103-year old preserved corpse of clown Achile Chatouilleu

Achille Chatouilleu

The California Institute of Abnormalarts is a nightclub and sideshow museum located in North Hollywood, California. Owned and operated by actor-screenwriter Carl Crew and Robert Ferguson, the venue primarily hosts underground musical groups, performance art, movie screenings and sideshow acts including burlesque and freak shows.

Achille Chatouilleu

The CIA’s most notable attraction may be the preserved corpse of Achile Chatouilleu, an American circus performer who died in 1912 and requested his body be put on display in the clown makeup and attire he had worn throughout his life. Although Crew leased the body for six months in 2002, he claims that the owners “forgot” to retrieve it and the corpse remains at the CIA to present day in a hermetically sealed glass coffin, the body itself embalmed with arsenic. Chatouilleu’s corpse is such a prominent fixture of the CIA that the LA Weekly newspaper ranked the venue in its “Best of LA 2006” list as “Best Place to Find a Dead Clown”.

Achille Chatouilleu

7 Responses

  1. Annerkeei says:

    California is such a cess pool of dead bodies,murder,death pedophilia ,child abuse,propaganda,communist,Muslim lickers, illegal alien apologistsENOUGH ALREADY.cali,drop the hell off America and into the pacific . I wouldn’t get upset if I left an

    • admin says:

      The above does not reflect the views of the Weird Picture Archive and the commenter is, in fact, a massive turd.

    • BiggaOi says:

      No lies detected though…

    • HumboldtRick says:

      You’re describing the Republican Party, Bucko. You’re no doubt one of those ignorant, fascist, anti-American, anti-US Constitution, ENEMY TRAITOR Republicans trying to destroy the USA and Democracy itself. Move to Russia where you belong.

  2. Anti Annerkeei says:

    Annerkeei you are clearly stupid.

  3. Forrest Iwaszewski says:

    Chill out dude!
    I don’t like California either but little unfair to group everyone into this narrow sicko view.
    hard pressed to say you’ll find those deviants in every state! Hit back from the Midwest and east coast- Ohio especially Youngstown had more murders per capita then most – if any other state in the country

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