Billed as “The Sheep-Headed Men,” “The White Ecuadorian Cannibals Eko and Iko,” and “The Ambassadors From Mars,” George and Willie Muse were world-famous sideshow performers in the early 1900s.
Born black with a rare form of albinism, the two brothers were kidnapped as boys in Truevine, Virginia, in 1899 by bounty hunters and forced into the circus.
Upon their capture, they were falsely told that their mother was dead and that they would never return home.