The Haunted Mansion Death Theory: DEBUNKED

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theories some fan theories about this attraction some that are really really good and one that i think has a few holes in it ah yes the haunted mansion one of disneyland and walt disney world's best screw it the disney park's most popular iconic attractions that has been delighting guests for the better part of 52 years and has been providing me with countless theories and ideas for videos and just things to talk about in general you see with the haunted mansion there's not really any concrete story not like say rise of the resistance where you get captured by the first order and you have to escape their star destroyer and get back to batu or space mountain at disneyland where a government slash corporative entity slingshots you millions if not billions of years in the future before bringing you back to the present to accomplish some sort of mission oh it's a whole thing ask lmgvids about it it's a whole thing but my point is that the haunted mansion doesn't have a story that's as set in stone as other dark rides similar to parts of the caribbean over there across the way and this lack of a plot has generated tens if not hundreds of theories about what is actually going on inside the mansion what belongs to whom and who is really pulling the strings and i've talked about a fair few of them right here on this channel seriously just search 31 nights of the haunted mansion i'm bound to pop up in this video i really wanted to spotlight two no three two three things that really stood out to me on my last trip to the haunted mansion in anaheim there are some things that i noticed that don't quite line up with some existing fan theories and some things and some details that i wanted to talk about so i figured why not just toss it all on this cool haunted mansion video that i think you all are going to love first thing though is the haunted mansion death theory for those of you who are unaware a real quick and dirty version of the haunted mansion death theory you are a tourist or a visitor or intruder in the haunted mansion invited on a tour by the ghost host shown all these different rooms of the mansion before reaching the attic where in the attic you find constance hatchway the black widow bride who proceeds to either scare or push you out of the window you fall backwards hence the doom buggy sort of turning around and you die this is why you can finally see the ghosts begin to materialize you are invited to the party and they want you to be a part of it because you yourself are now a ghost that is the quick and dirty of the haunted mansion death theory but there's a there's a few problems with it you see i think the biggest crux the thing that the entire theory relies on with the death theory is that you don't see any ghosts before you do that backwards plunge into the graveyard but this is simply not true you see multiple spirits you see the guy in the coffin you see the raven is is the raven a spirit let's talk about that a little bit later in the video i do want to come back to that though madame liotta is there you see and more importantly those are all like sort of like spirits like you know they can be explained possessed items whatever the ghosts have apparitions in the ballroom you can see them the same way you see them in the graveyard yeah they're a little translucent but they're still there you can still see them i'm not quite sure why people think that you can't see the ghosts until you go backward into the graveyard especially like the hatbox ghost if you want to argue that the ballroom ghosts are translucent you can see through them so therefore you are not with them constance really isn't the hatbox ghost isn't really as well they're both very physical beings so i think it can be argued that the the mansion death theory i don't know if it holds any water although please be sure to keep in mind that me saying you do not die on the haunted mansion doesn't necessarily mean that you're not falling out of the attic that you know could be happening in fact let's consult the book this my friends without any microphone sound at all is the book haunted mansion sights and sounds the disneyland official record from the walt disney studio the story and song from the haunted mansion it's a book and it's also a cd that you can put in your cd player and listen to this is the closest thing we have to an official story for the haunted mansion it tells you all about everyone on the inside everyone from the ballroom scene everyone and i mean everyone from the attic and here's what it says about the attic the attic shelters two strange ghosts a bride whose heart glows red with each rhythmical beat and a cloaked man whose head disappears from his body and glows hideously from within a hat box we make our escape through the dormer window and descend to the graveyard below and then they just talk about the caretaker and his dog it doesn't mention falling he says it just mentions we make an escape it doesn't say we die or anything this is like the cannon there's a lafitte's tomb haunted mansion book and there's nothing nothing at all in here to suggest that you die for another example of another comprehensive guide to the haunted mansion look no further than the haunted mansion imaginary a disney classic by jason sorrell it takes you through the history pre-build building and eventually a full ride through with you know fun facts of these older versions of the mansion that's not quite up to date before we get to the attic and then eventually the graveyard and in the the graveyard section it says after passing the lovelorn bride the dune buggies fall out of an attic window though the guests are still safely inside the show building all under the watchful glowing red eyes of the raven perched on a nearby tree so again do they fall i don't do they do we need more books i have more books i could show off some more haunted mansion references if we want to go through the books but so far there's been no reference to death or dying it's all just sort of a fan theory which brings me to my next point though because you can never really tell for sure when these fan theories are going to be made canon or official story points a good example of this would be the hitchhiking ghosts at the end of the haunted mansion phineas ezra and gus they originally didn't have those names they were given to them by cast members and guests over the years and those names were spread around so often that disney decided eventually just to make them their actual names in the rides so that is canon now these are really phineas ezra and gus that's not just a fan thing that's their names so if the haunted mansion death theory becomes popular enough it gets spread around often and guests and cast members alike start to really believe it and hone in on it maybe it'll end up making its way to imagineering and someday become canon but so far that's not the case another fun one that i like to tell people that became sort of part of the official story after the fans made it their own is the wedding ring embedded in the ground in front of the haunted mansion in orlando not anaheim sorry it started off as the remnant of a support stanchion for like one of the polls for the switchbacks and then eventually became so popular as a quote unquote wedding ring that when disney redid the queue they made it an actual wedding ring so that sort of made this unassuming little spot in the ground where a pole would go into a genuine piece of haunted mansion lore so for me i think it's safe to say that the haunted mansion death theory at this point in time right now as of the making of this video is debunked yes you may fall or you may jump or you may descend out of the attic window but there is no proof to say that you are dead and joining the ghosts i think you are very much alive because you do see ghosts earlier in the attraction okay well now that i've crushed that theory and the dreams of all of those who believe in that theory i think we should move on to another one i don't know which one though i'm trying to think of it and what oh no not that not the raven again last time it got in it pooped all over the duvet who let the raven in the raven in the haunted mansion is one of my favorite remaining mysteries we found out how many ghosts are in the mansion kind of we've thrown out theories that constance is the owner that all of the mansion connects back to a secret society that a lot of us actually know about now but the one thing that still haunts me is that raven or crow no no that's a raven that's a raven for sure i just don't know what this guy's deal is is he the ghost host i mean he does appear at points of the attraction when the ghost host speaks to us and he was in fact going to be leading us through the mansion in one of the original story pitches for the ride but not really anymore he's just in there where does he come from does he live in the house is this a real raven or a ghost spooky possessed demon raven i have none of the answers and trust me i've looked here is what we have on the raven that's official referring back to the story and song of the haunted mansion the raven on the very first page is referred to as a guide he is our guide through the haunted house without the ghost host the ghost host isn't really present in the story and song from the haunted mansion there he is in the ballroom which he can be found in in the attraction not in the attic but also in the graveyard where he can indeed be found and that's the end of the raven in the book but he's in here and he's our guide so that sort of leads into the whole he was the original ghost host sort of leading us through the mansion thing but that's not really the case with the attraction today coming straight from the horses and by horses i mean exotensio's mouth we tried at the beginning at having a raven be the ghost host that would take you through but it didn't work the raven's small size made it difficult to stage amid all the elaborate sets and eye-popping special effects he kept getting lost in the chaos and they quickly decided to drop him in favor of a simpler disembodied ghost host voice that we know and love today paul freeze so the closest thing we have is he's in the right because he was supposed to be the ghost host but that doesn't really have any impact on the actual current story of the ride and then we also have he's sort of our ghost host as he leads us through the mansion i'm a bit confused so i think if we're going squarely off of the story and song from the haunted mansion the thing that the original imagineers who worked on the ride had a hand in i think not only do we need to read what's inside but we also need to listen to what's inside because like i said there's also a cd in here about the story of the haunted mansion a loose retelling of the story that was okayed by the original imagineers and i don't have a cd player so uh we have to go on a little field trip come on it's this way oh mike look at that rain come down we'll never get home on time sure we will i made the cringe fun fact that's actually going to keep us dry though the boy mike is actually ron howard the guy who directed the grinch like the good grinch that's crazy [Music] i feel like i do a better ghost host it's okay it's just that way did someone scream we didn't mean to frighten you prematurely apparently the restless spirit of an old nag has taken possession of that poor wretched raven's mortal being be on your guard so according to the kind of ghost host the raven is possessed by the spirit of an old hag which according to wikipedia is a wisened old woman or kind of fairy or goddess having the appearance of such a woman often found in folklore and children's tales and that the hag is actively looking for a body to upgrade to it's sick of being stuck in this bird and would rather be and probably i would guess a human's body and while this book may or may not be canon it does sort of give an explanation as to why the raven acts so weird and to why its eyes are glowing i don't know if you noticed this but normal ravens do not have glowing red eyes so yes i would assume it is possessed by a hag i don't know but it certainly is possessed by something i think at the end of the day the story of the raven from the haunted mansion isn't quite as cut and dry as the haunted mansion death theory you know with the death theory it can kind of be open to interpretation a little bit but i don't think it's true i think there's like a 99 chance that that theory is false but the raven that's a true mystery one of the mysteries of the mansion that i'm hoping actually never gets answered because that's sort of part of the allure for me of the haunted mansion not having a set in stone beginning middle and end to the story you have characters you have scenes but they're not really telling a story the closest thing you have to a story is you're taking a tour through a haunted mansion that's about it and that i think is one of the appeals of these kinds of dark rides like pirates like mansion is that you can essentially drop anybody into the ride at any point and they still sort of get the same experience obviously it's not going to be as long but you get the gist of it you're in a haunted mansion and there happened to be ghosts and you're going through different rooms or you're in a town in the caribbean that's being sacked by pirates sometimes it's a cave but most of the time it's a town sometimes a bayou mysteries i think are good is the old man at the very beginning of pirates of the caribbean at disneyland remembering his days as a pirate that's why you go down that dark waterfall into the spooky pirate cave before coming out on the other side in the middle of a siege maybe it's certainly possible are you personally writing casey jr to explore fantasyland or is it an odyssey through the untamed wilds of this fantasy kingdom where the same song plays over and over and over again and you're forced into a tiny little box like where you don't really fit and it's kind of uncomfortable i'm gonna say that this theory is true now i've talked about two different sort of mysteries theories in the haunted mansion there's plenty more to talk about this book that i had the imagineering of disney classic is full of stories of the haunted mansion abandoned story concepts characters props and show scenes that never ended up showing up so if you want to hear more please be sure to give this video a like so i know that you all want more haunted mansion because like i said i love the haunted mansion i could talk about it all day really want to talk about the wax candle man i i love this guy so much he needs to be in the ride i don't care what form he takes he needs to be in it like what would he smell like he's a candle man right so he's got to give off some sort of scent what would a wax candle man in the haunted mansion smell like 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i'm very busy as you can clearly see oh am i still filming hello everybody thank you for watching this video on sort of like a return to the haunted mansion i've missed this attraction it's my favorite disney ride of all time yes dare i say even better than living with the land and i just i just wanted to talk about some theories and some mysteries that just sort of popped up there's not really a point to this video the raven is weird and the death theory might not be real that's about it if you enjoyed this video please please please remember to hit that like button and if you're new around here and you want more videos like this on the haunted mansion be sure to hit the subscribe button and ring the notification bell for when i upload new haunted mention or living with the land content it's usually one of those two the names that you see scrolling past on the left hand side of the screen are actually the names of all of my supporters over at patreon.com they are lovely people who 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certainly try my best and you all will be along there you'll be with me to experience these sort of growing pains and these these weird con things i've actually i've never been to a con before so it's gonna be fun though i think i'm gonna have a good time thank you all so much for watching i will see you all in the next video good bye

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Published: Sat Jul 30 2022