Tag: Joseph Merrick

• Monday, May 6th 2019 - 08:41 UTC

  Unmarked grave of the Elephant Man traced at City of London cemetery

  

  The unmarked grave of Joseph Merrick, who is better known as the Elephant Man, has been traced after nearly 130 years, it has been claimed. Merrick had a skeletal and soft tissue deformity which saw him as a freak show attraction, then a medical curiosity.