Seeing Is Believing: America's Side Shows

Seeing Is Believing is a history of midway attractions and the showmen who have presented them on American midways from the 1870s to World War II. Find out who manufactured the Polly-Moo-Zuke, the Two-Headed Giant, and the Devil Fish. Hear showmen's stories of hoochie coochie dancing bears, monkeys racing miniature racecars, and the strange people who made a living eating snakes.

See war criminals, wax outlaws, and papier mâché torture victims. Learn about illusion on the midway and how "fr...