12 Ordinary People With Superhuman Abilities In Real Life

Superheroes are not just fictional characters, there are people who have superhuman abilities in real life too. Some of them can scale tall buildings, some others (only one actually) can EAT an entire aircraft!

Read on to find out more.

1. Ben Underwood, the real life “Daredevil”

Famous as: The most famous echolocator OR the real life ‘Daredevil’

Super abilities:

Diagnosed with retinal cancer at the age of 2, had to get his eyes removed

Taught himself echolocation by the age of 5

He could detect the location of objects by making clicking noises with his tongue

He could do all things like normal kids, like basketball, cycling, moving around without the help of a stick or guiding dog. Watch him in action here

Sadly, this brilliant kid passed away at the age of 16, fighting same cancer that cost him his eyes

Wim Hof – Iceman

Famous as: Iceman

Super abilities:

Can withstand extremely cold temperatures,

Reached top of Mount Kilimanjaro in his shorts,

Climbed 6.7 km altitude of Mount Everest, however, he wasn’t able to reach the summit due to foot injury

Guinness World record for longest ice bath

Rajmohan Nair- The electric man

Famous as: The electric man

Super abilities:

Can withstand large amounts of electricity passing through his body

Can withstand electricity upto 30 times the capacity of a normal human being

Jyothi Raj- Indian spiderman

Famous as: The Indian Spiderman

Super abilities:

Climbed Chitra Durga fort without harness

Rock climber who doesn’t use any support or harness

Climbed Karnataka’s highest fall in opposite direction of the flow without harness

Tom Cridland, the torture king

Famous as: Zamora the Torture King

Super abilities:

Can subject his body to extreme pain

His stunts include skewering his body parts, fire eating, sword swallowing etc

Tibetan Monks- Practicing Tummo

Famous as: Monks who can vary their body temperature

Super abilities:

Can increase their body temperature by the power of meditation

Master Zhou

Famous as: The Jewel of China

Super abilities:

Can generate heat to the boiling points from his hands

Can stand on thin sheets of paper

Michel Lotito- The guy who ate a whole aircraft

Famous as: Monsieur Mangetout OR “Mr. Eat-All”

Super abilities:

Could eat anything which normal humans cannot, including objects made of metal, glass, rubber etc.

Famously ate a whole aircraft Cessna 150

Had eaten 9 tons of metal

Isao Machii- Modern day super samurai

Famous as: Modern day Super Samurai

Super abilities:

Holds a number of Guinness world records for his sword skills

Famously split a bullet travelling at the speed of 200 mph in half with his sword

Fastest tennis ball cut at the speed of 708 km/h

Daniel Browning Smith- The rubber boy

Famous as: The rubber man

Super abilities:

Famously known as the most flexible person in the history

Has 7 Guinness world records to his name

Can fit his whole body through an unstrung tennis racket

Rathakrishna Velu- King of Teeth

Famous as: King of Teeth

Super abilities:

Pulls heavy objects with his teeth

Famously pulled a train with 6 coaches weighing about 297 tonnes to a distance of 2.8 meters

Had his name registered in Guinness book of world records

Magnetic man Liew Thon Lin

Famous as: Magnetic man

Super abilities:

Can stick metallic objects to his body

Pulled a car with magnetic force

Studies found out that his body does not actually exhibit magnetic fields, but his skin has very high rate of friction

Do you know any more superhumans which we might have missed?

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