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02-14-2012, 10:30 AM
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Elmer McCurdy (1880-1911) - Mummified Outlaw
Elmer McCurdy (January 1880 – October 7th 1911) was an outlaw killed in a gunfight in the Osage Hills in Oklahoma. A newspaper account gave Elmer’s last words as “You’ll never take me alive!” His body was taken to a funeral home in Oklahoma. When no one claimed the corpse, the undertaker embalmed it with an arsenic-based preservative and allowed people to see “The Bandit Who Wouldn’t Give Up” for a nickel, placed in Elmer’s mouth, which the undertaker would collect later. Five years later, a man showed up from a nearby traveling carnival claiming to be Elmer’s long-lost brother wanting to give the corpse a proper burial. Within two weeks, however, Elmer was a featured exhibit with the carnival. For the next 60 years, Elmer’s body was sold to wax museums, carnivals, and haunted houses.
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02-14-2012, 11:03 AM
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Re: Elmer McCurdy (1880-1911) - Mummified Outlaw
Lenin's mummy also looks like a wax-doll. In 2004, I've seen him/it in his mausoleum in Moscow.  · |
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02-14-2012, 11:30 AM
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Re: Elmer McCurdy (1880-1911) - Mummified Outlaw
Some years ago I posted a thread on the "refurbishment" of http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...0/lenin-31476/'s mummy, - and frankly, I don't know, if they would really make such a big deal just about a wax-doll.
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02-14-2012, 01:16 PM
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Re: Elmer McCurdy (1880-1911) - Mummified Outlaw
It looks like a crashtest dummy
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02-17-2012, 05:02 PM
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Re: Elmer McCurdy (1880-1911) - Mummified Outlaw
Ya know, if they just buried us all in tupperware containers to seal in the 'freshness' we'd last forever.  |
