Bizarre Early 20th Century Circus Photos Have People Questioning What Went On Behind the Scenes

The Minnesota Wooly Baby (1887 – 1933)

Alice Elizabeth Doherty is the only person known to be born with this condition in the United States. Hypertrichosis lanuginosa is simply abnormal body hair growth. When she was born, she was covered in two-inch thick hair all over her body. She went into the sideshow business at just two years old.

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