With more and more of imaginations flowing through the brains of creative
artists and especially that of VFX people, we all have witnessed the evolution
of characters on reel screen becoming real life superheroes.
Starting from superheroes of Marvel to DC Comics, the fantasy world just
doesn't stop. When all happens to be the imagination of writers, it turns out
that there might be a hidden clue in our world visible to only those gentlemen.
You needn't worry but, because there are magically gifted people living with us
in real life with the powers to attract steel and what not. Yes, it's hard to
put faith into views like this since in a world of people wearing pragmatic
glasses don't believe in anything unless they see it.
Believe it or not, the lives of these 10 people you're about to read will
not cease to exist just because one doesn't says so:
Tony Cicoria
Don't know how to play the piano? Get hit by lighting, and then you
may know by God's grace. Don't know about you, but the same instance happened
with Tony. He was out at a payphone talking to his mom, lightning struck him,
and the technically dead person was brought back from the dead by doctors at
the scene.
The scenario gets interesting now as the person who was never associated
with piano in his entire life suddenly found himself being inclined towards
piano music. Never knew how to play but the urge within made him purchase a
piano and later without even taking any tutorials, he started to compose
melodies playing in his head and named his first piece as "The Lightning
Sonata".
Now, he does several recitals and the doctors still have no clue about how
did it all happen.
Hot Wired Woman
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The woman probably prefers not to disclose her name, but we'll tell you
what she can do, at least. She has the ability to melt ice with her bare hands
whenever she desires to heat them up. The story goes like, one day a
high-intensity shock passed through her body via a faulty lamp. To all the
skeptics, she even proved the same by sitting on ice and making it melt. See
the cracks appear as it melts, pictured
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Magneto - Nikolai Kryaglyachenko
Just call him Magneto until the time you figure out how to pronounce the
latter. One day Nikolai decided to take some momentary rest on a lamp post, and
as he leaned over it, the faulty wire coming out with active current after
making contact with him transformed him into the kind of X-men Magneto.
And the next morning when he moved around the house, all the things made of
metal started to attract his body. Mr. Kryaglyachenko is the only human who's
ever come this close to being a human magnet since mid-10th Century. Doctors
say that it's just because of the sticky skin people like him have.
Franco Magnani
Franco wasn't struck with anything but magic, as it turns out he emigrated
from Italy to San Francisco in 1960's and started suffering from severe fever.
As a part of that, seizures also started to occur making him delirious. On his
recovery, he started to imagine vivid images of the town he spent his childhood
in; a place he hadn't visited in the last 30 years. And, he thought to express
all those imaginary images on a canvas. Being a cook and woodworker later in
his life, with no hands-on experience with the strokes of a paintbrush; what he
paints now is extraordinarily detailed like a photo. Doctors say that it is
because the temporal lobe epilepsy got triggered by the high fever. The
sufferers are believed to have obsessive personality leading Franco to paint
like a pro.
Jason Padgett
In the year 2002, Jason got jumped by
two men as he was walking out of a bar and was hit in the head by those men
leading to a concussion in the skull. He started to see geometric shapes
everywhere he looked at, after returning home and so did not leave his place
for the next 3 years.
And, then he thought of sketching all those on a paper. The result was so
full of design and precision. Padgett was always terrible at mathematics, but
now he was drawing fractals and mathematical models showing repeating patterns,
excelling at sketching of the kind (pictured) without the help of a tool or
stencil. Doctors believe that the brain's area responsible for control object
boundary formation was affected by the hit on his skull enabling him to see
what he could.
Ben Underwood – best proficient human Echolocator
At the age of 2, Ben was detected with
retinal cancer and his eyes were removed for the sake of survival by the time
he turned 3. With no visual aide like that of an eye, in order to move the way
the world does he decided to use echolocation (detect the location of objects
with the help of echoes).
He started to make frequent clicking noises with his tongue and wait for
these clicks to come back as an echo. With the help of this, he could walk like
the rest of us; play Football, run, and even ride a bike. By the time he became
a teenager, he had become the most proficient human echolocator alive. He was
again diagnosed with cancer, and in January 2009 he passed away at the age of
16 years.
"Savant" Lady
Just like #2, we don't know her name but
won't disappoint you. A sufferer of savant syndrome was out on a family ski
trip and while skiing met with an accident. She became dizzy and nauseated
right after that and continued to feel like that for the coming two days.
After reaching out to a doctor, it was examined that with a concussion, a
dislocated shoulder and a broken collarbone was there. Although, she was able
to remember everything from the day of the accident; her vision was blurred
along with perception but couldn't draw a diagram. Only 50 people are said to
suffer from Savant and are believed that they display extra-ordinary skill sets
they never had early in life.
Ken Walters
A person who has faced multiple heart
attacks in life after going through an accident in 1986 that broke his back,
made him bedridden for a year. He was kicked out of his house in the end. In
the year 2005, jobless Ken was living off the government funding. After the
third stroke he thought of writing a letter to the nurse but instead of writing
found he was doodling.
An engineer by profession who never doodled before paralysis hit him,
according to doctors was the ability of the brain to rewire the damaged areas
after a stroke. Know the gaming company Electronic Arts (EA), after some time
they got attracted by his art, and now he designs monsters for their games.
Tommy McHugh
A British native was considered to be
one of the biggest A-holes in the UK because of his weird habit of punching
random people he came by. He even had drug problems. One day, after suffering
from a severe headache he consulted the hospital. He was told that due to a
ruptured aneurysm, there's a bleed on both sides of his brain which if not
operated will lead to his death.
On his way back to home, he was walking when he observed himself talking in
rhyme, and after this, it continued for three months that he started to see
strange images. Like others, these images led him to draw, paint, sculpt and
even write which he never did in his life earlier. Doctors say the damage done
to his frontal lobe is the reason behind all of that. Now, he has eventually
become a nicer person too because of his art being exhibited in many of the
galleries across the UK.
Jon Sarkin
A chiropractor from South Hamilton,
Massachusetts, Jon developed tinnitus (causes ringing in his ears) and
hyperacusis (over-sensitivity to a certain range of sound) after six years. To
get rid of the symptoms he underwent a surgery during which he suffered
cerebellar haemorrhage and a stroke.
After the surgery, he went deaf in one
ear, with splintered vision and skewed balance. Doctors said the changes to be
deaf could be permanent and also told him that new connections would be formed
inside the brain.
Fortunately, the connections which
happened turned out to be the artistic ones and enabled him to draw. Now, his
artwork has been featured in magazines like "Vanity Fair" and other
art galleries with some with a worth of more than $10,000.
Watch the video of TheRichest summarising all.