36 Stories About Creepily Intelligent People

My son is incredibly gifted at 4 years old. He has been able to read properly since 2 and has grown drastically since. Memorized exponents up to 10^123, converting numbers in the thousands to roman numerals and how to do multiplication. He's now onto anatomy as his subject. What he said isn't a creepy display of intelligence, but coupled with his intelligence scares me.

The other day he told me if he cuts a dragons legs, it will be shorter as well as other creature alterations. Asks "If you remove my skin cover, will you see my digestive system."

Keeping a close eye on this one.

Not particularly creepy, but my six year old autistic daughter said something the other day that kinda stunned me. I was trying to clean her, and she kept questioning everything I did or told her to do. Exasperated, I finally told her she didn't have to question everything. Without missing a beat she said, "but momma, if I don't question everything, how will I know what's true or real?".

One time I scared a man pretty bad, because I'm good at spotting 4-leaf clovers. I found several in a row, and he got freaked out. Decades later I took an IQ test for dyslexia diagnosis, and scored a 17 on the blocks. I'm just really good a visual pattern recognition.

My husband was taking apart and air gun (for.some.reason?) while our younger son watched intently. I'm sure he was under 7. When my husband went to put it back together, he got so far in and our kid is saying "no daddy! This goes on first!" And he was absolutely right. He became an electrical engineer and worked as a trouble shooter for years with various high tech companies. Not sure what he's doing now because I am.not that smart.

It’s not creepy, it’s cool. Some people are just preternaturally gifted in this way. Almost everyone on my dad’s side of the family is this way. My grandfather was an engineer, my father started as a heavy equipment mechanic (later opened his own business) and my son, who is only 17 has already shown signs of having the same ability. Not to the tune of fixing tractors or large equipment, but like, he was the kid building the Lego Avengers helicarrier set (the 3000 piece one) at 8 years old, won a school district invention fair in 4th grade and won a school physics competition in 11th grade. He’s just good at figuring out how things work and conversely, figuring out how to make things work.

I would say that it skipped me because I’m not very interested in this kind of thing, but I have been known to have a weird talent for fixing household appliances like vacuum cleaners, washing machines and coffee makers. I don’t really even know how any of it works, I just have this weird way of fiddling with something until it fires back up.

My grandson, the younger of twins is on the autism spectrum.

He is wildly intelligent but in a different way.

He was asking his Dad what existentialism was at the age of 8.

His twin brother goes to school for the highly intelligent, but he's not interested.

I keep telling him he's going to do great things someday.

Looked after a small child for a number of years and watch them grow. They always had some mad talents, not all round super genius but….

Before they could properly speak they were drawing shapes… one day they were drawing lots of triangles all together and getting increasingly frustrated. By the bottom of the page they were drawing perfect 5 point stars… there was none in the room to copy the just worked it out. I kept the paper.


Would nap for exactly 47mins everyday.


When older they would come back from a trans Atlantic trip/ any sort of jet lag inducing trip, look at the clock and go… oh its now 7 o’clock and go to bed and be jet lag free the next day… regardless of how little/much sleep thry had.

You have not lived until you have met a full fledged savant . A man lived next to me for years. Could not really function in real world. Not creepy - but it is very strange, hard to understand and pretty mind blowing.

One night my ex and I came home after going to the bar with some friends.

I had just gotten over a cold so I decided to be the DD and not drink.

She was pretty hammered (maybe important to the story?).

Anyways, she goes into the kitchen for snacks, I go to the bedroom ACROSS THE HOUSE. Suddenly a thought pops into my head "oh ask X if her mom still wants to get lunch tomorrow".

I am 1000% sure I did not say this out loud, and even if I did the bedroom and kitchen were NOT in earshot.

My girlfriend comes down the hall and into the bedroom and very drunkenly says "what did you just say?"

I say "huh? I didn't say anything."

She says, "yeah you did, something about my mom and lunch tomorrow?"

Again, I was totally sober and absolutely sure I didn't say anything out loud. It freaked me out so much I never even told her.

Was never into paranormal stuff, but that got me questioning things.

My daughter was 2 and she asked where something was, we'd thrown it out because it was broken the night before and hadn't gotten around to replacing it, so I told her it was lost and she says, "Why are you lying to me, you know I can always tell when people are lying to me." Sent chills down my spine. She had no idea it wasn't in the house, she just knew it wasn't the truth.

I'll go - I once knew a young adult who had a genuine 'photographic memory'. Lots of people claim to have this, and maybe they do to an extent, but this kid had *perfect* recall of anything he'd seen.

I think maybe neurologically he paid a price for it though. He's on the 'needs assistance' end of the autism scale. I'm not really sure if that's how it works, but that's my (non-expert) take on it.

My claim to early mechanical fame was buying 2 cb750's when I was 19 or 20. Only prior hands on stuff I had done was oil changes, spark plugs and change wheels. Tore them both down to the frame so I could pull the titled frame off the bad motor and put it on the good motor by myself. Built it back up, got some help from a buddy synching carbs and rode it for a few years. The first ride after getting the points right, all four firing, made my knees weak when I got off it.

My 2yo Nephew is the smartest baby ive known. Like no kidding he could recognize all family members including intermediate with him (like there were 9 people or so) by calling out their name when he was barely 2. Also first time in an airport he looked out the window saw the plane and said "plane". That was when he was barely 2 plus never air travelled before that.

I read that there’s a parasite (toxoplasma gondi) that lives half its life cycle in rodents and half in cats. In the rat, it knows it needs to get back intot he cat to keep the cycle going, so it hijacks the rat’s brain. It makes the rat less afraid of cat pee smell, less afraid of cats in general, makes them more curious and exploratory. Meanwhile I’m sure the rat doesn’t think anything’s up, just “hey, I feel like sniffing around this cat pee for awhile, let me be me man.”. Freaky.


One of the creepiest aspects to me is that this relatively super simple life form, way less evolved than mammals, can take control of them like they are a mech suit and steer them into disaster.

IN THEORY ONLY, a parasite could evolve that would do the same thing to humans. Brings up questions of free will, autonomy, mind control, freaky stuff.

I once figured out how to change a tyre with no experience as a 12yr old. Step Dad was out and Mum was taking me to an appointment but the tyre was flat in the driveway.
This was looong before Google and mobile phones. Mum was about to call the NRMA road assist and I thought nah I can do this.
She told me where the jack was and what it does and I figured out the rest.
Kids can be fearless....

I had a flat tire on my corrola one night. Pulled over near a building with a fence around it and got out the jack and spare tire. While I removed the flat tire, a guy came up standing behind the fence watching me. He scared me and I kind of jumped and tripped at the same time. I asked who he was and he said Marvin. He said he lived there and it was an insane asylum. So I said hello, and explained I was changing my tire. I went to put the spare tire on and realized I had lost the lug nuts when I tripped. As I was about to give up, Marvin says that I should just remove one lug from each of the other tires, and then I'll have three on each wheel. Excitedly I told him thanks, that was a great idea.