There are always the popular stories that go viral about a mom who lifts her

minivan off her young child after a car accident and there's always the

explanation about how adrenaline can go crazy in such a situation and confer

what can only be described as superpowers. Well how real is this and how strong

can it make you? We're going to find out today unskeptoid.

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Superhuman strength during a crisis. Today we're going to recount heroic

tales of superhuman feats of strength. When in the face of disaster some people are

said to have summoned up incredible physical power to lift a car off of an accident

victim, move giant rocks or like big John of song single handedly hold up a

collapsing beam to let the other miners escape. Are such stories true? There are many

anecdotes supporting the idea, but we're going to take a fact-based look at

whether or not it truly is possible for an adrenaline-charged person to

temporarily gain massive strength. In proper terminology such a temporary

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