FROM getting in trouble with the AFP to falling on a crowd of people, Joel Salom has some epic circus disaster stories. A lot can go wrong. He’s juggled knives and fire sticks, held the crash mat for ...

The smoking little flame wavered higher up the side of the cavernous tent in the big lot at Hartford, Conn. The thousands of women and their children, and the scattering of coatless men massed in the ...

The greatest disaster in American circus history occurred in Hartford, Conn. A total of 135 people had died and another 220 were injured with the main tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey ...

A Brazilian circus turned into a scene of horror when acrobat Aliane Dias plummeted to the ground during a jaw-dropping stunt on Saturday. Suspended by her hair mid-performance, Dias suffered a ...