He was given a burial in Summit View Cemetery in Oklahoma. McCurdy's body was so dried and used up that he ended up weighing only 50 pounds. He was sold again at the Pike Amusement Park, where he was finally discovered. In 1949, McCurdy's body was placed in storage alongside wax figures for 19 years, before being bought again in 1968 by Spoony Singh, owner of the Hollywood Wax Museum. McCurdy was born in Maine, in 1880, but moved to the Midwest at age twenty, and became something of a drifter. The failed train robberor rather, his corpsewould spend sixty-some years crisscrossing the country, popping up everywhere, from haunted houses to B-movies. McCurdy's body was sold numerous times and over time, ended up getting coated in wax and paint to look less ugly. Elmer McCurdy is a man who had more fun dead than he ever did alive. The two men were actually not related to McCurdy and shipped McCurdy's body to Kansas to be an attraction in a traveling show. They informed the undertaker they had permission to bury McCurdy. A few years later, 2 men showed up claiming to be Elmer's brothers and brought a note from the local sheriff to back them up. Een medische regeringsambtenaar bestelde 2 m² beton om bovenop de kist van McCurdy te gieten, zodat zijn stoffelijke resten nooit meer verstoord zouden worden. Hij werd begraven op het Summit View Cemetery in Guthrie, Oklahoma. The undertaker could not find anybody willing to claim him as a relative, so he embalmed McCurdy and used his body as a sideshow attraction. Elmer McCurdy ging definitief op pensioen op 22 april 1977. He had died during a shootout with police. They noticed though that the inside of the arm was not actually a prop but was a real arm and the hanged man was a real dead body, that of famous outlaw Elmer McCurdy who had gained infamy in the 1910s for being a train robber. During filming for Carnival Of Spies, a stage decorator was handling the prop of a hanged man when it's arm had fallen off.
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