Bizarre Postcards - Human Oddities

Leo Kongee & Singlee

This unused postcard has the printed text...

Official Post Card of Ripley's "Believe it or Not" Odditorium
California Pacific Interneational Exposition - 1935
J. G. Moreno & Co., Printers, Chicago, U. S. A.

Leo Kongee was known as the "Human Pin-Cushion", "Painless Wonder" or "Man with no Nerves". He was able to drive nails into his head and hat-pins through his tongue without bleeding or feeling pain. Singlee "The Fire-Proof Man", from Solon, India, believed he could not be harmed by fire and passed a blow-torch over his body to prove it!

Paul McWilliams & Alfred Langevin

This unused postcard has the printed text...

Official Post Card of Ripley's "Believe it or Not" Odditorium
California Pacific Interneational Exposition - 1935
J. G. Moreno & Co., Printers, Chicago, U. S. A.

Paul McWilliams was known as "Big Mouth". Alfred Langevin who could play a recorder, blow up a balloon and blow smoke out of his eye. He had enlarged tear glands which was how he was able to do these things.

Giantess

This unused postcard, which is a modern reprint of an old photograph, has the printed text...

The Giant, c.1875
Photographer Unidentified
Fotofolio
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Fotofolio, Box 661 Canal Sta., NY, NY, 10013
X9

I really do not know who this giantess is.

X-Ray of six fingered hand

This unused modern postcard has no other text.

This page created 28th April 2010, last modified 1st May 2010