Human Oddities Archive
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
Johnny Fox: A Tribute to the King of Swords
![Artificial nose, 17th-18th century, made of plated metal. Such noses would have been made to replace an original, which may have been congenitally absent or deformed, lost through accident or during combat or due to a degenerative disease, such as syphilis. By Science Museum London / Science and Society Picture Library [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](https://www.weirdhistorian.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Artificial_nose_17th-18th_century_By-Science-Museum-London-Science-and-Society-Picture-Library-CC-BY-SA-2.0-via-Wikimedia-Commons-370x297.jpg)
Things to Know About the No Noses Club
The Irish Giant vs. The Eager Anatomist
Stone-Eaters: A Hard Way to Make An Easy Buck
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
Dr. Ding and His Three Extreme Fingernails
The Wonderful and Eccentric Lazarus Colloredo and his Parasitic Twin
A Strange Case of Animals Generating Within the Human Body
A Short Story About The Long Nose of Thomas Wedders
The Funeral Rite Few Could Stomach
Medusa Van Allen: The Woman Who Couldn’t Grow
The First Female Pope, Maybe
Struggles and Triumphs: The Life of the Bearded Lady
The True But False Story of Edward Mordrake
Dave Ballard, aka Tobor the Robot, the World’s Tallest Santa, and the Texas Giant
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
Le Petomane and His Fantastic Farts at the Moulin Rouge
The Oddest Family That Ever Lived
Celebrate a Death-Defying Art: World Sword Swallower’s Day
A Brief and Rather Unpleasant History of Human Horns
The She Bear of the Coney Island Sideshow
The Man With Two Mouths and Other Tales of Superfluous Parts
Swallowed Frogs and Swimming Pools in Stomachs
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
See a Knife Thrower, Sword Swallower and Other Sideshow Performers in 3D
The Man Who Was Twice As Big As Andre the Giant
