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Frog Folk, Turtle Folk, Bear Folk, Serpent Folk, Penguin Folk

Many of the performers known as Frog Boys, Turtle Boys, or similar, actually had the genetic condition known as Osteogenesis Imperfecta. In OI, the bones break easily, and often heal incorrectly, resulting in misshapen or stunted limbs. Others, such as the Bear Women (and Men) had a birth anomaly which caused them to have foreshortened limbs.

Performers in this category:

Ho-Jo “The Bear Boy”

Alzoria

Nicodemus

Baricassen

Samuel Parks

Carl Norwood

Alice Bounds, “The Bear Girl”

Lewis Love

George Williams

Mignon, the Penguin Girl

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World’s Museum, 1934 with Anna John Budd

Added Dec 31 2024

Ho Jo “The Bear Boy”

Added Oct 20 2024

Shimmyland & Ursa The Bear Girl Sideshow Bannerline

Added Jan 7 2024

Unidentified “Bear Woman”

Added Sep 24 2023

Ursa “The Bear Woman” Pitchbook (4-Pages)

Added Sep 24 2023

Johanna “The Bear” Woman [?]

Added Sep 24 2023

Alzoria Lewis “The Turtle Girl”

Added Sep 24 2023

Alice Bounds and Her Mother

Added Sep 24 2023

Alice Bounds in Scotland, Pickard’s Museum

Added Sep 24 2023

Young Alice Bounds “She-Bear”

Added Sep 23 2023

Alzoria “The Turtle Girl”

Added Sep 17 2023

Alzoria and Johanna “World’s Strangest Family”

Added Sep 17 2023

Alzoria Greene

Added Sep 17 2023

Flippo “The Seal Boy”

Added Aug 26 2023

Unidentified Frog Boy

Added Nov 24 2022

Unidentified “Frog Boy” In Goat Cart with Pony

Added Oct 29 2022

George Williams “Turtle Boy” With Gun

Added Oct 25 2022

King Dodo (George Williams)

Added Oct 25 2022

George Williams “Turtle Boy”

Added Oct 25 2022

George Williams “Turtle Boy”

Added Oct 25 2022

Unidentified “Frog Man”

Added Oct 25 2022

Rigoberto Carillo, “The Sloth Man”

Added Oct 9 2022

Samuel Parks “Hopp, The Frog Boy”

Added Oct 8 2022

Mr. and Mrs. Samual Parks, “Hopp The Frog Boy” and “Wee Wee”

Added Oct 8 2022

Huey “The Pretzel Boy”

Added Oct 8 2022

Carl Norwood “Frog Boy” & Dick Hilburn “The Half-Man”

Added Oct 8 2022

Carl Norwood and Dick Hilburn

Added Oct 8 2022

Unidentified Small Man with Reversed Feet

Added Sep 25 2022

Gaywood The [Frog] Boy

Added Sep 6 2022

Turtle George (Williams) Songster “O, Take Me Back To Baltimore”

Added Oct 11 2021

Hoppie & Mignon “World’s Strangest Family”

Added Oct 9 2021

Oso “The Bear Boy”

Added Oct 3 2020

Lewis Love “Crawfish or Turtle-Boy”

Added Sep 26 2020

Louis Love Carnival Sideshow Showfront with Banner and ticket-taker

Louis Love Single-O Showfront With Banner & Ticket-Taker

Added Sep 20 2020

Otis “The Frog Boy” Pitchcard

Added May 17 2020

Otis Jordan “The Frog Man”

Added May 17 2020

Clyde Beatty Circus Sideshow, 1950

Added May 30 2019

Store Show “Oddities On Parade Museum” In Phoenix, Arizona

Added May 27 2019

Stanhope & Epstean’s New Dime Museum Handbill

Added Jan 8 2017

Facade of The Coney Island Dreamland Circus Sideshow in 1921

Added Nov 6 2016

George Williams “Turtle Boy”

Added Mar 19 2016

Epstein’s New Dime Museum

Added Aug 23 2015

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Coney Island Alzoria and Alligator Boy

Added Apr 19 2015

L’Homme Grenouille

Added Apr 5 2015

Floyd “Spider Boy”

Added Mar 29 2015

Croak “Frog Boy”

Added Mar 29 2015

Velvety Jester Contortionist

Added Mar 29 2015

Hoppie, The Frog Boy (2 Pages)

Added Mar 28 2015

Henry Bulson “Spider Boy”

Added Mar 28 2015

Henry Bulson “Spider Boy”

Added Mar 28 2015

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Mignon with Princess Estella

Added Jan 24 2015

Mickey Mignon and Her Son Tony

Added Jan 18 2015

Johanna & Ursa “Bear Girls”

Added Aug 13 2014

“Biographical Sketch of SERPENTINA” [v.2] (4 Pages)

Added Apr 26 2014

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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

Foy Large & Frank Morgner

Added October 24, 2021