5 Things You Didn't Know About Walt Disney

2. He Was Haunted By His Mother's Ghost

It doesn€™t take a real €˜mad tea party€™ to jolt the mind into believing Ol€™ Walt may have dabbled in acid over the years. Alice in Wonderland€™s a case in point, not to mention the bizarre €˜pink elephants€™ scene in Dumbo and the entirety of Fantasia. All are examples were "LSD init!" could be the answer to any puzzled questioning. But what if Disney's less tame creations were the product of something other than mind expanding hallucinogens. In 1938 Disney did what any doting son-come-millionaire should do, he bought his dear old mumsie a new house. Within days, though, the 70 year old started to complain about fumes she was convinced were coming from the gas furnace. Fastidious in his filial duties he sent a group of engineers round but they couldn't find a fault anywhere. Within the month Flora Call Disney died of asphyxiation. Though 70 when she died, taken so suddenly by circumstances which could have been avoided and which Disney's buying the house precipitated, lay heavily on the burgeoning creator and are said to have been the cause of some of his less conventional output. Could the antagonist, Yensid, in the fanciful Fantasia have been Walt's way of portraying the darker side of his guilt in the form of his own name written backwards? Maybe, but let's leave that kind of wild conclusion jumping to the caffeine-riddled conspiracy bloggers found elsewhere on the net. They're quite easy to find, just google 'batsh*t crazy theorems' and you€™ll be set for the day! Though we at WhatCulture don€™t condone such behaviour, of course.