Hey guys welcome back to most amazing top 5 im Court McGinley.
Lets jump right into our list of the Top 5 Disney Scary Dark Secrets
Staring off at our number 5 spot--Human Remains- In 1967 Disneyland imagineers used real human
skeletal remains obtained from the UCLA medical center to make Disneylands Pirates of the
Caribbean Ride look more convincing.
How messed up is that ?! if you visited the park around this time and went on this ride
then the bones that you saw were real.
Over time most of the bones have been removed but employees have said that one still remains.
And that is the skull that sits above the treasure room bed.
So the next time you go on this ride keep a look out for that.
Speaking of human remains apparently the employees in charge of the haunted mansion rides at
Disney have to constantly be on the lookout for people dumping ashes.
Apparently its not uncommon for people who have passed on to have asked their family
remembers to dump some of there ashes there.
Yeah that’s pretty eerie.
In at number 4--So One of the most popular rides at Disneyland is the Matterhorn.
Well it turns out there have actually been 2 deaths caused by this ride.
In 1964 a 15 year old boy from Long Beach was injured after he stood up in the Matterhorn
bobsled and fell out.
He died 3 days later as a result of those injuries.
Then in 1984 a 48 year old woman was killed when she was thrown from a Matterhorn bobsled
car and struck by the next oncoming bobsled.
So the next time you go on it- if you chose to go on it after hearing these stories- make
sure youre extra careful.
At number 3--Now a days Walt Disney is all about Gender equality- but it didn’t used
to be that way.
Back in 1938 a woman named Mary T Ford applied to Walt Disney Productions for a job as an
animator.
Shortly after she applied she received a rejection letter.
She was informed she wasn’t the right person for this position because she was a woman.
The really ironic part is that this rejection letter was written on Snow White Stationary-
that was decorated with 2 female characters.
In the rejection letter they actually wrote the following- Women do not do any of the
creative work in connection with preparing the cartoons for the screen- as that task
is preformed entirely by young men.
For this reason girls are not considered for the training school.
The only work open to women consists of tracing the characters on clear celluloid sheets with
India ink- and then filling in the tracing on the reverse side with paint according to
directions.
Whats even crazier is that this letter was signed by a Mary Cleane.
Yes this letter was signed by another woman.
Also theres no reasoning behind why they don’t hire women for this position.
Ridiculous.
Also im going to throw in a fun little fact for you guys about Snow White.
So the voice behind snow white was from Adriana Caselotti and she only going paid 970 dollars
total for her performance of the voice of snow white.
Also after the movies release she was unable to find acting work because her voice became
so recognized.
Yeah so having such an iconic role as voicing disneys first princess backfired.
Coming in at number 2--Racism- Theres actually so much racism in Disney movies its ridiculous.
First we have Fantasia which was released in 1940.
The original release of this movie included a now controversial character named Sunflower.
She was a small dark skinned centaur with braided hair who was a servant to the larger-
light skinned centaurs- she was in charge of polishing their hooves and doing their
hair.These scenes were viewed as extremely inappropriate so Disney removed her from the
film in 1969- 29 years after its release.
Then the very next year in 1941 we have Dumbo.
While this movie is about a little elephant the story does have some deep racist undertones
when it comes to the crows.
The leader of the south African speaking crows is named Jim Crow which was also the name
of the laws that brought segregation to the South in the late 1800s and continued until
1965.
The crows are also portrayed as dimwitted- annoying and lazy.
Then in 1946 we got hit with maybe the most resist and inappropriate film of them all-
The songs of the south.
Its was just blatantly racist.
This movie is about a former black slave singing songs and telling stories while still living
on the plantation he was enslaved in.
I don’t know what Disney was thinking.
Over the years critics have referred to this movie one of Hollywoods most offensive and
racist texts.
Its also been called out for basically glorifying slavery.
This video has never been officially released in its entirety on home video in the US.
And now you know why.
But before all of the negative attention took over this movie it did manage to win an award
for best song.
And that song was Zip-a-di-do-dah.
Which im sure many of you have heard before.
After this we have racism in Peter pan with the Native Americans- the lady and the tramp
with the Siamese cats and The jungle book with the monkeys.
Yeah its a lot.
At number 1--Sex crimes- This is one that even I hadn’t heard of before doing research
for this list.
So apparently at least 35 Disney World Employees have been arrested since 2006 and accused
of sex crimes involving children.
Such as trying to meet a minor for sex- or for possession of child pornography.
That’s so messed up.
About this the president of the International Center for missing and Exploited Children-
Ernie Allen said- Its hard to image any company that done more- that cares more- that’s
trying harder on these issues- and part of the reason is Disney recognizes that it’s
a magnet.
It’s a magnet that is sort of Americans symbol for Children.
Its crazy to think they’ve hired so many child predators.
When someone is applying for a job where they will be surrounded by children or have easy
access to them background checks involving certain areas need to be looked into more
thoroughly.
Alright and there you have it that’s our list of the 5 Disney Scary Dark Secrets.
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