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When I thought about Walt Disney’s apartment above the Disneyland firehouse (see below), I expected that I was remembering wrong because, if you think about it, Disneyland has inspired a whole genre of paranoid urban legends, expertly parodied in the Itchy and Scratchy Land episode of The Simpsons, from which I have taken my title. Here’s one: no one is ever declared dead while on Disney theme park property. The paranoid theory says that Walt, and the company that carries on his vision posthumously, is both image-conscious enough and powerful enough to manipulate medical records. Sadly, Snopes declares the story false .

Some other Disneyland legends, from Snopes: “Was Disneyland’s Skyway closed because someone fell out of it? “

“Was the hearse in front of Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion used to carry Brigham Young’s body from his funeral to his burial place?“

“Was Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion closed and revamped after a guest suffered a fright-induced heart attack?“

That last is about as probable as a heart attack on Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride.

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