Apparently, this is a name I made up. Neither Sir Klinksalot nor Sir Klanksalot show up in search engine results. Still, I must’ve heard it somewhere and am, thus, keeping it.

Sir Klinksalot is the suit of armor positioned in front of the endless hallway. The armor makes small movements to add to the atmosphere. For a short time, the armor was inhabited by more than one spirit. A cast member would dress in armor and provide a jump scare. Reports are that the cast member was often abused by mischievous and scared guests.

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The Stretching Room portrait of Abigaile Patecleaver is often misidentified as that of an elderly Constance Hatchaway. It’s as if two women couldn’t use the same method to kill the men that they… love?

Abigaile of the Stretching Room portrait was named by X. Atencio. She was around long before Constance Hatchaway replaced the Bride in the attic. Additionally, her portrait shows an axe in “Beloved” George’s head. She didn’t decapitate him, like Constance did her husbands. Someone might say that George was Constance’s first kill and she evolved her methods, but that same person would be refuting the argument that the George in the painting is the same as Constance’s last husband, whose disappearing-head photo in the attic shows he was beheaded.

“But they have the same name!” Right, because two men of a similar era can’t have the same name. I can envision the Monty Python Sketch now. You can, too, if you head over to my Patreon page and become a member.

I stand with X. Atencio and his narration – the same narration that gave us Alexander Nitrokoff. Abigaile Patecleaver and Constance Hatchaway are two different ghosts. You might not believe that a beautiful, upper-class women is capable of axing her husband to death, but there are real-life cases that would prove you wrong. If you don’t know, you better axe somebody.

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Standing on top of a barrel of dynamite, the fuse of which has been haphazardly lit by a misplaced candle, Alexander Nitrokoff’s Stretching Room Portrait shows a diplomat business on top, underwear down below. He apparently arrived at the Haunted Mansion with a bang.

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Another of the Stretching Room pictures shows a ballerina with a parasol. As the picture stretches, it reveals that this young woman is on a tightrope, so maybe she’s a tightrope walker. Either way, the alligator below her doesn’t care. He’s just waiting for her to tire out and lose her balance or maybe for the rope to snap. We can conclude one of the two things happens to the young woman since she’s featured in this room in the Haunted Mansion. There would be no need for the living to have their portraits in this particular residence.

The Ballerina is iconic enough to be the subject of cosplayers and Disney Bounders. She has received a couple of names in various other media, but we’re sticking with Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion for the moment.

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The Quicksand Men live in the Stretching Room. The picture starts out with a relatively happy man in a bowler hat, arms crossed at his chest. As the haunted room actually stretches (or is it just your imagination?), visitors find the man is seated on another man’s shoulders. The second man is in turn on a third man’s shoulders. Alas, the third man is sinking into quicksand (a problem many of us older people thought would have been more prevalent in real life).

Some have proposed that each man lower on the proverbial totem pole is dressed more shabbily than the man above him, which could lead one to believe that this is a social commentary as well as a picture. Not being an expert in the fashion depicted in the painting, this could be true, or it could just be one’s imagination. I, for one, am not going to risk the quicksand to find out what the men in picture think.

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Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion spirits come in different levels of corporeal solidity. The Coffin Ghost in the conservatory is one of the most solid spirits in the attraction. It’s almost as if he’s been put alive in the coffin, but his skeletal arms betray him as he shouts for someone to let him outta here.

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In the ballroom, the women lead the men through their paces as they dance to the organ’s tune. The Pepper’s Ghost illusion is one of the largest in the world. For something that’s been around since the late 1800s, it still mystifies and creates wonder, even for those, who know how it works.

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This Portrait Corridor picture morphs from April to May to June, leaving guests wondering if it’s three woman or one woman in different months. December clinches the deal: These are pictures of the same woman, and she gets old fast. The portrait may no longer hang in the corridor, but it is forever in our hearts.

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You know the saying, “It’s not over until…” Probably not acceptable in today’s era. Still, this opera singer is singing her death aria as visitors leave the cemetery. She hits all the right notes as guests move toward the hitchhiking ghosts and the land of the living.

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Sprinkled through the last parts of Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion, the pop-up ghosts provide the only real possibility of a jump scare (since the knight was removed for cast member safety). They remind visitors that being dead isn’t all fun and games… for the living.

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