Seen At 11: The Stories Of Real Life Superpowers

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Superheroes and superpowers -- it's the stuff that movies are made of. But in the real world, there are people who have remarkable abilities the rest of us can only dream of.

There are few very real, very gifted people in this world who don't have to imagine what it's like to have an extraordinary ability.

"I got my first bicycle at age 6," Daniel Kish told CBS2.

Now 50 years old, Kish has biked all over the world. That might not seem like such an accomplishment, until you find out that Kish is completely blind.

Amazingly, Kish says he sees the same way bats do: using a kind of sonar called echolocation similar to the superhero Daredevil.

Then there's Stephen Wiltshire. His memory, just like Batman, is so precise that he can draw an exact landscape after seeing it just once.

Others have what are considered super physical powers. Are you familiar with the super villain Magneto? One man's body also acts like a magnet. Or a marathoner whose body never seems to fail him. His muscles never tire allowing him to run for several days and nights without stopping.

Another gifted individual, Arthur Lintgen, doesn't only listen to vinyl records, he's the only person in the world who can know what songs are on a record by simply looking at it.

"I can take an LP record, look at the grooves and identify the piece of music," he told CBS2.

Each of us is endowed with potential, Dr. Daniel Antoniello tells CBS2, but for those who have these seemingly super powers, their brains function differently.

"Some circuits may not have developed fully this may allow other circuits to be hyperactive," Antoniello explained.

And that overcompensation can result in a superhuman ability. Antoniello said for a large number of people who have this capacity, it's often coupled with a neurological disorder like autism.