Human Oddities Archive
Don’t Mess with the Not-So-Greatest Knife Thrower
The Man Who Didn’t Sleep for (At Least) Thirty Years
Did Aliens Leave Their Elongated Skulls Behind?
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
Appetite for Intestinal Destruction: The Man Who Ate Glass, Nails, Tacks, and Frogs
Collect a Piece of Ricky Jay’s Extraordinary Collection
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
Mr. Boys: The Man Who Wanted to Leave His Body to the Girls
Elmer McCurdy: The Outlaw Who Outlived All Others
Sylvester, the Mummy of the West
Sideshow Hall of Fame Inducts the Class of 2022
When Flying Saucers Spoke and a Few People Listened
The Time the Clock-Eyed Boy Had His Fifteen Minutes of Fame
Don’t Mess With the Knife Thrower: The Great Throwdini Talks Impalement Arts and Murderabilia
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
The Woman Who Laughed at Death: A Chat About Evatima Tardo with Bess Lovejoy
Thomas Schweicker, the Calligrapher Who Didn’t Need Hands or Arms
A Few Not-So-Odd Questions for Freeman and Fugate Oddities.
Meet George Romondo, the 18th-Century’s Most Eccentric Mimic
Alfred Pilgrim: The Boy Who Lived without Arms and Legs
Martin Van Butchell: The Man Who Embalmed his Wife and Cured Carbuncles
The World’s Greatest Knife-Throwing Mom (and the World’s Bravest Daughters)
Circus Posters, an Electric Chair, and Other Ways to Make Your Home More Interesting
Mother Shipton: The Witch of York, England’s Prophetess, the Devil’s Daughter, or Hoax?
The Strange Afterlife of the Eccentric Hannah Beswick
Anatomy Takes on All Forms at Amsterdam’s Museum Vrolik
The Man Who Grows Reached the Height of Vaudeville and Astounded Scientists
Blood Rushed to Their Heads, And Sometimes Beyond: Meet the Victorian Ceiling Walkers
Robert Wadlow, the Tallest Man Ever, Should’ve Been Nine Feet Tall
Where to Find a 19th-Century Anatomical Model of a Horse and Other Things You Didn’t Know You Needed to Have
A Few Curious Tales of Human Tails
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
A Work of Human Art 66 Years in the Making
George the Giant’s Strange Museum of Oddities and Wonders Will Creep You Out
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
The Man Who Ate Anything and a Whole Lot of It
Happy 208th Birthday to The Greatest Showman on Earth, P.T. Barnum
The Golden Lotus: A Millennia of Tortured Feet and Fashion
A Few Things to Know About the Extraordinary Tocci Brothers
The Time a Man Tried to Take Blondin’s Life While Riding Piggyback on the High Wire
Brief Notes on Martin Laurello, the Human Owl
