‘What’s the creepiest display of intelligence you’ve ever witnessed in real life?’ – 17 genius but unnerving experiences
10.
‘I worked with a DJ who knew the station’s entire catalog by heart. “Oh, you want to hear ‘Please, Mr. Postman’? That’s CD 472, Track 5.” He was never wrong! And it made board op-ing with him so much easier.’
-marylennox1
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‘I met two people with eidetic memory as far as I know. They both had the same habit of answering a question: pausing, looking upwards as if they were reading something in the air, and then answer.
‘One I met was in the Army. My first meeting with him, he noticed my last name and said, “Oh, that’s Japanese,” paused, looked at the ceiling, and then started speaking to me in Japanese. I told him it was a Japanese last name but I was Mexican-American. Again, he paused, looked up, and then started speaking to me in Spanish.
‘Later, he picked up quite a bit of German in just a couple of months. He was definitely a polyglot. I believe he also became Soldier of the Month three months running but was asked to not do it again.
‘The funniest thing was he had very little social graces. He was a very good looking guy and always smiled. People would approach him but after a few minutes they would leave, looking at him like he was an alien. I have to admit, he could have been but I still miss him.’
-whiskytangophil
12.
‘I know a guy who’d go up to women in clubs and say “Tell me your name and I’ll tell you your postcode” (He was a postman).’
-Sid8800
13.
‘My old cat Minos, over the course of a few days arranged “gifts for the family” among the bushes in our front yard. 3 mice were arranged in a line in the back row with all their heads facing north and 4 rats were arranged in a line in the front row with their heads facing south. One of the weirdest things I’ve ever had to clean up.’
-Asphalt_feet
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‘My son at the age of 4-6 could add letters. He was horrible with English, he’s got severe ADHD. Well, he comes in the living room and says, “dad? Guess what H+P is?” I said Hewitt Packard? No, he can add the numeric values of the letters A-Z and a-z. 1-52 uppercase for 1-26 and lowercase 27-52. He still adds words up and gets distracted reading. He reads numbers as words and words as numbers. It’s strange, but really cool to see.’
-karmah616
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‘I was 19, tutoring a little boy after school in my town. Super quiet, always watching. One day I joked, “You’re scary smart,” and he replied, completely calm, “You touch your necklace when you’re lying.” I froze. I’d never noticed that. Then he added, “You won’t be here long anyway.” Two weeks later I moved away for uni. Still don’t know how he knew.’
-SweetCaseyBabe
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‘We once had a waitress who took all the orders for a table of ten without writing them down! This was before the technology that would have aided her. You could see in her eyes that she was somehow memorizing them. Cataloging them. She got them all correct.’
-lynnburko
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‘Someone predicting exactly what I was about to say, word for word. I still think about it’
-evelynspices
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