Who Was London’s Pig-Faced Woman?

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Contemporaneous depiction of the Pig-Faced Lady

An urban legend about a pig-faced women sent 19th-century London into a tizzy. Although the hoax was debunked by the newspapers, that didn’t stop the legend from growing, no doubt nurtured by fears of witchcraft and curiosity about natural deformity.

While there’s not too much more to that tale, certainly you can add to it. Who would instigate such a legend? What if the pig-faced lady was real? Was witchcraft involved? Does London host an underground society of humans with animal heads? Is there a connection between the pig-faced lady and Gordon Merrick? What happens next?