2016年10月18日 · Taken sometime between 1912 and 1914, George and Willie went missing for over 13 years. During that time, they achieved a level of fame performing as Eko and Iko, billed to audiences as...

Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South is a 2016 non-fiction book by American author Beth Macy. The book tells the story of George and Willie Muse, two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and forced to perform as sideshow attractions because they were albinos.

2023年9月7日 · This is the untold story of the Muse Brothers (Eko and Iko), kidnapped albino African-American siblings forced into the spotlight as circus stars

2021年8月25日 · In the early 1900s, the two Black brothers were reportedly abducted from their family’s tobacco farm in Virginia. Desired for show business because they were both born with albinism, the Muse brothers traveled against their will with a promoter named James Shelton, who billed them as “Eko and Iko, the Ambassadors from Mars.”

2016年10月16日 · Eko and Iko were the sideshow stage names of George and Willie Muse, the grandsons of former slaves. They were born at the turn of the century to parents who sharecropped tobacco, like everyone else in the rural enclave of Truevine, Virginia.

2016年10月18日 · The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family.

2016年10月17日 · George and Willie Muse were frequently exhibited as Eko and Iko, dubbed the Sheep-Headed Men, or sometimes Ambassadors from Mars. In the story the family and many …

2016年10月22日 · For decades, the closely guarded story of how “Eko” and “Iko,” as they were called in the circus, became George and Willie once again was only known to family members—many of whom were...

2016年10月18日 · In the era of the freak show when people paid to gawk at people who look different, two albino African-American brothers whose condition left them with white skin and light-colored hair were...

2018年7月10日 · The Muse Brothers became famous across the United States as “Eko and Iko”, the “White Ecuadorian Cannibals”, the “Sheep Headed Men”, the “Sheep Headed Cannibals”, the “Ministers from Dahomey”...