Unsolved Mysteries

[ChrisFL]

cue creepy music and show Robert Stack wearing a trenchcoat in the dark with smoke billowing around him.

Do you know of any things that have not really been answered about WDW? Things you saw that seemingly no one else remembers? Do you wish there were pictures found or other evidence?

This is your thread.

Or can we discuss other supposed facts about WDW that turned out to be false (sinkhole condeming Horizons for example). Obviously there's many tall tales that are really not worth going over (missile siloh in Cinderella Castle, Walt's Frozen Head, Louie showing up in the Jungle Cruise, etc.)

I had one that I shared long ago about EPCOT in the early years, but no one could find me an answer or any evidence of what it used to be.

In the first couple of years, The Land pavilion's rotating restaurant was called "The Good Turn" and I was there on several occassions with my parents (dad worked at EPCOT). Once you rotated past the boat ride below, there were a few murals...now it depicts I believe plants and stuff like that, but I recall them being very abstract murals, mary-blair esque, and they could have shown the queen of hearts cards, etc...but anything more specific is difficult to come by.

No one else could remember what it was like when I posted it last time and I've seen no photos or videos from that era.

 

[FettFan]

Unsolved Mysteries: What percentage of the Haunted Mansion's dust is actually the cremated remains of HM fans whose last request was to be the 1000th ghost?

 

[WannaBWendy]

Unsolved Mysteries: What percentage of the Haunted Mansion's dust is actually the cremated remains of HM fans whose last request was to be the 1000th ghost?

My family has orders to cremate me and let me slide out their pant legs like the dirt in The Great Escape. All over the World.

 

[Walt Disney1955]

Not really an unsolved mystery but more of a hidden mickey type of thing. It hasn't really been documented but I swear up and down that if I am going past the squeaky coffin in the Haunted Mansion that I can hear what sounds like either Donald or Mickey's faint, faint voice trying to get out. This is the coffin where you see their hands pushing the lid up. Now, there are people on here that claim I am hearing things and that it might just be the squeaky hinge sound of the coffin but I have personally listened to it with that in mind and I still think that's a faint character voice in there.

I could be wrong although I am hardly the type to hear things. It would be just like Disney to do something like this just to make things that much more interesting.

 

[ChrisFL]

Not really an unsolved mystery but more of a hidden mickey type of thing. It hasn't really been documented but I swear up and down that if I am going past the squeaky coffin in the Haunted Mansion that I can hear what sounds like either Donald or Mickey's faint, faint voice trying to get out. This is the coffin where you see their hands pushing the lid up. Now, there are people on here that claim I am hearing things and that it might just be the squeaky hinge sound of the coffin but I have personally listened to it with that in mind and I still think that's a faint character voice in there.

I could be wrong although I am hardly the type to hear things. It would be just like Disney to do something like this just to make things that much more interesting.

There IS a voice saying "Get me out of here" and a few other things. I believe it was actually X Atencio's voice they used (that's one of the legends of Disney music)

 

[J03Y]

Unsolved Mysteries: What percentage of the Haunted Mansion's dust is actually the cremated remains of HM fans whose last request was to be the 1000th ghost?

wait... you can DO that?!
my final wish.

 

[J03Y]

Not really an unsolved mystery but more of a hidden mickey type of thing. It hasn't really been documented but I swear up and down that if I am going past the squeaky coffin in the Haunted Mansion that I can hear what sounds like either Donald or Mickey's faint, faint voice trying to get out. This is the coffin where you see their hands pushing the lid up. Now, there are people on here that claim I am hearing things and that it might just be the squeaky hinge sound of the coffin but I have personally listened to it with that in mind and I still think that's a faint character voice in there.

I could be wrong although I am hardly the type to hear things. It would be just like Disney to do something like this just to make things that much more interesting.

wait, in the corridor scene? because there is a voice saying "Get me out of here", but if anything the closest character it would sound like is Goofy DX but it's not a character, no.

 

[FettFan]

wait... you can DO that?!
my final wish.

Actually you CANT....at least not now.
1. You'd have to get the ashes into the park in the first place. Which, given the security guards checking bags and the CMs manning each of the turnstiles, if any of them see anyone carrying an urn, that person will not be allowed in the park.

2. The Haunted Mansion's cast members actually watch the building's security cameras. Yes, there are security cameras. If anyone pulls out a jar of ashes to sprinkle them along the track, they will stop the ride and escort the guest from the property. The guest will then be charged a fee to clean up their dear departed.

 

[J03Y]

Actually you CANT....at least not now.
1. You'd have to get the ashes into the park in the first place. Which, given the security guards checking bags and the CMs manning each of the turnstiles, if any of them see anyone carrying an urn, that person will not be allowed in the park.

2. The Haunted Mansion's cast members actually watch the building's security cameras. Yes, there are security cameras. If anyone pulls out a jar of ashes to sprinkle them along the track, they will stop the ride and escort the guest from the property. The guest will then be charged a fee to clean up their dear departed.

oh.
there isn't like some legal thing you can do with Disney or something?

 

[FettFan]

oh.
there isn't like some legal thing you can do with Disney or something?

Nope.

 

[J03Y]

Nope.

oh.
that sucks. and extremely depressing.

 

[mickeysbrother]

I know I told my mom and my gf and my daughter when she will be old enough to do it! Not only in the haunted mansion but key areas of all 4 parks! I would have to find a way to do it to not let any one know! Maybe in some sort of pen or highlighter! Hmmm just gave myself some ideas! Gonna look around now

 

[The Mom]

cue creepy music and show Robert Stack wearing a trenchcoat in the dark with smoke billowing around him.



In the first couple of years, The Land pavilion's rotating restaurant was called "The Good Turn" and I was there on several occassions with my parents (dad worked at EPCOT). Once you rotated past the boat ride below, there were a few murals...now it depicts I believe plants and stuff like that, but I recall them being very abstract murals, mary-blair esque, and they could have shown the queen of hearts cards, etc...but anything more specific is difficult to come by.

No one else could remember what it was like when I posted it last time and I've seen no photos or videos from that era.

I haven't been inside in a while - are the murals of the Four Seasons still there? Is this what you're remembering? The seasons were personified as women. Spring with flowers in her hair, Fall with autumn leaves, etc.

 

[The Mom]

Actually you CANT....at least not now.
1. You'd have to get the ashes into the park in the first place. Which, given the security guards checking bags and the CMs manning each of the turnstiles, if any of them see anyone carrying an urn, that person will not be allowed in the park.

2. The Haunted Mansion's cast members actually watch the building's security cameras. Yes, there are security cameras. If anyone pulls out a jar of ashes to sprinkle them along the track, they will stop the ride and escort the guest from the property. The guest will then be charged a fee to clean up their dear departed.

You would not be able to sprinkle all of the ashes everywhere on one trip, but you could certainly slip a baggie filled with a portion in your pocket. They are only placed in an urn/box upon request, after purchasing or providing a container. Otherwise, they are returned to the family in a sealed cardboard box - about the size of a shoebox, depending upon different factors. Unless you have a container that can be x-rayed, this is how you would bring them on a plane.

So, I suspect that there are ashes in WDW that have been brought in and scattered secretly.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Unsolved Mysteries: What percentage of the Haunted Mansion's dust is actually the cremated remains of HM fans whose last request was to be the 1000th ghost?

I once actually had a plan set up to make it work. I had decided to include, in my will, sufficient money to finance my family going to WDW. Each would carry a small ziplock bag of my ashes and randomly distribute them throughout the parks. You know, something sufficiently small enough to fit in one's pocket. They all seemed to love the idea until it occurred to me that what they liked most was the free trip to Disney.

Then I thought about the fact that most of my ashes would eventually end up in a vacuum cleaner or trampled on by thousands of non-caring tourists or blown away by some hurricane or tropical storm. In other words, I regained my sanity and opted for a more traditional situation that didn't involve a Disney park.

P.S. At the same time I began to visualize one of my grandchildren carrying my remains in their pockets and shuddered with the sheer freakishness of it. How creepy could I get? Sometimes I surprise myself.

 

[flynnibus]

oh.
there isn't like some legal thing you can do with Disney or something?

No, but over the years several have done it.. hence the root of the joke.

 

[aka_emilicious]

I'm almost positive I'm wrong, but I swear there was a ghost in the Haunted Mansion that ran up the stairs and then faded away where the staircase was broken.

Again, I'm pretty sure my adolescent brain created this memory that's persisted into adulthood, but thought I'd post it.

 

[copcarguyp71]

You would not be able to sprinkle all of the ashes everywhere on one trip, but you could certainly slip a baggie filled with a portion in your pocket. They are only placed in an urn/box upon request, after purchasing or providing a container. Otherwise, they are returned to the family in a sealed cardboard box - about the size of a shoebox, depending upon different factors. Unless you have a container that can be x-rayed, this is how you would bring them on a plane.

So, I suspect that there are ashes in WDW that have been brought in and scattered secretly.

WOW Mom....you do have a devious side after all!!!

 

[ChrisFL]

You would not be able to sprinkle all of the ashes everywhere on one trip, but you could certainly slip a baggie filled with a portion in your pocket. They are only placed in an urn/box upon request, after purchasing or providing a container. Otherwise, they are returned to the family in a sealed cardboard box - about the size of a shoebox, depending upon different factors. Unless you have a container that can be x-rayed, this is how you would bring them on a plane.

So, I suspect that there are ashes in WDW that have been brought in and scattered secretly.

There was a big story about Pirates in DL that had to be shut down after some lady tried to dump some ashes in one part of the attraction...I think they took a long time cleaning it up and banned her from the parks IIRC

 

[ChrisFL]

I haven't been inside in a while - are the murals of the Four Seasons still there? Is this what you're remembering? The seasons were personified as women. Spring with flowers in her hair, Fall with autumn leaves, etc.

The murals of the four seasons are still there now, but its not what was originally there