Oddity Museum
January 7th, 2010
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- Half of the Bannerline. When fully setup, the bannerline stretches over 130'.
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- Elephant Woman Banner
Kima the Elephant woman had a skin condition similar to John Merrick's, though not as bad. She had twin girls and a young boy, all normal. She talked for a few minutes in the show about her skin condition.
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- Baton Rouge, LA State Fair
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- Coney Island Mermaid banner
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- Coney Island front on Surf
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- Detail of the Gallery of Freaks banner
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- Albino Python on one of our lovely snake charmers
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- Two Headed Turtle ALIVE
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- Little Jimmy the Dwarf Horse
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- Two Heded Monkey Sign
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- Lifesize Mermaid
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- Life Size Feejee Mermaid
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- Freaks of Nature Ticket Box
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- 8 Legged Pig
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- Shrunken Head
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- 4 tail Iguana
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- Long Neck Turtle
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- Nosey Rosey (2 noses, 3 eyes)
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- Two Headed Cow
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- 6 legged Cow
John Strong has a traveling museum consisting of a combination of live and preserved oddities. At any given time, there are approximately two to three dozen distinct oddities in the museum collected from around the globe. Of these, at least seven are alive. Some, but not all of the attractions, include:
- Dwarf brown paint horse less than 20” tall
- Betty Lou the Six Legged Cow, the only two body cow in the entire world.
- Two Headed Cow, Nosey Rosey, the only one in the world. Other two headed animals include a live two headed turtle named “Pete and Repete”, a two-faced Kitty named “Ping and Pong” and a two headed goat.
- Long Neck Turtle
- Double Trouble the Two Headed Rattlesnake
- Four Tailed Iguana
- Five Legged Yorkie Puppy
- Five Legged Salamander
- Three different El Chupacabra specimens (from Mexico, Texas and Puerto Rico)
- Two Headed Kitty
- Cyclops Pig
- Albino & Burmese Pythons
- Giant 8′ Mummy
- World’s largest traveling collection of real pickled punks (preserved freak animals in jars)
- Life Size Feejee Mermaid (One of the ORIGINAL Fiji mermaids)
- Alligator Boy (Half human / half alligator)