sideshow Archive
I Ran off to the Circus Historical Society Convention
The Day the Two-Headed Man Lost One of His Heads
A Glimpse Behind the Sideshow Curtain: Memoirs of a Coney Island Clown
Alexandre Patty: The Man Who Walked on His Head and Headed Straight for Global Fame
The Strangest Book on Earth: Take a Peek Behind the Sideshow Curtain with Showman C. M. Christ
Why Do Sword Swallowers Do It? Hear It Straight From Their Steel-Guzzling Mouths in the To The Hilt Podcast.
Most Books Hope to Inspire You. This One Strongly Warns Against It.
Meet Thomas Inglefield: A Peek into the Pages of “Kirby’s Wonderful and Eccentric Museum”
Swallowing Swords and Loaded Guns: The Key to a Happy Marriage
Angus MacAskill, World’s Strongest Giant?
Selections from The Book of Wonderful Characters
Remembering the Forgotten Georgia Wonder: Mattie Lee Price
Peek Inside the Life of a 1930s Sideshow Star: The Rubber Skin Lady’s Scrapbook is Now For Sale
A Strange Ouija Board Prediction and the Stranger Lives of the Blazek Sisters
Sylvester, the Mummy of the West
Sideshow Hall of Fame Inducts the Class of 2022
Houdini’s Tales of Sword Swallowers, Fire Eaters, Poison Defiers, Human Ostriches, and Other Miracle Mongers
Roadside Attractions and Other Curiosities with Ambassador of Odd, Tim O’Brien
For Sale: All the Things You Didn’t Know You Needed at Anastacia’s Antiques
Jack Hill Was Not the Sharpest Sword Swallower
The Sword Swallower Who Almost Won America’s Got Talent: Meet Brett Loudermilk
Reminiscences of the Elephant Man, Now Available
The Time a Bearded Lady Went to Jail to Grow a New Beard
Thomas Schweicker, the Calligrapher Who Didn’t Need Hands or Arms
A Few Not-So-Odd Questions for Freeman and Fugate Oddities.
Alfred Pilgrim: The Boy Who Lived without Arms and Legs
Circus Posters, an Electric Chair, and Other Ways to Make Your Home More Interesting
Anatomy Takes on All Forms at Amsterdam’s Museum Vrolik
Black Scorpion is Selling His Super Happy Fun Hands
The Sacred Hairy Family of Burma, Lobster Boy’s Hand, and Other Oddities from The Freakatorium That Could Be Yours
An Interview with Mariam Dadgar, the Fortune-Telling Bearded Lady
Thank You Ward Hall, King of the Sideshows, for all the Wonders of the World
Ezekiel Eads, the Earless Man Who Heard Through His Mouth
The Museum of the Weird Lives Up to its Name
Happy 208th Birthday to The Greatest Showman on Earth, P.T. Barnum
A Few Things to Know About the Extraordinary Tocci Brothers
Freaky Fish Collections in the 1930s
Brief Notes on Martin Laurello, the Human Owl
A Rambling Description from 1820 of Armless Wonder John Valerius
How to Become a Three-Legged or Four-Legged Woman if You’re Not One Already
200 Words About the Man with Two Noses and Three Eyes
Nikolai Kobelkoff: No Arms, No Legs, Lots of Everything Else
Daniel Lambert and the Origins of Obesity on Exhibition
Inside the Never-Before-Seen Scrapbook of the Rubber Skin Lady, a 1930s-era Sideshow Star
A Short History of the Exhibition of Ossified People
The Wonderful and Eccentric Lazarus Colloredo and his Parasitic Twin
Medusa Van Allen: The Woman Who Couldn’t Grow
Struggles and Triumphs: The Life of the Bearded Lady
The She Bear of the Coney Island Sideshow
The Man With Two Mouths and Other Tales of Superfluous Parts
Neon Swords, Trained Fleas, and the Remarkable Life of Mimi Garneau
See a Knife Thrower, Sword Swallower and Other Sideshow Performers in 3D
The Man Who Was Twice As Big As Andre the Giant
