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[bradk]

well, if you want a couple of HM 'secrets'...

first, there is no backstory to the attraction other than it's a retirement home for ghosts. sad, but true.

that whole story about the bride and the groom and madame leota and the curse is all made up by fans and CMs. Disney doesn't support it. It's been mentioned recently that Disneyland's version will in fact get a backstory about the bride (that she's a serial killer) and more effects to back up the story.

That 'wedding ring' that's embedded in the pavement by the exit gates is actually part of a post (i don't remember technically what it is). It also looks more like an engagement ring and only if someone's ring size is negative.

There are no cameras in the HM. That's right, CMs can't see what you're doing while on the attraction. The only security in place are pressurized mats on the floor triggered should someone decide to leave the vehicle.

The hidden mickey formed by the plates on the table at the ballroom is also unofficial and is regarded very lowly by the imagineers. It's sometimes fixed (the layout of the plates is so anal that there are photos under each one explicitly showing where it's meant to be), but almost immediately goes back to the mickey formation inexplicably.

They grow blood red roses in the garden of the mansion, only to cut the flowers off.

The Madame Leota tombstone that sits outside the attraction right before you go in is the newest addition to the graveyard and periodically her eyes will open and close.

In the stretching room where the ceiling rises (in DL, the floor lowers because it needs to take you under the berm since the attraction is actually outside the park), there's a scrim on the ceiling. it looks like a normal ceiling most of the time, but if you look up at the end of the spiel, with the lightning, you can see through it and you'll see a hanging body (which is often quoted to be Master Gracey).

I think I was going to add a couple more but I can't remember right now.

[DopeyGirl]

As you go through the attic window . . . the little "hill" you are going down backwards is exactly 6 feet long. (yes, you are going 6 foot under lying on your back [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] )

This has been confirmed by a recent CM. [img]/ubb/images/graemlins/082502yes_prv.gif[/img]

[bradk]

ok, since it turned into the HM thread... I thought of a couple more, but then I forgot one.. so here's the one I remembered..

if you take the wheelchair access entrance (labeled 'servants' quarters' i think), on the wall hangs a rack of labeled keys. except that some keys are missing: the one for the ballroom, the one for the attic, the library, etc.

[CarolinesMom]

Also in HM, if you look backward at the grim reaper in the graveyard, he makes a hidden Mickey!!!