It's a bird, its a plane, no, it's...it's...a real life superhero! You may think superhero's are just comic book characters, but there are actually real life superheros doing good deeds around the world...
Super Healer!
John D. Reese of Youngstown, Ohio never studied medicine. In fact, it wasn't until he was about 30 years old that Reese discovered his remarkable power to heal.
One day in 1887, an acquaintance of Mr. Reese had fallen from a ladder and seriously injured his spine - a "severe spinal strain" his physician called it. Reese, for some reason, ran his fingers up and down the man's back, immediately after which the man announced that his pain had ceased entirely. He got up and went back to work.
Reese likewise healed Hans Wagner, a shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates, who had been carried from the field with a back injury; he also instantly cured a politician whose hand and wrist became useless to him from so much handshaking. Doctors had told him he needed weeks and weeks of rest. After his encounter with Reese, he has perfectly fine.
Superhero for Single girls
She wears a red cape, matching leotards a skirt and red boots. She calls herself Sarah by day, a 30 year old single woman who works for a computer consulting company, and Terrifica by night. Now I know what you’re thinking, and it’s not that. She has been walking the New York bar and party scene for the past seven years, in search of vulnerable women who might have had a bit too much to drink, and are being taking advantage of by men.
"I protect the single girl living in the big city," says Terrifica, sporting blond wig with a golden mask and a matching Valkyrie bra. "I do this because women are weak. They are easily manipulated, and they need to be protected from themselves and most certainly from men and their ill intentions toward them."
She has no super human powers, and she says she is from this planet, however several of her own experiences has driven her to patrol the streets at night, protecting those that maybe in the same situation she found herself in several years ago.
How does she protect herself I hear you ask? To this she responds, "I know I have to be very cautious. But the difference is I'm sober, and drunk people who are hostile are still drunk people. I have a degree of control, and my mission and purpose can usually get me out of dangerous situations." However, Terrifica does carry pepper spray in her utility belt, which also includes a cell phone, lipstick, a camera to take pictures of alleged male predators, a logging book, Terrifica fortune cards and — last but not least — Smarties candies.
Why Smarties?
"They taste good," Terrifica says. "I need energy. What I do is very difficult. I need to stay awake long hours, driving around. Sugar helps."
Caped Crusader Saves the Day
A small English town is seeing a decrease in its crime rate because a masked and capped do-gooder is running around saving the residents from hooligans and bad guys. The Kent and Sussex Courier said it had received letters from "stunned residents" of the town of Tunbridge Wells, southeast of London, who saw the man in a brown mask and cape scare off hooligans and return a woman's dropped purse. "To my great surprise," the paper quoted 21-year-old psychology student Ellen Neville as saying, "a masked man wearing a brown cape rushed past me to assist a woman who was having a bother with a group of youths.
"He swept in, broke up the commotion and ran off, leaving myself and the woman in a state of shock," she said.
There have more of these appearances from the masked hero, and much to the pleasure of the town residents. Another woman wrote to say the crusader had tapped her on her shoulder to return her purse.
"If only there were more people around with this kind-hearted spirit," she said.
Last updated: 30/04/2008
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