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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In the Portrait Corridor, I dubbed the werecat lady as Cleopanther, though that name is no longer correct. A young, beautiful woman reclines on a couch. With the lightning flashes she becomes a panther, at least she used to. Now, she morphs into a white tiger. Who is she really? How did she change the type of cat she becomes?
Another name I coined, the Knightmare features a warrior on horseback. The horse rearing up as the lightning flashes, they lose their flesh and become skeletons. The knight is also known as the Black Prince.
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Forever framed back to back, these two combatants, are stuck in an eternal duel. Turn, fire, die. Turn, fire, kill. Shoot. This is one contest no one won, and no one ever will.
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The pair of ghosts make this tableau work. In life they were mortal enemies, albeit one with the power of life and death over the other. In death, they are able to sing in harmony, even when one has to hold his head in his arms. They’re both in surprisingly good spirits.
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In a seeming nod to Edgar Allen Poe’s “the Cask of Amontillado,” the bricklayer is closing himself behind a brick wall. He is one of the last characters in the graveyard.
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One of the named ghosts in the Haunted Mansion, Pickwick’s clothing is responsible for his fame. Clothes may not make a man, but apparently, they make a ghost. He hangs out on the chandelier in the ballroom. You’d think with a name, the Pickwick would be rated higher, but there are just more important ghosts in the Mansion.
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With his ear phone in place, the hard of hearing ghost is loud enough to be heard over the singing ghosts in the graveyard. WHAT? WHAT’S THAT? He doesn’t sound like he knows what’s going on, and his mummy companion is silent on the matter. Mum’s the word.
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Is this the same grandma from the Carousel of Progress? Sitting by the fireplace in the Grand Hall, cozy with her knitting, she keeps visitors to the Haunted Mansion in stitches, figuratively, of course. Her knitting never seems to progress despite her possible origins.
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Among the portraits in the Portrait Corridor, a young woman turns into a gorgon as lightning flashes. Can Medusa’s ghost turn you to stone? With the number of people, who walk by, and the decided lack of statuary in front of the picture, we can at least confirm that the picture cannot. It’s best not to tempt fate and lag behind, however.
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What’s an Egyptian mummy doing in a New Orleans graveyard? If the numerous other Old World ghosts hadn’t clued you in, the mummy will remind you that Walt recruited ghosts from all over the world to unlive at Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion. And if you must know, the mummy is drinking tea and listening to the questions of the ghost next to him.
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