It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's phantom-smeller-weather-prediction-man!

Photo: flickr/Quinn DombrowskiThis may be one of the best superpower-esque case studies we've seen to date. This 64-year-old patient with Parkinson's can predict weather patterns based on his phantom smells. Wait--let's unpack this a little. Here is a guy who smells stuff that isn't there. Like "skunk-onion excrement odor". (Skunk-onion excrement... is that a thing?) If that were all, it would be a real bummer. But not only does he smell these crazy phantom smells, he can actually use them to predict the weather. Sounds like the beginning of a pretty epic comic book series to me!Phantosmia as a meteorological forecaster. "In normosmics, olfactory ability has been found to vary with ambient humidity, barometric pressure, and season. While hallucinated sensations of phantom pain associated with changes in weather have been described, a linkage to chemosensory hallucinations has heretofore not been reported. A 64-year-old white male with Parkinson's disease presents with ...