There are a lot of things I dreamed about doing when I was younger that didn't pan out quite how I'd hoped.

Kind of like when I was training to be an Olympic softball player back in the day, but enough about my failed dream.

Raise your hand if your parents spent their hard-earned money on things like ballet, piano lessons, or even painting classes, just because you expressed interest in it for all of 10 seconds as a kid.

You can't see it, but I'm raising my hand. My sister's raising her hand.

I've been with my wife for over 16 years,

and I'm still desperately wanting to be fluent in Spanish. Hello, Duolingo and Rosetta Stone.

Much grazias. Thank you for your help, but I'm not there yet. They do say, though, that practice makes perfect,

but practice can be time-consuming, daunting, boring at times.

And being good at something from the get-go is way more fun.

I think if most of us could snap our fingers and have a brand new skill,

we would do it in a heartbeat. But that's impossible,

right? Well, maybe not. There's a medical mystery out there known as Savant Syndrome,

where after some sort of injury or disorder, a person gains unexplicable skills. And sometimes,

it happens totally randomly,

after no triggering incident at all,

like someone becomes a human calculator,

or they can paint like Leonardo da Vinci,

or even play Chopin without ever having touched a piano before.

In 2021, only 319 cases of Sabant syndrome had been reported throughout history. But every story is more remarkable than the last.

And the science behind how and why it happens is so mysterious that some have turned

to the supernatural for explanations. Welcome back. I'm Yvette Gentile. And I'm her sister

Rasha Pecorero. This is an incredible mystery.

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