Superhuman Achievements: 45 Real-Life X-Men Who Will Leave You Speechless

Roy Sullivan, a park ranger, holds the record for the most lightning strikes survived. He was struck seven times: once in a fire lookout tower, once in his truck, once in his front yard, once in a ranger station, twice while driving away from the storm, and immediately after the seventh strike, he fought off a bear with a tree branch.

A woman named Anna Bagenholm survived the lowest body temperature ever recorded at 56.7 F (13.7 C). She had been skiing when she fell through a frozen stream and became stuck for 80 minutes. Despite being clinically dead, she made a full recovery and is now working at the same hospital that saved her life.

In 1980, a woman named Jean Hilliard was involved in a car accident. She walked 2 miles (3.2 km) in freezing weather to her friend's house and collapsed 15 feet (4.6 m) away from the door. The temperature dropped to -22 °F (-30 °C), and she was found frozen the next morning after spending 6 hours as a popsicle. She was transported to the hospital, where doctors said her skin was too hard to pierce with a hypodermic needle and her body temperature was too low to register on a thermometer. Yet she still had a heartbeat, and she survived and recovered.

A Croatian man named Frano Selak has survived seven near-death experiences, including a train derailing into a river, a bus crashing and falling into another river, falling off a plane whose doors had blown off and living by landing on a hay stack, getting hit by a bus, and surviving a car explosion twice. He was then lucky enough to win the lottery in 2004 with the very first ticket he bought.

Timothy Ray Brown is considered to be the first person cured of HIV/AIDS. Brown had chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia. His transplant came from someone with a natural genetic resistance to HIV. He was cured of HIV, but scientists don't fully understand why.