Thomas Edison’s Creepiest Invention: The Talking Doll
History’s Most Unusual Gift: A Table Made of Brains, Ears, a Foot and Other Preserved Body Parts
The Unfortunate Career of Charles-Henri Sanson: Executioner of France
Struggles and Triumphs: The Life of the Bearded Lady
The True But False Story of Edward Mordrake
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7 Examples of Medical Remedies Using Animal Dung from 1747
Dave Ballard, aka Tobor the Robot, the World’s Tallest Santa, and the Texas Giant
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Lady Wonder: The Nostradamus of Horses
The Oldest People Who Ever Lived, Or Didn’t
Clifford Calverley: Flirting with Death for Fun and Fame
Believe It Or Not: The World Famous Armless Musician, Ray Myers
Matthew Buchinger: The Most Wonderful Character in The Book of Wonderful Characters
Notes and Reminiscences Regarding the Elephant Man
Toy Dogs, Safety Pins and Other Unfortunate Things People Swallowed and Had Extracted
Le Petomane and His Fantastic Farts at the Moulin Rouge
The Curious Adventures of Oliver Cromwell’s Head
The Oddest Family That Ever Lived
The Time When Time Started Over
8 Speeding Motorcycles, 1 Globe of Steel
Celebrate a Death-Defying Art: World Sword Swallower’s Day
A Brief and Rather Unpleasant History of Human Horns
The Great Race of 1908: Six Cars, Six Months, 20,000 Miles of Driving Insanity
The She Bear of the Coney Island Sideshow
The Man With Two Mouths and Other Tales of Superfluous Parts
Forget the Merlot and Cabernet, How About a Bottle of Snake Wine?
Swallowed Frogs and Swimming Pools in Stomachs
Excised Tumors, The Stereoscopic Skin Clinic, Gout Treatments And Other Hidden Treasures
The Car Only a Horse Could Love
The Most Exaggerated “Tallest Man Alive” That Ever Lived
Neon Swords, Trained Fleas, and the Remarkable Life of Mimi Garneau
The Hair Hanging Wonders of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
The Russian Scientist Who Believed Two Heads Were Better Than One
When this Dog Talked, the World Listened
Thomas Edison Talked to the Dead, Almost
Raining Cats and Dogs is One Thing, but Frogs and Fish?
Tug of War Was An Olympic Event, Until It Got Yanked
In the 19th Century, Ghosts Were Captured in 3D
The Very Serious History of Silly Putty
Forty-Four Presidents, a Hippo, Two Lions, a Wallaby, Two Alligators and One Bad-Tempered Badger.
See a Knife Thrower, Sword Swallower and Other Sideshow Performers in 3D
Before Email, The Fastest Way To Send Mail Was By Missile
When Man-Bats Lived on the Moon
Clever Hans: The Horse That Knew Everything (Sort Of)
The Man Who Was Twice As Big As Andre the Giant
The Embalmed Head of Oliver Cromwell: A Memoir
American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History’s Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers
The Anti-Social Network Journal
God Made Me Do It: True Stories of the Worst Advice the Lord Has Ever Given His Followers
