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Haunted Mansion
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Pioneer Hall
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There is no official story to the Haunted Mansion...
There is an overview of a made up story, but there are always details that one person will change. Here is the version that I know of...
Master Gracey was about to Marry his 7th wife. To play a trick on him, she went up to the attic and decided to hide in a trunk and scare him. The truck somehow locked and she died. When she was found her body was going to be transported by horse and carriage to the graveyard. The horse got startled by a wolf howl and got out of control. The coffin mysteriously dissapeared, as did the horse and driver. The only thing Gracey saw from his bride was a ring. Gracey was so upset that he decided that the only thing to do would be to kill himself. He hung himself and the rest is history.
Parts of the ride that play in to the story...
-The Horseless Hearse for her to be transported in
-The "Ring" stuck in the ground
-The large tombstone at the end of the ride for the 7 wives (The Seventh did him in)
-The ghost host (Gracey) hanging himself in the stretching room
-The Wolf howling outside the mansion
-The bride in the attic by the trunk
-Master Gracey's tombstone in the Graveyard
Pioneer Hall
Well-Known Member
I was hoping that too, but based on what I have seen in the previews it doesn't look like it has anything to do with the ride's "story". At least the mansion is called Gracey Manor (or something along those lines).
Pioneer Hall
Well-Known Member
http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/hauntedmansion/main.html
That's the official movie site. If you click on story you can get a brief overview. Obviously it isn't the same. In the movie Eddie Murphy's family is trying to break some curse that is on the mansion.
That's the official movie site. If you click on story you can get a brief overview. Obviously it isn't the same. In the movie Eddie Murphy's family is trying to break some curse that is on the mansion.
SNS
Active Member
Here's a website on the Haunted Mansion's story http://members.aol.com/HtdMsn/gallery.html
Pioneer Hall
Well-Known Member
I think those are just stories for the ghosts that were made up by the person who runs the site.
mkepcotmgmak
Well-Known Member
I know the real story... maybe becuase my great-great-grandfather was a servant for dear Master Gracey. -or maybe becuase i am an ex cm, and i love to tell stories... lol
You see, Yale Gracey, or Master Gracey, as his humble servants referred to him, fell in love with a beautiful young girl. I cannot recall her name right now, but that is insignificant. Anyway, everyone in the Phantom Manor adored Master Gracey and his new bride to be, everyone EXCEPT Madame Leotta. Madam Leotta was kind of the same as Yzma was to Kuzco in the emperor's new groove. She had boarding in the mansion, and was sort of an advisor to Gracey with her supernatural talents, and psychic powers. Well, she had grown fond of Master Gracey, and despised his upcoming marriage. On the morning of the wedding, Madam Leotta found the bride to be getting dressed in her beautiful wedding gown upstairs in the attic. She forcefully locked the beautiful bride in a trunk and left her for dead. The servants searched and searched, for the bride, and Master Gracey was beside himself. One day he unlocked the trunk and found the horrendous site. He knew that Leotta had performed this evil stunt, and decided to have her killed by decapitation. Master Gracey was so upset that he tied a rope around his neck right there in the attic beside the trunk where his bride to be had once lay, and jumped... The humble servants still mourne their late Master's death by keeping a watchful eye over Phantom Manor...Madame Leotta still haunts the mansion, in her crystal ball, throwing seances daily from 9:00 a.m. to around 10:00 p.m. in Walt Disney World's, Magic Kingdom, check all local listings for show times, and ride rehabs... thanks, and enjoy your stay in the Magic Kingdom...
The Imagineers pretty much only set rides up with the basics like DISNEYINSIDER said, gracey, the ring, and so on... but CMs are encouraged to make up their own versions of the story - hope this helps...
josh.
You see, Yale Gracey, or Master Gracey, as his humble servants referred to him, fell in love with a beautiful young girl. I cannot recall her name right now, but that is insignificant. Anyway, everyone in the Phantom Manor adored Master Gracey and his new bride to be, everyone EXCEPT Madame Leotta. Madam Leotta was kind of the same as Yzma was to Kuzco in the emperor's new groove. She had boarding in the mansion, and was sort of an advisor to Gracey with her supernatural talents, and psychic powers. Well, she had grown fond of Master Gracey, and despised his upcoming marriage. On the morning of the wedding, Madam Leotta found the bride to be getting dressed in her beautiful wedding gown upstairs in the attic. She forcefully locked the beautiful bride in a trunk and left her for dead. The servants searched and searched, for the bride, and Master Gracey was beside himself. One day he unlocked the trunk and found the horrendous site. He knew that Leotta had performed this evil stunt, and decided to have her killed by decapitation. Master Gracey was so upset that he tied a rope around his neck right there in the attic beside the trunk where his bride to be had once lay, and jumped... The humble servants still mourne their late Master's death by keeping a watchful eye over Phantom Manor...Madame Leotta still haunts the mansion, in her crystal ball, throwing seances daily from 9:00 a.m. to around 10:00 p.m. in Walt Disney World's, Magic Kingdom, check all local listings for show times, and ride rehabs... thanks, and enjoy your stay in the Magic Kingdom...
The Imagineers pretty much only set rides up with the basics like DISNEYINSIDER said, gracey, the ring, and so on... but CMs are encouraged to make up their own versions of the story - hope this helps...
josh.
mkepcotmgmak
Well-Known Member
the only thing about the movie is... i hope it doesn't ruin the storytelling for the CMs... i mean, it will be great if they make it just haunted like the ride, and funny with murphy, but i kind of hope they don't setup the history too much, that would make the story kind of concrete... know what i mean?
mkepcotmgmak
Well-Known Member
at the ride exit, when you are walking out, start pannin the ground in the middle of the walkway... the ring is there, and it is embedded into the pavement...
Lil'mermaid
New Member
OMG!!! this is so cool! I had no idea that there was a REAL story behind the ride! This is one of my favs so its so awesome to know the story behind it!!!! I have never seen this ring but I do prefer to ride it at about midnight... it makes it soo much cooler! I may need to back in the daylight to look for it.
Eljay
Member
There is another version that has the bride being fitted for her wedding dress by a taylor in the attic. Master Gracie walks in while the taylor has his arms around her (innocently) and in a rage he kills the taylor. The young bride is so upset that he didn't trust her, that she throws herself out the window to her death. We were told that the broken window above the casket scene with the skeleton hand is the window the bride jumped out of & when the doombuggies turn around & tip backwards, it imitates the bride falling. Don't ya just love all this drama?
X2CommNavISTC
Account Suspended
Oh, this movie will have tons of stuff from the attraction.
Some of which include, but not limited to,
Madam Leotta in the crystal ball
The party
The graveyard scene (Including the singing busts
and even the moving set of armor will have a scene.
And the movie will have the history of the attraction behind it sadly. Im not sure exactly how Eddie inherets the mansion from the Gracy's but they do.
Ive seen some of the other ghosts in the movie, and they will be along the gruesome lines of the Pirates from their movie....decaying and just something you wouldnt expect from a natural Disney movie....but then again, look what they did in pirates.
Some of which include, but not limited to,
Madam Leotta in the crystal ball
The party
The graveyard scene (Including the singing busts
and even the moving set of armor will have a scene.
And the movie will have the history of the attraction behind it sadly. Im not sure exactly how Eddie inherets the mansion from the Gracy's but they do.
Ive seen some of the other ghosts in the movie, and they will be along the gruesome lines of the Pirates from their movie....decaying and just something you wouldnt expect from a natural Disney movie....but then again, look what they did in pirates.
mkepcotmgmak
Well-Known Member
whoa whoa whoa... back the disney truck up...
when the imagineers come up with ANYTHING that is seen onstage at a disney park, it has a story. most stories are very flexible, and only have the basics to their plot, guests hardle EVER know about the stories, especially the "non cartoon" ones... but everything from the haunted mansion to a turkey leg cart has a story made up about it... that is one of the main reasons that makes disney, well... Disney.
that is why in the haunted mansion ride you see the bride in her dress, and the guy in the stretching room in the ceiling is master gracey... but i will admit, 95% of the guests do not know any of the stories either... you kind of have to ask... unless you are a true disney fan, you don't know about the ring in the pavement, there is not a CM who stands there and tells the story all day, and points out the ring... know what i mean?
mkepcotmgmak
Well-Known Member
i was hoping the ghosts would have the classic haunted mansion look... and that there would not be a story behind the mansion... oh well... disney did a great job with potc, and i did not think it would come of half as well as it did...
X2CommNavISTC
Account Suspended
From the movie website:
Shrouded in fog and mystery, the mansion was once a stately antebellum palace that hosted New Orleans wealthiest. Not it's the creepy and crumbling home to a star crossed 19th century bride and groom and 999 grim, grinning ghosts!
When real estate agent Jim Evers (Eddie) and his family get stranded in the old house with a variety of mysterious residents, both seens and unseen, its a hilarious and hair-raising battle for home rule. Aided only by the supernatural phychic Madame Leota and three hitchhiking ghosts, its up to Jim and his wire and kids to weather falling floors, moving pictures, disappearing rooms and spectacular specters to break the mansions curse before the clock strikes 13.
Shrouded in fog and mystery, the mansion was once a stately antebellum palace that hosted New Orleans wealthiest. Not it's the creepy and crumbling home to a star crossed 19th century bride and groom and 999 grim, grinning ghosts!
When real estate agent Jim Evers (Eddie) and his family get stranded in the old house with a variety of mysterious residents, both seens and unseen, its a hilarious and hair-raising battle for home rule. Aided only by the supernatural phychic Madame Leota and three hitchhiking ghosts, its up to Jim and his wire and kids to weather falling floors, moving pictures, disappearing rooms and spectacular specters to break the mansions curse before the clock strikes 13.
bamboo7
Active Member
Re: Re: Re: Haunted Mansion
Here we go, i found a picture of the tombstone.
<img src="http://home.cfl.rr.com/rst74/tomb1.gif" width="297" height="399">
It was Bluebeard's tomb, not Gracey.
1440
BLUEBEARD
Here Lyeth His Loving Wives
Penelope Died 1434
Abigail 1435
Anastasia 1436
Prudence 1437
Phoebe 1438
Eugenia 1439
Lucretia
Seven Winsome Wives
Some Fat, Some Thin
Six of Them Were Faithful
But The Seventh Did Him In
Here we go, i found a picture of the tombstone.
<img src="http://home.cfl.rr.com/rst74/tomb1.gif" width="297" height="399">
It was Bluebeard's tomb, not Gracey.
1440
BLUEBEARD
Here Lyeth His Loving Wives
Penelope Died 1434
Abigail 1435
Anastasia 1436
Prudence 1437
Phoebe 1438
Eugenia 1439
Lucretia
Seven Winsome Wives
Some Fat, Some Thin
Six of Them Were Faithful
But The Seventh Did Him In