![]() ![]() Kap Dwa’s story begins in 1673, where this poor fellow, a giant of over 12 feet with two – that’s right, two – heads, was captured by Spanish sailors and set captive on their ship. There may not seem to be a direction to all of this, but it bears relevance to the topic of this post, which is Kap Dwa, the two-headed Patagonian giant. There’s a real art to rogue taxidermy, and there is an entire community of gaff collectors around the world. Creatures out of fairy tales and legends created by modifying the preserved corpses of other real animals, to make such things as the jackalope, or even dragons, chimeras, or unicorns. They were what is known as gaffs, or the products of rogue taxidermy, as it’s known these days. The problem is, much of what he collected and charged curiosity seekers to see, were entirely fake. From mermaids (and mermen), to deformed cows and chickens, to mythological creatures (as though mermaids aren’t mythological). He was rather fond of strange creatures preserved and ready to be showcased as an attraction in his production. He was the king of the sideshow gaff, the tsar of taxidermy, the vicar of the very odd…OK, that’s enough of that. Barnum contributed much to this mass of mystery. ![]() The Fortean world is pretty much the place where all the strangest stories wind up, and a good many of them started out as side show attractions. Just in general the world is weird, but when you start looking through our history with an eye toward Fortean mysteries, you end up in the deep end of the weirdness pool without your floaties. This world is a weird place, it holds many weird things. ![]() The Kap Dwa, if real, would have been nearly a meter taller. The tallest human being of which there is reliable record was Robert Wadlow, who died in 1940 at age 22 at the towering height of 272 centimeters (8’11?). The height of the Kap Dwa is something altogether different. Perhaps the most famous are Abby and Brittany Hensel, who even had a brief stint on a TLC reality show. It broke its bonds and killed four of its captors before finally being stabbed through the heart with a pike.Ĭonjoined twins with one body and two heads are certainly extremely rare, but they’re not unheard of. Legend says Spanish sailors captured the hulk in South America in 1673. The Kap Dwa was a 3.5-meter (12 ft), two-headed giant whose remains made the sideshow circuit throughout England and the US in the early 20th century. Patagonia's Kap Dwa - 12 Foot Two-Headed Giant From Patagonia ![]()
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