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The Curse of the Elephant Man

The case of the Elephant Man is one of the great unsolved mysteries of medicine. What was the terrible curse that turned Joseph Merrick into history's most horribly deformed man? How did he keep his sanity as the disease ravaged his body?

Top Cast

  • Ray Merrick

    Ray Merrick

  • Danny Sill

    Danny Sill

    Joseph Merrick

  • Joseph Merrick

    Joseph Merrick

  • Peter Hayden

    Peter Hayden

    Dr. Frederick Treves

  • J. Bruce

    J. Bruce

    Narrator

  • Michelle Merrick

    Michelle Merrick

  • Jonathan Merrick

    Jonathan Merrick

  • Erika Hagelberg

    Erika Hagelberg

    Prof. Evolutionary Biology

  • Richard Owensby

    Richard Owensby

    victim of neurofibromatosis type 1

Overview

The case of the Elephant Man is one of the great unsolved mysteries of medicine. What was the terrible curse that turned Joseph Merrick into history's most horribly deformed man? How did he keep his sanity as the disease ravaged his body?

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