Top 10 Human Sideshow Freaks

Top 10 Human Sideshow Freaks

These are individuals who earned a living as freaks in side shows. Most of them had physical ailments and had no other means of support. The most well-known attraction of all would have to be included on such a list: Mr. Elephant

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10. Joseph Merrick The Elephant Man

Joseph Merrick, who was born in 1862, was five years old when he first experienced a medical condition that caused his limbs to swell to abnormally huge sizes. In 1884, he joined a sideshow attraction where he was well-treated and made a sizable sum of money. He was there when a visiting doctor noticed him and made plans for him to lead a better life. It is now recognised that Joseph Merrick had Proteus Syndrome rather than elephantiasis as was once claimed. At the age of 27, Merrick suffocated to death in his sleep.

9.Juan Baptista dos Santos The Man With Two Penises

According to legend, Jean (or Juan) Baptista dos Santos was a "Gipsey" who was born in Faro, Portugal, in the early 1840s to normal parents and two other normal siblings. He turned down a payment of 200,000 francs to appear for two years with a French circus in 1865, indicating that his career as an exhibitionist was limited to medical circles alone. He had three scrota, the outer two of which each held a single testis, and two functional penises. A pair of completely formed testicles were also present in the middle scrotum, according to Dos Santos, but they had moved back into his abdomen by the time he was ten years old.

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8.Myrtle Corbin The Four Legged Lady

Josephine Myrtle Corbin was born in Lincoln County, Tennessee in 1868. She was born a dipygus, meaning that she had two separate pelvises side by side from the waist down. The extra legs were part of a twin that did not split correctly, like Frank Lentini with his third leg. Each of her smaller inner legs was paired with one of her outer legs. She was said to be able to move her inner legs, but they were too weak for walking. She had four daughters and a son.

7.Mademoiselle Gabrielle The Half Lady

Gabrielle Fuller, who was born in Basle, Switzerland, in 1884, first joined the circus in 1900 at the Paris Exposition. She performed at the Dreamland sideshow at Coney Island while touring with the Ringling Brothers Circus. She had at least two marriages, one to John de Fuller. Her upper torso was flawlessly proportioned and terminated gracefully just below the waist.

6.Mary Ann Bevan The Ugliest Woman

One of eight children, Mary Ann Webster was born in London, England, in 1874. She was a nurse when she was younger and wed Thomas Bevan, a greengrocer, in 1903. Mary Ann started displaying signs of acromegaly, a progressive giantism that results in abnormal growth and distortion of the facial features as well as migraines, failing eyesight, joint and muscular pain, shortly after getting married. Before Thomas Bevan passed away in 1914, the Bevans had four kids.

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5.Martin Laurello The Human Owl

Around 1886, Martin Emmerling gave birth to the man who would later become known as Martin Laurello in Nuremburg, Germany. In his 20s, he started performing his act in Europe, and in 1921, he brought it to America. He frequently performed at Coney Island and was a sideshow performer for Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey. As late as 1945, he was performing with Ripley's shows alongside "Popeye Perry" and "Junior Stiles," a 7-year-old Lobster Boy, as well as Dick Best's Royal American Shows.

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4.Mme. Clofullia The Bearded Lady of Geneva

Madame Clofullia was born Josephine Boisdechene in Switzerland. She was born hairy and reputedly had a two-inch beard at the age of eight. At the age of fourteen she began to tour Europe, first accompanied by her father and an agent and then with her father alone. In Paris she met painter Fortune Clofullia and eventually married him. She also gained extra fame when she fashioned her beard in the imitation of that of Napoleon III. In return, the ruler gave her a large diamond.

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3.Wang The Human Unicorn

An overseas Russian banker in 1930 made the discovery of a Chinese farmer from Manchukuo. The Russian was able to capture the man on camera, and he gave Robert Ripley of "Believe It Or Not!" fame the picture. The farmer, who went by the name Wang and was occasionally referred to as Weng, was ordinary in every way except for the fourteen-inch horn that sprouted from the back of his head. Anyone who could produce Wang for an appearance at his Odditorium would receive a big financial reward from Ripley. But in the early 1930s, Wang vanished from view and was never seen or heard from again.

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2. Lionel The Lion Faced Boy

In 1890, Stephan Bibrowsky was born to typical parents in Poland. He had hypertrichosis, a rare genetic condition that causes patients to have a thick coat of fur covering their entire bodies. Since the Middle Ages, just around 50 occurrences of the illness have been recorded. In the instance of Lionel, his body was covered in six-inch-long hair. When he was only four years old, a German named Meyer made him famous in his homeland, earning him the moniker Lionel the Lion-Faced Man. He frequently dressed the best clothes to demonstrate that, beneath his hair, he was a literate, likeable person who could speak five languages, far from being displayed as a beast.

1.Ella Harper The Camel Girl

The text from Ella Harper's pitch card is included here. A pitch card was a flyer used to promote sideshow attractions.

"Because my knees slant backward, I'm known as the camel girl. I can move most efficiently on my hands and feet, as you can see in the photo. Since I've been in the entertainment industry for the last four years, I've travelled quite a bit. Now that it's 1886, I plan to leave the industry and pursue a different career by attending school.

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In Verona, Italy, I actually witnessed a live instance of this. A woman was begging on the side of the road, but her legs were bent in front of her as opposed to behind her.