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In 1976, the mummified body of Elmer Mccurdy was found in a funhouse in California. Mccurdy had died in a shootout in 1911 and his body had been used ever since as a sideshow attraction. His discoverers only realised it was a human body when his arm broke off, revealing bone and muscle.
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P.T. Barnum purchased a female slave in 1835 that he billed in a sideshow attraction as the slave that raised George Washington, this would have made her about 160 years old
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About Alice Elizabeth Doherty who is the only known person to have suffered from Hypertrichosis (werewolf syndrome) in the US. She was exhibited as a sideshow attraction by her parents from when she was two years old.
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In 1976, the mummified body of Elmer Mccurdy was found in a funhouse in California. Mccurdy had died in a shootout in 1911 and his body had been used ever since as a sideshow attraction. His discoverers only realised it was a human body when his arm broke off, revealing bone and muscle.
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About a chicken that survived having it's head chopped off in 1945. Mike the Headless Chicken had an intact brain stem, jugular vein and 1 ear; allowing basic functions and reflexes. It would live on for 18 months as a sideshow attraction, and later choked to death.
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The first "punk shows" were sideshow attractions displaying jars of human fetuses preserved in formaldehyde.
