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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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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. Â Don't misunderstand. Â It's...
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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. Â It's only second to least. Â 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. Â That earlier post deals with the original "family plot" at...
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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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Conjuring up the Hatbox Ghost: An Interview with Imagineer Daniel Joseph
.I had an opportunity to ask Daniel Joseph some questions about the new Hatbox Ghost figure, which he designed.(Photo copyright ©Walt Disney Imagineering. Used by permission)Long-Forgotten:  I...
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The Burning Miser
.I told you I'd drop in if I came across anything worth sharing. As it happens, it happened, so welcome back.Ordinarily, I'm not inclined to lengthy discussions of a single work of Haunted Mansion...
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History Rewritten! Mind-Blowing New Artwork of the Black Prince and the...
.What's this? Another new post? Yes, it's so. The Mansion gods won't let poor old Long-Forgotten rest in peace. LF cannot and must not ignore bombshellery of this caliber. Truth be told, it would be...
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The Changing Portrait Hall that Never Was (or, "Rewriting History Part Two")
.Lights out, nobody home, in this old photoThe late David Mumford of WDI was a great source of information for Disney park historians. According to LF reader Mike Cozart, Mumford once told him that a...
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Changing Our Portrait of the Changing Portrait Hall (or, "Rewriting History...
.Welcome to the third consecutive post dealing with the lost history of the changing portrait hall. This is the latest information about this still-unfolding story. It could have been appended to the...
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Thanks a Million! (Plus, Changing the Changing Portrait Hall, Part Four)
.Long-Forgotten has now been visited one million times. So I owe all of you out there in the blogosphere a million thanks. It's humbling and ego-inflating at the same time. Just plain...
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The Berm Graveyard Rises From the Dead
.(pic: optimistzero)It's baaaaaack.Consequently-so-are weeeeeeeee.Why-are-we-talking-in-this-Poltergeistish waaaaaaaayyyy?I don't knooooowwww...Something big has happened at the DL Mansion, so we must...
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Seven Years
.Updated April 23, 2017 (the ACTUAL anniversary date!), with a link to new information about a house illustration discussed below.Okay, we're a couple of weeks early, but yep, Long-Forgotten is...
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The Oldest Haunted Mansion
.It's time once again to talk about Ken Anderson, celebrated here at Long Forgotten as the "Father of the Haunted Mansion" in four consecutive posts back in 2010. Those were followed by a fifth post...
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Captain Gore Lives
.. . . But only by the hair of his chinny-chin-chin.This is a lightweight followup to the previous post, more a case of fun speculation than sober historical inquiry. But as long as we stipulate that...
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Buried on Tom Sawyer Island (An Excursus)
.I've vacillated a long time about doing this post, because it's not really Mansion-related. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that the topic will be of special interest to Forgottenistas. Also, it's...
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Tombstones and Milestones
.You know, it took five years and nine months for Long-Forgotten to chalk up a million views. It's only taken one year and ten months to get to two million, despite the fact that the blog sometimes...
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