The Old Gore Mansion is a run-down, haunted manor somewhere in the United States of America.
Description[]
The Old Gore Mansion was the estate of Captain Bartholomew Gore, in truth the civilian identity of the infamous and bloodthirsty pirate “Black Bart”. He took his bride Priscilla to live there in 1810. However, in his absence during a further sea voyage, Priscilla discovered his true nature and confronted him about his murderous double life. He murdered her for her trouble, only for her ghost to come back and haunt him. Driven to a boundless paranoia, Gore was believed by his butler Beauregard to have hanged himself in the turret,[1] although Gore himself later stated that he had died in Gracey Manor, drowning in the flooded basement while looking for the treasure allegedly hidden somewhere in the house[2] by another reformed pirate, William Gracey alias Captain Blood, or, later, the Ghost Host.[3]
At any rate, while Gore's restless spirit haunted the Haunted Mansion, seeking the Gracey treasure as well as some means of taking to sea again,[2] Priscilla's spirit, when she deigned to materialise outside of the spirit world, did so at the Old Gore Mansion, which was also the scene of ghostly manifestations of the past, illustrating Gore's descent into madness due to Priscilla's haunting. Over 150 years after the tragic events that ended Gore's marriage, Beauregard the butler still resided in the house — albeit perhaps a little greener-skinned than he used to be —, and he once showed some tourists around the property, telling them its eerie story.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
The ‘Old Gore Mansion’ was one proposed look for the outside of The Haunted Mansion. Although first sketched by Ken Anderson, it is often known as “the McKim House” due to Anderson's fellow imagineer Sam McKim having drawn the definitive concept painting of it, as seen in the infobox. In the end the look was discarded in favour of the larger, more familiar antebellum mansion, although the turret/cupola was carried over.
The Old Gore Mansion was, however, confirmed to exist in-universe, separate from the Disneyland and Walt Disney World versions of Gracey Manor, in the 2016 Disney Kingdoms' Haunted Mansion comic story, via a one-panel cameo as one of the haunted houses whose “portraits” hung in the Ghostly Materials Gallery. Its backstory with Gore and Priscilla was later reinstated in 2020's A Haunted Mansion Tale, a reformatting of one of Anderson's first scripts for the Haunted House attraction, dated to early 1957.
Notes & References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Haunted Mansion Tale (2020).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Disney Kingdoms' Haunted Mansion (2016).
- ↑ Mystery of the Manse (2005).