Sideshow Performer Heather Holliday Swallows Sword, Eats Fire, For $50 Discount On Rat Skeleton (VIDEO)

Some folks will do any for a discount, even swallow their pride.

Sideshow performer Heather Holliday prefers to swallow a sword and eat some fire.

Holliday, who is believed to be the youngest sword swallower in the world, is willing to show her talents to shopkeepers if it will help her get a few dollars off something she really wants.

In this case, it was a prized rat skeleton put together by Ryan Matthew, one of the staff workers at Obscura Oddities and Antiques, a New York store that caters to people wanting bizarre artifacts.

Luckily, the bizarre bargaining ritual is immortalized on Oddities, a Science Channel series airing Saturdays, so couch potatoes can see how far someone will go to get a rat skeleton.

In this case, the swallowing worked because Matthew dropped the price of the rat bones from $225 to $175, a bargain at any price.

Comments

[cuoi]

12:39 PM on 02/29/2012

These days don't get too excited if you go out with a woman who tells you she "swallows". Ask her a few questions.

[quackmonster]

06:46 PM on 02/27/2012

Freak

[Litho-stone]

03:55 PM on 02/27/2012

Aside from the plastic looking hair, she is quite beautiful... and (ahem) talented.

[VoiceFrmLeft]

12:42 PM on 02/26/2012

I've been a fan of Heather Holliday since I learned of her act at Coney Island. She's beautiful, talented, and her life story (likely made up, but still fun) is that she was struck by lightning as a child, giving her "special abilities" when handling fire. The article does misrepresent one fact, and that is she ONCE was the youngest sword swallower, that title has been handed to someone else since.

[evecaren]

08:18 AM on 02/26/2012

Some women will do anything for a discount including swallowing a sword and fire too. All this to get a discount on a rat skeleton, pleeze.

[stjoshy]

01:52 AM on 02/26/2012

cookie monster would like to engage in sexy times with this woman

[leephoenixriser]

10:12 AM on 02/25/2012

satan will energize his flock in the last hours, they will do all kinds of miracles, even confusing the elect

[outgrowingfear1]

10:08 AM on 02/25/2012

Gonna try it someday...the fire I got that one down. Eating the sword is next.

[Kev Bat]

10:02 AM on 02/25/2012

She looks like a great movie date . She could hide those store bought licorice sticks very easily !

[repub4america]

03:48 AM on 02/25/2012

We folks in the south usually associate the freaks with left wing liberals, but in THIS case...Obama voters.

[kwaut lizard]

05:34 AM on 02/25/2012

To be read to the tune of a twangin banjo in the background.

We South and you wrong.

[Kev Bat]

10:03 AM on 02/25/2012

Lead toys from China and backyard meth are a bad combination .

[EBL]

03:35 AM on 02/25/2012

Too bad Oddities shop is closed. But Heather is definitely on my list of shows to visit next time I am in Brooklyn. I give Coney Island credit for bringing back to old carney acts.

[VoiceFrmLeft]

12:50 PM on 02/26/2012

I hope they're moving into a bigger place, since the old location was TINY. The camera doesn't do justice to how small it is. Thanks for the update though. I didn't realize they had closed.

[EBL]

09:47 PM on 02/26/2012

They are moving to another location, but I am not sure where.

[mem60]

10:21 PM on 02/24/2012

It's that same age-old decision many women...and I suppose some men, too, have to make:
Swallow or spit?

[omegas3]

09:50 PM on 02/24/2012

Swallow me next.....

[FromMarineToCop]

08:48 PM on 02/24/2012

I wonder what she practiced with before she swallowed the sword???

[megandvc]

10:29 AM on 02/25/2012

You. Are. Bad. Once again, I am remaining silent.

[FromMarineToCop]

10:35 AM on 02/25/2012

Oh come on! What else is a guy going say about this. You were thinking it too, you know it. I'm impressed.

[Gareth Tooze]

08:02 PM on 02/24/2012

my kind of woman!!!