The Purple Shroud

The Purple Shroud is a character from the Haunted Mansion at the Disney Parks.
==Background==
The shroud is an arm-raising figure of a specter wearing a dark purple sheet. In the Magic Kingdom and Disneyland versions of the attraction, the shroud appears to be a faceless figure, but a screaming face appears on the shroud in the Tokyo Disneyland version of the attraction.
===Development===
In all three versions of the Haunted Mansion, the shroud was seen at the entrance. From opening day to 1980, the shroud was changed to remove the arms raised effect. In 2001, it was removed for the Haunted Mansion Holiday and the Imagineers forgot to put the shroud back, even after the attraction resumed to its normal overlay in the California version of the attraction.
==Appearances==
===The Haunted Mansion===
The shroud is encountered in the Séance Room; however, the shroud would not be noticed by guests unless their Doom Buggies turn around to see the ghost inside the room while Madame Leota performs an incantation chant. It should be noted that the shroud is the first ghost encountered in the mansion
Due to the success of the attraction at Disneyland, the Haunted Mansion attraction was later constructed at Magic Kingdom and Tokyo Disneyland, still featuring the shroud in it.
==Trivia==
*This shroud is the first ghost encountered in the Haunted Mansion attraction (as opposed to the Ghost Host narrating throughout the attraction) if one does not count Madame Leota.
**Whether the shroud is actually a ghost is unknown. It could be possible that the shroud is some other form of spirit who is being summoned through Leota's incantation
==External links==
*Purple Shroud on Haunted Mansion Wiki.
Category:The Haunted Mansion characters
Category:Spirits
Category:Villains
Category:Disney characters
Category:Theme park characters
Category:Deceased characters