A film crew shooting a tv show at a theme park haunted house discovered there was a real body in there!

A film crew shooting a tv show at a theme park haunted house discovered there was a real body in there!

In December 1976, a television crew was shooting footage for the popular show "The 6 Million Dollar Man." They were filming in the haunted house of the California amusement park, The Pike.

One of the crew members attempted to move what he thought was a wax mannequin when the mannequin's arm (some accounts say his finger) broke off. Looking closer, the crew discovered this was no mannequin but instead, an embalmed dead body.

The body was taken to a medical examiner to identify. The examiner found a 1924 penny and a ticket to the Museum of Crime in Los Angeles in the body's mouth. They eventually identified the man as Elmer McCurdy, an Oklahoma outlaw who died in 1911!

When no one claimed McCurdy's body after his death, the undertaker embalmed him and he was later displayed as an exhibit in a carnival called The Great Patterson Show.

For the next 60 years, McCurdy's body was sold to carnivals, wax museums and haunted houses to display. Once the television crew found him and he was identified, he was given a proper burial in Guthrie, Oklahoma.

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