Disney World - The Happiest Place on Earth?
What comes to mind when you think about Disney World? The happiest place on earth, Cinderella and all the other Princesses living happily ever after, Mickey and Minnie Mouse with their joyful spirit?
What you don't normally think about associating with Disney World are ghost. Ghost outside of the Haunted Mansion, that is. You may think it's crazy. Ghost being in the happiest place on earth. How could that be? Yet stories of Disney World hauntings do exist. Here are a few ghosts who've been reportedly seen on the premises:
What you don't normally think about associating with Disney World are ghost. Ghost outside of the Haunted Mansion, that is. You may think it's crazy. Ghost being in the happiest place on earth. How could that be? Yet stories of Disney World hauntings do exist. Here are a few ghosts who've been reportedly seen on the premises:
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“There is known to be a tan figure walking down the streets in front of the castle.”
Tower of Terror
At the Tower of Terror attraction, the employees share a story about a ghost walking around during closed hours while visitors aren't around. When he's seen, he's walking in the wrong direction. When he's called, he doesn't respond. Soon after, he just disappears...... Tower of Terror Picture
Do you see any ghost?
Pirates of the Caribbean
Every morning and night before the ride opens and before the employees go home after closing, they say hello and good night over the PA system. There's a superstition that if they don't do that, the ride will shut itself down (it has actually done so on occasion). Ask someone who works at this ride and they'll tell you that they've had an encounter with George or know someone who has.
“We're out collecting the ghosts.... Hoping they're going to want to come and stay. - Walt Disney”
Spaceship Earth
At Disney World's Spaceship Earth, you may encounter a small girl with long, blond hair. She has been spotted riding in a car. Another ghost on the premises is a young boy who likes to hang around the girl. He'll run in front of her and vanish into thin air. This usually happens outside in the daytime. 
Haunted Mansion
Hundreds of people visit the Haunted Mansion in Disney World every day. In fact, it holds a record for being the most visited dark ride. Disney Imagineers worked hard using old magician tricks to create these illusions. What they may not have known was that there are now several real ghosts haunting the place.In the early 1950s Walt Disney and one of his top Imagineers Ken Anderson began working on the idea of a walk through haunted house. The inspiration came from a Disney cartoon about the Headless Horseman. The visitor was to enter a New England style house and follow the story through the attraction until it reached a climax in a graveyard scene.
Anyone who has visited the attraction knows that ideas changed and Disney and Anderson developed a New Orleans style house that the visitor rides through on a "Doom-buggy". It does, however, retain the graveyard scene form the original plans.
Construction of the building was put on hold in 1962, but halted in 1966 when Walt Disney died. The designers were in a quandary as Walt had not finished the planning. For a few years the public could see the frame of the building poking over the construction fence. Urban legends surfaced about how the ride was being re-designed because it was so scary that it supposedly caused a man to have a heart attack. The attraction finally opened in 1969.
While the building was built on property that had no previous construction on it, it did manage to attract someone who had died nearby. In the 1940s a man who had been piloting a small plane crashed in a lake near where the park was to be built later. His ghost has settled into the Haunted Mansion. Referred to by Cast Members (employees) as "the man with the cane" he is often seen late at night, especially after closing.
"The man in a tuxedo" is another spirit, though no one really knows who he is. One day an employee was working in the area where passengers disembark. There is a mirror there, so the attendant can see when the riders come up behind her. She kept seeing a shadow in the mirror, and when she turned around no one was there. The figure seemed to be wearing a tuxedo. Then, she felt a chill and a hand placed on her shoulder. Of course, she turned to find no one there. The woman ran out of the Haunted Mansion and soon quit her job.
There is a legend concerning a woman who wanted to scatter her young son's ashes inside the Haunted Mansion, but was forbidden by Disney officials. She snuck the ashes inside and covertly scattered them. Apparently, this was NOT her son's last wish as since she did that people have sometimes seen the apparition of a crying boy sitting near the exit.
Though there have been many stories circulated, only one person ever actually died in the Haunted Mansion. Each year Disney World sponsors "Grad Night", which is for high school seniors. Two teenage boys were riding along in a Doom-buggy when one of them decided that he wanted to see the room called "Séance Circle" up close.
The young man stepped out on to the black painted walkway that was next to the tracks. What he did not realize was that there was a gap between the walkway and the platform on which the display sat. He stepped off the walkway and plunged fifteen feet to the floor, breaking his neck. "Séance Circle" has been odd since the beginning. A sound designer was setting up equipment in the area before the attraction was open to the public. He kept hearing music coming from behind one of the new walls. He surmised that a radio had been walled up accidentally. After several days the music had never ended and no radio announcer ever came on. The man could never find the source of the sound, so he arranged for a speaker to go in the area and drown it out.
There have been many legends associated with the Haunted Mansion. If you ever visit, keep your eyes open. You may just spot a real ghost!
Haunted Mansion
Do you know of any "extra" ghost?
The next time you take a trip to the happiest place on earth and want to go on the Tower of Terror, the Pirates of the Caribbean, Spaceship Earth, the Haunted Mansion, or you're just walking down in front of Cinderella's castle where a tan figure has been seen walking about sometimes, keep an eye out and ask some employee about any Disney World ghost stories they've heard. Maybe you'll get lucky (or unlucky) and experience one of these Disney World hauntings yourself.
Disney Ghost
Walt Disney had no idea how very prophetic his words might become when it came to the real deal at Disney World. The ghosts are real, according to those who have seen, felt and encountered them.
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Disney World is Haunted!
..........Or is it?
Do you believe in ghost?
Yes, I have experienced them myself.
Mhm says:
Definitely believe this. Have actually experienced something similar on the Pirates attraction.
Shannon says:
George is a nice ghost who causes mischief. :)
No Way! They're just made up stories to scare children.
BOB says:
THIS IS CRAP AND LIES SO STOP
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Have you seen any ghost at Disney World?
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Kris10P
Aug 16, 2011 @ 4:23 pm | delete
- In your Haunted Mansion section are you talking about the Mansion in Florida or California? Disneyworld in Florida didn't open until 1971. Just curious. Interesting lens! =)
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