After a 70-year career, Ward Hall's claim to the title "King of the Sideshows" is undisputed. However, his seven-decade career almost went up in smoke before it began. When Hall was 14, he ran off to join a circus and was hired after he convinced the carnival owners he knew how to breathe fire. The second day on the job, he had an epiphany. "I told these people I can eat fire, I better see what I can do about learning to do it," he tells Huffington Post in a video documentary. WATCH: Ward Hall -...
After a 70-year career, Ward Hall's claim to the title "King of the Sideshows" is undisputed. However, his seven-decade career almost went up in smoke before it began. When Hall was 14, he ran off to join a circus and was hired after he convinced the carnival owners he knew how to breathe fire. The second day on the job, he had an epiphany. "I told these people I can eat fire, I better see what I can do about learning to do it," he tells Huffington Post in a video documentary. WATCH: Ward Hall -...
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