Mike the Headless Chicken: The Rooster Who Lived Eighteen Months After Losing His Head
On a September afternoon in 1945, a Colorado farmer swung his axe at a young rooster for dinner — and the headless bird simply refused to die. Mike went on to live another eighteen months, tour the country as a sideshow marvel, and earn his owners a small fortune. It remains one of the strangest true survival stories ever recorded.