PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUPERPOWERS

JESUS ACEVES IS THE REAL WEREWOLF

Jesus Aceves is arguably the most famous real-life werewolf and

comes from a rural Mexican family in which twenty-four

members suffer from this rare trait to a degree. The family was

saved from poverty by a circus promoter who put them to work in

a freak show, and now Jesus travels the world showing off his mutation.

MA XIANGANG IS MR. ELECTRO

Ma Xiangang is apparently impervious to electricity. He is capable of

touching live wires without feeling any pain (wires that would normally

kill the majority of people) and is also able to turn on a light

bulb while touching a source of electricity.

SHAKUNTALA DEVI, HUMAN COMPUTER

Shakuntala Devi was an Indian writer and was popularly known as

the “human computer.” A child prodigy, her talents eventually

earned her a place in the 1982 edition of The Guinness Book of

World Records. Her mathematical abilities were so impressive that

she could perform calculations that computers at that time failed to do.

VERONICA SEIDER, TELESCOPIC VISION

In October 1972 the University of Stuttgart, in what was then West

Germany, reported that there was a student named Veronica Seider

who possessed a visual acuity twenty times better than average.

They called her the girl with the “super vision” and according to her

own claims she could see things at extremely long distances.

The question is: Why didn’t she become a sniper?

NATASHA DEMKINA, X-RAY VISION

In Russia it is widely believed that a young girl named Natasha

Demkina can identify diseases in patients better than their

physicians. How? Via her extraordinary sight. According to her, she

can see through patients’ bodies, which pretty much means

that Natasha has X-ray vision. How cool is that?

DANIEL TAMMET, MATHEMATICAL GENIUS

Daniel Tammet is an autistic savant who can perform mind-boggling

mathematical calculations at amazing speeds. But unlike other

savants who can perform similar feats, Tammet can actually describe

how he does it. He also speaks seven languages and is even devising

his own. Simply put, here we have a combo of Lex Luthor

and Professor Xavier in the making.

DEAN KARNAZES, SUPER ENDURANCE

Most athletes and runners have to stop when they reach their

lactate threshold, but Dean Karnazes’s muscles never tire and

because of this rare ability he can run for days and nights

without sleeping or stopping. His extraordinary feats include

running on a treadmill for eighty hours nonstop (350 miles)

and running fifty marathons in fifty states in fifty

consecutive days.

ISAO MACHII, MASTER SAMURAI

Isao Machii calls himself a modern-day samurai and possesses

incredible sword skills. Machii has even been videotaped

slicing a speeding pellet in half with his sword.