MEET RIPLEY'S SIDESHOW ACTS
Albert Cadabra
Our Humble Host & Human Blockhead, is a professional, award winning, comedy sideshow magician who delivers powerful, amazing and devilishly wild magic. He has entertained people from China to Coney Island, concert halls to intimate private parties. He is extremely funny, classy, astonishing and above all, amazingly entertaining.Albert’s unique performances include eating razor blades and a 3’ long balloon, hammering 6” spikes into his face, electrocuting himself with 20,000 volts of electricity and turning his assistant into a gorilla. He makes people and animals appear and vanish at will and also escapes from chains, shackles, locked crates and straight jackets all with the flair, style, class and great sense of humor you would expect from this seasoned, professional sideshow magician.
Betty Bloomerz
The Swords Swallowing Fire EaterYou will rarely hear this doll speak a word, if ever. Some ask if she has the ability to speak at all? As luck would have it- this lady would rather save her throat muscles for swallowing steel blades!
Playing and clowning around even while swallowing swords brought her to begin swallowing swords in all kinds of ways- while hula hooping, while perched on a friends shoulders, then while on the trapeze, while hanging upside down from the trapeze. Quite a tall order for a doll who is a mere 5'3"!!!
Searching to feed her insatiable appetite for a life, Betty loves Fire
play and Fire Eating. Betty has toured the world performing these stunts and continues to seek out the impossible.
Donny Vomit
The Sword Swallower
For nearly a decade Donny has been performing acts of a strange, bizarre, odd and macabre nature. He can be seen hammering spikes into his skull, tossing chainsaws with style and grace, and subjecting victims to his electric chair in the fashion of a true gentleman oddity.
He performs an array of acts, among them: Human Blockhead, Chainsaw Juggling, Unnatural Acts with Animal Traps, Electric Chair, Blade Box, Straitjacket Escapes, Bed of Nails, Mental Floss, Glass Walking, and Fire Eating.
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Enigma
A Ripley’s Wonders International PerformerThe self-proclaimed “Freak of Nature” emerged in 1991 and has since performed his all-ages show around the world staging sideshow stunts that will make anyone’s jaw drop. His utter disregard for the ordinary has resulted in a daring show one has to see to believe. The Enigma has appeared in a number of television programs including The X-Files (in an episode entitled "Humbug") where he played a character called "The Conundrum." He has also appeared on Penn & Teller: Bullshit!. The Enigma was featured in the 2005 documentary film Freaky Circus Guy[1] alongside sideshow performers Katzen, Danielle D'Meux, William Darke. In 2004, The Enigma appeared with Mike Patton, Jane Wiedlin, Karen Black and Katzen, in Steve Balderson's film Firecracker. A toy based on the Enigma's X-Files character "The Conundrum" was sold as part of Palisades Toys' X-Files PALz action figure line.
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George the Giant
A Ripley’s Wonders International Performer
George the Giant is not a larger than life performer because of his size, though he stands an impressive seven foot three inches in height. George The Giant was born and raised in a small city near Los Angels called Bakersfield. When at the age of twelve he was taken to the county fair where he witnessed a sword swallower and fire-eater perform on the bally stage. George could barely believe what the human body could accomplish. It wasn't till George was twenty-one before he started to learn the sideshow art. That path was started when a family tragedy caused him to have a fear of fire. He decided he would over come his fear the same way he over came his fear of heights... head on. In the case of his fear of heights he bungee jumped, for this of fire, he would learn fire eating. While researching fire eating he discovered descriptions of other sideshow stunts and started learning them also.
George the Giant has appeared as Colossus in Tim Burtons movie "Big Fish", as well as movies "Tough Luck", "Firecracker", and "Relative Strangers" as well as many television appearances on “The Tonight Show," "Touch By An Angel", "The Guardian", "The Strip", "According To Jim". “CNN”, “The Learning Channel”, “The Discovery Channel”, and “The Travel Channel”.
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Lizardman
Fully tattooed, Lizardman has undergone an estimated 650-700 hours of tattooing. The Lizardman is one of the single most complete sideshow entertainers in history. With the help of Dr. Grift he is able to offer an unequaled repertoire consisting of over 36 acts with many variations of each.
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Jellyboy
The Sword Swallowing ClownJellyboy the clown has been swallowing swords since 2007.
He travels regularly with the Squidling Brothers Circus Side Show
performing in theaters, festivals, museums and concert halls across the United States and around the world.
Jelly boy has also hosted the Coney Island Rockabilly Festival and produced his own DIY circus in Philadelphia called Carnivolution for the past seven years. Jellyboy has been with Ripley's Believe It or Not! Times Square for three years now displaying his own invention, the world's most dangerous sword, "The Flame Throwing Sword of Death."
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Tyler Fyre & Thrill Kill Jill
Tyler Fyre and Thrill Kill Jill are proud to have joined a long tradition as a first generation circus family. We met on Valentines Day in 2006 while Tyler was the MC on Burlesque-A-Pades, a dancing girl review show, and Jill was in the audience as a talent scout for the Palace of Wonders, an oddities museum with a live stage that she designed and opened in Washington, DC. Together they perform a fast paced and funny, death-defying daredevil stunt spectacular with the glitter, glamour, and gut-wrenching thrills of a Vegas show - guaranteed to please, amuse, and amaze audiences of all ages.
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