Corpse found in theme park ride ! Haunted LA with Pat Pattison

Name: Corpse found in theme park ride ! Haunted LA with Pat Pattison
Uploaded: 2024-10-25T20:06:16.693Z
Duration: 2 min 54 s
Channel: The Best of California
Description: A dead body's bizarre discovery in an amusement park in So Cal. In 1976 a crew of "The Six Million Dollar Man" discovered this bizarre "dummy" in the Laff in the Dark ride! .This is the story of Elmer Mccurdy, the late outlaw whose body was put on display for everyone to gawk at, until he was forgotten and misplaced, or so we thought.

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A dead body's bizarre discovery in an amusement park in So Cal. In 1976 a crew of "The Six Million Dollar Man" discovered this bizarre "dummy" in the Laff in the Dark ride! .This is the story of Elmer Mccurdy, the late outlaw whose body was put on display for everyone to gawk at, until he was forgotten and misplaced, or so we thought.

This is where it used to be, the Pike Amusement Park in Long Beach, one of California's coastal playgrounds. Not quite Disneyland, not quite Pacific Ocean Park, which is up in Santa Monica. It was a little bit seedier and the Pike held some deadly secrets. One involved an outlaw from Oklahoma, the six million dollar man and the laugh in the dark ghost ride. It's macabre. Stick with I'm Pat Patterson with the Best of L.A. Awards and this is Uncovering California. There are many places in the Golden State rumored to be haunted, but there are few places like the Pike where the dead actually resided, quietly watching guests. And if those dead could only have moved they would have thrown a scare into the public more effective than any Halloween haunt ever conceived. This is one of those places. The Pike was at one time the fifth most popular amusement park in the United States, but by the 70s it had fallen on hard times and was running out space for film locations. It happened in 1976. A film crew was filming an episode of the six million dollar man and the laugh in the dark scare ride. These dummies and fake skeletons had been looking at guests for decades. The director of the episode didn't like the way one of these dummies was crowding his shot, so he asked the crew to take it down. When the crew went to take the dummy down his arm broke off and a human bone was revealed in the arm. This was no dummy, this was a real cadaver killed by a .32 caliber bullet. But who was he and how did he get here? Believe it or not a ticket from the L.A. Crime Museum was found in the cadaver's mouth. This allowed investigators to eventually identify the body as that of outlaw Elmer McCurdy of Oklahoma. Poor Elmer's body had traveled the country as a bizarre auger fact that crime doesn't pay. And like a sad Hollywood has been, he somehow ended up in the laugh in the dark ride at the Pike. Elmer eventually got to stop being a sideshow amusement and was returned to Oklahoma where he got a proper old west funeral and internment. Old cadavers and dead amusement parks, it's all a part of uncovering California. I'm executive business and innovation coach Pat Patterson. Join us next time.