History: Freaks Of Nature

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}
2000–2010 - Ken Harck's Brothers Grim Sideshow debuted at the Great Circus Parade in Milwaukee, WI. The Milwaukee run included a fat lady and bearded lady Melinda Maxi, as well as self made freaks The Enigma and Katzen. In later years the show has included Half-boy Jesse Stitcher and Jesus "Chuy" Aceves the Mexican Werewolf Boy and Murrugun The Mystic. Bros. Grim toured with the Ozz Fest music festival in 2006,2007 and 2010.
2005 - "999 Eyes Freakshow" founded, touting itself as the "last genuine traveling freakshow in the United States." 999 Eyes portrays freaks in a very positive light, insisting that "what is different is beautiful." Freaks include Black Scorpion.
2007 - Wayne Schoenfeld bring together several sideshow performers to "The L.A. Circus Congress Freaks and Exotics," to photograph sideshows folks for "Cirque Du Soleil - Circus the Past." In attendance were: Bill Quinn, the halfman; Percilla, the fat lady; Mighty Mike Murga the Mighty Dwarf; Dieguito El Negrito, a wildman; fireeaters; sword swallowers, and more.