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

[Doctor McKey]

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..


--Dr. McKey

[CMGUY89]

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.

[Shorty82]

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.

[DisneyMom]

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

[WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot]

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:

Sean

[Shorty82]

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.

[Theme Park Where]

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.

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

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:

Sean

Beatle Juice????

[Driver_dylan]

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.

[CMGUY89]

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.

[Randy B]

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.


I used to work in an old movie theatre. At the end of the day, after the audience had left and the projectionist (that's how long ago this was) left I then did a walk through and check every door and room to make sure everyone was out and everything was secure before locking the place up. So I was the LAST person in the building. When I first started there I frequently got that feeling of being watched. It wasn't a feeling of danger, more of curiosity or impatience. But I simply spoke to the empty building and said that I am friendly, and am not opposed to other entities. But I can be easily startled and so "Please try not to make any sudden changes while I am around". Almost immediately the feeling became friendly/amused. And I rarely had another problem. I actually got to like the empty building and sometimes after lock up I would wander and explore the odd corners. I found some old beautiful plaster walls surrounding what was the stairs to the second balcony (which was removed and the well walled up several decades earlier). I figured how to start up the pipe organ and played with it (Chopsticks using hands and feet gets interresting and sounds wierd). The more I hung around with a friendly mental state of mind the more welcome I felt. Only rarely did I ever see any "fleeting shadow" or anything but with me it was more of picking up an emotion.

So Maybe your "friend" is simply unsure of your presence. Talk to them and make a deal. You don't startle me and I'll try not to disturb you. Make friends. Can't hurt. BTW. they tend to have fairly good hearing so you don't have to shout, just talk as if to someone standing next to you and so you don't have to disturb your co workers with your discussion. ;):D:

Randy

[futureimagineer]

So Maybe your "friend" is simply unsure of your presence. Talk to them and make a deal. You don't startle me and I'll try not to disturb you. Make friends. Can't hurt. BTW. they tend to have fairly good hearing so you don't have to shout, just talk as if to someone standing next to you and so you don't have to disturb your co workers with your discussion.

You should also have a tape or digital audio recorder with you when you try to talk to it because sometimes the voices of ghosts sometimes can't be heard by the human ear but they can be picked by an audio recorder.

I have a couple of stories from a park near me.

At Six Flags Great Adventure we have a ride called Skull Mountain (a cheap attempt by Six Flags at making a indoor coaster). Anyway, when I was walking through the queue out of nowhere I felt something slam down on my arm. At first I thought it was some idiot behind me that did it but when I looked back, the only 2 people in line other than me were very far back. And they were too far back to hit me, run back to where they were and make it look like they didn't do anything. Also, I didn't bump into anything so it couldn't have been anything that I might have bumped into that could have caused that feeling.

Suppoedly there is a ghost of a woman at Batman: The Ride who can be seen at the top of the lift hill and at the brake run. The story is that an idiot employee who was working at the ride the previously occupied Batman's space (Lightning Loops) forgot to check the restraints. The train was dispatched and when the train went through the loop, a woman fell out and died. A couple weeks after the incident 2 employees who were looking around the area of the loop heard the sound of a woman screaming. This happened before the park was open. So the ghost of Batman: The Ride is supposed to be the woman who died on Lightning Loops.

Another story was about the ride next to Batman called Nitro. There is supposed to be the ghost of a man who is standing near the hammerhead turn. The weird part is that where the turn is, is outside the park and is right next to a lake (or river or something). My guess is that (although I have never seen the ghost) the man probably drowned in the river.

The last story is about the bumper cars in the Old Country section of the park called Autobahn. The story is that the park was closing and the people who worked at the ride shut the ride off and were about to leave to go home. Supposedly the red #13 car started driving around on its own even though the ride was off. That may sound more like a story someone made up just for fun but before that ride was there, there used to be the Haunted Castle (which was about 10 travelling fair type haunted houses connected together). On May 11, 1984 the castle caught on fire kiling 8 teenagers inside (more details about the fire located here (http://www.hauntedattraction.com/33/industry.html). Just scroll down to where it says "Fire at the Haunted Castle". Also, there is a 5 part video series about the fire on Youtube which is actually pretty interesting). Later in the park's history, part of the Movietown section of the park and Old Country section were built over part of the area where the castle once stood. People think that it may be the spirits of the people who died who had this bumper car go on its own. Also, the other rides in that have all had their own accidents and those rides have all been built on where the castle was. The Music Express had an electrical fire and Batman and Robin: The Chiller lost a wheel bearing causing it to stall. Chiller has also had it's share of breakdowns and long periods of downtime. Although those sound like (and probably are) problems with the ride itself you never know. Especially because the source of the major incidents was never known (at least that's what I heard). Back to Autobahn. After that incident, the red #13 car was chained to the side of the Batman: The Ride station building. They use that area to store alot of old ride vehicles and parts. The weird thing of that was that everything else they put in that area they just throw in there and don't bother to tie or chain it to anything expect for the 13 car. Recently though #13 was put back on the ride.

[felinefan]

Last October, I was reading a magazine that comes from the company that owns our apartment complex, and it had a list of haunted places. I was surprised to see Knott's Chicken Dinner Restaurant on the list; apparently there's a lady ghost in the back room of CDR. Nobody knows who she is or why she's there, though. For all we know, it could be Cordelia Knott protesting the extreme downhill slide in quality in her restaurant, as well as her and Walter's park.

According to Themeparkinsider.com, a train engineer was killed in an accident on the Calico Railroad, but I never heard of his ghost haunting the train. I do recall hearing the engineers saying that "George is up there looking down on this", and if you see the accident report, George was his name. Poor guy. Of course, I only heard the engineers say this once, maybe twice. I never asked who they were talking about because I'd read the report before then.

[Cranbiz]

Bus 4750 is reportedly haunted by the ghost of the woman who was killed in a traffic accident involving that bus.

A Sr managers son was drag racing down BVD early in the AM and broadsided the bus killing the woman who was wearing a red dress.

Late nights, if that bus is in service for DTD, drivers have reported seeing her.

[Driver_dylan]

The EPCOT Monorail is haunted. Late at night around Rectofier 5, inside the park section of the beam. The story goes that Sometime ago, some kids were playing with a ball and it went up inside the buss bar guard. A CM attempted to retreave the ball and was electricuted. The whole inceodent caused dammage to the bar and shorted out the train.
After that day From time to time as the trains reach the pilon at 191, It will recieve a full service stop without giving any indication.

[Zazu]

After that day From time to time as the trains reach the pilon at 191, It will recieve a full service stop without giving any indication.Interesting. Is that what happened last Monday night about 11pm? I noticed that the trains were stacked up on the southbound Epcot line, one per block gap. I wondered if Something Had Gone Terribly Wrong!!! :eek:

[CMGUY89]

I know the beam had a major problem back in January following a transformer fire backstage at Epcot. The monorail was down the following day for a few hours. So either it is haunted or has major electrical problems...

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

All these ghost stories about poor people shuffling off at various sites, I have to ask,

Where are the Dinosaur ghosts???
Hmmmmm!!!

[Syndrome]

Yikes, I think I "met" the ghost of George! A friend and I rode PoC today and I told her about this thread...two of us said, "I don't believe in you, George" three times as we passed under the waterfall. Right at the next scene with the skeletons, our boat whacked into the one in front of us! And not a gentle whack like you get at the end when the boats are backed up...a good one that we could feel in our necks! We immediately said, "We DO believe in you, George!" and apparently he forgave us for our folly because the rest of the ride was uneventful. Whew! You should have seen our faces gaping at each other when those boats collided, as we have ridden it dozens of times each and have never had a collision there.

[DisneyMom]

Yikes, I think I "met" the ghost of George! A friend and I rode PoC today and I told her about this thread...two of us said, "I don't believe in you, George" three times as we passed under the waterfall. Right at the next scene with the skeletons, our boat whacked into the one in front of us! And not a gentle whack like you get at the end when the boats are backed up...a good one that we could feel in our necks! We immediately said, "We DO believe in you, George!" and apparently he forgave us for our folly because the rest of the ride was uneventful. Whew! You should have seen our faces gaping at each other when those boats collided, as we have ridden it dozens of times each and have never had a collision there.

HAHAHA! Thanks for the story, Syndrome! Love it!
CM's keep 'em coming!!!!!!!

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

HAHAHA! Thanks for the story, Syndrome! Love it!
CM's keep 'em coming!!!!!!!

Was it like in the Wizard of OZ? "I DO belive in ghosts, I do, I do, I do!!"

[hobie16]

We have night marchers in Hawaii who are also known as Huaka'i Po or ghost warriors of high rank. They often march on certain nights to welcome new warriors or just to march in the old battlegrounds. They permit no disturbances from mortals and if you look into their eyes or stand in their way, they take your soul from you and you are dead. It is quite easy to recognize them for they pound drums, carry torches, chant and their feet don't touch the ground. Of course, it could be a bunch of drunk tourists hiking back from a pub crawl in Lahaina.

[Shorty82]

I know the beam had a major problem back in January following a transformer fire backstage at Epcot. The monorail was down the following day for a few hours. So either it is haunted or has major electrical problems...

Or has major electrical problems caused by being haunted...

[Big Wallaby]

Of course, it could be a bunch of drunk tourists hiking back from a pub crawl in Lahaina.:hysteria:

[Driver_dylan]

Or has major electrical problems caused by being haunted...

That is my belief in a nut shell.