The Pike Mummy!: The Unbelievable Tale of the Dead Body in the Fun House
Don't Know Beach About History: Short Histories of Long Beach01/06/21 • 21 min
In 1976, a film crew for The Six Million Dollar Man was prepping for a shoot in the Laff-in-the-Dark fun house at the Pike in Long Beach when they discovered that a wax dummy hanging from a noose was actually the real human body of an embalmed gunslinger shot by a posse in 1911. Wha? Join us as we explore this amazing, truly strange story and how carnival lore and forensic science helped solve the case of mummy in the fun house.
01/06/21 • 21 min
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