Prop body used in popular TV show turned out to be real human corpse, but the story of how it got there is so much stranger

Prop body used in popular TV show turned out to be real human corpse, but the story of how it got there is so much stranger

In 1976, film crew were preparing to shoot an episode of the Six Million Dollar Man at the Laff-in-the-Dark funhouse when a crew member went to move a prop body only for the arm to fall off and expose what appeared to be real human bones inside. That’s because they were real human bones and this was a real human corpse belonging to a man named Elmer McCurdy and as strange as this discovery was, the story of the man these remains belonged to and …