The Midget
General Tom Thumb Aka: Charles Sherwood Stratton, the midget Charles Sherwood Stratton was born Jan. 4, 1838, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Sherwood Edward Stratton, a carpenter, and his wife,
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The Armless Fiddler
Carl Unthang, the Armless Fiddler Born without arms, he could dress and undress himself, eat with ustensils, swim, and play the violin with his toes. Discovering that people were coming
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The Texas Giant
Jack Earle, the Texas Giant He joined the Barnum Bailey Circus in the mid-20s and played in about nine movies, mainly comedy like Hansel and Gretel (1923) and Jack
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The Lion-Faced Man
Lionel, the Lion-Faced Man Stephan Bibrowsky was born in Poland in 1890 to normal parents. He suffered from hypertrichosis, a rare genetic disease that covers the entire bodies of the
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The Puppet-woman
Lucia Zarate, the Puppet-woman Lucia Zarate was the smallest woman ever recorded. At her birth in 1864 in Mexico, she weighed only eight ounces and was seven inches long.
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Le Chevalier d’Eon
Le Chevalier d’Eon (1728-1810) He had played a very public role as a diplomat to the court of Empress Elizabeth of Russia and later to that of George III
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The Biddenden Maids
Mary and Elizabeth Chulkhurst, the Biddenden Maids (1100-1134) Born in Biddenden, Kent, Mary and Elizabeth Chulkhurst were Pygopagous twins i.e they were united at the shoulders and hips. One
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Joseph Merrick, the Elephant man
John Merrick aka the ‘Elephant Man‘ is one of the most famous ‘freaks’ that ever lived, due probably, to the fact that behind a body monstrously deformed remained a man,
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