Mummy (Haunted Mansion)

**The Mummy** (frequently identified as **Prince Amenmose**) is a character from the Haunted Mansion attraction.

## History

The Mummy was a member of ancient Egyptian nobility who died and was subsequently mummified. By modern times, they became one of 999 undead residents of the Haunted Mansion in New Orleans, Louisiana.

The mummy is frequently identified as Prince Amenmose, a historic Egyptian prince from Egypt's 18th dynasty (1549/1550-1292 BC). Following his demise, Amenmose was oddly given posthumous treatment would otherwise be reserved for Pharaohs and Chief Queens. The location of Amenmose's mummy and tomb are unknown.

## Appearances

### The Haunted Mansion

The mummy appears in the graveyard sequence of this attraction, sitting in a sarcophagus outside of an Ancient Egyptian tomb. The mummy is seen drinking tea while struggling to converse with a partially deaf spirit known as, "Father Time" as a ghost dog stands nearby.

### Ghost Post

Amenmose has an article in the Grim Gazette newspaper where he criticized the mansion's Ghost Relations Department.

### Printed-Materials

#### Ghost Gallery

In this non-cannon cast-member backstory for Walt Disney World's Haunted Mansion, the mummy was smuggled into America by the manor's master George Gracey Jr. with the help of his uncle Edward Gracey, a foreign ambassador. The Egyptian tomb is identified as being fake and having been made by Edward's great-aunt for a Halloween party.

#### Haunted Mansion (comics)

In this non-cannon comic, the mummy was an unnamed prince who stole from the Temple of Anubis and was subsequently cursed with 1,000 curses that he could only be rid of by passing to others. His sarcophagus would be taken to New Orleans where one of its curses became responsible for the tragedy that befell the Gracey family which owned the Haunted Mansion.

#### Tales from the Haunted Mansion

In this book, Amenmose's tomb was unearthed by one Colonel Bartholomew Tusk. Tusk would go on to make a fortune off selling plundered tanis tea-leaves from the mummy's tomb as Tusk's Tasty Tanis Tea with Amenmose's mummy as his mascot.

Amenmose is later sold to a museum by Tusk but is stolen by a priest of Karnak, upset by the colonial disregard for the prince's dignity. Using Tanis leaves, the priest animated Amenmose's corpse with the mummy pursuing vengeance against Tusk. Amenmose also pursued a woman named Penny who he believed to be the reincarnation of his lover Hatshepsut only to leave her when he realized she was shallow.

His tomb and corpse would later be transported to the Haunted Mansion along with a haunted piano and door.

#### Disney Kingdoms

The mummy appears as a ghost haunting the mansion in this comic set within the shared Disney Kingdoms continuity.

## Connections

### Mystic Manor

In Tales from the Haunted Mansion, Colonel Bartholomew Tusk is identified as being a rival of S.E.A.-member Lord Henry Mystic. In the story, Tusk rationalizes his amoral actions by claiming that if he didn't do it then Mystic would.

This might be in reference to how Mystic Manor has an Egyptian mummy inspired by the mummy in the attraction found in Lord Henry's collection.

## Trivia

* Unused scripts for the Haunted Mansion identified the mummy as, "King Tut" here referring to Pharaoh Tutankhamun (c. 1342-c.  1325 BC) a famous Egyptian mummy who was in-life a mutated and deformed child pharaoh.
* Egyptian mummies also appear in *Mystic Manor* as part of Lord Henry Mystic's collection, in a mural in *Tower of Terror*'s queue showing Harrison Hightower III and Smelding grave-robbing, and in *Tales from Adventureland**: The Doomsday Device*.

## References

1. ↑ https://longforgottenhauntedmansion.blogspot.com/2011/03/famous-ghosts-and-ghosts-trying-to-make.html