Tag: gigantism

• AGAINST HIS WISHES

  

  After 240 years a man known as the “Irish Giant” will finally be removed from a display he never wanted to be a part of in the first place. In life, Charles Byrne stood 7 foot, 7 inches – hence his nickname. His height was attributed to an undiagnosed tumor of the pituitary gland which […]

  ARH

  January 19, 2023

  RABBIT HOLE

  acromegaly, acrossthepond, gigantism, HGH, pituitary

• THE AGONY OF THE FEET

  

  Ladies and gentleman step right up and let me introduce the incomparable Fanny Mills, more commonly known as The Ohio Big Foot Girl. Fanny wasn’t originally from her namesake Ohio, she immigrated to the Sandusky area from England in 1859 when she was just an infant. It was around that same time her family became […]

  ARH

  June 1, 2020

  RABBIT HOLE

  congenital, fanny, foot, gigantism, huge, mills, sideshow