faithport.blogg.se - In that box was ghost

Rumor had speculated that the old parts for the Hatbox Ghost were used for the Sam the Eagle animatronic at the now defunct ride America Sings. Though the Hatbox Ghost was briefly in the attraction when it first opened, the intended effect of the vanishing head did not work out as planned. One of these has him wearing a bowler-hat and another having him wear a crown with the latter photo being nicknamed, "King Leer" as an allusion to the Shakespeare play King Lear and his leering head mould.Īlso, in 2019 a Disney Photo-Pass addition was put in the attraction which took photos of guests in the ride during Walt Disney World's Portrait Hall sequence when observed, these photos show the Hatbox Ghost looming overtop of the guest's Doom Buggies. The most evident of these is of a black & white photograph of the original Hatbox Ghost figure though there are two other photos of the same head-mould, showing the Hatbox Ghost in different hats. The ghost's face can be seen within several of the " Family Portraits" in the Corridor of Doors. While not yet appearing within Magic Kingdom's Haunted Mansion, his presence is not completely absent. An uncredited Corey Burton provided the chuckles. His head vanishes with a sinister chuckle or an occasional hiss and appears again in the hatbox, blinking and moving its eyes. Today, the Hatbox Ghost stands on the balcony alongside seven hatboxes as guests exit the attic before they descend to the graveyard. In 1969, the Hatbox Ghost was briefly in a corner of the attic opposite the Bride where he was implied to have been a suitor to her, his head supposedly fading and returning with each beat of the Bride's glowing, thudding heart.

Another possibility is that he was an accomplice of Constance as evidenced by his possession of the hatboxes she used to store her victims' heads.

The evidence of this is based on the fact that he was decapitated and had his head placed in a hatbox (as all of Constance's husbands were) and the close association shown between the two characters,

In the new version of the attic, many assume the Hatbox Ghost is one of Constance Hatchaway 's deceased husbands, or, at the very least, another one of her victims.

One popular theory is that he was the lover of the Bride and was killed by either the Bride herself or a jealous suitor.

Some identify his cane as being a shillelagh.

Certain parts of his current animatronic have been coloured in such a way that it appears as if he is semi transparent. On the original figure, this happened to be an exact sculpt. He has a similar face mold as the Skeleton hitchhiking ghost, Ezra.

Described as "a cloaked figure with an evil, grinning face" in The Story and Song from the Haunted Mansion, the Hatbox Ghost stands by with an old, kobby walking stick in his right hand and his namesake hatbox in his left.Īs riders look on, his head vanishes from his shoulders and reappears inside the hatbox, his top hat floating above the space where his head should be, only to have the head fade back into its original position moments later.