The Headless Lady

A recreation of the 1950's fairground side show. Using the original props, spiel and flash.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• headless
• lady
• magic
• illusion
• sideshow

[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.

[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.

[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...

[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?

[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!!

[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.