# Was a dead body found inside an amusement park "mummy"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [May 26, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-a-dead-body-found-inside-an-amusement-park-mummy/177590 "2003-05-26T16:21:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-a-dead-body-found-inside-an-amusement-park-mummy/177590/1 "2003-05-26T16:21:59Z")
Today’s classic column is [Was a dead body found inside an amusement park “mummy”?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_203a.html) How many people saw that column and expected to see an old guy, unmasked, shaking his fist and muttering, “I woulda gotten away with it, if it weren’t for those meddling kids”? ---
**Author:** ![fuzzy\_firkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@fuzzy\_firkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzy_firkins)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-a-dead-body-found-inside-an-amusement-park-mummy/177590/2 "2003-05-27T01:16:53Z")
it does seem reminiscent of scooby doo, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-a-dead-body-found-inside-an-amusement-park-mummy/177590/3 "2003-05-27T10:12:50Z")
There is more to this story- I am surprised it didn’t get mentioned in the column. The mummy was found hanging up inside a ghost train, by a TV technician engaged in the shooting of a sequence for the popular TVshow ‘The Six-Million Dollar Man’, a sequence obviously set inside a carnival side-show; the technician didn’t thinkthe mummy looked realistic enough, but when it was moved, the arm fell off revealing a bone… [http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~tammie/tidbits/elmer.htm](http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~tammie/tidbits/elmer.htm) ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-a-dead-body-found-inside-an-amusement-park-mummy/177590/4 "2003-05-27T13:47:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Billdo \* > \*\*How many people saw that column and expected to see an old guy, unmasked, shaking his fist and muttering, “I woulda gotten away with it, if it weren’t for those meddling kids”? \*\* When I saw it my first thought was, “Isn’t the whole point of a mummy that there is a dead body inside?” RR ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-a-dead-body-found-inside-an-amusement-park-mummy/177590/5 "2003-05-27T22:02:41Z")
The BBC’s _Timewatch_ history series did a rather memorable hourlong TV documentary on the case c. 1998. Including interviews with the surviving fairground employees and those who’d uncovered the story. ---
**Author:** ![faerykat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dbc845/32.png) [@faerykat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/faerykat)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-a-dead-body-found-inside-an-amusement-park-mummy/177590/6 "2012-03-07T07:25:38Z")
I used to see that mummy all the time when I was a kid. One of the boys that we we used to go to the amusement park with saw it in some of the dead space behind the fun house mirrors when we were playing hide and seek. We would look at it all the time, trying to figure out if it was real. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-a-dead-body-found-inside-an-amusement-park-mummy/177590/7 "2012-03-07T07:53:26Z")
Why wake up mummy zombies?