There are dead people's ashes at the Haunted Mansion In fact, Walt Disney was cremated two days after his death and his ashes were interred in a family plot at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. There was even a crowdfunded, feature-length indie movie, "The Further Adventures of Walt's Frozen Head" released in 2018 about "the unlikely friendship between the frozen head of Walt and Peter, a low-level theme park employee," parts of which were secretly shot on location at Disney World without the park's knowledge or permission. Over the years some Disney cast members have helped creep out guests by hinting that the man himself, or even just his head, was underneath the Pirates ride in California, or Florida, or maybe under Cinderella's Castle. The rumor gained steam thanks to two more recent Disney biographies that both suggested the man had a deep interest in cryogenics and extending his life, Leonard Mosley's 1986 "Disney's World," and Marc Eliot's 1993 "Walt Disney - Hollywood's Dark Prince." Neither book offers any proof of this at all, according to debunking site. Other papers picked up the "eyewitness account" and ran with it, with some suggesting Disney was interred in a freezer underneath the “Pirates of the Caribbean” ride at Disneyland. Cryogenics, the science of freezing humans so that future, more advanced societies could bring them back to life, had just been featured in a popular book a few years previously. In January 1967, according to PBS, a reporter from a tabloid newspaper called The National Spotlite claimed he snuck into the hospital where Disney was being treated for circulatory collapse and saw his dead body suspended in a cryogenic metal cylinder. Walt Disney was known to be a futurist, and rumors of his cryogenically-frozen body being somewhere on the premises of his greatest creation started spreading within weeks of his death in 1966. Let's go ahead and get this one out of the way, as it's one of the oldest urban Disney legends and the most easily debunked.
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