Is That Uncle Fester at the 2015 Skowhegan State Fair?

Miss Spooky illuminates a light bulb

by placing it in her mouth while

an electric current runs through her

body on August 13, 2015.

When the World of Wonders visited the Skowhegan State Fair, one of the acts would feature a chair with an electrified seat that would send a current of electricity though the body of the performer who dares sit on it. How does one make the electric current running through their

The World of Wonders Keeps the Headless Girl Act Alive in 2015

Presented in 1937, "Olga the Headless Girl" is believed to be the first "Headless Girl" act in the United States. That particular demonstration was brought to America from Hamburg, Germany by a man who billed himself as "Doctor" Heineman and was a featured exhibit at the New York World's Fair (EXPO New York City) of 1939. In the Mid-1970s, Ward Hall & C.M. Christ added two headless attractions to their sideshow and the "headless girl" tradition lives on with Ward Hall and the World of Wonders! The act displayed here on August 13, 2015 at the Skowhegan State Fair was presented by Tommy Breen, and Miss Spooky.

World of Wonders Brings the Popular "Ladder of Blades" Act to Skowhegan in 2015