Biologist Thom Hunt goes in search of people with genuine, real-life super-powers that push the known limits of the human mind and body.

Thom Hunt heads to Las Vegas to meet Tim Cridland, a sideshow performer who claims to be pain-proof.

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Tim Cridland

Thom Hunt travels to the US to track down Ron White, a man whose mind-blowing memory powers defy belief.

Ron White

Thom heads to Nevada, to find a man who defies human biology. Igor Zaripov performs mind-blowing feats of power using only the might of his jaw.

Igor Zaripov

Thom’s in Nevada, tracking down world record-holding mathlete Scott Flansburg, who’s able to crunch numbers faster than a calculator.

Scott Flansburg

Thom heads to Louisiana to meet Jerry Miculek, the human machine gun who can fire a handgun faster than an automatic weapon.

Jerry Miculek

Thom Hunt heads to Nevada, to meet Dean Karnazes, an ultramarathon runner who’s taken endurance running to a level that defies human biology.

Dean Karnazes

Thom travels to the UK to track down real life rubber girl Claudia Hughes, a contortionist whose extraordinary flexibility defies human physiology.

Claudia Hughes

Thom travels to the UK to track down Aquaman Tom Sietas, who can hold his breath submerged for a death defying 22 minutes.

Tom Sietas

Thom’s in the UK to track down Anthony Kelly; a man whose world record-breaking reflexes are rumored to be superhuman.

Anthony Kelly

Thom meets a man with a superhuman sense of smell; George Aldrich is Nasa’s Chief Sniffer; employed to detect problems before they become a hazard in space.