Spirit World

A sign marking the exit from the Spirit World in the Mausoleum of the Haunted Mansion

### Inhabitants

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**The Spirit World** is a plain of reality referenced in the *Haunted Mansion*.

## Description

The Spirit World is an apparent sub-space in reality inhabited by spirits where their nature is capable of being physically materialized. It has physical overlapping with the mortal world in certain locations which function as quantifications of the realm.

### Nature

There are certain elements of the Spirit World which can be perceived from within the Haunted Mansion of New Orleans, the only known cannon-location of the Spirit World.

* The bounds of physics are perceivably looser within the halls of the Haunted Mansion. Examples include the Stretching Room's elongating walls and ceiling which disappears showing the cupola 2 stories above, the endless hallway, infinite limbo, and twisting endless staircases.

* The Haunted Mansion appears to be perpetually in a limbo-like stormy nighttime, sometimes portrayed with a luminescent blue/green tint.

* Certain spirits of more mystical capabilities have apparent control over the reality of the Spirit World. Notably is Madame Leota who is required to assist the ghosts of the Haunted Mansion in their materialization.
* The Spirit World is not fully separate from that of the living but rather overlaps, using the material realm as its stasis.
* It is theorized that mortals within the Spirit World are not perceivable to mortals outside of it as the mansion's caretaker Silas Crump does not acknowledge guests in their Doom Buggies even when they are directly in-front of him.
* Time might function differently in the Spirit World as a clock in the manor's corridor of doors has 13 hours which has hands moving backwards. It is also possible that the clock was simply in-lore designed to move like this though it is also possible that the clock represents time's passage in the spirit world.
* Madame Leota's spell book's page on materialization references calling forth souls bound in limbo. Whether limbo is a pseudonym for the Spirit World, separate realm connected to it, or simply a descriptive state is unknown.

### Locations

* **The Haunted Mansion**: The only known, cannon access to the Spirit World is in the Haunted Mansion within the French Quarters of New Orleans, Louisiana. The manor is inhabited by 999 spirits, some of whom died there but most of whom were brought in via the manor's Ghost Relations Department. The most apparent prominent spirits residing over this subsection of the Spirit World are the Ghost Host, Madame Leota, the Ghostess, Master Gracey, the Raven, and Constance Hatchaway.

## Appearances and allusions

### Haunted Mansion

The Spirit World is referenced several times within this attraction, most notably by the dialogue of the Ghost Host. A depiction of it is directly seen in the load area of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion via a limbo of darkness, mist and decay stretching onwards, seemingly infinitely from the Haunted Mansion.

### In other media

#### Ghost Gallery

In this non-cannon but influential story, Madame Leota's endgame was to transform Gracey Manor into a portal to the Spirit World.

#### Disney Kingdoms

In *Disney Kingdoms: The Haunted Mansion*, a sort of Spirit World is shown where it is revealed that the Haunted Mansion's Endless Stairway connects to haunted and mystical locations across the globe. The Hatbox Ghost shows locations connected include the likes of the Hollywood Tower Hotel, Museum of the Weird, Rainbow Ridge, the New York state Gracey Manor and Ravenswood Manor.

## Connections

### Pirates of the Caribbean

Madame Leota's spell-book contains elements seemingly taken from the spells of the witch Aldetha Teach. Aldetha comes from the film Blackbeard's Ghost in-which she was one of the many wives of historic pirate Edward "Blackbeard" Teach.

### Tower of Terror

Constance Hatchaway and George Hightower are both residents of the Spirit World whom are apparent members of the Hightower family, a clan most notably including SEA-member Harrison Hightower III.

## Trivia

* Due to their similarities, it is likely that Ravenswood Manor in Thunder Mesa, Arizona from Phantom Manor is also an extension of the Spirit World.
* There are other realms in the parks mythos potentially connected to the Spirit World.
	+ **Davy Jones' Locker**: The Locker is the underworld of sailors, traditionally used to personify the bottom of the ocean and a watery-grave. It was the domain of the nautical god Davy Jones and later his successor William Turner, both of whom were captains of the Flying Dutchman.
	+ **Hell**: Hell is the underworld of punishment from Abrahamic faiths, typically being hot, cavernous and home to a great number of demons. It is most notably featured in the Fantasyland attraction *Mr. Toad's Wild Ride*.
	+ **The Underworld**: The Underworld or Hades is the afterlife realm of Greek and Roman myth. It is a subterranean realm bordered from Earth by the River Styx and home to most souls which die and pass on. It is directly featured in the attraction Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom.