16 Vintage Circus Pictures That Are More Terrifying Than Any Clown
This is what the original circus freak shows looked like.
1. Unzie the Al
2. A performer with ectrodactyly, a hand deformity that makes his hands look like lobster claws
Seems like he may have been the inspiration for Evan Peters' character on "American Horror Story: Freak Show."
3. Pip and Flip, twins who have microcephaly, which make their heads disproportionately smaller than their bodies
4. Isaac W. Sprague a.k.a The Living Skeleton
That's some serious thigh-gap action.
5. A four-legged girl
6. Sideshow boxers
7. A legless acrobat and his family
This child is just not amused... Like at all.
8. Minnie Woolsey a.k.a Koo Koo the Bird Girl
9. John Jennings a.k.a The Modern Samson
I'm sorry... WHAT IS HE HOLDING THEM UP WITH??
10. A two-headed man
... Or as I'd like to call them: conjoined twins.
11. The Human Pincushion
12. Lucia Zarate, the smallest woman in the world, who weighed only 4.7 pounds at 17 years old
13. Annie Jones a.k.a. The Bearded Woman
14. Alice E. Doherty a.k.a. The Minnesota Woolly Baby
15. One performer with large feet and another with no arms
16. Ella Harper a.k.a. Camel Girls
She doesn't have a.. oh wait. There it is.