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October 21, 2019 11:54 pm PDT

A shrewd guess about the Haunted Mansion's mysterious Squeaky Door Ghost

One of the most exciting elements of Imagineer Christopher Merritt's astounding, essential Marc Davis in His Own Words -- a two-volume set of one of Disney's most storied Imagineers, whose contributions to the Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean and other rides cannot be overstated -- was the revelation that there was a fully prototyped ghost for the Haunted Mansion that appears to have never been put into production.

The ghost -- the "squeaky door ghost" -- is a cartoonish maid who is applying oil to the hinges of a door, in order to add a squeak to them.

Squeak was discovered in the background of a photo taken during production and design on the Haunted Mansion and later matched to Davis's sketches. This all happened not long after the Hatbox Ghost -- long thought to be a rumor -- was discovered to have actually been in the Mansion at one point, albeit briefly, and this, in turn, inspired Imaginnering to recreate Hatty and bring him back to the ride.

On the Long Forgotten blog (previously) we get a characteristically masterful analysis of Squeak, and all the ways in which she was exceptional: for one thing, she's the only one of Davis's cartoonish "bedsheet" ghosts that wasn't rendered in a more photorealistic style by Blaine Gibson in accordance with Walt's edict that the ghosts be "believable."

Which raises a couple of questions: why wasn't she placed in the Mansion? Here again, Long Forgotten has a very shrewd guess at an answer -- after running down a few possibilities about why Squeak might not have made the cut, Long Forgotten offers a very compelling explanation. Read the rest


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