16 Photos That Prove The Circus Was Actually The CREEPIEST Show On Earth
by N/A, 9 years ago |
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This is what the original circus freakshows looked like.
1. Unzie the Albino
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/698b355b8c500cf943c0c2725c2f4e2a.jpeg)
2. A performer with ectrodactyly, a hand deformity that makes his hands look like lobster claws.
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/1f1a517966dd9c9ae6b10e36f6c409cb.jpeg)
3. Pip and Flip, twins who have microcephaly, which makes their heads disproportionately smaller than their bodies.
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/b7b42c873cae788a2329ad4b4e6aa96b.jpeg)
4. Isaac W. Sprague a.k.a The Living Skeleton
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/14fafa5d73510fd28d6a43f0d7730b0a.jpeg)
5. A four-legged woman
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/8fc3acb9d287cf0ca37a68255993c678.jpeg)
6. Sideshow boxers
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/5c99da6e3b8bb68bbc42c43eb21f0c44.jpeg)
7. A legless acrobat and his family.
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/1e47fd9fce6d86c96db3150c12584092.jpeg)
8. Minnie Woolsey a.k.a Koo Koo the Bird Girl
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/d1e6675a739d7eec41619cae455df79c.jpeg)
9. John Jennings a.k.a The Modern Samson
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/e22f9d437fd776582d5820335732a002.jpeg)
10. A two-headed man.
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/b0e5d6bcfd54cd067d9b2b6587ba6210.jpeg)
11. The Human Pincushion
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/fc2d1d040409194d14cd637e5dcb2f84.jpeg)
12. Lucia Zarate, the smallest woman in the world, weighed only 4 pounds at 18 years old.
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/a8d7a46581a7a74a8785185c21bc2572.jpeg)
13. Annie Jones a.k.a The Bearded Woman
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/148c93e95f0bd4827065fdcadcf4e56b.jpeg)
14. Alice E. Doherty a.k.a The Minnesota Woolly Baby
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/5a40264367463242543b0327253a38e6.jpeg)
15. One performer with large feet and another with no arms
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/995558051553920789c1aa30610270c1.jpeg)
16. Ella Harper a.k.a Camel Girl
![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/sifts.spartzinc.com/images/773df831202ab9c4b76f36a90f039980.jpeg)
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Do not show me this again