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The Outlaw Who Became a Carnival Prop: The Journey of Elmer McCurdy” tells one of the strangest and most unsettling stories in American history.

Elmer McCurdy was a failed outlaw who died in a police shootout in 1911. But that wasn’t the end of his story—it was only the beginning. When no one claimed his body, an undertaker preserved McCurdy with arsenic and displayed him for profit. Over the next six decades, his mummified corpse was passed between carnivals, sideshows, movie studios, and haunted attractions, mistaken for a wax figure by countless spectators.

It wasn’t until 1976, on the set of The Six Million Dollar Man, that someone realized the carnival prop was actually a real human body. McCurdy was finally laid to rest in Oklahoma, buried under concrete so his body could never be exploited again.

This video explores how crime, greed, and spectacle turned a forgotten outlaw into America’s most disturbing sideshow legend.

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