P. T. Barnum’s 10 Most Famous Human “Freak” Show Attractions
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- During the 1800s, Phineas Taylor Barnum - better known as “P.T. Barnum” - became famous as “The Great American Showman.” Barnum specialized in displaying odd and intriguing attractions to audiences who were eager to pay to see something out of the ordinary.
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For some reason, I really liked that they were well paid. PT Barnum obviously valued his freaks and made sure they were taken care of. That's not in line with the freak show stereotype.
It's probably cause he had a physical disability himself(even in the photos you can tell) and technically created a safe haven in a way. Years from now I am not surprised if current day self advocates start getting put on blast for corruption or collusion cause (no offense to my homies in autistic community) I have started noticing alarming trends involving mostly millenial age women and younger in different disabilities communities turn to pagentry and modeling more than looking into other options due to lack of resources and/or gender bias in different agencies. Older women like Temple Grandin and Susan Boyle seem more clean cut and more inspired than Heather Kuzmich and one other chick who said she felt compeled into this type of work to feel better about herself and gain acceptance.
Exactly! Whenever I hear "Freak show" I think of the cruel exploitation of disabled people (basically like circus animals). I really like that they didn't do the job because they were starving and that they weren't mistreated. He turned them into performers, rather than something he makes money with. Impressive.
Cheers!
I remember someone from the freak show saying in an interview that they were grateful to be there because they wouldn't have had any job opportunities otherwise with their physical limitations.
Honin Akecheta Yeah, that's f'ed up, but these people's lives would have been much worse without him. What else could a man with no arms or legs have done in that time?
@Honin Akecheta The cage was part of the act,he wasn't kept there all the time, it was a performance. And it was his "pinhead" situation that brought about the missing link act. You're the one who brought race into it.
Today this sounds so wrong.
But Barnum paid these people, and legitimately gave them a chance to make a living when no one would give them that chance.
I agree - we cannot try to compare the past to our standards, our morals, or our ethics today as they'll never align.
Yeah, people seem to not get that it was better to be in a “freak” show getting paid than to have your family haul you off and have you locked up in an Insane Asylum. That’s what happened to people with disabilities who weren’t employable; their families saw them as a burden and embarrassment and had them hidden away. The Asylum was hell on earth.
Yeah they pretty much got rich from doing his shows.
I agree. They were paid well and had a choice to leave when they wanted.
Except for the old lady... But I'm glad he treated the others right
Can we all agree though that the picture of General Tom Thumb is really adorable-
And he was loaded and also had a wife I'm able bodied and have neither of those things
He was a man, just smaller than most, that's all. It was Barnum that put together the crazy stories, that made these people somebody you'd pay to see.
I've always loved it.
Reminds me of mini khabib
They all married and had kids. And here I am, a normal looking guy in his late twenties trying to teach my cat a backflip.
Edit; To answer the question, yes, my cat can do a backflip now. All I needed was a cucumber.
Just remember, only one out of two marriages last.
i'd pay to see a cat do a backflip
They weren't as materialistic and superficial as we are today...
@@ChristianDoretti yes sure..... Did you miss the part of the video where it says they were all filthy rich?
@@daniele9209 Nah, still, someone same would marry them on today's standards, they are so asymmetric that they were scary.
5:58 "Sometimes they would dress him up as a snake, a caterpillar, or a potato" what😂😂
I know right. I feel so bad but I lost it at that. 🤣
Dress me up as a potato
A kawaii potato
Human Trash yas queen
I died 😂
45 lbs and can lift 300??
DAMN SON!!!!
Got that ant power.
Spills51 I thought I was cool for being 115 and lifting 200...
Spills51 Aliens
@@wokeslush9489 ur still cool 😊
G U C C I • Thank you :) I bet you’re cooo aswell
Its nice to know, Phineas treated his employees with so much care. He payed them well, and treated them as equal.
no he didn’t lol
this dude looks like vsauce more than vsauce looks like vsauce
uno reverse card lmaooo
He is vsause
Heyyyy....vsauce..it's vsauce here
I just realized hes not by seeing this comment
I thought it was v sauce
I'm just glad they got well paid
They didn’t.
Elephants are better can whip and no pay
They went from being paid to not being able to be hired pretty quickly unfortunately
@@VeganMotorcyclePilot you're wrong for saying/thinking that
@Andy C they weren't always paid well for a long time and they weren't able to be hired after
It's easy to dislike P. T. Barnum for exploiting both his "exhibits" and his customers, but on the other hand, he paid his employees extremely well under their contracts, much better than he had to, and he let them keep what they earned, no charges for room and board and costumes. Very unusual in that era.
Silkendrum that's what I was thinking. And honestly he was offering well paying work for people with deformities that even in today's world will generally land you penniless and alone. Seems like most people who were with him lived happier, healthier lives then a lot of people.
and the myth that he was a conman purposely duping people is exactly that, a myth. His audiences knew there was quite a fair bit of embellishment in his acts and spectacles but they were only there for entertainment so in their eyes it didn't matter that he was stretching the truth. It's the same reason people go to magic shows today even though there have been countless programs debunking the tricks; it's all for the purpose of entertainment.
Well his workers signed contracts on their free will, and most of them worked for him for years, I'm going to assume they liked the money they were making and how they were treated.
And he treated them with humanely. Wealthy people tended to treat the lower classes as if they were nothing more than animals in those days.
Jose Flores
How can a mentally handicapped person sigh a contract of their own free will??
I doubt most of them knew what they were signing anyway.
I actually lived in P.T. Barnam's house he built for his wife and children in Denver Colorado. It is now an AirBNB. It was a beautiful old Victorian style house with 7 bedrooms, 3 living rooms and a very large kitchen and dining room. I love that house and all it's history.
Please, let this not be lie...❤ if not, u just lived my dream! I LOVE OLD STUFF! And HISTORY'!
People have tried to vilify Barnum for years but he loved each and everyone of his performers in the freak show and made sure no one hurt any of them, they were all well taken care of and all of their health care needs were met. Without PT they didn't stand a chance outside of the show.
I mean… multiple things can be true at once. It is wrong to pay money to mock and make fun of people. They also were paid well.
They would have been mocked by people regardless, Atleast they got paid handsomely for the mocking
@@Factsonmen and making people laugh.
P.T barnum is such an intriguing character. In a time with literally zero social justice he both took advantage of these people and his customers but at the exact same time built these people up to be proud of who they were and wanted to bring joy to everyone
Zach Boebel
Dickface
And most got rich!
And had the circus village where performers could retire. I think it was in Florida.
@@weltonvillegal6258 it is
@@TvConfusionn - someone's sour.
Abraham Lincoln was amused by midgets is the best thing I've heard all year.
BazookaHorse I don’t know why this comment is so funny 😂
And he was a giant
@@sylvadob1229 6'4 is hardly a giant.
@@michaelheeheejackson7255 to the midgets he was
@@michaelheeheejackson7255 only 1% of people are over 6'4 smartie pants
For a bunch of people who were 'exploited' they sure made a great living as entertainers and lived long and happy lives.
This is 2 years late but I commend Top Tenz for their respectful behavior. As a disabled person, I was hesitant to click on the video given how people treat my people. It’s even worse when they’re referring to the past. I’m touched by how kind and honorable the script is. I truly am in awe.
Thank you.
Differently abled just sounds ableist to me 🤷♀️
@@Stevie-steel Maybe ableist is the wrong term, but what I meant was the word disabled shouldn't be seen as a bad thing. When people use words like differently abled etc it's like it's almost infantilising or shaming disability. Like ohh it's okayy you're not disabled, you're differently abled! :D
Also I think it can run the risk of completely dismissing/downplaying the ways your particular disability affects your life, and the fact you need support in some ways
It kind of sucks how even the word disabled can make people with disabilities recoil and feel lesser than (including myself)
@@Stevie-steel You can identify however you want, but that goes for other people, too. I call myself autistic, not a person with autism. Just like I am also bisexual - not a “person with bisexuality”.
@@Stevie-steel how is it not? It is something you can't change that effects the way you live and how others treat you.
@@Stevie-steel no one called it a medical condition, you’re just treating this like the oppression olympics. Stop trying to prove you’re worse off than everyone else when it literally doesn’t matter.
To get to 80 years old anyway in 1836 is freaky enough they didn't need to lie.
michael Longford yeah...especially if you were black
Seriously, though. Everyone dropped dead at 35 and she lives to be 80.
Not quite that low, more so around 50
A dam still though, being black on that time period and living to your 80s was a miracle. Living to 80+ in the modern era with medical science what it is, is a miracle. Your lucky to live past 70
A dam The average lifespan back then gives you a really inaccurate view of how long someone was likely to live because a very high child mortality rate skewed that statistic very far towards the low end.
*”HEY VSAUCE... Michael here”* Come on I can’t be the only one that thought this ?
아시리 I thought it was vsauce until I heard the voice lol
Looks like yo mama
아시리 I thought it was Vsauce also.
literally about to comment that
Me too!
That guy had no arms and no legs and still managed to marry and have 5 children... What's _your_ excuse?
Ugly
@@danndidntask4057 nah fam, you a snacc
I don’t want kids
Erectile dysfunction
Just a weeb thank you
"who're you calling 'pinhead'?"
Zip's last words to his sister were "Well, we fooled 'em for a long time, didn't we?"[
Is “who’re” a word?
John Blakeney I want to know too😆
@@ddd1hhh its a spongebob reference
I wanna be Dirty Dan
They were presented like monsters but lived like kings.
MONSTERS that got paid more a week then others in a lifetime, hell I'd be a freak for money
If you think that way, you already are a monster
if you dont want to go see the freaks..stay at home
@@leo.ottesen Why? They weren't bothered by it...
He saved all of them from miserable life and gave a wonderful rich life.
And they were with other people with challenging condition.
Exactly! Most of the time people with disabilities were locked up in Insane Asylums that were hell on earth.
He saved them from that terrible fate and gave them a life of their own.
"She had babies (5) out of both sets of legs? " Young man! THAT is not where babies come from (legs). LOL.
Brenda Rose HAHAHAHA I thought I was the only one who heard it that way lol
She had two sets of 'lady parts'
Its weird cuz she had her sister's kids and her own, but because she would have been an identical twin no one would know whose was whose.
So her husband tried both vaginas lol the first three some with 2 people
@Joe Striker what? both sets of organs would be the same age. She was one person at the end of the day
My jaw dropped several times from how insanely offensive Barnum's backstories were, but I am glad he at least paid them well. They deserved it, but wow. I hope they enjoyed their lives despite being constantly gawked at.
Offensive as the backstories may be, it helped sell tickets which in turn made better earnings for the performers.
I miss the freak shows.
I just watched a two-hour documentary on the history of the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus on Public Television. I was engrossed the entire two-hours (which is unusual for me). It was really excellent.
@@hazelatwood2292 Would you mind saying what the documentary is called? I'd totally watch that.
@@Sir99percent If you Search PBS for American Experience: The Circus, Pt 1. It’s Part One of a Two-Part Documentary that I just watched (which is news to me). I just couldn’t sleep the other night, and thankfully something interesting was on tv. 🤓
Fun fact: the article in the newspaper who accused Joice of being an automaton was actually written after Barnum himself used a pseudonym and sent in loads of such accusations in order to drum up more interest in Joice, which had been waning at the time. It worked...when people heard she might actually be some kind of robot they swarmed to come see her, which had the added effect of making almost everyone who had already paid to see her at least once come back for a return visit out of curiosity. Barnum may have been a scumbag but he was an entertainment industry genius.
Not mutually exclusive. A lot of geniuses are scumbags actually
@@THEPELADOMASTER very true
@@miaouew Being a genius also means thinking logically and not making decisions based on emotions and primal nature, so most of the time genius people, in the eyes of common folk, seem to be scumbags.
@@danielsantos6437 like a robot or a Vulcan. Very logical without emotional involvement. Sounds like a horrible human to me.
You know idk man, he seemed more than fair to the people in the show. Idk what else he did though
The Chinese Giant: “He drew a crowd, at least for a short time.” I see what you did there.
If you'll pardon the pun
PT Barnum was actually a great man who valued people who were shunned from society. I went to the museum when I was a kid and learned a lot. He played people and tricked them yes but he gave a lot to their imagination so these "freaks" could live a great life.
"There's a sucker born every minute" was a saying in the 19th century about P.T Barnum being able to trick people into believing in nonsensical things like the ‘Fiji mermaid,” “The Cardiff Giant” the “161 year old nursemaid” and many other hoaxes designed to earn an income from.
The ability continues into the internet age and the fantastical stories & videos on UA-cam about “lost civilizations,” “unexplainable mysteries” and “ancient high technology" put out by profit seeking book authors like Graham Hancock, Brien Foerster, UnchartedX, Erich Von Daniken, Bright Insight, Christopher Dunn, Randall Carlson and others like them are the proof.
“Chang yu sing?”
“No, I only dance.”
Hahaha😄 I died!!
I’m so disappointed, yet so proud
👌 perfection
yes but CAN Richard Funk?
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"she experienced giving birth out of both sets of legs" a term i will only hear once in my lifetime!
That sounds like pure torture
The cringe factor redlined. Doesn't that technically mean he slept with her sister?
Technically some of the children are her unborne twin sisters children.
Sadly during consummation, he had been repeatedly kicked in the nuts, and later suffered E.D.
@@nigel900 what
Most of the people featured in this video sounded like they had better lives than most “normal” people.
4:42 so her husband was double dipping
Actually Zip ‘the pinhead’ was perfectly ‘normal’, he did have slight learning difficulties and a smaller head than the average size, but he didn’t actually share the same condition as other famous ‘pinheads’.
In fact, on his death bed he allegedly said to his sister ‘We sure fooled them, didn’t we’.
**time travels to the 1800s**
random pheasant woman : oh my what a freak!
rich guy : i wanna buy you
- aesthetic_boi - wait did you just say pheasant
Back in my day a nickle used to cost a penny
@CodeHurricane Originals buying people to put on display for shows and make money did that help ?
@CodeHurricane Originals i cant help down syndrome people
Plot twist: The rich guy wanted to buy the talking pheasant.
This man was born without arms and legs yet earned A LOT of money, was popular with the ladies, and fathered 5 kids. Dang, that’s amazing in more ways than one! 👏👏👏
And he can light his own cigarette using only his mouth. 😳
AND got out of diaper duty!
look up nick vujicic no arms no legs no worries :)
How did he Frick tho
@@iwatchhentaieverydaywithsenpai got rided cowgirl position and shizz
Me; getting bullied today for my mental illnesses and disability; to the “freaks”: You guys are getting paid?
(They were treated so much better than I’d thought they’d been omg)
They were able to make their own money and lives in a time when that wasn't easy for "able bodied" people. We tend to have a very narrow, modern version of these sorts of shows, without understanding what it was like for them. The movie Freaks, actually shows these people as a happy family.
@@sarahhenry5577 I watched that movie and I did enjoy it very much :) I'm just glad everyone was treated with some degree of respect and professionalism
P.T . Barnum will always be someone who confounds modern understanding. On the one hand he exploited people who were disabled and put them on display to be laughed or gawked at as if they were less then human, and on the other hand he took people who, in their time, would have probably been societal outcasts and made them apart of a community that would accept them, gave them a purpose, and made them incredibly rich and famous. Was he a villain or a hero? who knows...
Wow, like, so deep.
Deep
He sounds more like an anti hero.
He was...Batman !
HERO
Instead of being dependent upon and possibly feeling like a burden to their families , Mr. Barnum gave them an opportunity to make enough money to financially care for their family. It also gave them a second family of other "freaks" , an opportunity to meet others similar issues as them
That's kind of what I thought. Plus I bet some, like Tom thumb, really enjoyed performing and being famous.
So far I haven't heard anything about Barnum mistreating them either. Considering the money they earned it seems fair. Plus if they don't enjoy it they could earn enough pretty quickly to help live a comfortable life. Then just leave. Like the Chinese giant seemed to do.
The way he did it was incredibly disrespectful. He put a black man in a cage, and let people question a woman's gender because of a condition she had. He let people disrespect them. And made them think they were anything less than boring.
@@stuffstuffer643 It's not much different then the entertainment industry today they signed contracts and were paid well to act and be gawked at during showtimes honestly it's was probably a better gig then what celebs deal with today what with the constant harassment and paparazzi.
Exactly. Right now they live basically from their parents or help from the gov because they can't do nothing. What a bs
Stuff Stuffer I think you’re referring to Josephine Waas. Although we don’t know if she/he was really a hermaphrodite or not. She/He was well-paid like the rest of the performers in PT’s circus and She/He was able to married a guy named George Wass and lived a normal life despite being classified as a “freak”.
You need to remember at his time people with a mental disorder or disability are deemed as unacceptable in society and they are usually forced to go to asylum where they will be tortured. He actually provided these guys well-paid money and when their contracts ended, most of them either still work with him or settled down like Josephine. So even though it’s bad that he taking advantage of their disabilities, he’s the reasons why they were able to live a normal life.
"Sometimes they would dress him up like a snake, a caterpillar or a potato"
By the time she was 8 she had a full beard
“So what you’re saying is she was Italian?”
(I’m Italian, don’t send me hate)
Sending no hate, just love😊
Nobody roasts Italians harder than Italians man.
I'm not Italian but thanks for giving me a laugh.
As an irish person with bushes for legs I concur.
It's been said Italian men wear gold chains around their neck so they know where to stop shaving.
Lmao
At last. A youtuber who just gets right in to the video and doesn't go off subject or try and be zaney and funny. And waits till end to ask for a like and sub. So I did.
Yea the waiting till the end part is a nice change
I don’t think you’d like Business Blaze
Yes, I agree. I think we actually read the same research on this. Word by word... I remember.
Go watch his Business Blaze channel. 🤣🤣🤣
Shame
I deadass thought u were vsauce for a second
SAME
Sameeee
Same
@jelly puma simon is teh danger
SAME
Lol the bearded lady one had me cackling. 8:00 It took 3 doctors to go "Hmmmm, yeah I'm pretty sure that's a vagina. You might want a second opinion though"
Great video Simon!! Thank you so much for your hard work!! I speak for us all when I say we love your videos!!
This video was really interesting and well researched - loved it!
CultureCrash who are you
JK
CultureCrash!
And how was it stolen
Hey, CC!
OMG YOUR AWSOME
Ironically, these people actually had jobs. Money. A purpose. People with these looks nowadays can't even say the same.
Many deformed persons do work, actually. Of course some deformities prevent them from pursuing certain types of careers, a person with dwarfism will probably be unsuitable for a physically demanding career - but that doesn't mean these anomalies are exempt from working.
Corvyn Malfoy, Mediocre Collector I think they ment some of the more extreme cases.
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I love that most of them had found love after finding their way to P.T. :)
I subscribed- I love how there is very interesting, informative content. I really commend you for getting right to it- and kept right on going through it! 👏🏼👏🏼 it’s rare, but awesome 👏🏼. Thank you
11,000 a week? Heck yeah, I'd be in a freak show!
Madame Raven
Me : PUT ME IN YOUR FREEK SHOW
Manager : But you only have ADHD mrs ...
Me : *JUST DO IT !*
Bitter Sweet Hufflepuff hahaha no doubt!
But you have to to be a freak first to qualify
Give 1,000 soobs plez . I know that , that's why I have a degree in being that one weirdo at partys that everyone thinks is creepy . *JUST GIVE ME THE JOB*
He abused them
You know the Freak Show gets a bad rap but there are two things that should be pointed out. First the freaks were paid very well and if not for the show they might not have any work and probably die early in life. Second the Freak Show is still around and we all line up on the couch and watch it all the time; "Little People Big World," "My 600lb Life," "The Little Couple," "Little Women: LA," "Hoarders Buried Alive," "The Kardashians," "Long Island Medium," and all of the real housewives shows.
My point is don't judge the past because of your so called moralities when the past is alive and well and you are a participant in it.
Thank you!
The kardashians😂😂
THE KARDASHIANS I'M-
Ikr so true... Our TVs are our modern Day freak show
Your right
I love the research Simon and his team put into all his topics. I was especially pleased to see that Simon also used the correct terminology for people with restricted growth.
Wow! Thank you so much! Your videos are all in one. 😍
Oh! my gosh, that means #7 Myrtle was both Mom And Auntie. Depending on which pair of legs the kid came out of... odd.
mad honeybee i thought that was so weird also
I have a LOT more questions about her. I'd LOVE to see an x-ray of her, but I know they probably don't exist. Still, a photo, diagram or pencil sketch would do. I just can't imagine how all the parts come together, ya know? I'm thinking that the twin's lower half must protrude from her lower stomach... maybe? I dunno.
Her husband was a lucky man
I’m not trying to laugh but....
2 pussys
I have a physical condition that makes me pretty noticeable. Honestly, I wouldn't mind living in the 19th century if it meant earning 11K a week.
HarryIsTheGamingGeek when life hands ya lemons...
Would you mind sharing the physical condition?
@@Ryan-jx4vh Why would you want part of his condition?? Weirdo! 😂
@@snoutysnouterson i wanna know too...
Just curious
Seems like it was a great way to find love as well
It's great that no one was forced to act and they where all paid extremely well
The fact that Lincoln liked little people was adorable. Idk if his liking to them had mean intentions or not but if they didn't then that's great!
Where is daddy long neck and wide neck
They could be real attractions lol. I would pay a few bucks to see them irl.
Wide neck's grandgrandgrandson is Corey Taylor
@@jegeriufanen4415 wrong, it's corpsegrinder.
But on another note, I think it's all the headbanging they do they made their neck so thick. Idk how wide neck got his so thick though. I doubt he likes metal.
Just besides Daddy-Long-Legs.
Fred Parrish i’m pretty sure he was born with it
people say freaks shows are outdated as if no one watches TLC
Ivy Magaña and Dr.Phil
Ivy Magaña or UA-cam!!
What's really the difference between P.T. Barnum's show, and this actual video by Simon Whistler?
This is gold lol
Ivy Magaña oop
I’m glad that they were all well looked after and well paid and not ripped off and exploited. I love all the Top 10 videos. They’re always really interesting well researched and very informative. Brilliant 😊👍🏻.
The slave wasn't well paid...
When I was a kid,my father would always ask me,"so Chris,when are you going to run away with the circus" as I always had a fascination with the freak shows,and would probably make a great freak(won't say which one)
I am surprised that Ang and Chang Bunker were not on this list. they were P.T. Barnum's famous siamese twins.
Okay not gonna lie. It's surprising and kind of neat that most of these not only were volunteers but also were paid amazingly and taken care of.
well I am sure the report wasn't on the mentally ill, children or slaves that were forced. I am sure given the time though it was nice to have that opportunity but only because they wouldn't otherwise have any options. The option are unlimited now for everyone now (athough harder for some). They don't HAVE to do only that.
I really like the way you put this together. Fascinating ! I just subscribed
As usual, a great video. Thank you!
I wish we knew how these people felt. Were they thankful for work and were happy to support themselves? I have seen many interviews done in "carnival" towns, they enjoy their town, because no one is different and they don't get bullied. I hope as a people we are a lot more welcoming to different people, but history repeats itself.
Overall the people Barnum displayed were happy and glad that they could earn a living. Many of them had acts not only in the sideshows but appeared in the three ring ballyhoo that closed the circus performance. One such pair were a man who had no legs and a man who had no arms. They rode around the tent on a tandem bicycle making jokes about their condition.
It has been suggested that the "Freak Show" led to wider acceptance of disabled people in general and perhaps more important allowed disabled people to see that their problem wasn't as bad as it could have been.
There is plenty of information available about that when you Google it. The bearded lady was especially vocal.
Random Chaos who wouldn't be happy to support themselves........?
Katie Bayliss, entitled Americans wouldn't.. :)
Uh 11,000$ A WEEK, a MILLION ! I think they were pretty damn happy.
On one hand, P.T. Barnum took advantage of other peoples' disabilities and displayed them as freaks, pocketing huge amounts of money in the process, but on the other hand, DAMN if he didn't also pay them all enormous sums of money for their performances, AND in some cases even took care of them after they retired!
Does anyone realize this is the greatest snowman
SNOWMAN PLSSSS *showman
I do... I thought this was common knowledge?
@@shortbean0 I thought it was kinda obvious but I did not see anyone else comment it so idk
'Colonel' Tom Parker: 'Hold my cigar.'
No, Frosty was the greatest snowman
I feel like the reason they were so amused that she looked so old was because 15 was considered middle aged at the time.
The 4 legged girl. How do her periods work? Can each uterus have their own periods at their own time meaning a double period? Could she even have 2 pregnancies at once?
I would assume so since they were both fully capable of carrying and delivering children to term
@@dramasbomin no, she had only one womb meaning she can't be pregnant twice simultaneously
I was born with two uterus's both were fully functional. The periods were horrible. I didn't find out until I had a hysterectomy at age 28. They told me that I could have carried two different babies at the same time with different fathers if a fertilized egg had gone into each uterus. So glad that didn't happen. My husband might have been pissed too...lol.
What would it be like to have sex with her?
Two vaginas? How many anuses? Does she ever get confused when she needs to pee? Like sit thinking is gonna come out that one but then it goes down her leg?
@Not Hitler Why ew?
I have a hard time condemning people for attending "freak" shows to see something out of the ordinary considering how much time I've spent this evening trawling UA-cam.
I’ve seen several comments that we no longer have side shows. Yes, we do. Check out the current USA House of Representatives.
Our government in general.
Oof...😂
You misspelled "the White House".
Lol true
Also.. everything on TLC
very thorough research thank you for your videos thus far
that bearded lady has a lord farquaad hair cut
Well atleast it wont be gay
what time stamp
Great video. I always imagined that the Talent of Barnum were not treated well. Maybe had to join as disability back then could be difficult for a family.
But the Employees joined willingly, treated very well, and made great money. And were able to marry, have kids, etc. Amazing lives they had.
LeiAnne Stevens Did you forget about the woman he bought?
Susie Lee
I think we all have to take in account the time period and morals they had. Slavery was still a thing, selling black people wasn't necessarily uncommon.
Although I do say that it's a horrible thing now, back then it was just kinda... Eh.
Susie Lee, yes slavery is bad, and there isn't one argument that can ever justify one person owning another. Yet in the context of the time that this happened it could be said she was treated extremely well. In return for sitting in a chair and telling stories to the audience, she was clothed, fed and her needs met in her old age. Try and imagine what her life could have been like at that age if a more typical slave owner had of bought her...
was abt to say "basically greatest showman, then" when i realised that the greatest showman _was_ based on P.T. Barnum
6:55 he said nineteen sixties but the caption said 1800.
"Chang Yu Sing"
Me: "No I can't"
Lawrence Young 💀 Damnnn bruv
😂
*wheeze*
Oi Chang sing a Little
Lmao
dude with no arms or legs was married with kids. here i am alone with no one.
You don't have the bread he had
How does sex even work
no one told you about the birds and the bees
Mike S he has no legs or arms. Does she move him?
umm she rode him i guess
Thank you. Very informative.
In London during the 1960s it was still quite common to call someone with messy hair, "The wild man/woman of Borneo." My dad used to sometimes call me this when I woke up in the morning.
It’s very easy by today’s standards to see Barnum and the other showmen as the villains.
Look at how much money these people earned (more than I do today), and then work out what their lives would have been without the show.
They weren’t forced into this. They wanted to do this for a living.
Barnum seems to have been a decent kind of chap, in the whole.
Joyce was bought as a slave- nobody can get out of the willingly
@@jessycac6311 Too simple an answer - I understand what you are saying, but she had a far better life with Barnum than she would have had otherwise
@@EVITANDY I understand where you’re coming from, and I do agree to an extent. However, I don’t think we should denounce the possible pain and suffering she went through just because she could’ve had it worse.
@@jessycac6311 I am certainly not doing that. But thanks to Barnum, she was looked after a lot more than most. None of this is ideal, but the reality is that it was happening, and some people were trying to make it better for those who were being exploited.
Today you just open UA-cam and you can admire thousands of freaks from the comfort of your sofa 😗
U got that right.
Luck z and for free 💰
Marie ! Unless u got Premium
Despite P. T. Barnum's "bad" reputation, he helped a ton of people. Especially people who were "odd", "different", and unique(unusual gifts or skills). They wouldn't have been included in normal society and they would never find a steady job of any type, in any industry. Barnum himself knew what being a poor outcast felt like. These folks often had been born with their "odd issues" and Barnum gave them a job that paid well and many other benefits. It was a very different world back then...and he helped a lot of folks who would have been destitute, beggars, and cast outs and folks destened to the dreaded Olms Houses.( Look it up...it's really awful) I'm NOT saying it was perfect, always fair, and correct. But he gave opportunity to people who had nothing.
When ppl see something like this on UA-cam they'd probably expect the people mentioned to have a hard and tragic life,
I'm glad all these guys had a happy and wealthy ending!
Calling that dude the missing link was genius advertising
He is, he's basically the guy who invented clickbait
@@sireawfulthe1st291 OMG! THE MISSING PIECE IN HUMAN EVOLUTION!?! (possibly gone sexual)
They also had a guy they claimed could fart for five minutes continuously. However, he ran out of gas and they called him the missing stink.
Why does this guy look like Michael from Vsauce?LMAO
I DONT KNOW LOL
coz he be bald
He's a wannabe
LMFAOOOO KAWAIII CHAN
Bald head, beard, glasses.
Great video!
Barnum was a big showmen and a big heart!
The Greatest Showman is a great film and very interesting to find out about the real thing. great video
Yeah, he was much worse than the movie xD
The Greatest Showman is basically complete fiction.
TootTootMcbumbersnazzle Damn. People have different tastes. Why are you so bitter?
Right?
Well ... the cliffnotes watered down version anyway.
I watched The Greatest Showman a while ago and loved it, even with its glossing over of the real history of Barnum and his museum. It's so cool to find out how many of the real-life "freaks" were put into the film.
toutragious haha love it happy new year
Awesome video
Its nice to hear that Barnum actually paid these people well
I am actually related the Lavinia Warren. My grandmother has two of the original wedding photos from her and Charles Stanton's wedding. It so interesting to still hear about them.
Gosh - She was absolutely adorable! 🥰
A very informative video it was.❤
So that old joice lady was like the 1800s Danielle Cohn no one knows her age
Wow this is so much different then the movie
Yes but there is a lot of link up if you wacthed the movie enough the 10 was the woman how have him the apple at the start of movie with the eyes in the head
THIS IS THE GREATEST SHOOOWWWWW
was all I could think 😂
Great video
We don't have side shows any more, we have reality shows now
Yes, like the Got Talent series.
Sandra Tebar 🤯
There's on in Venice Beach...
The reality shows are even more of a freak show
...they travel around with our fairs. SO, THUR'S ALWAYS ONE U CAN VISIT.