Welcome to the world’s largest image archive of sideshow, novelty, and variety performers. Here we document and decode the history that we call “weirdness as entertainment.” 

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From the arms of Barnum’s Fiji Mermaid to the feats of daredevils and freaks, we aim to chronicle them all: Their histories, mysteries, biographies, myths and legends. Skimming the cream from the sawdust, and mud from the applesauce, we aim to shoot the balderdash from the eyes of the beholder.

Come in and gawk, and cut up jackpots if you got ’em…..