Organ Banshees
TheOrgan Banshees are characters featured in theThe Haunted Mansion attraction at theDisney Parks.
Background[]
These spirits are small white disembodied heads resembling humanoids having wisp-like traits. They are shown to have black eye sockets, nostrils, as well as screaming mouths. Hence their name, the banshees would float out of anominous-looking organ used by theOrganist playing a waltz version of "Grim Grinning Ghosts" throughout the Ballroom area.
Appearances[]
The Haunted Mansion/Phantom Manor[]
In every version of the Haunted Mansion attraction located atDisneyland,Walt Disney World, andTokyo Disneyland (includingPhantom Manor), the organ banshees appear in the Great Hall area. They are seen emerging from the pipes used by theOrganist who plays a waltz version of "Grim Grinning Ghosts" on his pipe organ which the spirits disappear into the air.
In theFlorida version of Haunted Mansion in the queue area, carvings of the banshees are seen depicted onto a decoration of an organ seen on the Composer's crypt, a reference to how they emerge from the organ's pipes in the Ballroom area in the actual ride. Seven banshees were sculpted onto the organ in the queue.
Other Appearances[]
The Haunted Mansion (comics)[]
In the unreleased eighth issue of the Slave Labor Graphics adaptation ofThe Haunted Mansion, the Organist was to serve as the narrator to tell a tale of how the banshees floated out of the organ came to be. It was said that the banshees were spirits of naughty children and having being turned into spirits forming into the organ banshees featured in the first story "Preaching to the Choir".
Haunted Mansion (2023)[]
The organ banshees appear in the2023 reboot of the original2003film adaptation of the attraction.
