Ghosts

**Ghosts** are supernatural creatures which appear in the Tower of Terror franchise. They are generally defined as the incorporeal spirits of deceased individuals.

## Description

### General

Ghosts are generally depicted as transparent, intangible and sometimes brightly coloured humanoids in the likeness of their corruptible, mortal states. These ghosts are sometimes shown to be bound to specific locations and sometimes to a supernatural plain known as, "The Spirit World". The ghosts are often shown to be able to manipulate their surroundings and sometimes, ghosts are purported to be sensitive towards bright lights. Some ghosts seemed to require rituals such as séances to properly materialize and some were created by the wills of deities.

### 5th dimension

A potentially different variant of ghosts is connected to the 5th Dimension. These spirits are depicted with waves and static similar to that of old televisions and electric fluctuations across their bodies, likely connected to the lightning which caused the elevator-crash which killed these individuals. The spirits are depicted as being bound to the mind-bending 5th Dimension along with points in the living world such as the Hollywood Tower Hotel.

## Tower of Terror appearances

### Attractions

#### Buena Vista Street

During the Halloween season, a 10' tall statue of the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow is erected on Buena Vista Street. The statue is often shown with glowing red eyes on the horse and steaming nostrils along with a flickering pumpkin-head. During Oogie Boogie Bash, Oogie Boogie (based in the Carthay Circle Theatre) summons the undead spirit of musician/murderer Ernesto de la Cruz to put on a musical-performance on Buena Vista Street.

##### Buena Vista Bugle

The ghosts of the Hollywood Tower Hotel were pictured alongside the story, "Ghost Hunters Materialize at Hollywood Tower Hotel".

#### Guardians of the Galaxy – Monsters After Dark

In this Halloween overlay of Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: BREAKOUT!, the ghost of alien criminal Yondu Udonta can be seen wandering the Collector's Fortress following its power-outage. In the normal version of the ride, a maquette of the, "Hellhound" ghost hound from the Haunted Mansion is visible on the Collector's desk.

#### Tower of Terror

Harrison Hightower III is a ghost trapped in New York City's Hotel Hightower by the disrespected Congolese deity, Shiriki Utundu.

#### The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

The Hollywood Tower Hotel has at-least five ghosts bound to itself and the 5th Dimension: Sally Shine, Dewey Todd, Carolyn Crosson, Emeline Partridge and Dewey Todd. Other paranormal entities include the demonic Shaft Creatures, the evil bellhops sometimes hinted as being undead while consistently themed to the 1930s, and the Silver Lake Sisters who mysteriously appeared in the hotel's lobby around the late-20th/early 21st century, un-aged believing it to be 1939.

### Other connections

#### Adventurers Club

Merriweather Adam Pleasure might have become a ghost who inhabited Pleasure Island in Florida following his disappearance in the hurricane of 1944. This is due to Pleasure's likeness having brought members of *The Walt Disney Company* to Pleasure Island to excavate and refurbish. Pleasure also encountered ghosts of the Indigenous Semole tribe when he first came to the land in 1911 with them being presumably connected to an ancient germanic deity known as, "The Funnmeister" whom Pleasure likewise worshiped.

#### Disney's Hollywood Studios

##### Fantasmic!

Various ghosts and other creatures are summoned by the god of evil Chernabog to attack Mickey Mouse in his dreams.

##### Star Tours: The Adventures Continue

Madame Leota makes a cameo in the queue, moving through luggage at the Star Port.

##### Sunset Seasons Greetings

One of the themes is based on *Mickey's Christmas Carol* (itself based on Charles Dickens' *A Christmas Carol*) which famously features various ghosts.

#### Haunted Mansion

The Haunted Mansion is a building in New Orleans which is home to 999 spirits from across the world. The manor is filled with ghosts while being connected to the spirit world, seemingly resulting in the manor defying laws of nature. Various ghosts are connected to the manor's own history which is filled with murder, occultism and suicide.

#### Hollywood Land

The ghost Madame Leota from the Haunted Mansion made a cameo in the infamous Hollywood Land attraction, "Superstar Limo", summoning Hollywood agents from a séance.

#### The Twilight Zone

Ghosts appeared in assorted episodes of the Twilight Zone. The ghost of a grandmother who contacts her grandson and persuades him to commit suicide from the episode *Long Distance Call* is referenced in the Tower of Terror where Tower Hotel Gifts advertises the phone with a card reading, "Perfect for the children’s room and those late night calls from grandma".

## Trivia

* A piece of world-building regarding ghosts from the Haunted Mansion is that they are sensitive to bright lights.

## Gallery

Headless Horseman statue on Buena Vista Street
## References

1. ↑ https://towersecrets.com/twilight-zone-references-in-the-tower-of-terror/