling off inverted flat spins, which are
less flying and more the plane falling and spinning rapidly while it’s upside down.
He’s repeatedly set the world record for the most inverted spins in a flight, always
competing with the only person crazy enough to even attempt such a record: himself.
He set the Guiness world record with an absolutely insane 81 inverted spins, and still wasn’t
satisfied, following up in March 2016 with an even more unbelievable 96 spins, which
means he had to complete a spin every 1.4 seconds for more than 2 continuous minutes,
exposing his body to extremely dangerous g-forces, not to mention how hard it is so get out of
the maneuver while still disoriented and upside down without crashing into the ground head
first.
Somehow Spencer still isn’t satisfied, and he spends every day planning and training
to not just break the record of 96, but demolish it, with a goal that other pilots constantly
tell him is impossible: 120 consecutive inverted spins.
But if there’s one thing that’s certain about this fearless flyer, being told he can’t
do something only motivates him to prove the naysayers wrong.
STEPHEN WILTSHIRE If you’ve ever taken a vacation to a major
city, you’ve definitely got some vivid memories of the place, but Stephen Wiltshire takes
that to a whole ‘nother level.
Stephen probably has the best memory on the planet, at least for cityscapes.
When Stephen was 3 years old he was diagnosed with autism, and doctors told his parents
it was very unlikely he would ever be successful with the condition, but little did they know
that this wasn’t a condition, it was more like a superpower.
He has the incredible ability to draw any subject perfectly from memory after looking
at it for less than a minute, and that includes the entire panorama of a whole city.
After a quick helicopter flyover, Stephen’s brain somehow catalogs every little detail
and saves it perfectly, allowing him to perfectly recreate everything he saw onto a canvas entirely
from memory for the rest of his life.
He’s drawn massive cities like London and Japan without a single flaw and he’s one
of the most famous and revered cityscape artists in the world today.
Now that’s a story that should make anyone believe that they can achieve
their dreams.