Captain Gore

**Captain Gore** also known as **Captain Bartholomew Gorelieu** or less officially **Captain Gideon Gorelieu, Captain Gideon Gore** or **Black Barty** is a character from the Haunted Mansion.

## History

### Background

#### Unused scripts

Captain Bartholomew Gorelieu was a French/Franco-American pirate of the Caribbean who was infamous for his brutality, earning him the moniker of, "Captain Gore". In development for the Haunted Mansion he was proposed to have been the original owner of the Haunted Mansion in New Orleans which he built under a a pseudonym using his blood-money.

Gore would come to marry a beautiful young woman named Priscilla who moved in with him only to learn about his past history as a pirate. Before Priscilla had the opportunity to react to the revelation, Gore murdered her to keep her silent. Depending on the script incarnation, the pirate either locked her in a chest and walled her behind a brick-chimney where she died or shoved her in a chest that he threw in a well to drown her.

Following this event, Gore became haunted and tormented by not only Priscilla's ghost but also the spirits of all he killed in his life of piracy. This drove Gore to taking his own life by hanging himself from the rafters of the mansion. In the afterlife, Gore became a ghost who was trapped in the mansion and tormented by his bride's spirit for eternity.

#### Alternate history

In one variant of the story, Captain Gore would have been an alias assumed by historic pirate **Bartholomew Roberts** AKA Black Barty/**Black Bart**.

#### Haunted Mansion (SLG comics)

In these comics, Captain Gore was again made a composite character with the Ghost Host and Master Gracey. In these comics he was a sailor named **William Gracey** who mutinied against his cruel merchant captain Randall Pace who he decapitated. He subsequently became a pirate-captain under the moniker of **Captain Blood** who acquired a fortune in blood-money that he used to retire in New Orleans where he built the manor. He would fall in-love with a woman named Emily DeClaire who he became engaged to only for her to die on her wedding-night when Madame Leota summoned the spirit of Randall Pace. Following this doomed wedding, Master Gracey commit suicide in the manor's cupola by hanging himself. He subsequently had his soul trapped in the Haunted Mansion with it only being able to be freed when 1000 spirits would inhabit the manor.

#### Disney Kingdoms

In Disney Kingdoms the character is referred to simply as, "**The Captain**" and along with the Hatbox Ghost, Constance Hatchaway and Madame Leota was one of the only four ghosts to have died within the Haunted Mansion. He was a 19th century pirate (indicated from his wardrobe) who died in the catacombs below the manor, hunting for its legendary pirate's treasure.

#### Tales from the Haunted Mansion

In these books, Captain Gore was the captain of a ship called *The Bloodmere* and had a lobster claw similar to that of Davy Jones. His ship got wrecked on the coast of the isle *Displeasure Island* which his spirit later haunted.

### Development History

Captain Gore was created by Imagineer Ken Anderson to be a character featured in the Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean. When both attractions were planned to be walk-through attractions, Captain Gore would have appeared in both to interconnect their stories with Pirates of the Caribbean showing how he obtained his treasure and the Haunted Mansion showing his multiple fate. While his storyline went unused, it was incorporated into the histories and identities of different established Haunted Mansion characters such as the Ghost Host and Constance Hatchaway.

## Appearances and allusions

### Haunted Mansion

Captain Gore is frequently alluded to in Haunted Mansion materials.

#### Disneyland

The Haunted Mansion used to be decorated with several nautical objects such as a weathervane in the shape of a sailing ship, a spy-glass and a barometer.

#### Walt Disney World

A tombstone which reads, "Bartholomew Gore" is located outside this version of the Haunted Mansion.

#### Assorted

* The mariner ghost of Captain Culpepper Clyne is derived from Captain Gore.
* There is a sea-captain somewhat resembling Gore who appears in the ballroom scene of the Haunted Mansion.

### Disney Kingdoms

Captain Gore is the main-antagonist of the Disney Kingdoms: Haunted Mansion series in these shared continuity comics. He comes to be axed off by Constance Hatchaway and has his head imprisoned in a hatbox by the Hatbox Ghost.

## Connections

### Pirates of the Caribbean

Captain Gore was developed to appear in both the Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean. In the audio-book Nuptial Doom, Gore is said to have been a compatriot of historic pirate Jean Lafitte who is affiliated with Pirates of the Caribbean.

### Tower of Terror

The Haunted Mansion would later come into the ownership of George Hightower, a member of the Hightower family which included Harrison Hightower III.

## Trivia

* In Tales from the Haunted Mansion, Captain Gore's haunting-place of Displeasure Island is an allusion to Pleasure Island.