The Atlas Obscura Podcast

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Spooky Szn: Elmer McCurdy’s Nine Lives

Spooky Szn: Elmer McCurdy’s Nine Lives9 okt17 min

On Fridays this October, we're surfacing strange, incredible, sometimes haunted and sometimes spooky places. This episode takes us back to1976, when a television crew filming an episode of the show “The Six Million Dollar Man” descended on a rundown funhouse in Long Beach, California. While filming, they accidentally broke the arm off a wax dummy. Except...it wasn't a wax dummy. It was a real body. The body of a notorious train robber from the early 1900s, named Elmer McCurdy.