well there were people prior rather much prior to this. i had witnessed my self when i was in young age about 50 years back. i remember a person name KALA KHAN from mohellah ganj, Bahawalpur. he used to work for about 10 minutes on live wires of 220 volts without any safty measures i mean standing nacked feet on ground and working on live wires. he had developed electric resistance and could work like that. any one touching him would get full shock but nothing used to affect onto him. media was not there at that time.