10 special people who have a strange aberration

Their physical abnormality that makes them continue to be remembered and specials

1. Joseph Merrick - the Elephant Man

Born in 1862, Joseph Merrick has a physical abnormality that is growing very big ears when he was five years old. He joined the show in 1884, where he was treated well and got a lot of money. Visitors to see a doctor and plans to change his life. At that time known to actually Joseph Merrick suffered from Proteus syndrome and not elephantiasis as it seems. Merrick died at age 27 due to suffocation during sleep.

2. Juan Baptista dos Santos - The man with two penis


Jean (or Juan) Baptista dos Santos is said to have been a "Gipsey", born in Faro, Portugal in 1843. from the normal husband-wife with two other normal children. His career in performances overseen by a medical team. In 1865, he produced 200 francs to perform with a circus in France for two years. He has two functioning penises and tigascrota, two parts that had one testicle. Dos Santos said the center had been in the scrotum there is also a pair of testicles, but has now been fused with the abdomen when he was 10 years old.

3. Myrtle Corbin - Four-Legged Woman

Josephine Myrtle Corbin was born in Lincoln County, Tennessee in 1868. He was born in Pygus, has two adjacent pelvic terpusah from waist. This additional leg is part of the twin who did not separate correctly, like Frank Lentini who has three legs. Each pair of little legs with big feet, he told his little legs could move, but not strong enough for walking. He has 4 daughters and 1 son.

4.Mademoiselle Gabrielle - Women's Half Body

Born in Basle, Switzerland, in 1884, Gabrielle Fuller first reply in the circus at the Paris Exposition in 1900. He traveled with Ringling Brothers Circus show in Coney Island Dreamland performances. He married two times, first with John de Fuller. He's got the perfect upper body, which ended at the waist.

5. Mary Ann Bevan - Poor Women

Mary Ann Webster was born in London, England in 1874, with seven brothers. When young, he worked as a nurse and in 1903 married a vegetable seller, Thomas Bevan. Shortly after marriage, Mary Ann began to show symptoms of acromegaly, enlargement due to abnormal growth and dysfunction in the face, such as headache, blurred vision and sore muscles and joints. He had 4 children before Thomas (her husband) died in 1914.

6. Martin Laurello - Owl Man

Man named Martin Laurello was born with the name Martin Emmerling in Nuremberg, Germany in 1886. He began acting in Europe at the age of 20s and continued to America in 1921. He appeared several times at Coney Island and worked also for Ringling Bros., Barnum & Baileys performances. He also worked for the Royal American Shows Best and Dick's 19,945 year-end appear to Ripley with "Popeye Perry" and "Junior Stiles", lobster boy was 7 years old.

7. Madame Clofullia - bearded lady

Clofullia Madame Josephine was born with the name Boisdechene in Switzerland. People said he was born with body hair and a beard as thick as 2 inches at the age of 8 years. At age eight, he began touring in Europe with his father. In Paris, he met pelukisFortube Clofullia and then marry him. He became famous for his show had a beard when imitating Napoleon III. Then, the ruler of the area gave him a very big jewel.

8. Wang - Human Unicorn

In 1930, a Chinese farmer from Mancgukuo met a Russian banker. The Russian took a picture of the farmer and sent his picture to Robert Ripley of the show 'Believe It Or Not'. Known as the Wang, or sometimes called Weng, the farmer is actually normal stature, except along the 14-inch horn growing from the back of his head. Ripley offers a lot of money for anyone who could take him perform at the Odditorium. However, Wang disappeared from the public in the early 1930s and never heard from again.

9. Lionel - The Lion-faced Boy

Bibrowsky Stephan was born in Poland in 1890 from a normal parent. He menderitahypertrichosis, a rare genetic disorder that covers the entire body with a feather. There are only about 50 cases of this disorder is known since the Middle Ages. In the case of Lionel, six-inch long hair covering its body. He was discovered by a German named Meyer when he was four years old and became famous in Europe, where he earned the nickname of the lion-faced man. Certainly much different from the same animal, he's wearing a dress and slang with which he mastered five languages.

10. Ella Harper - Girls Camel

This article from Ella Harper's pitch card. Pitch card is an advertisement created for the attraction shows. "I called the camel girl because my knees are facing the rear. I can walk with my hands and feet as you can see in the picture. I have been traveling to the show for four years and now, in 1886 and I decided to quit and go to school and looking for new activities ".