A thin man with long blond hair and eyeliner burst through faded crimson curtains, revved a power drill over his right nostril, and began to shove it in. Screams rang out from a crowd of about 300 ...

The freaks are feeling pushed out of their home in Venice Beach, California, and blame Snapchat for the latest causality: a boardwalk freak show. The long-running Venice Beach Freakshow -- once ...

After more than a decade of calling the boardwalk home, the fire-eaters, sword swallowers, bearded lady, wolf boy and other members of the Venice Beach Freakshow will have to find new digs at the ...

In this case it's both. Opened in 2006, the Venice Beach Freakshow is run by former music producer Todd Ray and his wife, Danielle. His daughter April is a contortionist who also has a fire-eating ...

“Venice Beach was founded and designed around the ... showed up carrying cameras with telephoto lenses. “It became a freak show,” Jeffrey Stanton wrote in his book, “Venice California ...

Unsurprisingly, Stiles and his hairy better half, Jessica Olmstead, fell in love while working at the Venice Beach Freakshow. “The first time I saw Jessa, I was amazed that she can grow a bigger ...

While the first, insisting the Venice Beach Freakshow operated by Todd Ray is really a tribute to being different, advances an unconvincing feel-good message; the latter is essentially a taxidermy ...

Welcome to the Venice Beach Freakshow, of which Ray is ringmaster and founder. He’s also a newly minted TV star, the focal point of the AMC reality series Freakshow, which follows him ...

Jessa Olmstead, 30, and Grady Stiles III, 39, met working at The Venice Beach Freakshow. Jessa is renowned for her facial hair, while Grady has a condition called ectrodactyly, which make his ...