There's still no official announcement of an Obi-W...  ...ting film project (yet), merchandising has begun. Sideshow debuted a new 1/6 scale Obi-Wan figurine at San D...  ...site has a set of pictures, and an interview with Sideshow 's Kevin Ellis. The new figure is based on a previ...  ...go on sale September 2...

Among the strongmen and strongwomen in traveling shows of the early 20th century, Kate Brumbach stood out as the mighty Sandwina. Her parents were strength performers in circuses, and she took after both of them.Kate&rsq...

The popularity of dangerous stunts and “fail” videos show that we are drawn to danger, even if we tell ourselves we disapprove. In the later part of the 19th century, there were people who starved themselves...

In the early 20th century, you could see exhibits...  ...t made sense to commit their struggling baby to a sideshow . Each incubator was more than 5ft (1.5m) tall, m...  ...them look even smaller. Read about Couney and his sideshow

Franklin and Penelope Shields worked the land in T...  ...our of the men to tour in his Barnum & Bailey sideshow as "The Texas Giants." We know everything in Texa...

Tragically, people with deformities, biological ab...  ...ht, sold and exhibited in "freak shows" or circus sideshows . The popularity of this practice first took off i...  ...welve. At thirteen she left home to travel with a sideshow . Initially exhibited doing everyday tasks, Biffin...  ...der. Eventually, Bif...

Willie and George Muse were black albino brothers...  ...they would later be made out to be. Circuses and sideshows tried to recruit them, and when that failed, the...  ...that failed, the two young boys were kidnapped by sideshow agents in 1899 and shopped around to various trav...

Julia Pastrana, once known as "the ugliest woman in the world," was born in 1834 with hypertrichosis terminalis, meaning her entire body was covered with hair several inches long. She also had a deformed mouth with huge...

You've heard of General Tom Thumb, one of P.T. Barmnum's most famous human exhibits. But how much do you really know about the man born Charles Sherwood Stratton in 1838? When he was discovered at the age of four by P....

Richard Lorenc never knew his biological mother, a...  ...pitalizing on her condition. She began working in sideshows at an early age, earning money to send home to he...