Originally Posted By SleepingBeauty82 I heard during a Grad Night a boy on Tom Sawyer island was really drunk and tried to swim across to New Orleans Square and drowned.
Originally Posted By imagineer1985 >>>>I heard there is an old man who spends almost all of his time at the park.<<<<< There are several people and persons today who do this. I am talking everyday 365
Originally Posted By sherrytodd SleepingBeauty here's the snopes on Rivers of America drownings... June 1973: Bogden Delaurot, an 18-year-old Brooklyn resident, drowned trying to swim across the Rivers of America. Delaurot and his 10-year-old brother managed to stay on Tom Sawyer Island past its dusk closing time by climbing the fence separating the island from the burning settlers' cabin. When they decided to leave the island a few hours later, they chose to swim across the river rather than call attention to their rule-breaking by appealing to cast members for help. Because the younger brother did not know how to swim, Delaurot tried to carry him on his back as he swam to shore. Bogden Delaurot went down about halfway across the river. The younger boy remained afloat by dogpaddling until a ride operator hauled him aboard a boat, but Bogden was nowhere to be found. His body was not located by searchers until the next morning. 4 June 1983: Philip Straughan, an 18-year-old Albuquerque, New Mexico, resident, also drowned in the Rivers of America in yet another Grad Nite incident. Straughan and a friend -- celebrating both their graduations and Straughan's eighteenth birthday -- had been drinking quite heavily that evening. They sneaked into a "Cast Members Only" area along the river and untied an inflatable rubber maintenance motorboat, deciding to take it for a joyride around the river. Unable to adequately control the boat, they struck a rock near Tom Sawyer Island, and Straughan was thrown into the water. His friend travelled back to shore to seek help, but Straughan drowned long before his body was finally located an hour later.
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>I heard that when they went to demolish the Monsanto House of the Future, that the wrecking ball just kept bouncing off of it.<< Not rumor, myth, nor legend. It's true. They had to cut it up and haul it away.
Originally Posted By avromark What was the myth about one spire never being painted so that way Disneyland would never be complete? Also I heard that the castle was supposed to be built in the exact centre of the property or something?
Originally Posted By wolfchild "I have also heard that the skull on the pirate captains bed is a real human skull that was given to Disney as a gift." To my knowledge, pretty much all of the skeletons on PotC were real when the ride first opened. Word was that the plastic skeletons available at the time were not realistic enough and so real bones were used. But all have since been replaced with fake skeletons and the real bones have all been removed and given proper burials.
Originally Posted By wolfchild "Also it is possible to steal the apple from the witch?" It used to be possible because her hand stuck out so far with the apple that many folks could grab it without even getting out of the ride car. But it has since been replaced with a hologram version of the apple.
Originally Posted By wolfchild It's funny with anything that is considered fact or truth about Disneyland-there is usually someone out there with the "real" truth instead. A friend of mine got three different books on Disneyland info, secrets and things you didn't know about the park. There are some things that held true just fine through all three of the books and then there were other things that maybe two books said and the other "disproved" and vice versa between them all. One example would be the unpainted spire on the castle. Two stated it as "fact" that the spire was left unpainted because Walt felt that as long as there was imagination left in the world that Disneyland would never truly be finished and that spire represented that. (paraphrase on that quote there ;P) And then one of the books stated that it was a different color simply because that it was a test of a different color/finish that was applied and never changed. It even made a point to mention the above "rumor" and state that it was simply that. It's all still fun, no matter what though
Originally Posted By Elderp One of the wierd rummors that I have heard and I really hope it isn't true is that someone died on the Matterhorn because a contruction crew left a 2x4 too low on the track. I suppose anything could be true but I really doubt this one.
Originally Posted By Elderp "Also I heard that the castle was supposed to be built in the exact centre of the property or something?" The Marker is there but I have been told that the original center of the park is actually toward the left of the castle in the moat somewhere. Then again I am no engineer so how would I know.
Originally Posted By wolfchild I was told the marker was the center of the park as well. I have since seen/heard/read in many places that evern if it was close to the center before, it no longer is. Because even it was the center before, the addition of Toon Town and some other add on's make it quite off center now. Most sources site it as simply being a marker used for some sort of *totally forgetting the term* scientific/geographic stuff. Which I tend to hold to since there are a couple of other similar markers in the Park and I have also seen very similar markers in other locations outside of Disneyland.
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>It used to be possible [to steal the apple from the witch] because her hand stuck out so far with the apple that many folks could grab it without even getting out of the ride car. But it has since been replaced with a hologram version of the apple.<< Technically untrue. The witch appears twice with an apple. The first time she appears suddenly from the left, in a small boat, with a very real, three dimensional apple in her hand. While it is out of reach of the guests who REMAIN IN THEIR CARS, the apple nonetheless is gone by the end of the day, every day. Indeed, it is simply a plastic apple, painted in day-glo paint, and attached to the witch's outstretched hand with velcro. Later, as the cars move directly toward the front of the cottage, the door opens to reveal the witch with the "hologram' apple. >>What was the myth about one spire never being painted so that way Disneyland would never be complete?<< Since the quote from Walt was that Disneyland would never be complete as long as there was IMAGINATION left in the world, this is fully myth. One that many cling to, however. (The spire, incidently, was gilded in the most recent Castle rehab. So there.) >>Also I heard that the castle was supposed to be built in the exact centre of the property or something?<< The golden spike myth. There is a brass surveyers stake in the middle of the pavement in the back entrance to Sleeping Beauty Castle. For years many people (and guide books) have stated this is, or was, the exact center of Disneyland. Not so. The exact center was supposed to be the center of the hub (where the Partners statue is today). Because of a slight "bulge" on the west side, the center, for many years, was in the planter toward Frontierland. With later additions (Bear/Critter Country and Toon Town), the center has migrated into the moat on the Carnation Gardens side of the castle.
Originally Posted By VernaL I read on the internet that Walt Disney's body is buried under his statue. It makes sense to me.
Originally Posted By wolfchild "surveyers stake" Thank you! Surveyers was the word that I was looking for earlier!
Originally Posted By PsylocibeFrog always the rumor/myth that walt was "cryogenically" (sp?) frozen, underneath POTC because he died during its construction, and wanted to be brought back, if and when possible, to see his creations come to life! brilliant!
Originally Posted By DiseyDad I understand that Disneyland has purchased the fields down on harbor and they are going to be building a water park
Originally Posted By sherrytodd I keep forgetting to post this. I was listening to NPR a few days ago and they were talking about futuristic houses designed by Microsoft, etc and they talked about the Monsanto House and how when it was demolished the wrecking ball kept bouncing off.
Originally Posted By BrerOtter [One of the wierd rummors that I have heard and I really hope it isn't true is that someone died on the Matterhorn because a contruction crew left a 2x4 too low on the track. I suppose anything could be true but I really doubt this one. ] Not the 2x4, but these two... In 1964, 15-year-old Mark Maples of Long Beach, California died after he stood up in the Matterhorn Bobsleds and fell out. In 1984, Dolly Regene Young, 48, of Fremont, California unbuckled her seatbelt and was thrown from a Matterhorn Bobsleds car and struck by the next oncoming bobsled
