👻✨ Did you know the Hatbox Ghost has one of the most mysterious histories at The Haunted Mansion? Originally debuting in 1971 at Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion, the ghost was meant to “lose his head”—his face would vanish and reappear inside the hatbox he carried. But due to technical issues, the effect never worked quite right… so the Hatbox Ghost mysteriously vanished only weeks after opening. 🪦 For decades, fans debated: Did he really exist? Was he just a legend? 👀 Then, in 2015, the Hatbox

There is some debate about whether this skull in the Haunted Mansion is real, or manufactured out of paper mache. But given that the Pirates of the Caribbean had real human remains from the UCLA medical lab when the attraction opened in 1967, it’s likely it was, in fact, a real mummified skull as they were not squeamish about using such things for practical effects back then. (The skeletons have since been replaced in Pirates of the Caribbean, though many will say that the skull over the Captain