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Circuses are naturally creepy, but vintage circus photos are truly terrifying. Here are 22 scary pictures from old circuses, including freaks, creepy clowns, ...

Schlitzie was one of America's greatest circus and sideshow performers. He worked in various circuses for decades during the twentieth century and ...

In the 19th and most of the 20th century, humankind’s obsession with all things weird and freaky could only be satisfied with a trip to the circus freak show. There, our ancestors could ogle people afflicted with skin conditions, deformities, and eccentricities, and sometimes people who just happened to be from another culture that the […]

Fred G. Johnson (January 1892, Chicago, Illinois - 11 May 1990, Sun City, Arizona) was a prolific sideshow banner artist whose career spanned 65

The Sideshow and Freakshow Central with Sword Swallowers, Fire Breathers, Freaks, Sideshow Performers, and more.

Circus banners for ‘Spidora’ and ‘Olga the Headless Girl.’ Originally conceived in the late 1800s by London-based vaudeville illusionist Henry Roltair and hugely popular at Coney Island in the late 1930s, “Spidora” was a disturbing illusion featuring the head of an actual woman with the body of a giant spider. When it comes to the equally disturbing “Headless Girl” sideshow attraction, we have a man from Hamburg, Germany purporting to be a physician called “Doctor Heineman” (aka Egon…

Far from being the drunken, exploitative brute portrayed on stage, Valerie Hawkins insists ancestor Tom Norman, who exhibited Joseph Merrick in Whitechapel, was in fact kind and considerate.