Was CSI: Miami’s Curse of the Coffin really cursed?
So remember when all the buzz hit the news about bodies being found on location at CSI: NY and CSI: Miami locations? Well, turns out that happened during the same week that the cast and crew of CSI: Miami were filming the super creepy episode Curse of the Coffin, which aired last week.
Some people around here think that maybe the curse was real: during the filming of this episode, two bodies were found on the sets of CSI shows. CSI: NY found a mummified body while shooting in downtown L.A., and then another corpse washed ashore in Miami when our crew was on location. Coincidence or curse? I’ll let you decide.
Creepy.
And those Santeria items? They were all real, including that tiny coffin. And the goat’s head? You guessed it, it was real, maggots and all.
The props used in “Curse of the Coffin” are actual Santeria ritual objects (including the tiny coffin!). That added authenticity to the episode, but also upped the creep factor on set. Some of the crew refused to go anywhere near the coffin.
Our props team also procured a real goat head with real maggots and real beetles. Hello? Real creepy! At least at first. By the end of the day, I found myself saying things like, “Can we add a few maggots to the goat’s left eye?”
Yuck.
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