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The Haunting: It Stinks
.The relevance of this particular post to this particular blog may be questioned. It's true that no film or story or painting or anything else you can name exercised a more profound and a more direct...
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Creepy Old Flicks Part Three: The Uninvited, 13 Ghosts, The Innocents
.In the last post I reviewed the 1963 thriller, The Haunting, a film of special interest to us inasmuch as it was a major source of inspiration for the Haunted Mansion. Earlier this year we had already...
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This is a Bust
.This post is a sequel of sorts to our earlier post about the stretching gallery gargoyles. There, we discussed some of the plans once laid for the foyer, that all-important first room. In the Anaheim...
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A Man Named Martin
.Back in May we went through a pretty lengthy, if spotty, history of the berm graveyard. Â This time around I want to call attention to one particular stone, beneath which lay "A Man Named Martin,"...
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On the Web
       .I'm reluctant to blog on this topic. It's strictly an Orlando story, and I usually leave WDW history to someone with direct experience of that park, like Foxxy. Not only that, but I have...
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Has the Inspiration for the April-December Portrait Been Found?
.Many  thanksto Brother Billfor  bringingthis new materialto our attention.In  our  earliertreatment of theApril-Decemberportrait, we foundsome Victorianartwork  andphotography thatcould...
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Putting Sam McKim on the Map
.There were a lot of major league Disney talents who worked on the Mansion project at one time or another while it was in development but who don't automatically come up in conversation like the Big...
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A 1973 Ride Through the Disneyland Haunted Mansion
.(This is just a quick snack of a post to hold you over for the big one coming up next.)The Mansion in 1973In an earlier post, we dissected an audio ride-thru recording of the Disneyland HM from about...
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The Haunted Mansion Boat Ride
.That's right, a boat ride. It's only a footnote in most reviews of the Mansion's historical development, but for a short period the Imagineers toyed with the idea of making the Haunted Mansion a water...
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Walt Disney's Enchanted Creepy Room
.If not for the massive interruption caused by the 1964 New York World's Fair projects, the Haunted Mansion could have been completed and opened before the end of 1963, and if it had, it would have...
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Charles Addams and the Haunted Mansion
.Forgottenistas, what do you think of the cartoons of Charles Addams? Like 'em? Dumb question, I suppose. For me, Gary Larson is a lot funnier when it comes to the absurd and the macabre, and I think...
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The Caretaker
.And make no mistake, "Caretaker" is his official name. It's on the schematics and the blueprints, not "gravedigger" or "gardener" or any other equivalent. The reason that matters will become clearer...
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It's the Times of the Sign
.This topic dangles precariously over the vast abyss known as "Disneyland micro-trivia," but in the end it escapes, Indiana Jones style, and lands squarely in the midst of the historical narration of...
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The Haunting: It Stinks
.The relevance of this particular post to this particular blog may be questioned. It's true that no film or story or painting or anything else you can name exercised a more profound and a more direct...
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Five Years
.Long-Forgotten is today five years old.In a few weeks at most we will witness the return ofthe Hatbox Ghost to Disneyland's Haunted Mansion.Just one of those cosmic convergences, I suppose.Had to get...
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Happy Haunts Materialize: The Hat Box Ghost Returns
.Let's cut right to the chase. I think he's good. (Our post on the original HBG isHERE.)pix above and below from Disney Parks Blog Here are some 3D's in different sizes. Find your "magic eye" comfort...
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"Little Leota"
.pic by Matthew Hansen atTours Departing DailyWhoa, what have we here? A new Long-Forgotten post? Already?What happened, you see, is that as soon as I announced the blog's imminent hibernation, mainly...
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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. Â It's not like a movie or a show depicting a make-believe world or a world remote in time...
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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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