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How freak shows turned ordinary people into monsters
HERE’S THE INTERESTING PART
When you run out of actual oddities, you just lie aggressively. 19th-century promoters routinely took perfectly normal people, gave them a ridiculous costume, and invented an elaborate backstory about them being raised by wild beasts or cursed by witches. It was the golden age of completely unregulated, unhinged promotional marketing.
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