Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Almost 50 years after he was buried in Guthrie, the twisty tale of Oklahoma outlaw-turned-mummy Elmer McCurdy is getting a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Given his strange life and even stranger postmortem existence, it's hard to say whether Elmer McCurdy ever spent time in New York ...

Sometimes bizarre things happen to bizarre people. Our subject spent 31 years wallowing in failure until blundering his way to a bloody demise. Yet, it took a hit TV show to secure his final rest an ...

A cemetery in Guthrie, Oklahoma, is seeing an unusual increase in foot traffic lately, ever since real-life dead outlaw Elmer McCurdy has become Broadway‘s most famous corpse. McCurdy’s bizarre tale ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The creators of “The Band’s Visit” return with this mischievous ghost story of a musical based on an odd slice of Old West history. By ...

The indignities of the grave pale in comparison to the indignities of having your preserved corpse put on display as a sideshow attraction, wax museum exhibit, or amusement park horror ride prop. You ...

“Dead Outlaw is one wacky story. And it's true,” said Kate Navin, Audible’s head of creative development, when she introduced the show at a special concert for the new musical. In fact, when talking ...

Elmer McCurdy died an outlaw, shot dead in 1911 after a string of botched robberies. He became a celebrity in death, a symbol of the free spirit of self-determination in a new age of consumerism.

What do a plumber, a train robber, a movie star, and a haunted house mummy all have in common? They're just a handful of the occupations held by Elmer McCurdy, the real-life outlaw whose short life ...

I love reading about interesting people. Usually, I don’t mind the fact that they’re interesting and I’m boring. In fact, I’ve often thought if there were an insomniac channel, a show based on my life ...

Given his strange life and even stranger postmortem existence, it's hard to say whether Elmer McCurdy ever spent time in New York City. But the early 20th-century outlaw-turned-mummy who robbed, died ...