worlds most bizarre people

Edward Smith of Washington made headlines after admitting he has had sex with over 1,000 cars. It might sound crazy but this car lover has been living with his 1967 Volkswagen Beetle, whom he named Vanilla, and considers it his girlfriend.

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.

You d think going without sleep for that long may have its drawbacks, but not for the man in central Quang Nam Province. His inability to sleep has not only made him famous, but also represents a miraculous phenomenon worthy of scientific study. Thai Ngoc, known as Hai Ngoc, said he could not sleep after getting a fever in 1973, and has counted infinite numbers of sheep for more than forty one years.

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.

Over the course of forty years, Frenchman Michel Lotito ate an estimated nine tons of metal. How did he do so? In his youth, Lotito suffered from pica, a mental disorder in which people compulsively eat nonfood items such as dirt and plastic. Once he started experimenting with more dangerous items such as nails and glass he learned that the incredibly thick lining of his stomach and intestines allowed him to consume almost anything. Soon, Lotito turned his affliction into a career and went down in history as the man who literally ate everything. He died in 2007 from natural causes unrelated to his eating habits.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.