Burials.... at Disneyland?!

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Pet Cemetery at Haunted Mansion

Yes, it's true, sort of.  According to Disneyland expert and author Christopher Strodder, there are "six or seven graveyards at Disneyland that can be easily seen if you take the time to look around. Four at the Haunted Mansion, including a pet cemetery, and one in the Storybook Land canal boat ride during the ‘Alice ‘n Wonderland’ part. There’s also a graveyard on Tom Sawyer Island" he says.

Now, whether or not these graveyard contain any actual bodies is another story.  I guess it is up to an archaeologist to find out.


My wife really wants to take our daughters there, and now I have no excuse.  Now we can see princesses and dead bodies... Disneyland is so cool...

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Graveyard on Tom Sawyer's Island

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OK, so there are probably no actual bodies buried at Disneyland, except maybe a pet or two.  But it is kind of neat.  The tombs are inscribed with the names of people who were instrumental in some way in everything from the making of cartoon features and model making, to the actual designing of the parks themselves (Here's a list of 13 of them).

Sincerely, it is another way to personally memorialize someone.  Sure, in this case it also acts as a background for the happiest place on Earth, but as mentioned in some of my other posts, it is about the personal connection to loved ones, as opposed to the show.  These people would love knowing they will forever be remembered in this way, at this place.  And even though we can take shots at Disney for days on end, this is probably one of the most beautiful aspects of the entire media conglomerate, and we can't shoot them down for that... because they would just erect a snappy tombstone if we did.

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