For 65 years, the embalmed body of Elmer McCurdy traveled America—displayed in funeral homes, carnival sideshows, wax museums, and haunted houses. So many years passed that people forgot he was real. Then, in December 1976, a crew filming 'The Six Million Dollar Man' tugged on a neon-painted figure hanging in a funhouse. The arm snapped off. Inside was bone.
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