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Freak Animals

Who doesn’t love a two-headed calf? Or a two-bodied lamb? Or “The World’s Largest Pig”? Freak animal shows have been a staple of the carnival, and before that the dime museum. Whether alive or in jars, domestic and farm animals with extra limbs, or ones that grew to epic size were fascinating to those who grew up in rural environments.

Performers in this category:

Chief “Long-Tailed Pony”

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Taxidermy Display With Two-Legged Horse

Added Oct 27 2025

A Calf With One Head, One Set of Shoulders Two Hind Parts!

Added Dec 29 2024

Docen’s Freak Animal Show at Coney Island

Added Oct 26 2024

Morocco “Equine Colossus”

Added Jul 14 2024

8-Footed Horse and Owner

Added Jan 7 2024

Chief “Long-Tailed Pony”

Added Jan 7 2024

Ponto, Hump-Backed SCANDINAVAN Pony

Added Jan 7 2024

Woolly Horse (Not Barnum’s!)

Added Sep 23 2023

Six-Legged Sheep (Ex. Sup. Co.)

Added Jun 24 2023

Babe “Fat Boy” & Tiny “Midget Horse”

Added Jun 24 2023

Gordon’s Big Freak Animal Show

Added Aug 14 2022

Two Children United Handbill (1833)

Added Dec 5 2021

See The Wonderful Freak Of Nature….(Double-Bodied Calf)

Added Dec 5 2021

Rattlesnake Pete And “The Largest Horse On Earth”

Added Nov 7 2021

The Sacred Ox Rajah Ad Card (V.2)

Added May 15 2021

The Alligator Boy At The Globe Dime Museum

Added May 13 2019

Docen[‘]s Freak Animal Oddities Ticket

Added May 27 2018

The Wonderful Sacred Ox Rajah Photograph

Added Nov 5 2016

Mr. & Mrs. Tex Cooper, Showman and Midget Wife

Added Nov 5 2016

The Wonderful Sacred Ox Rajah (V.1)

Added Aug 30 2015

Taxidermist With Freak Mounts

Added Aug 11 2014

Five-Legged Cow

Added Aug 11 2014

Two-Headed Calf, 1904

Added Apr 13 2014

Two-Headed Calf

Added Mar 23 2014

Three-Horned Bull

Added Mar 23 2014

Cyclopes Horse’s Head

Added Mar 23 2014

Two-Headed Horse

Added Mar 23 2014

Horse With Leg Growing From Head

Added Mar 23 2014

Horse With Leg Growing From Head

Added Mar 23 2014

“Limit” the 8-Legged Educated Horse

Added Mar 17 2014

8-Legged Educated Horse

Added Mar 17 2014

Chief “Long-Tailed Pony”

Added Mar 17 2014

Tintype of Long-Maned Giant Horse Banner & Tent

Added Mar 17 2014

Chief “Long-Tailed Pony”

Added Mar 16 2014

“The Largest Steer In The World” Tintype

Added Mar 16 2014

The Sacred Ox, by Charles Eisenmann

Added Mar 16 2014

Porter’s Freak Animal Show

Added Mar 16 2014

Sam Houston’s Freak Animals in Storage

Added Mar 16 2014

1/2 Dog, 1/2 Calf

Added Mar 16 2014

Porter’s Freak Animal Show

Added Mar 16 2014

Porter’s Freak Animal Show

Added Mar 16 2014

Edwards ANIMAL SHOW & MUSEUM

Added Mar 15 2014

Porter’s Freak Animal Show

Added Mar 15 2014

Porter’s Freak Animal Show Advertising Postcard

Added Mar 15 2014

Free Images

Robert Ripley Advertises Old Gold Cigarettes

Added August 3, 2025

Dolly Dutton’s Sheet Music

Added May 31, 2025

Wonderland Circus Sideshow, Coney Island

Added December 31, 2024

1893 Newspaper Advertisement For The Tocci Brothers and Chevalier Cliquot

Added March 30, 2024

1893 Newspaper Advertisement For The Tocci Brothers and Chevalier Cliquot

Added March 30, 2024

HORROR STORIES Pulp Cover Two-Headed Girl (December 1940)

Added January 28, 2024

Baby Irene “Fat Lady” Cashes In On Laughs (1950)

Added December 26, 2023

1937 Philadelphia Store Show Facade

Added July 22, 2023

Mr. & Mrs. Chauncy Morlan at Huber’s 14th Street Museum

Added July 21, 2023

Hulett Pest Control Spokesmen, Dwarfs John and Greg Rice

Added January 31, 2023