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Ghost Stories ( I.E. Ghost in the mechine... )

Post by Doctor McKey » Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:43 pm

Well.... I was woundering if anyone has any intresting ghost stories from the parks. I have heared about some of them... but want to get more...


The reason i ask is that a park that i worked for in Va. had built a ride themed on the old "Outer Limits" tv show. When they excavated the area for the ride the found the bones of the animals that died on the parks old zoo / safari attraction that closed many years before. Sence day one, the ride had issues ranging from mysterious shutdowns to trains taking off with out being launched ( LIM style coaster ).


Well cant wait to hear more from you all..


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Post by CMGUY89 » Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:06 am

Ok I have a few...
At the Land we have a "Ghost". We call him Pedro (don't ask me why). It's either a ghost or a cockroach. We will randomly get IR beam intrusions in the ride. We will E-stop and send a runner back there to check it out. They will get back there and there is no boat nearby. No other beams activated and no doors opened. Everything will be fine and we will go ahead and power back up to resume cycling. Happens every once in a while.

My friend who worked at ToT says that the ghost of a bellhop who had a stroke at work haunts the building. She was doing the morning show quality check and was sitting alone in the front row of the elevator. The whole time she could feel like someone was sitting behind her. Then she knew another bellhop who rode it and while in the 5th dimension scene yelled out "are you there?" and there was an Automatic Power Disconnect. The whole ride shut itself down automatically.

Haunted Mansion has a few. The stretch room is haunted. One day a CM was working in the stretch room. Immediately following the guests exit of the room it quickly resets itself. Well one night after the last load of guests exited the room began to stretch in reverse. It got dark and all of the audio played backwards. Thinking nothing of it the CM calls maint. to ask them to check the audio tape because it is playing backwards. Much to the CM's horror they are informed that it is impossible for the audio to play backwards because they are stored on a computer chip and the room is a computer controlled sequence that cannot be done in reverse.

Another HM story: A woman's son passed away due to cancer following a make a wish trip to WDW. Her son is cremated and she contacts Disney about the possibility of spreading her son's ashes inside the Haunted Mansion as it was his favorite attraction. Disney declines her request because of sanitary reasons but provides her family with another trip to WDW in her son's memory. The woman proceeds to throw her sons ashes into the attraction and is reported to security by another guest. Disney decides not to pursue any charges against the woman and simply lets the offense go. Immediately following the incident cast members start reporting strange instances of seeing a child crying after hours inside the attraction. Further investigation fails to find any proof of the child. Pressure mats are randomly tripped when no guests are in the attraction. And small footprints appear in the theatrical dust regularly.

Spooky eh? I know recently another person dumped ashes inside POTC.


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Post by Shorty82 » Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:16 am

The Disney ghost story I know is about the ghost of a man killed during the construction (I believe that's right) of WDW's Pirates of the Caribbean. My understanding is that he will cause all kinds of ride malfunctions if he is not properly greeted every morning before the ride opens and said "good night" to in the evening after closing.


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Post by DisneyMom » Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:23 am

I have heard various ghost stories about Disneyland, anyone here have any? :)


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Post by WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot » Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:02 am

Shorty82 wrote:The Disney ghost story I know is about the ghost of a man killed during the construction (I believe that's right) of WDW's Pirates of the Caribbean. My understanding is that he will cause all kinds of ride malfunctions if he is not properly greeted every morning before the ride opens and said "good night" to in the evening after closing.
If memory serves his name was George and he was an Imagineer that designed the rail system that guides the boats.

Legend has it that if you say "I don't believe in you George" three times outloud on the ride, the ride will malfunction. :eek: :eek: :eek:

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Post by Shorty82 » Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:06 am

I believe at least the name is right but I don't remember his role.

I've also heard about things happening when people say they don't believe in George. I've heard of empty boats hitting the boat of the non-believer when there was nothing to cause the empty boat to accelerate and other things like that happening.


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Post by Theme Park Where » Fri Feb 01, 2008 7:55 am

At Muppet Vision 3D we had mysterious cases where the show would suddenly mute itself. We'd call maintenance and they'd yell at us for hitting the mute button accidentally. They'd check their consoles and determine that the button that had been hit had been triggered manually but was in a locked room in the basement of the building. In another instance, we had a fire in the projector room. We could see an orange glow and some smoke. We went 101 (closed the attraction), evacuated and called maintenance. They came over and there was nothing wrong in the projector room (no smoke, no fire, no damage). These problems were eerie enough, but they all happened on the anniversary of Jim Henson's birthday! We always figured he was mad about the contact falling through after his death.


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Post by GRUMPY PIRATE » Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:56 pm

WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot wrote:If memory serves his name was George and he was an Imagineer that designed the rail system that guides the boats.

Legend has it that if you say "I don't believe in you George" three times outloud on the ride, the ride will malfunction. :eek: :eek: :eek:

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Post by Driver_dylan » Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:16 am

I have had a personal meeting with the ghost at ToT. Back in 05, I was closing the attraction on my first night after training and we had recently gone 101 for the night. My responcibillity for that night being as it was a EMH was to Great at the unload position. I recieved word from the controle tower that the last car had just been sent through the fifth demention. The final car got to my position and I started to walk the group out. I had no sooner turned around than I saw a relitively older bell hop come around the corner as if they were going to the Picture If You Will booth. Since it was my first real shift and I didn't really know the building to well, I thought I should catch up so I quickly ran to find them.

Yet as I rounded the corner and shouted for the person to wait for me, I found almost collided with my manager coming from the other direction. I questioned her about the CM and she told me that she had not seen anyone. Quite Erie.


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Post by CMGUY89 » Sat Feb 02, 2008 2:03 am

Creepy!!! I forgot to mention this one. I was standing the storage-in console just past the barn theater exit getting ready to switch the track to send boats into storage. The last boat with guests goes by and I change the track and start sending the boats in. Well the last boat goes into storage and I switch the track back and I wait for the rest of the crew to finish tying down the boats and plugging them into the chargers but I kept getting this feeling I was being watched. Once I finish at the console and disable it I look up into the darkened theater and I swear I saw a shadow run out of the corner of my eye. I get freaked out and run outside back to the lighted storage area with everyone else and ask them if they saw anything weird. I call tower to see if they had any intrusions and they didn't. I never really understood it but I still get the chills when the audio is silent and I am by myself.


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