Race of superhumans found in mountains of North Carolina

By DEREK CLONTZ
Your World Report

They look like ordinary children but have genius IQs of 155-up, says anthropologist

TWENTY-SIX babies born to women in the mountains of North Carolina since 2001 share an astonishing trait: Genius IQs ranging from 155 to 240, a world-renown scientist reports.

Children who:

o Learned to read, write and speak fluently no later than their third birthdays and often well before.

o Taught themselves to play complex classical passages on thrift-shop chord organs and toy pianos.

o Grasped college-level mathematics while still toddling in diapers and bumping their heads on coffee tables.

o Have keener than normal powers of intuition that enable them to see and read “trends” and, to a remarkable degree, predict how future events will unfold.

o Are masters of language, with most having taught themselves to speak several. Some of the five and six year olds created their own language for private communications among themselves.

o Are deeply religious and both understand and express sophisticated spiritual concepts, including pre-Old Testament Jewish mysticism and the “born-again” aspect of Christianity. They are keenly aware of human suffering the world over and repeatedly suggest political, social and economic solutions for global misery.

“This isn’t coincidence - this is a pattern that becomes more clearly established every time a new infant is born into the region,” Dr. Paul Martine told me exclusively.

“I could be wrong, but I would suggest to you that we are witnessing an extraordinary evolutionary leap - the emergence of super intelligence - in one of the most isolated and unlikely populations on the planet.

“It makes me think,” he continued, “of that spellbinding evolutionary moment when the Neanderthals witnessed the emergence of smarter, better-adapted, more modern humans and watched with only the dimmest understanding as the ‘new people’ - their children - left cave and clan and moved on to create a newer and more sophisticated world.

“I can’t help but think that we are the Neanderthals of the Third Millennium, and that with the birth of these children we have been given fair notice that time is passing us by.”

The Minneapolis-based anthropologist announced the discovery of the children in a letter to the prestigious journal, Human Intelligence, and immediately found himself bombarded with hundreds of telephone calls from reporters the world over, all clamoring for maps, names and exclusive interviews with any of the children involved.

To protect the privacy to the children and their families, however, Martine declines to pinpoint any location, saying only that “all the children are residents of Western North Carolina.”

For people who are unfamiliar with the area, Martine’s statement doesn’t reveal much.

In effect, he’s placing them “somewhere in the middle” of one of the most forbidding mountain ranges on Earth, a place not totally reached by airborne television signals, much less cable - and where rifle-toting men, women and children often are as inbred - and ornery - as European royalty.

Amazingly enough, Martine discovered the children “quite by chance” while investigating relationships among families living in extreme isolation.

“When I encountered the first child late last year I didn’t think that much about it,” explained Martine. “The boy’s head was slightly larger than what you might expect. And he was reading a rather sophisticated play for a child of five, Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie.

“But lots of children are early readers. And my curiosity wasn’t truly piqued until I visited another young family and discovered 3-year-old twins who had the same type of head and clearly were in the possession of a superior intelligence.

“I began to inquire about any other children in the area who might have larger than normal heads and higher than normal IQs but people didn’t have much to say at first.

“But as time went on and they began to trust me, I was invited to a small church where I was introduced to 23 additional children between the ages of three months and seven years.

“All have the larger head. And despite the difficulties we faced in gauging the intelligence of children of such tender age, we feel confident that our techniques accurately indicate IQs in the 155 to 240 range.

“Remarkably, not one of the parents measure out with an IQ over a very-average 106. So I don’t have to tell you what a leap it is to 155, 175, 200 and 240.”

As Martine continues his study of the children who have been dubbed “The Too-Smart-for-Harvard Kids” by one newspaper and “The Beverly Eggheads” by another, media are converging from all over the world.

Warned one sheriff’s deputy: “Mountain folks don’t like strangers poking into their business and they’re not above taking the law into their own hands.

“People disappear in these mountains all the time. Who knows where they wind up - and who cares?”

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