Handcrafted dolls are displayed next to World Cup souvenir magnets in a store at Sao Jose Municipal Market in Recife, northeastern Brazil April 5, 2014. Recife is one of the host cities for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
Handcrafted dolls are displayed next to World Cup souvenir magnets in a store at Sao Jose Municipal Market in Recife, northeastern Brazil April 5, 2014. Recife is one of the host cities for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker (BRAZIL - Tags: SPORT SOCCER WORLD CUP TRAVEL)
Handcrafted dolls are displayed next to World Cup souvenir magnets in a store at Sao Jose Municipal Market in Recife, northeastern Brazil April 5, 2014. Recife is one of the host cities for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker (BRAZIL - Tags: SPORT SOCCER WORLD CUP TRAVEL)

Twelve-year-old Russian Nikolai Kryaglyachenko has a magnetic personality. Not the type that attracts the beautiful Russian women, but an ability to draw metallic objects to his body because of an accidental electrocution accident recently.

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His powers bring to mind a character in X-Men named Magneto who has similar powers. Magneto was played in the movie by Sir Ian McKellan.

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Nikolai said he was on his way home from school when he stopped and leaned on an electric post, unaware that it was live due to a faulty wire. The boy got the shock of his life as the force threw him across the street.

Despite the groggy feeling, he stood up and told his mother what happened when he got home. The electric shock would change the boy's life since it now not only draws metallic things to his body but also attracts public attention to his unique powers.

Nikolai recalls, "When I woke up the next day and got out of bed I found some coins that had been lying on the mattress had stuck to my body. Then when I was having breakfast and dropped my spoon, it stuck to my chest."

With his "powers," Nilokai is likewise attracting new friends and has become one of the most popular boys in his school.

Accidents and disasters appear to be the key to such powers such as Nikolai's accidental charge of electricity.

Leonard Tenkaev, a Russian factory worker, and his wife Galina, daughter Tanya and grandson Kolya likewise developed magnetic powers in 1986 after they were exposed to the Chernobyl nuclear leak. Russian and Japanese scientists examined them and confirmed that their bodies have become magnetic as things were drawn to their bodies.

They actually attract other objects, even those not made of metal, such as paper, wood, plastic and glass, which is also the case for Nikolai.

It turns out that there were at least 300 of such kind of people, based on the number of attendees at as living magnet gathering in Sofia, Bulgaria n 1990. Make that 301 with the discovery by Nikolai of his special powers.