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History: Freaks Of Nature
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1932 - Tod Browning's Pre-Code-era film Freaks tells the story a traveling freakshow. The use real freaks in the film provoked public outcries, and the film was relegated to obscurity until its re-release at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival.
1960 - Albert-Alberta Karas (two siblings, each half man, half woman) exhibits with Bobby Reynolds on sideshow tour.
1992 - Grady Stiles (the lobster boy) is shot in his home in Gibsonton, Florida.
1996 - Chicago shock-jock Mancow Muller presented Mancow's Freak Show at the United Center in the Summer 1996, to crowd 30,000. The show included Kathy Stiles and her brother Grady III as the Lobster Twins. {Mancow Muller (with John Calkins) Dad, Dames, Demons & a Dwarf Regan Books 2004 pp. 121, 137-147}
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