17. A Phoney Attraction With a Haunting Photo
This photo was taken at New York’s Coney Island and is of a supposedly headless woman. The people who ran the attraction claimed that she had lost her head but was kept alive by feeding tubes and various apparatuses. Onlookers were horrified to see her moving around, but we can look at this sideshow today and know that some pretty cheap special effects were going on. The headless woman may have just been a mannequin hooked up to the device shown in place of her head, which allowed the body to move around as if it was alive.