The Headless Lady

[meljaxon]

I can assure all viewers that this is a REAL lady and as they say, she REALLY is ALIVE.

[thegalaxybeing]

The very VERY creepy episode of the 1961 series, Way Out called "Side Show" is a story of a headless woman kept alive in an electric chair (with wires & a light bulb above her shoulders). The story is kind based on the premise what if this wasn't a gag but real. In the story, a man falls for her and tries to help her. I saw it as a 5 rear old kid and it kept my head under the covers at night for a hell of a long time. Perhaps the creepiest thing I ever saw on TV. Wonderfully twisted ending too!

[hermoineglitter]

i almost cry when i see the girl..i mean shes very unlucky but still im thankful cuz shes till living...

[Beatlesfan71]

that is some really really really good life like robot

[lilOldMe12]

Why would anyone be WILLING to have their head chopped off???

[RasenganPwn]

WOW how she lost her head in the first place?

-.- Spooky.

[m3gadork]

they could keep a body alive back then with merely a brain.

[randirain]

Actually, we could keep a human body alive without a head. IV feeding, iron lung, pacemaker, electrical stimulation of nerves...

but this is an old sideshow act, and a damn good one.

I love this stuff!!

Good job!!

[meljaxon]

Candice0105. I saw this act in the 60s in Dreamland in Margate when I was a child. I have never been able to work out how it is done. It is obviously an illusion, albeit, a very good one, as if it was a real lady she would have been long dead by now. I would have thought so anyway. Its brilliant though isnt it.

[candice0105]

Come on now! It can't be true. She wouldn't be able to even move at all much less understand what the Dr. wanted her to do. If this were possible, Doctors would have used this on someone that was decapitated along time ago. Or at least tested it on anmals. We would have heard about this by now. Something as bazzar as this counldn't be kept secret for very long. So, no way this is true. It makes for good entertainment though.

[Emorkia]

I know you can breath with tracheostomy tubes and you can get nourishment through feeding tubes but there has to be a brain to digest the food and use the oxygen so this is the hoax. There was a chicken that lived without a head but it did have a brainstem and in a chicken that's enough to stay alive.

[super1commenter]

no head =100% dead (no brain) brain is for controlling your body if you cut it off, you'll die

[rowanjames]

No they did not say she had no brain, what they said at the time was that the head had been almost severed in a factory accident and the brain had been incorporated into the body cavity as the skull was too damaged to fix.

[shadowsa2b]

stil, she woudnt be able to see or hear even if that worked. and i dont see how the brain could stay properly wired into all the nerves connented through the spinal chord etc if it was put into the body cavity. and anyway, why would someone want to keep living in that condition, let alone be set up as a side show attraction for people to gawk at?

[meljaxon]

I saw this sideshow live, in the 1960s when I was about 10 years old. It scared the life out of me, and I have never forgotten it. I was amazed to see it on You Tube. I have never ever worked out if it was real or not but honestly,It still scares the life out of me today. I never thought id see it again though. Its awesome.

[haunter112]

Awesome!

[wiimember]

I doubt this video is real I mean seriously people, how could a human being be alive if they have no brain to control their body, besides how the assistant have told her to take her gloves off if she had no eyes, ears, mouth, or nose to learn that wierd touching language! So what I believe is that it could've been a robot or a synthetic body and there was a hidden person in the back that was moving her hands with some remote control thing...serioulsy people don't believe this

[funnycatster]

possibly its not true how does she breath and eat without a mouth and how does she feel the scientist hand she has no brain to feel things right?

[GreenKangeroo]

Well she could eat, all you would havr to do is feed her food that she wouldnt choke on, and use an eye dropper to give her water. They did it with a headless chicken, but ya this would be impossible since human brain contols everything

[rowanjames]

That is so wierd. I am 57 years old and remember seeing the exact girl Yvette 'live' in a freak show at Dreamland Margate (UK) when I was a child. She certainly looked real and they said at the time she had had her neck severed in a factory accident. So is it true or not???

[Mariamousie]

I really want to know how this was done. How bizarre! XD

[jajadick]

hmm i guess we do have souls

[krylonkitty]

hmmm interesting

[mgtfmoggs]

how!!!!!!!!

[KikiTay]

cool!

[Daknor]

Awesome...