Real Life Human Superpowers

With so many superhero movies around, we are used to seeing people with special abilities in fiction. But people with amazing abilities actually do exist in real life.

Ma Xiangang

Is capable of touching live wires without feeling pain. He discovered this amazing ability after accidentally touching a live wire while trying to fix his TV. He is capable of doing this, because his skin prevents electricity from entering his body.

Kim Peek

Kim Peek had perfectly memorized 12,000 book’s. He was able to recall 98 percent of everything he ever experienced in perfect detail. Peek’s story was also the inspiration for the film “Rain Man”.

Wim Hof

Wim Hof have an incredible ability of being invulnerable to cold, which he has proven by swimming in ice cold water and being buried completely in ice. He climbed up Mount Everest in a pair of shorts. Ant when he climbed Everest, he said it was easy.

Isao Machii

Isao Machii is a Japanese man with superhuman reflexes, which he uses to do all sorts of amazing tricks with a katana, including cutting an Airsoft pellet in half in midair. Airsoft pellets travel at roughly 160 feet per second.

Kevin Richardson

Kevin Richardson can spend the night curled up with lions without the slightest fear of being attacked. His magic works not only for lions but for other animals such as cheetahs, leopards and even hyenas do not hold a threat against him. Lions are his favourites.