Phantom Manor Facts

Like its predecessors at Disneyland,the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World and Tokyo Disneyland, Phantom Manor's main musical theme is "Grim Grinning Ghosts" by X. Atencio and Buddy Baker. The Phantom Manor music is unique. Recorded in an entirely new arrangement and orchestrations, principal performers were drawn from the London Chamber Orchestra and supplemented by 60 of the finest studio musicians in London. Rhythms range from a gloomy funeral march, to a ballroom waltz, to a honky-tonk saloon piano version and ultimately, to a rollicking vocal rendition by a quartet of singing statues!

The musical skeletons found in Phantom Manor were inspired by the 1929 Disney short animated film, The Skeleton Dance. The film, produced in black and white, was the first in a series of films entitled Silly Symphonies. A total of 75 "Symphonies" were produced by the Walt Disney Studio from 1929 to 1939, with each Symphony showcasing a new set of cartoon characters and music.

The Bride's Boudoir scene in the attraction was inspired by macabre Victorian lithographs of the late 1800s.

The tombstones in Boot Hill read:

Sacred to the memory of REV. JARED BATES
who died August the Sixth 1862
Erected by the girls of the Lucky Nugget Saloon:
Brigitte, Caroline, Lotte, Anna, Lulu, Fifi and Sue
"His Flock shall sorely miss him"

A NEAR-SIGHTED MINER
IN SHAFT 39
LIT HIS CIGAR
AND BLEW UP THE MINE

FLORA FINCH
1805 - 1861
"SWEPT AWAY BY APRIL SHOWERS,
HERE SHE LIES
BENEATH THE FLOWERS"

PEGLEG PETE
THE RIVER PIRATE
Walked the plank,
and sank.

Jasper Jones
Loyal Manservant
Died 1866
"Kept the Master happy"

Anna Jones
Faithful Chamber Maid
Died 1867
"Kept the Master happier"

HERE LIES
SHOTGUN GUS
HOLIER NOW
THAN ALL OF US

B. ARNOLD
Cold is my bed, but oh, I love it,
for colder are my friends above it.

Red Hot Harry
"He got hot
but he was slow
so he got put
six feet below"

Here lies
LEADFOOT FRED
"Danced too slow
and now he's dead"
1802 - 1866

REST IN PEACE
"MOONSHINE" LENNY
Seems he took one drink too many