10 Disturbing Disney Secrets That Will Ruin Your Childhood

      

Magic, Mice and Memories. When most people think of Disney, they recall some of the happiest times of their lives- singing the classics as a kid. may be even going on a family vacation to a Disney pack. Disney has become synonymous with joy and making dreams come true. But is there something darker lurking beneath the smiling facade?

10. Fairy Dust

It is said that since the early 90's, Disney world haunted mansion is a place to be -if you've been cremated. The attraction seems to be the place where most people allegedly chose to sprinkle the ashes of their loved ones what ever the reason may be, Disney world has caught wind of this apparent trend as "Cremated Remains" and has been added to their official list of prohibited park items. Some people doubt they're actually ashes, but employees report having seen gray, ash-like dust after several visitors were seen sprinkling powder-like substances on the ride over the years.

9. The Happiest Place On Earth

Not Disneyland Paris. Two of the Park's cook committed suicide in the same year, one leaving a note on the wall of his home saying "I don't wanna return to Mickey". and the other throwing himself in front of a train after having apparently suffered humiliating circumstances at work. The leader of the Disneyland union blame the suicides on "Brutal" working conditions that have made their working lives "intolerable" another worker in 2013, was about to light himself on fire because he was reportedly stressed out about being called in for a meeting with the theme park bosses. Makes you shudder to think about what really goes on behind the scenes...

8. Big Brother is Watching You

When Walt Disney created the original Disneyland in California in the 1950's, he wanted every guest to have a multi-sensory experience. To this day, the park controls what you smell with a series of vents and sprays that release various aromas based on where you are in the park. If you're on main street, you'll be hit with an artificial scent of vanilla. The pirates area greets you with a hint of salty sea air. Disney wanted to control what people heard, by installing hidden speakers so that subliminal sounds will change as people entered different lands. He also built a secret apartment on the second floor of the fire department on main street so that he could keep an eye on the park and its guests at all times. Today, a little light stays lit inside the apartment to remind us, that Walt Disney is and always will be, watching us.

7. Hello Dolly!

The "it's a small world" ride is a popular Disney attraction. In 1999, the ride was suddenly evacuated without any reason. As a woman was leaving the boat, she wanted to finish her roll of film, so she snapped a couple of quick photos. When she developed them, she noticed what seemed like a child's body hanging from the ceiling. This image has circulated the net a lot over the years, some people believing it to be a real body. Some calling it a Hoax because it looks like an 1980s My Buddy Doll. Whatever the case maybe, it makes for a spooky story - and Disney has never come forward to refute the Rumors!

6. Don't Mess with The Mouse

In the mid 90's when Disney found out that a studio called Pixar was becoming the future of animation They decided to partner up with them for a little movie called 'Toy Story' with the promise that Pixar would remain untouched as their own company. But within ten years, Disney has completely bought out Pixar. This past Christmas, Disney threatened to pull 'The Force awakens' from an arc light cinema theaters if they didn't remove Quentin Tarantino's 'The Hateful Eight' so they could have yet another room reserved for their star wars movie. Tarantino called it "Extortion", saying that his "little film" in one theater wouldn't at all threaten Disney's success. It's instances like this that have sparked disturbing rumors that Disney doesn't collaborate with anyone. -They own them.

5. The Film Disney Doesn't Want You To See

For the last 30 years, Disney has done a great job at hiding 'song of the south' from the public. This 1946 film tells the story of Uncle Remus, an African American happily working on a white family's plantation in the post-civil war South. Recounting tales to local children. Many critics over the year have called 'Song of the South'  'One of Hollywood's most offensive racist texts' portraying an idyllic master-slave relationship and glorifying slavery. The fact that uncle Remus is portrayed as a rather simple man, who is bless fully happy working for the white man as an ex-slave, is kind of unsettling. There is a reason this film was never released on video in its entirety, and now you know why.

4. Hole in The Wall

The haunted mansion in Disneyland has another little-known spooky secret. In the Grand ballroom, there is a spider web hanging from the fourth column on the right. If you look from a certain angle, you can see a bullet hole behind the web. There have been many theories as to how this bullet hole got there, but according to one employee, it was confirmed in a tour of the mansion that back when guns weren't banned from the park, a craze fan came in and shot at the glass. It was too expensive for Disneyland the entire pane so they cleverly put a creepy crawly there to cover it up.

3. Nazi Propaganda

Was Walt Disney an anti-Semite? well in 1938, Disney did invite Hitler's personal filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl for a private tour of his studio.According to Riefenstahl biography, when she returned to Germany, she thanked Disney saying " It was gratifying to learn how thoroughly prosper Americans distance themselves from the smear campaigns of the Jews", Then in 2014, Meryl Streep went on a rant at an event, about how much of a bigot and anti Semite Walt Disney was. Even inspiring Disney's own Grandniece to chime in, saying she agreed with Streep and always had mixed feeling about her Great Uncle.

2, Man Seeking Woman

None of the Disney princesses ever have real jobs or life goals. Their only mission is to have perfect hair, a tiny waist and live happily ever after with prince charming. The men are never interested in their sense of humour or wit, they barely have meaningful conversations, it is merely the ladies attractiveness that the men are drawn to and the princes always need to be brave, strong and handsome to win them over, thus objectifying men as well. Aladdin the street rat isn't good enough for Jasmine's father because he isn't royalty. and what hope does the street Quasimodo ever have to of winning over Esmeralda's heart with hunchback. Do disney films set unrealistic expectation when it comes to gender roles?