In this creepy real story, you'll learn about Elmer J. McCurdy. A failed criminal who, upon his lonely death, was mistaken for a wax figure and displayed all over the United States. It was until a bizarre incident that it was discovered that this figure was actually made up of bone and human tissue.
Are you afraid of wax figures?
Get in touch on ParanormalClub.com
Join us on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram as @ParanormalClubPod
00:00:00
There was this urban legend that I heard about that happened in
00:00:03
Long Beach, CA. The legend was that in one of
00:00:06
these old amusement rides at the Pike, this bride is one of
00:00:11
those. You get into a little cart, you
00:00:13
circle around in kind of a railroad track getting freaked
00:00:16
out by figures, clowns, chopped off hands, things hanging from
00:00:21
the ceiling, all with you know, you get smoke and purple lights
00:00:26
and the whole deal crazy noises, everything.
00:00:30
If if you're like sensitive to noise and a bunch of things
00:00:33
happening. I was this is this is what that
00:00:35
was basically. And as you were going through
00:00:38
there a minute and a half later, 2 minutes, a ride will be over,
00:00:41
but you would have passed an actual corpse along the way.
00:00:44
Now I looked into it and it didn't take me long to find out
00:00:48
that this was a real case. Many stories I've been made on
00:00:53
this, on this subject, but I had never heard of it.
00:00:57
This is the story of Elmer McCurdy, a man who ended up
00:01:02
making money not for himself but for others after he had died,
00:01:08
and during his lifetime he lived pretty much as a failed
00:01:12
criminal. It's a sad story, but it's
00:01:15
creepy because it makes you think that all these figures
00:01:18
that you look at, at these wax museums and those field trips
00:01:21
that you go to as a kid, maybe mannequins at a mall might be
00:01:27
real ready. My name is Edwin, and this is
00:01:33
Paranormal Club. Elmer McCurdy was born in 1880,
00:01:42
and he was born to this young woman.
00:01:44
She was 17 years old, unmarried and she was ashamed.
00:01:49
She didn't want to have a kid that young and there was a
00:01:53
social stigma with it. So she pretty much gave it to
00:01:56
what would be his aunts and uncles like Elmer's aunt and
00:02:00
uncle to raise. Turns out that this is a very
00:02:02
common thing. I've actually found out as I'm
00:02:05
I'm kind of researching into my family tree and some of people
00:02:09
that I know in their family trees to give people to family
00:02:12
members to raise. Like ask around.
00:02:15
You might hear it's very, it was very common.
00:02:18
But anyway, he was growing up, everything was fine.
00:02:21
And then they finally give him the news like, hey, you know
00:02:24
what? We're not really your parents.
00:02:27
You're adopted. And he's just like, he's not
00:02:32
taking it very well. He ends up being rebellious as a
00:02:34
teenager. He ends up drinking.
00:02:38
He doesn't take it well at all. He kind of starts getting his
00:02:41
life together as the years go on and he decides to join the Army.
00:02:46
And now it's 19 O7. He's in there during the
00:02:50
service. He leaves at, you know, 1910,
00:02:53
three years later. But he learns his very specific
00:02:57
skill, which is how to use nitroglycerin as an explosive.
00:03:04
What can one do with that knowledge?
00:03:07
He's going to find something and it's to become a criminal, steal
00:03:14
money. This is how he's going to make a
00:03:16
living in 1911. He starts robbing banks and it
00:03:21
doesn't work very well. Like he's not good at it at all.
00:03:25
He actually one of the one of the robberies was from a train
00:03:28
and he convinced somebody to join with to join him.
00:03:32
He had heard that the Iron Mountain, Missouri Pacific train
00:03:36
was carrying $4000 in it. Now that's a lot of money back
00:03:40
then. Turns out he used too much
00:03:42
nitroglycerin, exploded the heck out of that safe, so much that
00:03:47
he burned the bills and the silver coins melted into the
00:03:52
safe itself. Fortunately, he ended up leaving
00:03:55
with anywhere from life. Like maybe like around 400
00:03:58
bucks. Not too bad, not good though.
00:04:02
You missed out. You what got 10%?
00:04:05
Is it 10% of of the total? What a miss.
00:04:09
Anyway, now in September 1911, he now wants to steal from this
00:04:15
bank like he wants to go into the bank, steal from the vault
00:04:18
and take a bunch of money. This is a bank, right?
00:04:22
He spends 2 hours hammering away at the brick of the wall of the
00:04:25
of the bank. He makes it into the vault, sets
00:04:29
the nitroglycerin, blows off the door of the vault, destroys,
00:04:34
almost destroys the whole bank. But inside this the the safe
00:04:39
that was inside was completely sealed shut.
00:04:43
The money was not coming with him freaking out.
00:04:46
He goes and grabs some like loose change that was on some
00:04:49
trades as they're counting money and stuff.
00:04:52
It totalled around $150.00 in coins.
00:04:56
Dang it, right? You kind of feel bad for him.
00:04:58
Like it's, it's funny, he's a criminal.
00:05:00
He's not supposed to steal money.
00:05:01
But sometimes you kind of cheer on people like this.
00:05:04
I don't have this bad habit when I'm seeing police car chases.
00:05:09
I don't know, like I want him to stop.
00:05:10
He's I'm rooting for the for the police in those cases, but also
00:05:12
like it's unsafe. I guess not something I should
00:05:15
watch, but it's like a natural thing where we just be like, oh,
00:05:18
what's going to happen at the end?
00:05:20
You kind of root for the for the car to escape every once in a
00:05:23
while. I don't know.
00:05:25
I don't know if you do that, I should probably stop watching
00:05:27
police car chases anyway. Now in October of 1911, this is
00:05:31
quick. This is a month later, he finds
00:05:35
out that this train is carrying 400, $1000 as a payment to the
00:05:42
Osage Nation. So McCurdy grabs another
00:05:47
partner. He's like, hey, we're going to
00:05:49
do this. They go, actually, it was
00:05:53
several people that were accomplices.
00:05:55
And instead of stopping that train, they stop a passenger
00:05:59
train. So they end up doing a typical
00:06:02
robbery. All right, give me your stuff.
00:06:04
They people had no phones and people didn't carry that much
00:06:06
cash. They ended up leaving with 46
00:06:10
dollars, two things of whiskey, a revolver, a coat and the
00:06:17
conductor's watch. He was disappointing people left
00:06:21
and right, and he ended up going to a ranch.
00:06:24
He was he he was like, I, I try to convince all these people to
00:06:27
do that. We didn't even take that much
00:06:29
money. He grabs some whiskey, goes and
00:06:31
hides out. And this is now in Bartlesville.
00:06:35
OK. By this time he was desperate.
00:06:40
He was an alcoholic. He was not had not doing a good.
00:06:44
He's not doing good. He had tuberculosis, pneumonia.
00:06:48
And October 7th, 3, deputy sheriff's get a word where he is
00:06:54
and they decide to go after him. They start a shootout.
00:06:57
Boom, boom, boom. Elmer's gone.
00:07:00
He dies. He dies with a gunshot wound to
00:07:03
the chest that ended his his his career, his failed career as a
00:07:07
criminal. But his new one was about to
00:07:10
begin. Joseph Johnson was the man, the
00:07:15
undertaker who took Elmer's body.
00:07:18
And he started, you know, processing it and embalming it.
00:07:23
But nobody came to pick him up. Like no family member ever said,
00:07:27
hey, let's go give him burial. Nothing now he didn't want to
00:07:33
lose out an opportunity to make money.
00:07:35
So he he was already embalmed and with this other really
00:07:38
interesting process, it was arsenic based and the
00:07:42
preservative was for long term preservation.
00:07:45
So he uses he was like, you know what, he's going to look the
00:07:47
same for a while. I'm going to make some money off
00:07:50
of them. So he involved them standing
00:07:52
like standing up, dressed them up and said, Hey, whoever wants
00:07:57
to see this corpse, like of a, of a bandit, of a real life
00:08:01
bandit. I think they branded him as, Oh
00:08:04
yeah, the bandit who wouldn't give up five cents a nickel come
00:08:08
and see him. And people did.
00:08:10
People went to see him. He made some money.
00:08:11
Cool. It was cool.
00:08:14
And if he knows it was, it was really weird and bizarre that
00:08:18
they were saying, you know, to give your payment, put the
00:08:20
nickel in his mouth. It's weird, So weird, weird
00:08:23
times to think about. Not long after that, the
00:08:29
undertaker was finally, finally found his opportunity to sell.
00:08:32
Now, the reason why he didn't want to just bury the body is
00:08:34
because, hey, you know, embalming stuff is expensive.
00:08:38
He wants to get paid for it. And he always kind of waits for
00:08:41
people to come by and pick him up and take him, you know, to
00:08:44
bid their proper burial site. This time, it wasn't happening
00:08:47
until these two men show up and they're like, their names are
00:08:52
James and Charles Patterson. They were like, hey, we are his
00:08:56
brothers and we want to bury the body, so give them to us.
00:09:04
The guy was like, OK, we'll pay me.
00:09:05
Pay up. And yeah, you can have them.
00:09:08
So they did. They they bought them.
00:09:11
And The thing is that they weren't, they weren't his
00:09:15
brothers. They were actually carnival
00:09:18
promoters. Like, you know, those traveling
00:09:21
carnivals that, you know, they come here, come here and see
00:09:24
these freaks of nature kind of like that they took him.
00:09:28
And thus began Elmer's career as a performer, I guess, who
00:09:33
wouldn't move. So now these two guys have him
00:09:38
and they use him as another prop and they, they call him the
00:09:43
outlaw who would never be captured alive.
00:09:48
And he just went around places being featured around there.
00:09:51
I I'm saying like places all around the US, He's just
00:09:54
traveling around and people paying to see him.
00:09:57
It's an interesting investment. Then he ended up in 1922, ended
00:10:02
up in the Museum of Crime. You know, the Museum of Crime.
00:10:06
He ended up there because this guy, Louis Sani, acquired the
00:10:09
body after the carnival defaulted on this loan.
00:10:14
So, you know, the carnivals were always trying to cut costs.
00:10:19
So that's why they look all cheap and they were trying to
00:10:20
make money off of literally everything.
00:10:22
Well, they have this $500 loan. The guy, they defaulted.
00:10:26
So he was like, OK, well, you know, you need to give me some
00:10:28
stuff. And now Mccurdy's corpse was now
00:10:32
exhibited in the Museum of Crime.
00:10:36
Basically, along there were these other wax figures of other
00:10:40
people, other criminals that, you know, they were actual wax
00:10:44
figures, except this one was real.
00:10:47
That's where the confusion I think really started because
00:10:50
they people were starting to believe that this was not really
00:10:53
a corpse, but an actual waxy year.
00:10:58
Sometimes you get people who are embalmers and people who deal
00:11:04
with the dead here that listen to Paranormal Club.
00:11:07
So I here's a question because this is what I found, but there
00:11:10
was some some questions about it.
00:11:12
When people died and they were embalmed in these old processes,
00:11:16
they say that there's their faces turn really shiny and they
00:11:18
kind of ended up getting waxy. I don't know how true that is.
00:11:22
And could you actually confuse a wax figure with one of these
00:11:28
real corpses? Because this is what people are
00:11:31
doing. In 1933, the body was acquired
00:11:37
by a director, Dwayne Esper, to promote his movie Narcotic.
00:11:43
I was placed under these lobbies and they were they were calling
00:11:47
him a dead dope friend, basically a fiend, A fiend.
00:11:51
Sorry, dead dope fiend, basically saying, hey, if you do
00:11:55
drugs, this is how you're going to end up, so don't do it.
00:11:58
People didn't know that this is this is a real corpse they're
00:12:00
talking about and is they're making fun of him, basically not
00:12:03
making fun of him, but using it like that because you know, you
00:12:06
look pretty like dead. I don't know.
00:12:10
That's my dead face. I mean, if you're watching, I
00:12:13
don't know if you're listening, but it's, it's, it's it's
00:12:16
stretched out waxy skin. You can still kind of see the
00:12:20
teeth. It was bizarre.
00:12:22
I've seen some pictures if you, if you want, have the time and,
00:12:24
and want to look at them. He finds some pictures of, of
00:12:27
Elmer. But anyway.
00:12:29
Esper claimed that the body's shriveled, mummified skin was
00:12:32
proof of drug abuse from a film prop.
00:12:34
He went to an actual fixture at an amusement park ride.
00:12:40
Now here's how they switch hands.
00:12:42
In 1949, the previous owner of this thing about, you know, the
00:12:48
the Museum of crime, they placed the body in in a Los Angeles
00:12:53
warehouse for almost 20 years. And then in 1964, they actually
00:13:00
loaned them out to this movie. I'd never seen it.
00:13:02
It's called She Freak premier, maybe as an extra on there. 1968
00:13:08
Sunny Sun sold the corpse to Spooney Singh, the owner of the
00:13:12
Hollywood Wax Museum. Now that's the place that really
00:13:18
creeps me out. Imagine working there at night,
00:13:21
having to dust all those figures on.
00:13:25
That's where all these wax figures would reorient.
00:13:28
Is this what they call them? You know, like when they talk
00:13:31
about mannequins moving, they don't say the mannequin moved.
00:13:33
They see the mannequin reoriented.
00:13:36
It's actually how they describe subtle movements of mannequins.
00:13:41
Anyway, the body during an exhibit in Mount Rushmore, it
00:13:45
was kind of damaged from this windstorm and it lost certain
00:13:50
tips of the body, like the tips of the ears, fingers, toes.
00:13:55
I think it was falling apart. But seeing the owner of the
00:14:01
Hollywood Wax Museum was like, you know what?
00:14:04
This thing is just not real enough.
00:14:08
I don't want it. Imagine that like a wax museum
00:14:12
considering a real life corpse, not real enough.
00:14:15
But the wax figures, the, the wax figures are wax fingers.
00:14:19
The wax figures are. So he sold it to Ed Lear, part
00:14:25
owner of the Pike, an amusement zone in Long Beach, CA.
00:14:29
Now Mccurdy's corpse was then hung from the gallows in this in
00:14:32
this scene, and it was called Laugh in the Dark Fun House
00:14:36
ride. Now Laugh in the Dark, from what
00:14:39
I've found. And if we have people who know
00:14:42
about this, please let me know about it.
00:14:44
It's it wasn't just one thing. It was, it was kind of like how
00:14:50
we describe a clubhouse or how we describe AI don't know a
00:14:55
right. Like it was a, a category of a
00:14:57
thing. It wasn't the name of the place
00:14:59
necessarily, but it had the name on there.
00:15:01
Laugh in the dark. Now laugh in the dark.
00:15:04
If you go to laughinthedark.com, actually, you're going to find
00:15:06
some history of these old carts and you're going to see exactly
00:15:10
what I mean. These were really creepy rides.
00:15:13
The cart itself, the carts like where you get in and, and you
00:15:17
know, go around the, the amusement thing was patented and
00:15:20
the owners of the people who actually made this stuff work
00:15:24
were making a lot of money because they ended up using it
00:15:27
as, you know, places where all these people wanted rides in
00:15:30
their in their locations for entertainment purposes, right?
00:15:33
You buy the thing once and you keep making money of it.
00:15:35
For people who want to get freaked out, go in.
00:15:39
Sadly, it wasn't a a very creepy thing.
00:15:42
I mean, back then, I guess people maybe had a different bar
00:15:44
for what's creepy, I don't know. But it wasn't a very eerie
00:15:50
scene. It was just loud, chaotic
00:15:52
flashing lights, creepy things that you would go through and
00:15:55
then that's it. It would be over.
00:15:58
But anyway, this website left@thedark.com has a lot of
00:16:02
details on it, like too many details.
00:16:04
I wonder like who was into this because it it's an interesting
00:16:07
part of history. So if you're into amusement park
00:16:10
right and stuff, that's something to look into.
00:16:13
But anyway, it was hung from the gallows and people were going
00:16:18
past them every day getting scared, not knowing that this
00:16:22
was a real corpse that they were going through, like going to
00:16:24
see. It was until December 8th, 1976,
00:16:30
this kind of modern era kind of they're making the television
00:16:34
series The $6 million Man. And this episode is called
00:16:38
Carnival of Spies. And in that episode they use the
00:16:43
set, you know, for, for the for that episode to be the Pike
00:16:46
area, specifically that laugh in the dark, creepy amusement park.
00:16:52
The film director, one of them, you know, one of the camera
00:16:55
people, they were like, I don't really like that problem.
00:16:58
I'm going to move it a little bit, goes up to it, tries to
00:17:01
twist it into place a little bit and the arm breaks off.
00:17:06
Part of it does anyway. And inside you clearly see the
00:17:11
human bone, actual skin tissue and tissue from like the inside
00:17:17
of a person. The police are called, episodes
00:17:22
put on hold for a little bit and they find that this prop was a
00:17:27
real life human corpse, I guess a real dead human corpse.
00:17:34
It's it just flew like all over the news.
00:17:37
This was a, a national news story.
00:17:39
People all over the place were talking about the creepy corpse
00:17:42
that was in this amusement park ride and all, all the urban
00:17:46
legends that that developed after it were kind of saying,
00:17:50
you know what, all along people were thinking that this was they
00:17:53
were going through a real life corpse thing.
00:17:58
But you know, certain stories like this, you get the urban
00:18:01
legend after the breakout of the story.
00:18:03
So people had no idea that this was real until, you know, they
00:18:06
broke off the arm. Now I wonder what about the tips
00:18:08
of the ears and toes and fingers?
00:18:09
Like, would you, you can't tell that there's bone in there.
00:18:13
I guess you can't. I wouldn't be able to tell.
00:18:14
I feel I don't know. That's that's a tough one.
00:18:18
But anyway, they started investigating everything and
00:18:20
like an actual forensics team and they took it to the Los
00:18:23
Angeles coroner's office and they found out that this was a
00:18:27
real corpse and that it had that he had died from a gunshot
00:18:32
wound. They actually found the bullet
00:18:33
inside of him. So they were able to, to use
00:18:35
that bullet to kind of time him into when he had died.
00:18:40
But really the, the thing that really led to finding out who he
00:18:46
was, because that was going to be another mission, right?
00:18:49
That they opened up his mouth and they found a coin in there
00:18:55
and a ticket like a like an admit one kind of ticket.
00:19:00
It's just a bizarre thing to think about.
00:19:02
I got chills. I don't know why, but the body
00:19:05
itself weighed like 50 lbs. Elmer was not a big guy and he
00:19:11
was kind of waxy on the outside. Obviously the the thing had been
00:19:14
cleaned and painted over and you know, for a long time and they
00:19:19
found along with the timing also helped.
00:19:22
Like it was it was sorted out because of the embalming fluid
00:19:25
that they ended up using, which was used for a certain period of
00:19:28
time. So they were to time him because
00:19:29
of that. And it also showed signs of
00:19:33
tuberculosis. So they were able to time him
00:19:34
because of that as well. The penny was from 1924, the one
00:19:38
that they found in the mouth and the ticket stubs were for Louis
00:19:41
Sunny's Museum of Crime. So they were to trace him.
00:19:46
Now, they contacted Dan Sunny, who confirmed the body was
00:19:49
likely Mccurdy's. Obviously, he had the Museum of
00:19:53
Crime, so he was familiar with crime.
00:19:56
Now, this guy was obviously a failed criminal, but he made it
00:20:00
to the museum. Congrats.
00:20:04
It's like the Hall of Fame. And then forensic anthropologist
00:20:08
Clyde Snow used a technique called Super Imposition, where
00:20:12
they lay different radiographs of the skull.
00:20:15
And they made they they found that, yeah, he matched the
00:20:20
photograph of Elmer McCurdy, and it was marked as positive ID.
00:20:29
So after they identified the man, they convinced the
00:20:33
officials, actually it was a man called Fred Olds from the Indian
00:20:36
Territory Posse of Oklahoma Westerns who convinced the
00:20:40
authorities to let him let Elmer McCurdy be buried in his own
00:20:44
state. And they said, yeah, they
00:20:47
actually had a funeral procession April 22nd, 1977, and
00:20:53
his body was taken to the Boot Hill section of Summit View
00:20:55
Cemetery in Oklahoma. Now, the gravesite service was
00:20:59
attended by 300 people. There's a lot of people.
00:21:03
Imagine that you pass away. Nobody knows.
00:21:06
Nobody cares that you're dead. People have to like the guy
00:21:09
starts charging and actually makes a thing out of like prop
00:21:12
out of you. Nobody's willing to go.
00:21:14
But to his actual funeral, 300 people go.
00:21:19
I don't know how I feel about that.
00:21:20
It's I don't know. But obviously he was a he was
00:21:27
famous, right? And famous people or famous
00:21:30
corpses get stolen. So what they did is they put
00:21:35
them on like they buried him and then put 2 feet of concrete over
00:21:39
him so that they wouldn't get in there and, and take them and
00:21:42
that was that. Now interesting because Elmer
00:21:48
McCurdy became famous after he died.
00:21:52
A sad story of failed, a failed career as a criminal, which can
00:21:57
you even call that a career? He actually tried plumbing and
00:22:00
tried a couple of other things that I mean, he lost his job
00:22:03
during the, I think it was an economic downturn in 1998 and he
00:22:07
lost his job. He, he just couldn't get the
00:22:10
hang of it. But at the root of it all was
00:22:12
alcoholism. He, he loved to drink and he,
00:22:15
his life was just falling apart. Could have been that what
00:22:19
affected him that much was that his parents weren't really his
00:22:22
biological parents. And when he found out, would you
00:22:26
have kept that secret from him if you knew that he was going to
00:22:30
turn out that way? It reminds me a lot of other
00:22:35
stories, like there was one called the Pasqualita, which is
00:22:38
I might just tell you a little bit about it now, in case you're
00:22:40
you're interested. It's a very famous story.
00:22:43
The legend goes at this woman who owns this dress shop, like a
00:22:47
bridal kind of shop. Her daughter's about to be
00:22:49
married. And just before she gets
00:22:53
married, this spider bites her. She dies.
00:22:57
The mom is so heartbroken that she gets the the daughter
00:23:02
embalmed and she looks so beautiful and realistic that she
00:23:06
sets her up in the in the front window as a mannequin and puts
00:23:11
like, it was really nice dress. And when people walk by it, they
00:23:15
notice strange things about this mannequin.
00:23:18
The hands are real. You can see, you know, the, the,
00:23:21
the marks, like the, the thumbprints or the fingerprint
00:23:24
marks or whatever you call those, those things.
00:23:27
The skin also like you can see do the palm lines and
00:23:31
everything, the nails, the eyes, the the eyelashes, the
00:23:35
expression of this this thing is so realistic that people start
00:23:38
to think that inside of this figure is a real woman.
00:23:43
There are several things that happened throughout the whole I
00:23:47
guess while the story was at its peak.
00:23:49
For example, the shaman walked up and and try to make a ritual
00:23:53
to bring it back to life. People claim that when they were
00:23:57
walking by, the eyes would follow them as they were
00:24:00
walking. Some people were so freaked out,
00:24:02
they would cross the street and go away from it like cross, you
00:24:06
know, cross and then go and then go back to the, the that that
00:24:09
side of the street because it was she was just that creepy.
00:24:12
Now, something that I find really odd about this story of
00:24:14
La Pasqualita and and that mannequin was that there was a
00:24:19
time, a nine month period when she was taken away to supposedly
00:24:24
display her at another place. And when she returned, she
00:24:29
wasn't the same 1. You can look at before and after
00:24:32
pictures. Supposedly she was she went in a
00:24:35
restoration process like so that this she could look the same.
00:24:39
But people are like, this is not the same one.
00:24:42
And what what the some of the theories are that they found out
00:24:45
that, yeah, in fact, this was a real person in there and they
00:24:50
just covered it up and brought another one that tried to make
00:24:52
it look like like the original 1.
00:24:54
Is it real? I don't know.
00:24:56
Might be, I mean thinking about this, you know, stories start
00:25:00
from somewhere and this one about Elmer McCurdy was real.
00:25:06
Do wax figures creep you out? What about mannequins?
00:25:10
Now I know I've mentioned a couple times that way back in
00:25:12
the day, actually it wasn't the way back.
00:25:13
It was in to 20/17/2018 around there.
00:25:17
I was working in this very small town in Ecuador, it's called
00:25:21
Banos. That was Santa.
00:25:23
And the story that has happened there is a whole other whole
00:25:26
other thing. But you know, if we go deep into
00:25:28
that, actually, I have, I have a a thing, if you want to listen
00:25:30
to it, I'm actually, I recorded my own story, so you can go
00:25:33
check it out. But the owner was this French
00:25:38
dude who was like half, he was from Chile with French parents,
00:25:41
something like that. And he had this strange thing.
00:25:47
I mean, French people are a little different, right,
00:25:50
culturally than what we are. And it was, it was different
00:25:54
getting used to it, right? It was, it was a business guy.
00:25:57
He knew what he was doing, but he had this mannequin that he
00:26:02
had up in the storage area and he insisted on dressing him up
00:26:07
like him and putting him in the restaurant to the hostel.
00:26:15
I found this super weird. And I wasn't the only one.
00:26:18
There were people that would go eat at the restaurant and they
00:26:23
wouldn't go near the table where this mannequin was.
00:26:27
It was weird. Plus there's also some really
00:26:29
creepy stories that happened in that restaurant about regarding
00:26:33
the light bulbs. That one time you couldn't find
00:26:36
out what the issue was with these light bulbs.
00:26:39
Turns out they had been unscrewed 1 by 1 and they
00:26:42
wouldn't turn on. It was weird because nobody even
00:26:47
getting into the light bulb was was a mission.
00:26:50
Like why would anybody even bother doing that?
00:26:52
You know, it didn't made no sense, but they were it was
00:26:57
eerie. And then at one point they just
00:26:59
put that mannequin away back into the storage area and it was
00:27:02
forgotten. Was that thing related to any of
00:27:06
the paranormal things that were happening at the time?
00:27:09
It's possible, but they have no way of knowing.
00:27:13
Are there any urban legends around your town that have
00:27:17
turned real that I found out that, hey, you know, what has
00:27:20
actually happened? Like for me, for example, I
00:27:23
always talk about Turnbull Canyon.
00:27:24
Always, always talking about Turnbull Canyon 'cause we used
00:27:26
to go there a lot, you know, as a Turnbull Canyon is this area
00:27:30
around the Whittier and, and city of industry places like in
00:27:33
Southern California. And there were legends there
00:27:36
about people doing satanic rituals, murders and stuff and
00:27:40
ended up looking them up. And what do you know?
00:27:43
Some of these things were real. And they have real newspaper
00:27:46
records, like an airplane crashing there.
00:27:49
Who would have, I don't know. I don't know Who would have, who
00:27:51
would have even. I don't know why this isn't more
00:27:53
famous or why these stories are still considered just urban
00:27:56
legends and not actual facts and real stories, but they are.
00:28:00
So if you know of any in your town, in your city, send them
00:28:03
in, even if you don't know if they're real, 100% real.
00:28:05
I might be able to find something out.
00:28:07
So let's put those researching chops to to use here.
00:28:11
But now it is time for some of the comments.
00:28:14
I think we got some some recent ones here.
00:28:18
Let's go. Oh yeah, we don't we don't have
00:28:20
too many. Yes, we do.
00:28:23
Here we go. Ashley Monique says also from
00:28:26
the previous episode, life after death, scary true listener
00:28:29
encounters. This is the story where we had
00:28:32
two stories in there and this one's about the story called
00:28:36
guardian angels everywhere. The story of how this, my little
00:28:40
boy had a sixth sense and was seeing people who were no longer
00:28:45
alive, Ashley says. Ashley Monique says also, how
00:28:49
did the lady in the church know Raiden's name?
00:28:52
My great great grandma gave us $2.00 bills for Christmas as
00:28:55
well. I still have her last one she
00:28:57
gave me. You know, I thought of this when
00:29:00
I was reading it. In the story, this woman is
00:29:04
standing in the back part of the church and there is another
00:29:09
woman who was taking care of a baby like, you know, just taking
00:29:14
care of him while the parents are resting.
00:29:17
The the mother is, is taking a break basically and they take
00:29:20
him to church. And this after the service, this
00:29:23
old lady walks up to, to, to to this this woman with the baby
00:29:27
and says, hey, your baby Raiden was so well behaved.
00:29:31
I want to give this to him. Gives gives her a $2.00 bill.
00:29:35
Later on, it's discovered that that woman that gave the $2.00
00:29:38
bill was exactly the same woman in a photograph that used to
00:29:44
give that actually really wanted to meet the baby, to meet her
00:29:49
grandson. But yeah, how did how did she
00:29:53
know the name Raiden? I'm hoping it was just one of
00:29:57
those story edits as in like maybe she didn't actually say,
00:30:03
Oh, Raiden was so well behaved, but I mean that's what the the
00:30:06
the thing said. I think in the actual recording
00:30:08
she might have said that, but still creepy.
00:30:12
Very, very, very Francesca says I've been waiting for a new
00:30:16
episode. Yes, and this was on the the
00:30:18
episode. I got a call about an actual
00:30:20
demonic haunting the Malibu case Malabelle, the Malabelle case is
00:30:25
we're still getting comments on the Malabelle case.
00:30:27
This one was a a weird story. I'll tell you that Richard
00:30:31
basically experienced A demonic hunting after fostering this
00:30:37
little girl, a 13 year old girl in his home and it is believed
00:30:42
that this this little girl was had some bizarre intentions,
00:30:47
really evil intentions, Ben Dazzle says.
00:30:50
I've had some crazy experiences, especially after having kids.
00:30:53
One night my 4 month old son woke me up crying and I saw my
00:30:57
wife standing in the doorway just staring at me.
00:31:00
She slowly turned and walked away.
00:31:03
The black silhouette shadow of her just passed.
00:31:06
I was still angry. I didn't need to get out of bed,
00:31:10
the bottle was next to me and I fell fast asleep.
00:31:14
Keep in mind she was upset with me also is why she slept in the
00:31:18
living room couch. Turns out this woman wasn't her
00:31:23
Tammy double Peter says. I just binged midnight mass on
00:31:26
Netflix. I liked it.
00:31:28
You know, I I watched a couple of episodes in the OR the very
00:31:31
first part of it and I stopped. I think I was traveling and
00:31:36
Netflix wouldn't let wouldn't accept my credit card because
00:31:40
the country I was in did not match the country where I got my
00:31:43
card. Kind of a dumb business move,
00:31:47
honestly. Like that would be accepting
00:31:50
credit cards left and right. Well, I guess there's you open
00:31:51
up yourself to fraud and stuff. I guess anyway, I like that it's
00:31:56
by Stephen King. It's midnight mass.
00:31:57
I think I'm going to I'm going to rewatch it.
00:31:59
I like the I like the setup of it that much.
00:32:02
I didn't get too too into it. Just like I'm the little pretty.
00:32:05
I'm the pretty thing that lives in the basement or something
00:32:08
like that or lives in the attic. That was another one that it
00:32:11
didn't finish watching, but the mood of it was really cool.
00:32:16
Ileana Garcia says, love this episode.
00:32:18
These stories are so heartwarming.
00:32:20
Thanks a lot. They were they were they were
00:32:23
really heartwarming. And those are the stories.
00:32:26
Those are the comments that we got on Spotify.
00:32:29
Now let's go to YouTube and then our comment on YouTube from
00:32:34
Gabby. Gabby, thanks a lot for the
00:32:36
comment here. It says after you made that
00:32:38
face, I burst out laughing. And she's talking about the face
00:32:40
of of the scream, the story that V told us on on the last episode
00:32:45
of Paranormal Club. They are sleeping and one of the
00:32:49
makes of a face. And it was, it was funny because
00:32:52
it's like, Oh yeah, there was a, a line.
00:32:54
There was like something might have gotten into you.
00:32:55
It's like, Oh yeah, I I think it was possessed for a minute.
00:32:58
And I was like, no way. But yeah, Gabby, I like that
00:33:02
part too. It was a very, very visual
00:33:04
story. Very cool.
00:33:06
Those are the comment. We only got one comment on our
00:33:08
last video on YouTube. Still better now though.
00:33:13
We're actually growing little arrows are green on YouTube.
00:33:15
So we haven't actually promoted it.
00:33:18
So we will see what happens with that now that paranormal club is
00:33:21
becoming there's really special community kind of thing where
00:33:25
we, you know, go back and forth with comments, with stories,
00:33:28
with, you know, place where we can tell campfire style stories.
00:33:31
We are going to be launching our Instagram, TikTok and Facebook
00:33:37
all together from in the usernames Paranormal Club pod.
00:33:41
There's no content on it yet. You'd be one of the first
00:33:44
literally I think we have 0 followers but you would be one
00:33:47
of the first people to join. I'm going to make a formal
00:33:49
announcement later on, but it's where we're going to keep
00:33:51
telling stories. I know some of you wanted to on
00:33:53
the poll that I released on Spotify.
00:33:55
I asked what kind of stories you want to hear and the some of the
00:33:59
results were campfire style stories.
00:34:02
Like campfire stories basically turn this thing into like, all
00:34:06
right, let's go and just tell you this creepy freaking story.
00:34:10
There are some really creepy fiction stories and some stories
00:34:14
that might be real but aren't. I guess it doesn't make any
00:34:19
sense. Stories that sound real, can be
00:34:22
real, can happen to you, but did not happen.
00:34:26
I like a movie. So if you want to hear me tell
00:34:28
you stories, like as you know, I'm a writer, I tell stories on
00:34:32
Scary Story podcast and I've been telling stories for years,
00:34:36
rewriting. We have hundreds of stories now
00:34:39
in our catalog on there. All those stories, those short
00:34:41
stories were written by me and they're creepy style, like
00:34:46
creepypasta style. They're also some of them are
00:34:49
very heartwarming kind of story. Some of them are sad, some of
00:34:52
them are just creepy, like as in you're going to think they're
00:34:56
real. You're going to be afraid of
00:34:57
going to bed because a hand might reach out from under it.
00:35:00
Kind of kind of stories. Let me know you want to hear.
00:35:02
Those will be really fun for me to do.
00:35:04
And if you have an idea on the story that you want to hear,
00:35:07
like as in you want me to tell a story about something and just
00:35:10
want to tell me an idea or a certain feeling.
00:35:12
Like, for example, stories based on Five Nights at Freddy's that
00:35:15
I've already gotten. Stories coming out this week,
00:35:20
stories based on kind of Silent Hill to stories of creatures in
00:35:25
the woods. I want a story on woman on the
00:35:29
side of the road, stuff like that.
00:35:31
All these things, even though they seem like just really
00:35:34
popular, common stories, they trigger other ideas and they
00:35:38
combine with other stories, other ideas that other people
00:35:40
give to me and we come up with this really nice story.
00:35:43
Also, our live streaming part of this, like our lives are going
00:35:47
to be on YouTube, so you're going to be able to find them on
00:35:50
our YouTube channel, which is youtube.com/paranormal Club Pod
00:35:56
and you should be able to get to it there.
00:35:58
You're going to see like when the next one is.
00:35:59
Now since the holidays are coming, it might be a little
00:36:02
delayed, but either way, you're going to see the next one and
00:36:05
when it's going to be posted. Mainly we're just going to do
00:36:07
Hangouts and story idea story sessions and also some creepy
00:36:12
storytelling on there live and also be responding to you on the
00:36:15
spot. So let me know what you think of
00:36:17
those ideas and then I'll be back next week.
00:36:20
Thank you very much for listening or watching.
00:36:23
Keep it scary everyone. See you soon.