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I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking the Top 10 Scary Facts About Disney….
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10 - Real Human Remains Back when Walt Disney first opened his Pirates
of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland California in 1967, he hated the look of fake skeletons….and
to be fair, they didn’t look that spooky in those days.
Instead of going with subpar decorations on one of his main attractions, he decided to
use real human skeletons instead.
The skeletons allegedly came from the UCLA medical centre and were poised to create spooky
scenes for riders.
It is said that as skeleton props got more realistic, all the real skeletons were removed,
save from one on a headboard of a bed.
Others, including Disney employees, swear that there are still a handful of real human
skeletons on display on the ride to this day.
9 - The Abandoned Theme Parks Disney opened up River Country in 1976 at
Bay Lake in Florida, however it was closed unexpectedly in November 2001 – where is
sits for the most part in disrepair today.
The official line on the closing says that it happened because of the increased popularity
of other water parks, although a lot of rumours out there suggest it could be something a
little more worrisome.
Either way, the location is pretty creepy to look at, right?
Imagine visiting!
All of the overgrown flumes…
I wonder what is living there…or maybe even who!
Also abandoned is Discovery Island, which was a small zoo until 1999 and now lays wild
and inhabited by wildlife.
I didn’t realise this when I was a kind but there is a really disturbing death scene
in a Disney movie - we have hanging in Tarzan at number 8.
I remember the thunder, the lightning and the rain if the scene where Tarzan faces off
against the colonial pest that is Clayton.
Clayton in some ways deserves it – he tries to shoot Tarzan and he pushes Jane to the
floor.
He pursues Tarzan through the vines but obviously is nowhere near as adept at swinging than
him.
Tarzan has a choice to shoot Clayton but decides not to….
Unfortunately for Clayton, he takes a few wrong moves and ends up with a vine around
his neck.
Then… we see has corpse hanging….
I have no idea how I missed that as a kid…
I guess it is a bit like the skull and crossbones in gaston’s eyes…
Disney is very subtle with its horrifying deaths… but they are there.
Scary.
7 - Lilo is Samara from the Ring Yep.
The actress who voices Lilo in Disney’s Lilo and Stich is also the actress who played
the evil dead girl ghost, Samara in The Ring.
So as cute as you want to find Little Lilo, know that actually…she will drag you to
an untimely death at the bottom of a well.
Okay, maybe she wont – but that is a crazy diversity in characters from Daveigh Chase.
Scarier still, she is now 28 and was recently charged with drug possession in LA.
6 - Walt Disney Haunts Disneyland LA, or so the story goes …
Which is it?
I thought he was cryogenically frozen?
Well, that turns out not to be true… but some say that he does haunt the original Disneyland.
Back when he was alive, Disney had an apartment above the Fire Station on Main Street.
When he was in residence it is said he always kept a lamp burning in the window so everyone
knew he was there.
When he died, the lamp was switched off.
His apartment remains practically untouched today and the lamp still sits in the window,
although initially it was extinguished as a mark of respect.
Eerily, it seemed that the lamp would turn itself back on on occassion.
One day, a staff member was cleaning the apartment when she heard a voice that said “I’m
still here.”
From that day on, Disney’s lamp keeps burning in the window as a mark of respect and acknowledgement
for his ghost.
5 - Accused of being Anti Semitic Soo….
Disney wasn’t always the friendly animator and creator of magic that we all thought him
to be.
He had a very severe side and not all of his work was the stuff of fairytales.
Not only was he thoroughly against communism, so much so that he brought people into the
House of Un-American Activities.
That is one thing, but he was also accused of being anti Semitic – and beyond that
– a supporter of the Nazi party.
One month after Kristallnacht – a turning point in Nazi Germany, Walt Disney welcomed
a prominent Nazi film director into his studios.
Disney sterotyped Jewish Characters – look at this from the Three Little Pigs…
The big bad wold disguises himself as a Jewish Character….
Which…
Well I know it was a different time.
Also… check out what Daffy Duck is up to here…
What ever statement Disney was making, is it appropriate to dress a kids cartoon character
up as a nazi?
No.
4 - Cancer Soooo the original Disneyland in Anaheim California
opened in 1955 – a time when lead as a building and paint material was a-okay.
Now, 63 years on, we are not so gungho with the cancer causing element.
There are excessive levels of lead in commonly touched objects in Disneyland, including the
brass doorknobs at Minnie’s House, the fixtures and fittings in Cinderella’s Castle and
the sword in the sword in the stone attraction.
If you go to Disneyland in California you will likely come across a number of signs
that warn the magical kingdom is home to chemicals that cause cancer and birth defects as well
as reproductive harm.
Scary.
3 - The Princess who Murdered In 2018, Rachel Mae Buffet, a former Disney
Princess was found guilty of helping her fiancé to cover up a murder.
The pretty blonde ex princess played characters including Ariel at Disneyland in Anaheim,
conducting meet and greets with children and joining in parades.
Despite her humble day job, Buffet was an accessory to murder when her lover Daniel
Wozniak murdered Samuel Herr and Julie Kibishi in 2015 – aiming to steal 62 thousand dollars
from the army veteran in order to pay for their wedding.
Wozniak has been sentenced to death, but the disgraced Princess will spend just 3.5 years
in jail for being an accessory to murder.
2 - One Ride Takes you to Hell…
Disney doesn’t make them like he used to.
Back when Disneyland opened in 1955, Mr Toad’s Wild Ride was one of the first attractions
open.
We all know Mr Toad from the Wind in the Willows butttt it seems the speed loving amphibian
and all that ride his attraction are destined for hell.
On the ride, revellers are sent through a demon’s jaw into the fiery pits of hell
– which…well… considering this in the so called kid friendly fantasyland, I’m
a bit shocked.
In case you were looking to confirm Mr Toad’s status – his gravestone can be found in
the Pet Cemetery at the Haunted Mansion.
Speaking of the Haunted Mansion We have an Ashes Dump at number 1
It seems that Disneyland is a popular spot for people to request their ashes be spread.
I kind of get that – it is the happiest place on earth and everything.
Buuut what I do find a bit strange is that within that, people seem to want to have their
ashes spread in one spot more than others – the Haunted mansion.
Is this so that the departed can dance in the ghost ball with the rest of the undead?
Maybe?
One woman was spotted trying to offload ashes at Disneyland in 2007 . Apparently the haunted
mansion ride is haunted by the ghost of a little boy who managed to have his ashes successfully
spread there.
He has also been spotted on the nearby pirates of the Caribbean ride.
True story, or simply urban legend?
WELL that was the top 10 scary facts about Disney!
Which did you think was the scariest?
Let me know in the comments section down below!
Comments from Disney Urban Legends: Blair Shaeffer said: And the Scariest ride
is "Its a Small World"...Bc I honestly do believe that those dolls are Def haunted/possessed..Well,
they are For Sure creepy as Hell,to say the least..LoL?
Wynter dragon wrote: Wait, tower of terror is being torn down?
I'm glad I rode it when I went years ago?
- Yep – it has gone!
Tim Zielinski wrote: Disney has 6 letters land has 4 letters 6+4=10
Disney world has 11 letters 10-11=1 and the Elumanati has 1 eye so Elumanati confirmed?