For all times, the crowns of nature have accumulated many amazing stories about themselves. Some of them are truly frightening, others are alarming, and others amaze and even inspire to accomplishments. So what are the situations that happened to people in different eras, have the right to be called the most extraordinary of all?

Among the amazing stories of people living side by side with wild animals, the story of Marina can be considered almost a canonical embodiment of the Tarzan stories of Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Chapman, then a little 5-year-old girl, ended up in the Colombian jungle in the 50s of the last century. She ended up in impenetrable forests because she was kidnapped, and then, for some reason, left there by unknown men. Soon the baby was found by a flock of monkeys. Its representatives began to show a mild interest in a larger, but still similar individual. The girl quickly settled in and became in her community: she began to move around on all fours, steal food, look for fleas and, if possible, make some sounds.

After 5 years, Marina inadvertently gave herself away to poachers, who immediately decided to make money on the young creation of money and send her to a brothel. However, due to her age, Chapman performed only the work of a servant there. Then the bitter fate of the girl continued with beatings and imprisonment already in the house of the mafia, where she found herself after escaping from the brothel. Soon justice prevailed, and Mowgli found good people. One of the women became her foster mother.

Today Marina lives in Bradford, UK with her husband and children. She again mastered human speech and even trained as a chef. However, an amazing story from her life still reminds of itself. For example, Chapman can still move confidently on all fours, climb trees and give a tough rebuff.

bird child

The next amazing story from life will also be dedicated to the baby, only it is no longer 50, but more than 280 years away from the present. In 1735, the German Schmidt family from the small town of Taucha was preparing for the birth of 4 children. The couple, 28-year-old Johanna-Sofia and 38-year-old Andreas, not only did not expect to face preterm labor at 8 months of pregnancy, but also to see what they would bring with them ...

The baby that appeared combined the features of a man and a chicken. The strangeness of the phenomenon was further enhanced by the fact that all the previous offspring of the couple were absolutely normal and healthy. At one time, Gottlieb Friederici, who published the work “The Rarest Human Monster”, took up the explanation of this amazing case - it was he who preserved the baby’s body in alcohol, which then ended up in the Waldenburg Museum in Germany. However, even today, progressive doctors and researchers have not been able to identify the nature of the appearance of such a creature and find in history other examples of people with a clair-shaped skull, lack of auricles, an underdeveloped lower jaw, an anomalous heart, and long fingers ending in claws. Scientists managed to establish only the gender of the bird child, which brought another mystery to this life - it was a girl.

Three-eyed patient

Some amazing cases from life can bring the main actors a lot of inconvenience. For example, once in China, doctors discovered a 25-year-old man with 3 eyes. For all the time, mankind has encountered such precedents only 3 times.

An additional eye, uncharacteristic for ordinary people, was located at young man on the temple on the left side. The eye included all the necessary elements: eyelid, pupil, lacrimal gland and even the superciliary arch. But he also had one significant drawback - he saw absolutely nothing, and also significantly worsened the eyesight of his "partners".

Blood that conquers poison

Next amazing and incredible story will also be associated with the inexplicable features of the human body, but in this case, you will need to move to India already. Today Singh-Abu lives here, earning the nickname "Lord of the Serpents", although he could also be called the "Lord of Death". The fact is that this man experimentally found out: the bites of creeping dangerous vipers not only do not kill him, but even make him stronger!

Research has established that Indian blood has an unusual composition that breaks down poison and then converts it into useful nutrients. This is truly amazing, but the liquid circulating in the circulatory system of the Lord of the Snakes does not belong to any group known today (0, A, B, AB). Singh-Abu decided to turn a good chance into a business and earn a living from his uniqueness: at the moment he gives people performances where he walks barefoot on a floor infested with reptiles and performs various tricks with them.

Tears of plastic

And here is another story that is considered one of the most amazing not only in North Africa, where the Hanuma phenomenon girl lives, but throughout the world. How many people have cried at least once in their lives? Of course, many. However, the main character of this story is not familiar with tears in the usual sense.

The baby grew up as a non-capricious and obedient child, so her parents did not immediately notice her peculiarity. Only when the girl grew up enough to help her mother with the housework, the couple realized how much she was different from the rest. One day, Khanuma was cutting onions, when suddenly hard, like beads, grains fell from her eyes. The amazing case would have remained the property of the North African family if its head had not decided to use beautiful and well cut crystals in his jewelry work. Stories about beautiful jewelry began to pass from buyer to buyer, until a researcher interested in its composition purchased the product. He found out that the main element, namely the tears of Khanuma, is a special type of plastic, the manufacturing method of which is still unknown to the world.

Scientists still have not been able to explain this amazing story. The most interesting and joyful thing is that the “grains” falling from the eyes do not interfere with Khanuma in any way. real life. They harden already on the eyelashes, do not stick to the skin, do not spoil the eyesight and do not cause pain.

Funny incidents and coincidences

Among the most amazing stories from life are not only those that can cause bewilderment, but also those that make you just smile. Here are some of them:

  • After landing on the surface of the moon in 1969, the American Neil Armstrong immediately uttered the phrase: “I wish you success, Mr. Gorsky!”. Once, while still a boy, the future astronaut witnessed a quarrel between a couple living nearby. In the course of a showdown, Mrs. Gorsky blurted out that it's more likely that a neighbor's kid flies to the moon than her husband can satisfy a woman.

  • A phenomenal incident happened in 1965 in a village in Scotland. Residents gathered at the local cinema to enjoy the film "Around the World in 80 Days". At the moment when the sending of the balloon and the cutting of the rope were shown in the frame, the audience heard a roar. It turned out that exactly the same ship landed on the roof!

  • In 1966, a 4-year-old boy named Roger Losier nearly drowned near Salem, USA. He was noticed in time and pulled out of the water by the brave Alice Blaze. In 1974, Roger, without knowing it, returned the debt to the savior, namely, in the same place he saved the man who turned out to be her husband from death.

The "Amazing People" program gives participants the opportunity to show their unique abilities, which are hard for an ordinary person to believe in! This is a project about the limitless possibilities of our brain, which are still little understood. The first two seasons of "Amazing People" have already shown how many extraordinary people with unique abilities are in the world!

The most amazing people of Russia and the world - in the new season of the show "Amazing People"!

Each of them is a discovery! Each of them is a sensation! For several years in a row, amazing people have shocked the audience with their unique abilities, which are hard for an ordinary person to believe in!

"Amazing People" is a project about the limitless possibilities of the brain, still little explored. And this means that the success of the performance of each number has a scientific explanation!

"Amazing People" is a Russian adaptation of the world famous show The Brain. After the tremendous success of the first season in Russia and the release of the project in the second season on the international level, the number of fans of the show has increased significantly! Contestants from all over the world, stars, record holders and winners of foreign analogues of the project dream of getting into the Russian show! The participants of both seasons had both direct students and inspired adepts who decided to master the same disciplines and try their hand at the show! "Amazing People" inspires new amazing people!

In the new season of the show, the audience will again be amazed by the unusual abilities of seemingly ordinary people - from all over the world! Unique memory, lightning-fast counting skills in the mind, high-speed solving of mathematical problems, synesthesia, fluency in dozens of languages, speed cubing, imitation of bird voices, orientation by the stars - these are far from all the talents of our superhumans!

You will see: outstanding mathematicians, whose lightning-fast calculations are difficult to check even on special calculators; masters of world-class mnemonics, champions of the Guinness Book of Records; a unique six-year-old girl with incredible physical strength and at the same time developed mental abilities; a polyglot speaking more than 24 languages; clock man (he doesn't need a watch to tell the time!) and eagle vision man; the USSR record holder for high-speed bilingual typing, who is considered one of the best typists in the world and prints in 16 languages; the best speedcuber in the country, creating artistic images from Rubik's cubes (the largest picture of Rubik's cubes in the CIS is his handiwork). And many other unique, talented and amazing people of all ages from all over the world! And for the first time in the history of Russian television, a hypnotist dog will take part in the competition!

The show will be attended by contestants from Germany and Macedonia, the USA and India, China, Turkey and Mongolia, the CIS countries and the Baltic states. Russia is represented by more than 30 cities, including Moscow, St. Petersburg, Murmansk, Kyzyl, Chelyabinsk, Sochi, Vologda, Orenburg, Belgorod, Dmitrov, Kislovodsk, Novosibirsk, Samara, Ulyanovsk, Yekaterinburg, Arzamas, Novosibirsk, Nizhnevartovsk, Omsk, Irkutsk , Samara, Voronezh and others.

In the new season, amazing people will have to go through new complex and interesting tests. The rules remain the same: seven contestants take part in each edition. At the end of the program, the auditorium selects by voting one winner who has made the greatest impression. In the final episode of the show, the finalists of all previous episodes will gather to compete for the main prize - the Winner's Cup and one million rubles!

Star guests in the hall help the audience to choose the best participant: TV presenter Olga Shelest, choreographer and TV presenter Yevgeny Papunaishvili, Russian athlete, Honored Master of Sports in boxing Natalya Ragozina and TV presenter Maria Sittel. They comment on the speeches, but do not influence the voting process in any way. The professional assessment of the unique abilities of the contestants is given by the expert of the program - candidate of biological sciences, director of the Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences, Professor Vasily Klyucharev.

Let's be amazed together!

Show host: TV presenter and producer Alexander Gurevich

To the envy of the female sex

For such a feature of the body, almost any woman would give half her life. But this gift, if it can be called that, by an absurd game of chance went to a man.

A Briton named Perry can eat anything, anytime and in any quantity: cakes, ice cream, pastries, fatty, very fatty, high-calorie, ultra-high-calorie, in the morning and in the evening. Perry can wake up at night and visit the fridge and get nothing for it. In the sense that his body instantly burns all the calories and simply does not have time to store anything in fat. Doctors believe that this is a disease and even came up with a name for it - lipodystrophy. And the podium stars are sincerely sure that this is a gift from God and they dream of changing places with Perry for at least a week.

It is difficult to argue that this is a gift, if you know the history of its appearance. Until the age of 12, Perry was an ordinary, rather well-fed child, but suddenly, literally in one night, all the fat from his body disappeared. The boy did not take any special drugs, however, and there were no flying saucers with aliens distributing such gifts in the courtyard of his parents' house. But the fact remains: Perry eats and does not get fat. The only deviation in his body, discovered by doctors - the excess of insulin by six times.

Is it cold guys?

Another phenomenal gift, again inherited by a man, and, specifically, by the Dutchman Wim Hof, is the absence of a feeling of cold.

Hof can easily travel in his shorts on the most famous glaciers in the world (which he actually does), literally sleep in the snow, and at the same time feel more than comfortable.

At the same time, the man’s skin remains warm, yes, what’s the skin there - Hof has never even caught a cold in his life!

Unlike the non-fat Perry, doctors did not find any abnormalities in the Dutchman's body at all.

Bye bye…

In 2006, the long-awaited male baby appeared in the family of Shannon and David Lamb, whom his parents named Ratt. It would seem, nothing surprising, well, born and born, you never know how many children are born. But from the first days of his life, Rhett was able to surprise not only his loved ones, but also doctors from many countries of the world.

The thing is, Lamb Jr. is not sleeping. He does not sleep at all, neither in a stroller nor in a crib, nor in his mother's arms, does not even doze off. He is cheerful, cheerful and ready to play all day long, only he looks a little sleepy at the same time.

The doctors' diagnosis was disappointing. The fact that a child does not let his parents get enough sleep is not so bad. Ratt was diagnosed with a very rare Arnold-Chiari disease, which occurs in no more than eight people in a hundred thousand - cerebellar displacement and gray matter compression in the very place that, unfortunately, is responsible not only for sleep, but also for speech and breath.

So far, Rhett looks and feels quite normal, except that he is not sleeping. what will happen to him in the future is unknown.

The attic is large, but with a lot of rubbish

Los Angeles resident Jill Price remembers everything. Yes, yes, the curse of any man: a woman who is able to think for a while, tell what she did, for example, 18 years, 7 months and 15 days ago, what time she got out of bed, what she had breakfast, where she was and what she did, what topics discussed with a neighbor upstairs, and how late the neighbors downstairs went to bed.

There are not so few people with a phenomenal memory, but almost all of them regularly train their brains, memorize information using some kind of tricks. Jill doesn't use any tricks, she just remembers and that's it. Researchers have even come up with a special term specifically for Jill's gift - hyperthymestic syndrome. (hyperthymestic syndrome, from the Greek word thymesis - memory and hyper - over). Now five more people with the same syndrome have been found in the world.

Of course, this phenomenal ability has its drawbacks. In addition to the fact that Jill Price remembers even what most people (and she herself) prefer to forget, a woman’s brain, or rather, those parts of it that are responsible for memory, resembles a large attic packed to capacity with various junk. Jill easily “takes out” long-stale information from there, but in order to “shove” something fresh and vital into it, she has to put in a lot of effort. And yet, despite such an amazing feature of the brain, Jill studied rather mediocre at school.

On the sea? - I will not go!

But the Australian Ashley Morris, frankly, was not lucky. She is allergic, but not to any cats, flowers or poplar fluff, but to the most necessary for man- ordinary clean water.

Ashley is forced to drink very little, because when she sweats a little, her skin becomes covered with a painful rash and begins to itch.

There is nothing to say about bathing and taking a bath or shower - for Ashley this is a real torment. The name for this disease - Aquagenic Urticaria - doctors, as always, came up with ease, but they never found a cure.

Fell. Ouch! Fell again...

This means that as soon as Kay experiences at least some, even a slight emotion (laugh, get scared or get upset), all her muscles immediately relax, and Kei flops helplessly to the ground, however, she quickly comes to her senses.

In Kay's apartment, all the floors are covered with mattresses, and she can calmly watch TV or discuss the news with her friends on the phone, occasionally interrupted by her "faints". (Once in one day, Kay fell as many as forty times).

On the street, as we understand, everything is much more complicated. People who are unfamiliar with this feature of the girl get scared, start calling an ambulance, and even just run away.

September 2 on the channel "Russia 1" starts the third season of the show "Amazing People". the site recalls the most sensational performances of the previous two seasons. Are you weak at the age of 4 to speak 7 languages?

Photo: frame from the show "Amazing People"

The Russian adaptation of the Chinese TV show The Brain has been on screens for two years now. In each episode of the program, seven contestants demonstrate their unusual abilities: high-speed mental arithmetic, hypnosis, multilingualism, phenomenal flexibility and much more. The main thing is that the mental or physical abilities of the sites must really go beyond what the average person can.

At the end of each episode, the audience chooses a winner, and all the winners of the episodes compete against each other in final show. The most amazing of the "Amazing People" gets one million rubles. The program is hosted by Alexander Gurevich, well known to viewers from another show - “One Hundred to One”.


Photo: frame from the show "Amazing People"

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The opinion of Internet users does not always coincide with the opinion of the audience in the hall, who, by their vote, weed out six participants and give a ticket to the final only to one. Viewers on YouTube "vote" views and comments - there are videos that gain more than one million views.


Photo: frame from the show "Amazing People". Program experts Olga Shelest, Evgeny Papunaishvili, Natalia Ragozina and Vasily Klyucharev.

Using the techniques of mnemonics, the teacher primary school Svetlana Belichenko during the test, she must memorize the meaning and location of 196 hieroglyphs in two minutes. The girl makes mistakes, but in general she gives many correct answers, despite the fact that she only “touched a little” Japanese.

The video with Svetlana's performance has collected almost 1.5 million views on YouTube.

Five year old Vika Alieva scored exactly twice as much - 3 million views. She calls herself a "cool mathematician." During the test, in a matter of seconds, she correctly adds up the numbers in her mind, which very quickly replace each other on the screen. Then the task becomes more difficult: the girl is offered to read the poem and count at the same time. She can handle it too!

In the comments, adults write that after watching the video, they sharply doubted whether they deservedly received their “five” in mathematics at school.

Magic World: it's even a shame that a 5 year old child knows math better than you :(:(

Fatima Shuppe_: and then I realized that A's in math are false. because in my mind I can’t 4 + 28, but here it is at 5 years old ..

Participants demonstrated in the show not only mental, but also physical abilities. Oksana Sytova I had to blindly, from memory, repeat the plastic studies fixed on the blades of a huge carousel - and coped with all the figures, except for one!

5 million people watched Oksana's performance on YouTube. In the comments under the video, many viewers accused the creators of the show of being staged: the gymnast could not know which way the carousel would spin, but she immediately took the correct pose:

Giz Gizov: the statement did not even ask in which direction the blades would start spinning and took a pre-rehearsed pose

Olga Bykova: How does she know the speed of rotation?

play game: She can see through this bandage!

Perhaps everyone knows the name of the four-year-old polyglot Bella Devyatkina. More than six million views were collected on YouTube by a video with Bella's performance: she speaks to seven people in seven different languages ​​and solves riddles. In addition to her unique linguistic knowledge, she is well versed in dinosaurs and the structure of the solar system.

The "Amazing People" program gives participants the opportunity to show their unique abilities, which are hard for an ordinary person to believe in! This is a project about the limitless possibilities of our brain, which are still little understood. The first two seasons of "Amazing People" have already shown how many extraordinary people with unique abilities are in the world!

The most amazing people of Russia and the world - in the new season of the show "Amazing People"!

Each of them is a discovery! Each of them is a sensation! For several years in a row, amazing people have shocked the audience with their unique abilities, which are hard for an ordinary person to believe in!

"Amazing People" is a project about the limitless possibilities of the brain, still little explored. And this means that the success of the performance of each number has a scientific explanation!

"Amazing People" is a Russian adaptation of the world famous show The Brain. After the tremendous success of the first season in Russia and the release of the project in the second season on the international level, the number of fans of the show has increased significantly! Contestants from all over the world, stars, record holders and winners of foreign analogues of the project dream of getting into the Russian show! The participants of both seasons had both direct students and inspired adepts who decided to master the same disciplines and try their hand at the show! "Amazing People" inspires new amazing people!

In the new season of the show, the audience will again be amazed by the unusual abilities of seemingly ordinary people - from all over the world! Unique memory, lightning-fast counting skills in the mind, high-speed solving of mathematical problems, synesthesia, fluency in dozens of languages, speed cubing, imitation of bird voices, orientation by the stars - these are far from all the talents of our superhumans!

You will see: outstanding mathematicians, whose lightning-fast calculations are difficult to check even on special calculators; masters of world-class mnemonics, champions of the Guinness Book of Records; a unique six-year-old girl with incredible physical strength and at the same time developed mental abilities; a polyglot speaking more than 24 languages; clock man (he doesn't need a watch to tell the time!) and eagle vision man; the USSR record holder for high-speed bilingual typing, who is considered one of the best typists in the world and prints in 16 languages; the best speedcuber in the country, who creates artistic images from Rubik's cubes (the largest Rubik's cube painting in the CIS is his work). And many other unique, talented and amazing people of all ages from all over the world! And for the first time in the history of Russian television, a hypnotist dog will take part in the competition!

The show will be attended by contestants from Germany and Macedonia, the USA and India, China, Turkey and Mongolia, the CIS countries and the Baltic states. Russia is represented by more than 30 cities, including Moscow, St. Petersburg, Murmansk, Kyzyl, Chelyabinsk, Sochi, Vologda, Orenburg, Belgorod, Dmitrov, Kislovodsk, Novosibirsk, Samara, Ulyanovsk, Yekaterinburg, Arzamas, Novosibirsk, Nizhnevartovsk, Omsk, Irkutsk , Samara, Voronezh and others.

In the new season, amazing people will have to go through new complex and interesting tests. The rules remain the same: seven contestants take part in each edition. At the end of the program, the auditorium selects by voting one winner who has made the greatest impression. In the final episode of the show, the finalists of all previous episodes will gather to compete for the main prize - the Winner's Cup and one million rubles!

Star guests in the hall help the audience to choose the best participant: TV presenter Olga Shelest, choreographer and TV presenter Yevgeny Papunaishvili, Russian athlete, Honored Master of Sports in boxing Natalya Ragozina and TV presenter Maria Sittel. They comment on the speeches, but do not influence the voting process in any way. The professional assessment of the unique abilities of the contestants is given by the expert of the program - candidate of biological sciences, director of the Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences, Professor Vasily Klyucharev.

Let's be amazed together!

Show host: TV presenter and producer Alexander Gurevich