Spooky Week: Elmer McCurdy’s Nine Lives
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Dylan. |
| 0:04.0 | Hi Amanda, how are you? |
| 0:05.0 | Good. |
| 0:06.0 | So Halloween's coming up with all, you know, the haunted houses and the corn mazes and |
| 0:10.6 | hay rides and whatever, just like so many great opportunities |
| 0:13.4 | to be scared in a fun environment |
| 0:15.2 | where you know everything is fake and it's totally safe. |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. |
| 0:19.0 | But today I want to tell you a story where real horror crashes the fake horror party, you know? |
| 0:28.0 | So for this story, we're going to go back to the 1970s specifically to |
| 0:36.9 | December of 1976. Okay. So we're at this kind of like fun house in Long Beach, California on the |
| 0:46.3 | boardwalk. It's called a laugh in the dark, L A F in the dark. |
| 0:50.3 | Yes, I'm here. I'm very excited. |
| 0:52.8 | So just picture kind of like, you know, a little bit of a rundown fun house and there's like the |
| 0:59.2 | creepy organ music playing probably. But there's this television crew that's at this |
| 1:06.3 | fun house filming on location an episode of the six million dollar man which is |
| 1:10.7 | a popular show at the time. You know what I'm talking about. |
| 1:15.0 | Yeah, okay. |
| 1:16.0 | Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:17.0 | So that sound is coming through on top of the Oregon music, |
| 1:19.0 | and they're like filming this episode. |
| 1:22.0 | And apparently as you walk through the fun house there's this one area where this wax figure |
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