Strange Tales From the Wild West. The old Wild West is the stuff of legends Gunslingers robbing banks and trains. Cowboys on long cattle drives. Gold and silver rushes. Dinosaurs, UFOs, feral camels, and giant cannibals probably dont come to mind. But every time period has its strange stories, and the Wild West is no different. Some of those stories are exactly what youd expect, while others are surprisingly modern. Tales Of Vs English Patch' title='Tales Of Vs English Patch' />ELMER MCCURDYS AFTERLIFE WAS STRANGER THAN HIS LIFE AS AN OUTLAW. Elmer Mc. Curdy is not exactly a household name. Unlike Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Jesse and Frank James, or Billy the Kid, his exploits as a train and bank robber never gained him much infamy. Neither did his status as one of the last real Wild West outlaws, killed in a shootout with the law. Hed never be taken alive, he said. No, Elmer Mc. Curdy gained his fame more than 6. Thats when the crew of The Six Million Dollar Man borrowed an amusement park funhouse to shoot an episode. As one of the crew members moved a dummy, its arm fell offrevealing that the dummy was actually a mummy. Mc. Curdy, specifically, as an autopsy later revealed. It seems that after being shot, someone had gone to the funeral home and identified themselves as Mc. Curdys long lost brother in order to take the body. In fact, he was a carnival owner. Carnivals did a brisk trade in outlaw corpses to attract crowds in the early days of the 2. Mc. Curdys body also spent time as repayment for a bad debt, playing a mummy in a freak show, and collecting dust in a wax museum storage space before he became a funhouse prop. Mc. Curdy was finally laid to rest on Boot Hill in Guthrie, Oklahoma, 6. Were it not for a clumsy prop crew member, who knows where hed be today. SMALL TOWNS IN CALIFORNIA AND TEXAS REPORTED CLOSE ENCOUNTERS 5. YEARS BEFORE ROSWELL. Col. H. G. Shaw, as caricatured in the San Francisco Call, Wikimedia Commons Public Domain. Ask many people about the first major modern UFO incident, and theyll think back to Roswell, New Mexico. In July of 1. 94. The largest network of nude patches and nude mods for all popular games. Instant download and detailed guides on installation for all nude skins. Army Air Forces press release reported that airmen had collected a flying disk that fell from the sky. It was later reported to be a weather balloon and even later a nuclear spying apparatus, but by then the concept of flying saucers and government conspiracy theories were well entrenched in the American imagination. Except Roswell wasnt the first UFO incident in U. S. history. Not by a long shot. Turns out, Cowboys vs. Aliens has its roots in Wild West pop culture. Long before close encounters with off planet visitors offered relief from the tensions of the Cold War, two men from Lodi, California reported an attempted abduction by three alien strangers in 1. That year, Col. H. G. Shaw and Camille Spooner were traveling from the small town of Lodi to the Fresno Citrus Fair when, they said, they came across three beings that were, well, not human. They were reportedly seven feet tall and very slender. According to Shaw, the aliens tried to abduct the two men, but Shaw and Spooner were much too heavy to kidnap. Their attempt was foiled, and the three beings leapt back into their spaceship and left. I have a theory, which of course, is only a theory, that those we beheld were inhabitants of Mars, who have been sent to the earth for the purpose of securing one of its inhabitants, Shaw wrote in an account he published in the Evening Mail, a Stockton newspaper at the time. 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The brain tails, also called tchun. Tales Of Vs English Patch' title='Tales Of Vs English Patch' />Lodi resident John Callahan, who is writing a book about the encounter, has tracked down later incidents of UFO sightings in the area. He shares some of his research, including the original news story by Col. Shaw, at the Callahan UFO Report. A year later, Texas residents reported a strange sight Cigar shaped airships oddly similar to Col. Shaws description of the craft in Lodi flying over the state. KMXzfu.jpg' alt='Tales Of Vs English Patch' title='Tales Of Vs English Patch' />Then, one of these crafts crash landed outside Aurora, Texas. According to a story published in 1. Being good neighbors, they gave the being a proper burial. In 1. 97. 3, Mary Evans, who lived in Aurora at the time of the crash, shared her memories with a reporter. That crash certainly caused a lot of excitement, she said. Many people were frightened. They didnt know what to expect. That was years before we had any regular airplanes or other kind of airships. While Evans was not allowed by her parents to go to the crash site, they told her about the alien pilot who was found and its burial. In the same story, one physics professor shared that iron had been found near the purported crash siteiron that did not display the usual magnetic properties of the metal. Did either story really involve aliens Probably not. UFO fans have been searching for the alien gravesite in Aurora for decades now with no luckthough they have not been permitted to exhume what they believe is a likely grave, either. The tales may show nothing more than that cowboys believed in alien encounters, too. Or that the thirst for adventure that took many to the Wild West was directed outward, to the skies, as cities grew. TWO TOMBSTONE COWBOYS SHARED ONE HECK OF A HUNTING STORY. Dig deep enough in the western United States, and you have a decent chance of finding a fossil. From ichthyosaurs in Nevada to an apatosaurus in Colorado, relics from earlier epochs dot the West. Theyre long dead, though. The creature two cowboys claimed to have bagged near Tombstone, Arizona in April 1. According to the story that ran in the Tombstone Epitaph back then, A winged monster, resembling a huge alligator with an extremely elongated tail and an immense pair of wings, was found on the desert between the Whetstone and Huachuca mountains last Sunday by two ranchers who were returning home from the Huachucas. After a chase, they shot the bird down, and reported that it was about 9. The monster had only two feet, these being situated a short distance in front of where the wings were joined to the body. The head, as near as they could judge, was about eight feet long, the jaws being thickly set with strong, sharp teeth. Its eyes were as large as a dinner plate and protruded about halfway from the head, the Tombstone Epitaph reported. Download Video Narnia The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe. A photo of the supposed thunderbird, which resembled a prehistoric pterodactyl, was also taken. Or was it The story was likely a hoax, and the photo was almost certainly fake. While there are claims the photo was printed with the original article, it was not the first mention of it appears in 1. The story itself was never printed by the Epitaphs competition in Tombstone, and the 1. United States. But as hoaxes go, its a pretty good one, considering all of the thunderbirds, winged serpents, and other strange flying creatures that are found throughout the myths of the Southwest. THE RED GHOST TERRORIZED RANCHERS OF THE SOUTHWEST. If not for the Civil War and a Washington lobbying group, the Wild West might have been populated by camelboys instead of cowboys. When Edward Fitzgerald Beale, a Texan war veteran, saw how poorly horses fared in the deserts of the Southwest, he suggested importing camels. It was in 1. 85. 5 that the idea first took off, under then Secretary of War Jefferson Davis. Two years later, the U. S. military imported 7. U. S. Army Camel Corps. One group was stationed in Texas, and the other headed for California under Beales command. But with the Civil War looming on the horizon, U. S. Congress was not inclined to pay for still more camels. Mule breeders fought the idea, too.