Upcoming Toronto Sideshow festival celebrates the art of the unusual

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What started as a love for all things odd and downright freaky has become a full-blown production, showcasing the strangest things on earth for all t…

What started as a love for all things odd and downright freaky has become a full-blown production, showcasing the strangest things on earth for all to see. And it's all coming to Toronto for one night only this month.

"I've always loved the supernatural, the paranormal, and the strange, and some of my earliest memories are going to 'Ripley's Believe It or Not,' in Niagara Falls, and seeing weird, you know, two-headed animals and that type of stuff," Mysterion, co-producer of theVowing one day to have his own collection, Mysterion began building his own private "museum," which currently has 150 pieces.

"There are three floors of vendors selling everything from antiques and taxidermy and diaphonized animals in formaldehyde and jewellery and esoteric items and witchcraft items, old books on supernatural subject matters, artwork and weird crazy stuff," adds Mysterion. "I have one friend who's a little person who can hold off three or four full-sized men, people who can contort their body through a tennis racket, pain-proof people, people who eat glass, people who nail a nail into their nose or use a drill to do that." Talk about a nose job.

"They're they're pushing the boundaries of the human body, acts that are breaking moulds. We watch it behind a screen and we don't actually ever experience it. And this is an opportunity to sort of see it firsthand.", brings "lovers of the strange, unusual and bizarre," together as it stops in the U.S., cities and soon Canada.

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