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Can you actually get humans stuffed??

@previous (beckyderp !Hi.HILLARY)
Me thinks you missed a couple3 famous films

@700,495 (beckyderp !Hi.HILLARY)

> Can you actually get humans stuffed??

Back as a young Kiddlet I used to see what I thought what everyone thought was a fake dead body. It was in a amusement park on the pier in Long Beach CA. Later when reading the paper I delivered for the LA Times I read about a film crew discovering the body was very real.

Will post pic and story and link in a minute but first Trigger n the dog from movies n TV Stuffed and on display then moved to some other place like Branson Mo

For about one quarter we used to go into this house of horrors. Weird sounds and those mirrors that make you tall or fat or extra thin and then this body when we came around a corner and you could bump into what we all thought was a phony body. Shock of shocks to later find out it was very real

http://www.weirdca.com/location.php?location=173

Elmer McCurdy was gunned down by a posse shortly after he robbed a train of approximately $46 and two jugs of whiskey in Oklahoma. It's quite possible that he had already consumed the whiskey by the time the posse caught up with him.

After McCurdy was gunned down, his body went to the local undertaker in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, who naturally embalmed the corpse using an arsenic solution. Since he was very proud of his work, and no next of kin had yet arrived to collect the body, the undertaker put the body on display allowing the locals see it for a nickel a piece. Rumor has it that the nickels were placed in Elmer's mouth and later collected by the undertaker. The undertaker named him "The Bandit That Wouldn't Give Up".

In 1915, two men arrived at the undertaker's claiming to be the brothers of McCurdy. In reality they were carnival promoters who wanted to add the corpse to their traveling show. Elmer went on tour throughout the country as an attraction with a carnival known as "Great Patterson Shows". He was often displayed as the same "The Bandit Who Wouldn't Give Up" or "The Famous Oklahoma Outlaw" and even occasionally just as an ancient mummified cadaver. After his time in the carnival, he apparently turned up in an amusement park's haunted house near Mount Rushmore, then to a crime museum in Los Angeles, before moving to the Hollywood wax museum in 1971.

McCurdy supposedly then did some time in a few low budget films before ending up as a prop in the Pike amusement park's funhouse for over four years.
Laff in the Dark

The Pike or Nu-Pike as it was called post World War II began as a beach and bath house resort in 1902. It eventually became one of the most popular amusement parks on the west coast and was filled with arcades, rides, roller coasters (most notably the wooden roller coaster, The Cyclone Racer), hot dog stands, a fifty foot ferris wheel, shooting galleries, and even a Ripley's Believe It or Not side show. Sadly the Pike was unable to keep up with newer amusement parks like Disneyland, Knott's Berry Farm and Sea World and ended up closing after Labor Day in 1979. The Laff in the Dark was a walking tour through a funhouse / haunted house with wax figures, skeletons, ghosts, etc.

It was in the amusement park that it was finally discovered that Elmer McCurdy was in fact a real corpse as opposed to a wax fake. The discovery was made when a film crew for the television show, The Six Million Dollar Man, was preparing to film a few scenes for an episode called "Carnival of Spies". A worker apparently moved the "hanging man" which caused one of its arms to fall off revealing bones inside what had been previously thought to be a fake prop. Medical examiners and forensic experts determined that McCurdy had been shot by a bullet and approximated the manufacture date as the early 1900s from the half copper jacket that was still in the body. Further evidence about the identity of the corpse was gathered when they discovered stuffed inside Elmer's mouth a 1924 penny and a ticket for the "Louis Sonney's Museum of Crime" formerly on 521 S. Main street, Los Angeles. It didn't take long to locate the former owner's son who identified the corpse and explained how his father would charge a quarter for people to see it.

Elmer McCurdy's identity was finally discovered by April 1977 using a method called "medical superimposition" where they overlaid photos of McCurdy with X-rays of the mummy. Elmer was finally buried in Summit View Cemetery in Guthrie, Oklahoma almost sixty six years after his demise with the town residents giving him a parade ride to the cemetery. His tombstone reads:

Elmer McCurdy
Shot by Sheriff's Posse
in Osage Hills
on Oct 7, 1911
Returned to Guthrie, Okla
from Los Angeles County
Calif
for Burial Apr 22, 1977

Cement was poured over the coffin in order to make sure Elmer never went wandering about the country ever again. Ironically, he's supposedly buried next to that real Oklahoma outlaw, Bill Doolin.

So despite a pretty pathetic career as a criminal, Elmer McCurdy found fame touring the country for decades after his death.

so where did you put Hoffa

@previous (Sheila LaBoof)
Hoffa may soon end up dug up. Many believe this will happen this year or next as the 405 Freeway is upgraded in Sepulveda pass area

@700,498 (Syntax)
Yaaaaawwwwwnnnnn

That's neat, but nobody up here really cares about Roy Rogers except for the older generations.