Monday, December 14, 2009

10 Extraordinary People with Weird Superpowers

The Man Who Doesn’t Feel Pain

Tim Cridland is an entertainer and a former member of the Jim Rose Circus.
Tim specializes in sword swallowing, fire walking, sleeping on beds of nails (once even with a Toyota over him), body skewering and electrocuting himself. Tim says he can do this because he has mastered mind over matter. Researchers on the other hand say it’s because Tim was born with a mutation that makes it so he doesn’t feel pain the way normal people do. It’s not that Tim and his ilk can’t feel anything, because they can feel when they are touched, and they can feel temperature. They simply do not register pain thanks to malfunctioning receptors in the nerve cells that tell your brain.

The boy who sees without Eyes


Ben Underwood taught himself to use echo location to navigate around the world. He is blind, both of his eyes were removed (cancer) when he was 3, but has managed to do some truly extraordinary feats. Basically he’s Daredevil He can see the world throught sounds like a sonar or a dolphin.


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