A woman with x ray vision. A man who can eat an entire plane. A body-builder with muscles like the Hulk. Sounds like comic book fiction right? But what if I were to tell you these people are real and are but a few of a wider collection of even weirder people. Witness comic book lore turn into reality with these 25 of the world’s most bizarre people.
17 Of The World’s Most Bizarre People !! Seriously WTF People
#1 The Man Who Carried His Twin Brother In His Stomach
Living in the city of Nagpur, India, Bhagat claimed that he'd always felt self-conscious about his big belly. On a hot summer night in 1999, thirty-six-year-old Bhagat was rushed to the hospital because his stomach was so swollen that he could barely breathe. The amazed doctors discovered that inside Sanjay's belly was the half-formed body of an infant boy, Bhagat's twin brother that was never born.
#2 The Human Hammer
Gino Martino is a professional wrestler and entertainer who "fascinates" audiences with his superhuman ability to smash through things with his skull. Rumors say that it's better for a car to hit you on the street than Gino's head.
#3 The Man with the Biggest Mouth in the World
Francisco Domingo Joaquim is an ordinary man from Angola with an "extraordinary" ability. He's the proud holder of the record for the world's biggest mouth. His mouth measures seventeen cm (6.69 inches), and he can fit anything in it from soda cans to his wallet.
#4 The Real Life Professor Charles Xavier
Alex Lenkei is a hypnotist with incredible powers of suggestion. Lenkei's powers are so strong that the 68 year-old from Surrey, England, once underwent invasive ankle surgery without anesthesia.
#5 The Woman With the Smallest Waist in the World
Michele Kobke, a twenty-six-year-old woman from Germany, has shrunk her waist down from twenty-five inches to sixteen by wearing a corset every day for three years, even while sleeping. And despite having a waist smaller than most catwalk models, she says she hopes to whittle her waist down to a shocking fourteen inches.
#6 The “Devil Horns” Grandmother
In 2010 a 101-year-old Chinese woman named Zhang Ruifang shocked her friends, family, and the rest of the world when she made headlines for growing a devil-like horn on top of her head.
#7 The Daredevil Who “Flirts” with Death on a Regular Basis
Eskil Ronningsbakken is an extreme artist from Norway who travels all around the globe to enact incredible death-defying performances. He's usually performing balancing acts at the tops of lethal drops such as canyons and cliffs. He first got into the art of balancing when he was five years old and has been shocking the world with his amazing feats ever since.
#8 The Girl With X-ray Eyes
Natasha Demkina is known in her native Russia as the "Girl with X-ray Eyes." She claims to have the ability to see through people's skin right into their insides. She has shut down even her most vicious critics with her creepy but totally accurate medical diagnoses.
#9 The Self-proclaimed Pope
David Allen Bawden, also known as Pope Michael, is an American citizen and a conclavist claimant to the papacy. Bawden was elected by a group of six laypeople, including himself and his parents, who had come to believe that the post-Vatican II "Catholic" Church had seceded from the Catholic faith, and that there has been no legitimate popes elected since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958.
#10 The Man Who Permanently Raised His Hand to the Heavens
Sadhu Amar Bharati first raised his arm in 1973 in honor of the god Shiva, and hasn't put it down since.
#11 The Real Version of the Incredible Hulk
Brazilian body builder Romario Dos Santos Alves was so desperate to emulate the Incredible Hulk that he actually injected his arms with a potentially lethal combination of oil and alcohol. The twenty-five-year-old risked his life in the process, and almost had both arms amputated. His grotesquely swollen muscles have earned him cruel nicknames such as "beast" and "monster."
#12 Mister “Eat-It-All”
Over the course of forty years, Frenchman Michel Lotito ate an estimated nine tons of metal.
#13 The Woman With Seventeen Different Personalities
Karen Overhill had an extreme case of multiple personality disorder. In 1999 she began finding herself in strange places with no idea how she had gotten there. She discovered bookmarks farther into her books beyond the point she recalled reading to, she heard voices at night recapping the day's events, and often ran into people who knew her when she had no recollection of any prior encounter with them. She eventually discovered she had been living with seventeen distinct personalities and eventually found a cure to get rid of them all.
#14 The Man Who Lived in an Airport for Nearly Two Decades
Mehran Karimi Nasseri is an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport in France, from August 26, 1988, until July 2006. His story became the main inspiration and basis for the Tom Hanks movie The Terminal.
#15 Most Tattooed Woman in History
On June 29, 2011, a fifty-three-year-old woman named Cynthia Martell was found dead in her home on the 1500 block of Laguna Avenue. The crazy thing about this story is that 97 percent of her body was covered with tattoos, which pretty much made her the most tattooed woman in recorded history.
#16 Man With the World’s Longest Hair
Although he never got his hair officially measured and acknowledged by the Guinness Book of Records, Vietnamese herbalist Tran Van Hay was known as the man with the longest hair in the world. According to his wife, Tran hadn't gotten a haircut in more than fifty years and only washed it a few times (the last time being eleven years ago). Unfortunately, Tran Van Hay died in 2010 at the age of 79.
#17 The Real Mr. Freeze
Wim Hof's a Dutch world-record holder, adventurer, and daredevil commonly nicknamed the Iceman for his extraordinary ability to withstand below freezing temperatures. Keep in mind that he once submerged himself in an ice bath for one hour and fifty-two minutes.
