Haunted Mansion Seance Room;Green Laser

[marc4ak]

If you look towards the entrance of the seance room there is a green laser. It has a dot and it traces itself over and over. I've always wondered what it is. Anyone have any ideas?

 

[unkadug]

If you look towards the entrance of the seance room there is a green laser. It has a dot and it traces itself over and over. I've always wondered what it is. Anyone have any ideas?

Look towards the entrance from where?

Dot tracing itself? Can you explain further?

 

[Bairstow]

I'm not sure if the effect is powered by a laser; it could just be a small fluorescent lamp swinging or moving behind a phosphorescent vinyl sheet.

 

[RandomPrincess]

The green squiggle in this picture -

http://www./wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Haunted-Mansion-2007480079301.jpg

 

[CaptainShortty]

They are the ghosts beginning to materialize I believe. I think that's what I was told in the backstage tour if I remember correctly.

 

[Bairstow]

Look towards the entrance from where?

Dot tracing itself? Can you explain further?

The effect has been there for as long as I can remember.
Go to 9:10 in this video to see it.

 

[fngoofy]

I don't believe it is a laser. It's been there ever since I can remember, say 1977.

 

[NearTheEars]

Always wondered what the heck it was supposed to be.

 

[Bairstow]

Always wondered what the heck it was supposed to be.

http://longforgottenhauntedmansion.blogspot.com/2010/08/seance-circle-part-two-davenports.html

 

[RandomPrincess]

http://longforgottenhauntedmansion.blogspot.com/2010/08/seance-circle-part-two-davenports.html

Thanks for the info

 

[NearTheEars]

http://longforgottenhauntedmansion.blogspot.com/2010/08/seance-circle-part-two-davenports.html

So ectoplasm is the answer?

 

[marc4ak]

Oh wow..awesome it makes a lot more sense now! I always thought it was so out of places

 

[Bairstow]

So ectoplasm is the answer?

I guess it depends on whether you consider the imagineers' intent to be the "correct" answer, but yes, the effect is variously labeled in the blueprints as "ectoplasm" or "ektoplasm".

 

[FettFan]

It's the....GHOSTLIGHT!

 

[Prince-1]

So ectoplasm is the answer?

Ectoplasm is ALWAYS the answer.

 

[Rinx]

In Disneyland it kind of forms a face.

 

[marni1971]

Not a laser. Projection.

 

[Bairstow]

Not a laser. Projection.

What, the faces or the light trails? Because I'm pretty sure the lamp producing the light trails is moved about through mechanical means.

 

[Professor_Jason]

I always thought it was some kind of spirit writing

 

[JIMINYCR]

In "The Secrets of Disneys Haunted Mansion" it describes it as.... a mysterious ectoplasmatic vapor in the corner of the room winds around like a serpent with a fading tail, never quite materializing into whatever three-dimensional form it may be attempting to take.