Shawn Lindseth: In 1982 Benedetto Supino, an Italian adolescent boy, discovered something quite strange about himself. He was sitting in a dentist's waiting-room reading a comic book when all of the sudden the thing burst into flames right there in his hands. At the time, no doubt, he claimed total innocence to deaf ears. Once a fiery pattern was established after a few more incidents, his surrounding adults may have been more likely to believe him - especially when they actually saw him accidentally ignite things without a match in sight. As we already said, Benedetto Supino discovered his strange powers at a young age - around 10 -when a dentist's comic book flamed-up in his hands. Although there were instances of the boy starting a flame with sufficient intention and concentration, it seems that usually neither was the case. Paranormal.About.com gives an example of the latter happening: "One morning [Supino] was awakened by a fire in his own bed – his pajamas were in flames and the boy suffered severe burns." Doesn't sound like a terrific gift there, does it? The same article goes on to give other instances of flames starting by his intention, or merely by his presence: "On another occasion, a small plastic object held in his uncle’s hands began to burn as Benedetto stared at it.Just about everywhere he went, furniture, paper, books and other items would start to smolder or burn. Some witnesses even claimed to see his hands glow at these moments."
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. From how the story goes though (in the movie) was that her parent's trying to make some quick cash let the government or medical company do tests on them with this new improved medicine. They later had a kid that was the little girl (Charlie, I think was her name in the movie), soon they found out they had powers with spitting fireballs through their eyes but they weren't as powerful as their daughter was. The mother died and the government or medical company found out what they could do and came after them.
