CONEY ISLAND, Brooklyn (PIX11) – Sweet Pepper Klopek set a world record in 2015 when he lifted a 15-pound sledgehammer using two hooks pierced into his cheeks. On Sunday, Arrie Fae Bronson-Davidson is ...

Step into Coney Island on a summer day and you’ll hear it — screams from the Cyclone, music blasting from boardwalk speakers. Walk down Surf Avenue and you’ll see a different kind of spectacle: ...

Sideshow performer Jared Rydelek is no second banana. The sword-swallowing, walk-on-glass escape artist is a world record holder who has been featured on the National Geographic and Discovery channels ...

Sideshow freaks? (Freak is a word we use endearingly.) First thing we think of is the lady who can grow a beard. No doubt she exists. We see gals with killer ’staches all the time. But she’s not a ...

At Conspiracy Circus, the show doesn’t begin with a curtain rising, but with a secret door swinging open behind the counter of the Learned Lemur, an oddities shop filled with antiquities and taxidermy ...

Can you imagine being called "The Ugliest Woman In The World?" Mary Ann Bevan was an Englishwoman who once held that title, and instead of hiding from the world, she learned to embrace it in order to ...