Just afterward, a pirate has lost the woman he just bought, who is hiding in a barrel behind him, and is asking his friends for help, using her as the reward. The original ride had a much more problematic story line, which had kidnapped women being sold in a “Bride Auction,” with fat-shaming dialogue about purchasing “by the pound” and other women attempting to look their best as though they’re happy about being sold. A cast member confirmed that it was real, and others have said that that skull in particular, which some believe to be the only actual remaining human bones, was donated by a former Imagineer.Ī post shared by An Epicurean's Guide To Disney you’re surprised about this chapter of Pirates of the Caribbean’s history, well, it gets darker. The bed chamber skull, in particular, seems to have the most speculation around it. Click through if you want to see some pretty grisly up-close photos. Two are on the small islands just after the boat drops down to the lower level, one is in the bed chamber mounted on the headboard, and another lies in the jail scene, trapped under a flaming timber. Jason Petros of the "EarzUp!" Disney podcast has a blog post detailing where he believes there are four remaining instances of, well, remains. They report that their cast member guide assured them there were no more real skeletons in place.īut some people remain unconvinced. Today, Disneyland says that there are no longer any human remains on the ride, and the internet is rife with accounts from people who have taken VIP tours, which often provide a deep history of the parks. Giaimo quotes Jason Surrell’s book “Pirates of the Caribbean: From Magic Kingdom to Movies” as saying, “Eventually, as fake skeleton technology improved, ‘a new generation of Imagineers’ replaced the real ones, which ‘were later returned to their countries of origin and given a proper burial.’” So instead of faking it, the Imagineers went to find the real thing - straight to UCLA, where they procured real human skeletons for the ride. The technology of the time wasn’t sophisticated enough to make skeletons that the company felt met their standards of realism.
One thing the Imagineers couldn’t recreate was skeletons. “The whole thing cost $15 million, about $106 million in today's currency and as much as the rest of the park combined.”
“Building the ride involved close collaboration between the machine shop, the animatronics team, and the sculpting and wardrobe departments,” Cara Giaimo wrote for Atlas Obscura in 2015.
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