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Long Remembered
.Just a quick post to commemorate Long-Forgotten's 500,000th visitation by unseen guests (that's you). Two and a half years it's been, close to 100 posts, and half a million viewings. Who'da thunk...
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The Forgotten Headless Horseman Scene
.Long-Forgotten had a series of five (count 'em, five) posts devoted to the "Father of the Haunted Mansion," Ken Anderson, back in October of 2010. And just last month (Nov 2012), the last of the five...
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Does Size Matter?
.No. Well . . . okay, for awhile it did. Or it almost did. But not for long.This is one of those "road not taken" posts. Not taken, and as a result . . . long forgotten.In our Walls and Stares post...
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To Find a Way Out
.. 1963 publicity shot. The back reads:. "WAITING FOR THE GHOSTS -- Disneyland's Haunted Mansion rises in Frontierland...
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Heads and Details: New Concept Art Found
.Some newly discovered (or rediscovered)* Haunted Mansion artwork has surfaced, and we're going to get out our magnifying glass. In one sense you could say that this post is devoted to a very narrow...
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The Cat Lady, a Bewitching Mystery
.Ever since the day the Disneyland Mansion opened, the far right picture in the changing portrait gallery has been the Cat Lady (called "Cat Girl" and "Cat Woman" on the blueprints). I hadn't really...
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Digging Deeper in the Lost Graveyards
.. . Got your shovel?*Chik. Shing. Chik. Shing.* This month Long...
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Weird Glows Gleam Where Spirits Dwell
.. Many of you will recognize this quotation from the "Story and Song from the Haunted Mansion" souvenir album: "Strange sounds come from within the walls, and it's said that eerie lights have...
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Stroll Around the Grounds Until You Feel at Home, Part One
.I've got about eight separate and yet loosely-related mini-topics that I'm going to present in a couple of posts. I suppose they're analogous to Disney "package" films, more like, say, The Three...
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Stroll Around the Grounds Until You Feel at Home, Part Two
. . We're still strolling aroundthat magnificent front yardat the Disneyland Mansion,and I've put together anotherpotpourri of mini-posts, abunch of things interestingenough to share,...
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The Shadow Man
.We've explored the cultural/mythical backgrounds of so many supernatural manifestations encountered in the Haunted Mansion that you'd think by now we must have covered them all, but not so. Here's...
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The Black Prince
. . The first thing to be said is that there is no doubt that this changing portrait. is...
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Here in This Gallery
.In 1964, Walt Disney spoke specifically about the hallway in the Haunted Mansion where we now see the changing portraits. He said that he.... "...wanted something nice for the hall, like...
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And Begin to Socialize
.One of the points I keep making around here is that there is very little fantasy in the Haunted Mansion. It's not like a movie or a show depicting a make-believe world or a world remote in time...
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Armor Gettin'
.There is an old, unanswered question that will today be given a definitive answer, an unquiet spirit finally laid to rest after nearly half a century of restless haunting. Don't misunderstand. It's...
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The Darkness at the Top of the Stairs, and Beyond
.At Disneyland, after you board your doombuggy and ascend the stairs, do you ever notice a little rockingand wobbling as you swing to the left? I suspect this is done deliberately; if so, the intended...
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Unseen Twists and Turns in the Corridor of Doors
.If you know anything about the Haunted Mansion's developmental history, you know about the Imagineers' difficulties in finding exactly the right mix of the frightening and the funny, but no one seems...
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Moonlight Picnic
.Sometime back, I identified the royal playground scene in the graveyard as the Haunted Mansion tableau that has attracted the least interest. Scratch that. It's only second to least. The picnic...
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Four Years? Owl Be Darned
.Is it bloggiversary time already? Wow, hard to believe, but this month marks four years of ruminations and revelations. I have no idea how long this thing can continue. Blog frequency must needs...
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The Berm Graveyard and the Case of the Moving Tombstones
.The first part of this post is a sequel to a 2010 post, That's My Queue, and if you haven't read that one, I suggest you read it first. That earlier post deals with the original "family plot" at...
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