17 Disneyland Secrets They Don't Know Want You To Know‏

1. They're Covering Up All The Deaths

Speaking of the differences between carnivals and theme parks, one of them is the supposed comparison of how safe their attractions are. A ride that's been pieced together by a potentially unregulated attendant, having pulled it off the back of the bus, is seen as being inherently unsafe, pushing the thrill seeker ideology to a legitimately suicidal point.

Meanwhile, a rollercoaster in a theme park that has been standing for years and is regularly maintained and checked up on by health and safety folk is, presumably, a lot more safe. Which is a total fallacy, because people die at theme parks all the time.

Sometimes it's because of unrelated things - they have heart conditions, or they're just old as balls - and sometimes it's absolutely the fault of the rides. Which, obviously, is bad for business. You want to keep the fatalities that occur at your business under wraps, less people be put off climbing aboard your documented death traps - that's true whether you're at the infamously unsafe Action Park or the happiest place on Earth.

It's also true that both these places, and everywhere in between, has had dozens if not hundreds of people die whilst on their property, often as a result of something going horribly wrong on one of their attractions. Some of these accidents will make their way to the press because, duh, how could they not.

What's surprising - or not - is that there are endless rumours about cover ups and undocumented deaths which occur at theme parks, and which you never hear about. Which is not only terrifying on a moral level but also in how disingenuous and dangerous it is; before you put both your money and your life into the hands of a theme park, you want to know how likely it is to be an experience you might not survive.

And yet by keeping all this stuff quiet, they're not doing you that service.