With so many superhero movies around, such as Spiderman or Hulk, we are used to see people with special abilities in fiction. But people with amazing abilities actually do live in real life. Here is the list of Top 10 incredible people who have an amazing abilities which we haven’t.
1. The Incredible Brain (Daniel Tammet)
Tammet has incredible brain!!! With a facility for mathematical calculations, sequence memory, and natural language learning, Daniel Paul Tammet is a British high-functioning autistic savant gifted. He was born with congenital childhood epilepsy. Tammet holds the European record for memorizing and recounting pi to 22,514 digits in just over five hours.
Knowledge numbers as colors or feelings is a well-documented form of synesthesia, but the detail and specificity of Tammet’s mental imagery of numbers is unique. Every number up to 10,000 has its own single form and feel, that he can “see” results of calculations as landscapes, and that he can “sense” whether a number is prime or composite in his mind, he say.
Tammet has explained his visual picture of 289 as mainly unattractive, 333 as particularly attractive, and pi as beautiful. He can speak several languages like English, Finnish, German, Spanish, Lithuanian, Romanian, Estonian, Icelandic, Welsh and Esperanto.
Tammet was challenged to learn Icelandic in one week, to prove this for the Channel Five documentary. A new language called Mänti is created by Tammet.
Daniel Tammet – The Boy With The Incredible Brain
2. The Boy with Sonar Vision (Ben Underwood)
Ben Underwoodtaught is blind. When Ben Underwoodtaught was 3 year old, his both of eyes were removed (cancer). He lives a quite normal life; he plays basketball, rides on a bicycle. It’s amazing, a boy sees without eyes!!
From objects, Ben makes a short click sound that bounces back. Amazingly, his ears pick up the ecos to let him know where the objects are. Like sonar or a dolphin, Ben is the only person in the world who sees using nothing but eco location.
Extraordinary People – The boy who sees without eyes
3. The Rubberboy (Daniel Browning Smith)
The Rubberboy is the most elastic man alive and the most famous contortionist. He is the five time Guiness Record holder. He displays his arms to move slowly through an unstrung tennis racquet. He performs contortion handstands and unique acrobatics. The Rubber boy has been in many professional basketball or baseball games and on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, ESPN’s Sports Center, Oprah Winfrey, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Cirque du Soleil, Best Damn Sports Show Period, The Discovery Channel, Men in Black 2, HBO’s Carnivale, and CSI: NY and American got a talent.
When Will I be Famous – Semi Final – Rubber Boy
4. Mister Eat-it-All (Michel Lotito)
As the consumer of undigestables and also know as Monsieur Mangetout (Mister Eat-it-all), Michel Lotito is French entertainer. Lotito’s performances are the use of metal, glass, rubber and so on in items such as bicycles, televisions, a Cessna 150, and smaller items which are disassembled, cut-up and swallowed. When he was child, he started eating unusual material and since 1966 he has been performing publicly.
After the use of materials usually considered poisonous Lotito does not often suffer from ill-effects due to his diet. During the ‘meal’, performing he eats around a kilogram of material daily, preceding it with mineral oil and drinking considerable quantities of water.
You can watch Mr Eats All-Even Metal – France video Here.
5. King Tooth (Rathakrishnan Velu)
Oh!!! What a man!!! I mean what a teeth, Rathakrishnan Velu (or Raja Gigi, as he is known locally) broke his own world record for pulling train with his teeth. Amazingly, this time with 6 coaches attached weighing 297.1 tons over a distance of 2.8 metres at the Old Kuala Lumpur Railway Station on August 30, 2007, the event of Malaysia’s 50th Independence Day.
At a young age of 14, Raja Gigi, from Tampin in Malaysia learned a technique of concentrating his powers to any part of his body from an Indian Guru.
Rathakrishnan Velu sets world record
6. The Magnetic Man (Liew Thow Lin)
Liew Thow Lin a 70-year-old retired contractor in Malaysia who has recently made a news for pulling a car twenty meters along a level surface by means of an iron chain hooked to an iron plate on his midriff. He had the amazing ability to make objects stick “magnetically” to his skin and now he has added car-pulling to his repertoire.
He says he took several iron objects and put them on his abdomen, and to his surprise, all the objects including an iron, stuck on his skin and didn’t fall down, after reading an article about a family in Taiwan who possessed such power. This “GIFT” is also present I his three sons and 2 grandchildren, he figures it is traditional.
7. The Man who doesn’t Sleep (Thai Ngoc)
You can’t believe it!! After getting a fever in 1973, 64-year-old Thai Ngoc, known as Hai Ngoc, said he could not sleep at night and also has counted infinite numbers of sheep during more than 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights. Ngoc said that he don’t know whether the sleeplessness has impacted his health or not. But he is still healthy and can farm normally like others.
To prove his health, the aged local of Que Trung commune, Que Son district said he can carry two 50kg bags of fertilizer down 4km of road to return home every day. His wife said that her husband used to sleep well, but these days, even liquor cannot put him down. And she also added that when Ngoc went to Da Nang for a medical examination, doctors gave him a clean bill of health, except a minor decline in liver function.
Recently, Ngoc lives on his 5ha farm at the foot of a mountain busy with farming and taking care of pigs and chickens all day. His six children live at their house in Que Trung.
8. The Torture King (Tim Cridland)
Like the rest of people, Tim Cridland does not seem to feel pain!!! For audiences all over America, Tim amazed everyone by pushing needles into his arms without flinching and he now performs a terrifying act.
Tim can tolerate much higher levels of pain than are humanly possible, scientific tests have shown that. He explains that, by using mind over matter, he is able to push skewers through his body and put up with extreme heat and cold unharmed – but to do this safely he has lengthily studied human anatomy, because puncturing an artery could be serious.
9. The Lion Whisperer (Kevin Richardson)
Kevin Richardson known as animal behaviorist and relies on nature to win the hearts and form a close bond with the big cats. Without the slightest fear of being attacked, he spends the night curled up with them. Kevin’s magic works not only work for lions but other animals such as cheetahs; leopards and even hyenas do not hold a threat against him.
The most Linos are his favorites and it’s a surprise how he can play, carress, and cuddle with them whose teeth are sharp enough to bite through thick steel. This is a too dangerous job but for Kevin, it’s more of an excitement for him.
Lioness swiming with Kevin Richardson
10. The Eye-Popping Man (Claudio Pinto)
This is really scary!! Claudio Pinto can pop both of his eyes 4 cm (about 1 and a half inch) or 95% out of their sockets. For a world record, he is now aiming. Doctors said that have never seen or heard of a person who can pop the eyes as much as him and he is also undergone various tests. From Belo Horizonte, Mr Pinto said that it is a pretty easy way to make money. And he can pop his eyes out four centimetres each, it is a gift from God, he feels blessed.
Hey b4tea, this is an excellent top ten list. I think Rubber Boy is amazing and have actually seen him perform at the halftime of an NBA basketball game. At the end he puts himself into a tiny clear box and is carried away, how’s that for entertainment. He hosted a show on the Discovery Channel about superhumans that included the magnetic man and also a guy who could handle extremely cold temperatures and who’s body temperature actually rose in a bath of ice water. You can cross-post this to our site http://www.toptentopten.com/ and link back to your site. We are trying to create a directory for top ten lists where people can find your site. The coolest feature is you can let other people vote on the rankings of your list.