Sunday, January 23, 2011

Did someone call the gravekeeper?

There has been been a long standing question, are the skeletons in Pirates of the Caribbean real? Of course not anymore, that wouldn't be really ethical in todays' standards, then again, when was it ever ethical to use human skeletons in a theme park attraction?


These women for example, they lay in bed with ol' bones, which if the time frame was correct (which I beleive to be shortly after the attraction's opening, look at how white the skull and crossbones on the headboard is), is actually a real skeleton.

Imagineers deemed the materials used to make the fake bones..too fake looking. Here is where to story shifts a bit, some say that the UCLA Medical Center gave the skeletons as gifts to Walt Disney to use in his new attraction (which I find highly unlikely), while others believe that WED Enterprises (Now Walt Disney Imagineering) bought the skeletons to fill the opening day quota.

So yes, it is true that the skeletons in Pirates of the Caribbean were once actual people's skeletons. It's not entirely sure when all the real bones were phased out for fake ones, but it's fairly known that the skull and crossbones on the headboard above is indeed a real human skull. Better than sitting in a coffin right?

1 comment:

  1. I wonder if any of the people whose bones were used ever wanted to be a pirate? dreams do come true!

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