These are, without a doubt, the most bizarre circus attractions in the world.

Audiences have always needed extraordinary entertainment that would leave everyone breathless or open-mouthed, and the circus has always been one of those places where people could have that kind of experience. Many were especially fond of shows of attractions considered bizarre, with individuals with mutations. EN Barnum was the first show man fundamentally change the circus and created the first freak show (freak show) with extraordinary people. He knew how to manipulate and surprise audiences, although he often used simple people to pretend they were different. And even though Barnum’s show was a fraud, tickets were always sold out minutes after the show was announced.

Circus shows show us many emotions. They inspire and surprise us with impressive tricks. These are some of the most incredible acts with people who seem to have superpowers. Do you want to know how the circus started?

O awesome.club found the most extraordinary circus acts that ever existed in history. Ladies and gentlemen, enjoy the show!

Pansy Zedora, aka Alar the Human Arrow, performed with her sister and brother-in-law with the Barnum & Bailey Circus. the number was called The Human Arrow and The Flying Zedoras (The Human Arrow and the Flying Zedoras). She acted as a living weapon; she was shot like an arrow through the air from a 40-foot cannon, through a paper target, and was caught by her sister swinging from a trapeze. Pansy stunned the crowd with her ability to fly great distances with such precision and grace.

Grady Franklin Stiles Jr., was an actor in a freak show. Grady was the sixth generation of the Stiles family born with ectrodactyly, a birth defect that causes the hands and feet to fuse together into claws, due to the absence of one or more of the middle fingers. Grady’s father was already part of a traveling carnival, which made his son follow in his footsteps and start acting at an early age as “the lobster boy”.

Grady was married twice and had 4 children, 2 of whom also had ectrodactyly. He and his two sons toured the stages together as the lobster family.

Aloys Peters was a German acrobat with a unique ability: he could jump from a platform over 22 meters with a noose around his neck and stay alive. At the same time, the string simply recoiled before he actually touched the ground. This resulted in its vertical flight and controlled descent. Peters performed this feat initially for the famous Strassburger circus in Berlin and then at the Sells-Floto circus on the US coast in the 1930s. His unfortunate last performance was in 1943.

Mademoiselle Octavie LaTour was a voice actor who worked for the Ringling Brothers and the Barnum & Bailey circus in 1905. At the time when cars were a completely new technology, she appeared in the Dip of Death, a show that consisted of driving a small car at breakneck speed on a ramp that had a span of approximately 6 meters. During the act, she would turn around in the car and do an inverted somersault in the 6-meter gap at the end of her journey until she reached the lane on the other side.

Frank Richards could be hit by a cannonball (47 kg) in the stomach twice a day. In order to do so, he would ask people (including heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey) to hit him in the abdomen. He later began allowing spectators to jump on his stomach. Richards started with one person and continued until he reached 4. This allowed him to withstand repeated hammer blows. He will never be forgotten because of his ability to withstand being shot in the belly with a cannonball.

At her first performance in 1816, Josephine Giradelli seemed immune to heat, and had her called “the queen of fire”. She held a burning lead in her mouth and a red-hot block of iron over her head with her bare hands, walked barefoot on a hot plate of metal, dripped melted wax on her tongue, and fried an egg with her hands in hot oil. Later, she even included taking poison in her performance.

Samuel Gilbert Scott was considered fearless and audacious in jumping from anything high he could. He served in the United States Navy, where he became famous for jumping off the masts of the institution’s ships.

After joining the Navy, he became a professional stuntman and was launched off a cliff near Niagara Falls, which was estimated to be a jump of over 600 feet. Historians thought this was impossible.

In Cornwall, Samuel Gilbert jumped off a cliff more than 73 meters high into 2 meters of water, but there was a problem with his equipment. He nearly suffocated and came very close to death. However, he was saved by a sailor.

When he tried again, a rope slipped and tightened around his neck. People thought it was part of the act. By the time they realized what had happened, it was already too late.

Samuel Wasgate was an orphan adopted by acrobat and tightrope walker William Leonard Hunt, also known as Guillermo Antonio Farini.

Sam became famous at age 10 for a death-defying trick called Le Tambour Aerial by Little Farini, in which he played drums while swinging on a trapeze at the back of his neck. Sam also swung on his shoulders across a tightrope more than 54 meters above the crowd.

In 1870, she began impersonating an aerial acrobat known as “Mademoiselle Lulu.” However, 8 years later, “Lulu” was injured on stage and her true gender was revealed to her admirers. After that, Samuel continued to act, but as a man.

Charles Sherwood Stratton was the real name of the famous General Tom Thumb, who acted under the pioneering PT Barnum circus. He began traveling as General Tom Thumb at age 5, gaining popularity that later allowed him a better lifestyle, and a trade association with Barnum. Stratton performed twice for Queen Victoria. He also met the Prince of Wales, who would become King Edward VII.

When swallowing a sword, the artist introduces it into the stomach through the esophagus. This skill does not require swallowing, but deliberate relaxation of the upper gastrointestinal tract. It takes a lot of physical and psychological preparation. For some artists, this sword-swallowed performance can take years of preparation.

This is Ethel Purtle and her Lion King in 1949.

“The Fearless Egbert” was a show man British and one of the first to ride the Wall of Death, a track specially designed to perform gravity-defying stunts in the 1920s and 1930s.

There were hundreds of walls of death traveling across the United States, however the most notable and impressive was the “liondrome”, in which the rider was accompanied by a tame lion. Having a lion close behind in the passenger seat was quite risky, as the animal could get too stressed and bite the driver on the head. This is the reason why pilots placed seats on the side (sidecars) and were careful not to smell alcohol while driving, as lions hated that smell!

Adah Isaacs Menken was an American actress, painter and poet. She was best known for the lead role in Mazeppa🇧🇷 The plot itself is a fairly standard novel, but Menken’s heroic maneuvering on horseback has emptied box offices around the world. Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and Bret Harte were among his admirers.

Annie Jones was the famous bearded woman from Ringling Bros and the circus from Barnum & Bailey. At age 5, she had a mustache and sideburns, which made her known as the “bearded girl”. Hirsutism occurs when there is excess hair on parts of the body where it is usually absent or minimal, and this is what made Annie famous and unique. She was also known for her musical skills.

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