October 7, 1911 Osage Hills, Oklahoma Bank robber Elmer McCurdy is killed during a shootout, his body eventually becoming a prop in a haunted house McCurdy and his gang intended to rob a train carrying a $400,000 (roughly $10.5 million in 2018) royalty payment to the Osage Nation, but they attacked the wrong train; the…
Today in Horror History: October 7

Birthdays: Dylan Baker (October 7, 1959), who starred in The Murder of Mary Phagan (1988), “Murder One,” The Cell (2000), Along Came a Spider (2001), Hide and Seek (2005), Fido (2006), and Trick ‘r Treat (2007). Baker in Trick ‘r Treat Aaron Ashmore (October 7, 1979), who starred in “Are You Afraid of the Dark?”…