Fun Find Friday
November 21, 2014
Location: New Orleans Square, Disneyland
"Dead men tell no tales..."
We've all heard this famous line in the classic
attraction Pirates of the Caribbean, but we are
quickly shown that dead men do in fact tell
tales. What most visitors to Disneyland don't
realize, however, is how true this statement
actually is.
While a lot of people have heard about a ghost named
George that haunts the Magic Kingdom's Pirates of the Caribbean,
most people don't know the terrifying truth behind Disneyland's
version of the attraction. The fun find we will be exploring this
week takes place in this extremly detailed room in Disneyland's
Pirates:

Here we see an every day sighting of a pirate
skeleton chilling in his bed. Nothing out of the ordinary here,
right? Wrong! Take a look at the headboard of the bed. It is here
where we realize that the pirate's skull and crossbones aren't the
only one present here, but another pirate skull adorns the bed. I
know what you are thinking: so what? a skull and crossbones is the
international symbol for pirate. While that is true, there is more
to the headstand skull and crossbones than meets the eye.
When the attraction was first under construction, a
local medical school provided real skeletons to Imagineers so the
pirate bones in the attraction would look realistic enough. Over the
years, all of these skeletons have been replaced at one time or
another, with the exception of one. The skull and crossbones
positioned there on the bed! So, it looks like dead men truly do tell
tales after all.
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