text: A special type of hypervalent molecules is hypervalent hydrides. Most known hypervalent molecules contain substituents more electronegative than their central atoms. Hypervalent hydrides are of special interest because hydrogen is usually less electronegative than the central atom. A number of computational studies have been performed on chalcogen hydrides and pnictogen hydrides. Recently, a new computational study has showed that most hypervalent halogen hydrides XH can exist. It is suggested that IH and IH are stable enough to be observable or, possibly, even isolable.