Creepy Vintage Sideshow Pictures
Ever been into a sideshow? If not you’ve come to the right place. A circus sideshow is most likely a freak show, showing death defying stunts, unusual things and animals and most of all exhibiting “human oddities” (including “born freaks” such as midgets, giants or persons with other deformities, or “made freaks” like tattooed people, fat people or “human skeletons”).
Ever been into a sideshow? If not you’ve come to the right place. A circus sideshow is most likely a freak show, showing death defying stunts, unusual things and animals and most of all exhibiting “human oddities” (including “born freaks” such as midgets, giants or persons with other deformities, or “made freaks” like tattooed people, fat people or “human skeletons”).
1. Annie Jones the “American bearded woman.”
2. Ella Harper the “Camel Girl.”
4. A performer with severe hand and feet deformities.
5. The Four-Legged Woman.
6. A performer with huge feet, and a performer without arms.
7. Koo Koo AKA The Bird Girl.
8. A Legless Acrobat with his family.
9. Isaac W. Sprague AKA The living skeleton.
10. Lucia Zarate, the smallest person who ever lived. She is 18 years old in this picture, weighing only 4 pounds.
11. Mike AKA The Headless Chicken. He managed to live 18 months without a head.
12. Alice E. Doherty AKA “The Minnesota Woolly Baby.”
13. John Jennings, also known as The Modern Samson.
15. The Human Pincushion.
16. The Twins from Yucatan “Pip and Flip.”
18. Artoria Gibbon, the tattooed woman.
