A criminal mastermind from the early 1900's, Elmer McCurdy, was killed in a shootout at a robbery. All the robbery ended up to be was $46 and two bottles of whiskey. Like, was that really worth dying for? Anyways, he was found in a haunted house at the Nu-Pike AMusement Park in Long Beach, California. The camera crew thought that he was "a hanging man" prop. After bumping the props' arm off, they discovered a human bone inside. A funeral director embalmed his body and propped it up in awe of the criminal mastermind's work. At his funeral, people would pay a nickel to see his propped up corpse by putting it in his mouth. After years of this scheme, two men claimed his body to be their brother. But they were really just two carnival promoters looking for a wealthy thrill. They took him on a morbid mystery tour all around America and it finally stopped at Long Beach. He is now buried in Oklahoma. to prevent anyone else taking him on tour, they poured cement over his casket.
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| McCurdy's body on tour. |
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| People putting nickels in Elmer McCurdy's mouth. |
i would be so scared to go into that haunted house and finding not a prop but a real dead human ewwwwww!
ReplyDeletehaha I think im more creeped out by the fact that they took his body on tour and put nickels into his mouth!
Deletei would be so scared to go into that haunted house and finding not a prop but a real dead human ewwwwww!
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