999 Eyes celebrates freak show at Relics2 min read

The 999 Eyes Carnival of the Damned is the last authentic human oddities freak show in the world, and will perform in Sedona on Friday, March 21.

The show is appropriate for all ages and wheelchair accessible.

As seen on National Geographic, the troupe offers a vaudevillian show  and recreates the world, one freak show at a time, as part of the 10-day tour of the Southwest.

The 999 Eyes Carnival of the Damned celebrates genetic diversity by showcasing amazing feats by fabulous freaks, according to a press release.

The 999 Eyes Carnival of the Damned is the last authentic human oddities freak show in the world, and will perform in Sedona on Friday, March 21.

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The show is appropriate for all ages and wheelchair accessible.

As seen on National Geographic, the troupe offers a vaudevillian show  and recreates the world, one freak show at a time, as part of the 10-day tour of the Southwest.

The 999 Eyes Carnival of the Damned celebrates genetic diversity by showcasing amazing feats by fabulous freaks, according to a press release.

Thee 999 Eyes show is the last genuine traveling freak show in the United States and the first in over 40 years to feature more than three living human oddities such as the half woman, the dancing dwarf, lobster girl, the Black Scorpion, according to the group’s Web site.

The show is complete with an attractive backdrop of original hand-painted sideshow banners, a live Eastern European circus band, and an authentic traveling dime museum, the release stated.

This vaudevillian carnival displays the notion that abnormality is something to be celebrated, not abominated, the press release stated.

The freaks share real stories of what it is like to be born different from the average 10-fingered and 10-toed genetic blueprint for humanity — giving folks from all corners a chance to realize that what is different in beautiful, according to the group’s official mission statement.

In the 999 Eyes show, one must be born physically and obviously different from the vast majority of humanity to be considered a true freak, the group stated.

Freaks are performers who choose by their own free will to celebrate their medical anomaly on stage, the group stated.

Now in its fourth year, the 999 Eyes has been selling out shows all over the country to open-minded audiences of all persuasions and demographics.

For more information, visit www.999eyes.com.

All venues are wheelchair accessible.

Relics is located at 3235 W. Hwy. 89A, West Sedona. Tickets are $11.

Christopher Fox Graham

Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rock News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been a guest contributor in Editor & Publisher magazine and featured in the LA Times, New York Post and San Francisco Chronicle. He lectures on journalism and First Amendment law and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. Retired U.S. Army Col. John Mills, former director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs referred to him as "Mr. Slam Poet."

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