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Edward Mordake (sometimes spelled Mordrake) is the apocryphal subject of an urban legend who was born in the 19th century as the heir to an English peerage with a face at the back of his head. According to legend, the face could whisper, laugh or cry.
Mar 29, 2024 · Also known as Edward Mordake, Edward Mordrake was a 19th-century Englishman born with an extra face on the back of his head — or so the legends claim. On December 8, 1895, the Boston Sunday Post published an article titled “The Wonders of Modern Science.”
Nov 14, 2017 · A nineteenth-century British man named Edward Mordrake (also spelled "Mordake") was born with a rare medical condition in the form of a extra face on the back of his head.
Feb 3, 2022 · Edward Mordake was a handsome English aristocrat born into wealth and privilege, but also with a terrible curse, according to an 1895 newspaper article published in the Boston Sunday Post.
Jul 22, 2021 · The extraordinary case of Edward Mordake, who had a second, 'devilish' face on the back of his skull, first appeared in 1895 and now haunts Facebook.
Oct 23, 2014 · Mordrake was a noble heir who lived in the 1800s. He had one normal face on the front of his head and a smaller one on the back. The small face couldn't eat or talk, but according...
Jan 20, 2020 · The Edward Mordrake character in American Horror Story: Freak Show is based on an allegedly real 19th-century English nobleman of the same name, who was supposedly born with a second face on the back of his head.
Aug 5, 2021 · Facebook posts have surfaced purporting to show photos of a nineteenth-century "two-faced man" called Edward Mordake. The claim is false; the three photos actually depict works of art, not a...
Oct 22, 2014 · Edward Mordrake: Part 1: Directed by Michael Uppendahl. With Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Michael Chiklis, Frances Conroy. Elsa defies superstition to rehearse on Halloween, summoning the spirit of Edward Mordrake and his ghostly band of freaks.
Nov 7, 2014 · “One of the weirdest as well as most melancholy stories of human deformity is that of Edward Mordake, said to have been heir to one of the noblest peerages in England. He never claimed the title, however, and committed suicide in his twenty-third year.
