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

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2. 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

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3. 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

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4. 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

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5. 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

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6. 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

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7. 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

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8. 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

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9. 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

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10. 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

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11. 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

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12. 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

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

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