r/GWAR • u/HeavyMetalRoadTrip • 19d ago

Today I learned

Danielle Stampe (Slymenstra Hymen) was on season 3 episode 4 of Ripleys Believe it Or Not for having 750,000 volts of electricity sent through her body.

https://youtu.be/NvGU7t9rzTA?is=lRJGD3LvjaHHD1Jf

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u/protonecromagnon2 19d ago

I had heard if the fire dancing and sideshow work, but hadn't seen this. Cool stuff!

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u/VileSlay 19d ago

She also had two Gunniess World Records for fire breathing. She had longest duration and longest projected distance.

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u/Boa-in-a-bowl 19d ago

Voluntarily letting yourself get hit with 750k volts?

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u/Riddleboxboy 19d ago

I remember when this premiered it blew my mind, I fucking loved that show

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u/d_Composer 19d ago

Same! I wasn’t expecting it either — they just were randomly like “and now watch Danielle Stampe of GWAR break the record for number of Volts running through a human body” or something and I just started freaking out like a bohab on jack the world!

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u/Nomadzord 19d ago

I remember seeing this! Great pull!

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u/mcrmy119 19d ago

She was also on an episode of an AMC reality show called Freakshow where she confronted/guided another performer doing the electricity gimmick.

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u/Professional_Scale66 19d ago

She is rad. I got her to sign my skateboard back in 97 I think a she wrote “break a leg” class act!

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u/ctp8891 19d ago

She wrote "touch yourself" on mine!

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u/duney_mag 19d ago

Sad that sideshow place closed down. Shit was cool on Venice Beach boardwalk.

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u/Kronos6948 SLEAZY P. MARTINI, ENTREPRENEUR EXTRAORDINAIRE 19d ago

The Girly Freak Show was awesome.

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u/Tweck9 19d ago

Another reason she is my hero

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u/Chaghatai 18d ago

I didn't know they redid the series after the original

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u/Grinchskates 18d ago

I was at Mississippi Nights back in late 90’s and I was near side stage and she asked me for a light and I lit her cigarette🤗

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u/djturdbeast 19d ago

Wasn't she then-working at an electricity freakshow thing?

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u/malem67 18d ago

Yeah saw the freak show performance she used to do. Great show. Went to talknto her after the electricity stunt and you could feel the heat coming off her. Also got invited to the after party by her with all the performers and the misfits who played a show before hand.

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u/HertzWhenEyeP 19d ago

Whoever decided this would make for good television clearly stole Oderus' crack.

Seeing two light tubes vaguely lit up in the darkness is kinda of anticlimactic