The truth about Gracey Mansion

If you would like to know if this story and the diary pages are true, the answer is below.

If you'd like to visit Gracey Mansion, that information is below, too.

However, it is a SPOILER.

In other words, if it's fun to believe the diary and the story at this website, you might want to return to the GraceyMansion.com main page.

Just don't try to find Gracey Mansion when you're at Blood Cemetery, or vice versa.

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Spoiler - the truth about Gracey Mansion and Emily Cavanaugh Gracey

IT'S ALL FICTION

I'm enormously flattered that anyone would believe the GraceyMansion.com pages.

However, they're fiction.

I grew up with Disney as the center of our home life. My mother was the artist who created the Fantasyland board game, and Steps to Toyland board game.

I have always loved Disney's Haunted Mansion, and wanted to create a website for other HM fans to enjoy.

The diary

I started with the stories--all of them fiction--connected with Disney's Magic Kingdom attraction, The Haunted Mansion.

It's often called "Gracey Mansion," named after Yale Gracey, a Disney artist and Imagineer responsible for many of the special effects in Disney's Haunted Mansion attraction.

When I discovered the Cast Members' storyline connected with Emily Cavanaugh Gracey and the Haunted Mansion itself, it seemed a natural subject for a Haunted Mansion tribute website.

I started with Emily's fictional biography, and compared it with the rumors of an upcoming Disney movie about the Haunted Mansion. (Don't ask me for details. So far, nobody knows if the movie will really happen.)

I added elements from the [broken link] Secrets/Spoilers page at GrimGhosts.com, and the [broken link] Haunted Mansion script.

The rest of the story is entirely from my own imagination. No doubt, I've read too many Gothic novels and gone on too many ghost hunts!

The text is entirely original. And yes, I am a published author under contract to write three ghost-related books.

I'm flattered that people believe the diary entries are real, but they're entirely fictional.

The photos, mostly from Florida and New Hampshire

To enrich the diary story, I included my own photos of the Haunted Mansion (some taken specifically for this website) and wove in a storyline to include my best "creepy" photographs.

My "Gracey Mansion" photos were taken at Disney's Haunted Mansion in Liberty Square, in the Magic Kingdom of DisneyWorld in Florida. With many of the other GraceyMansion.com photos, I've aged the pictures with an Adobe graphics program.

Abel Blood's headstone, Blood Cemetery, and a headstone from Vale End Cemetery appear among the diary pages. In real life, those are real graves, but they're in New Hampshire, nowhere near the Gracey/Haunted Mansion.

They worked into the storyline nicely, to add more realism to the website.

To visit Gracey Mansion

The DisneyWorld Haunted Mansion, aka Gracey Mansion, is based on the Harry Packer Mansion in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.

My photos were taken at DisneyWorld (in Florida), where the Haunted Mansion is at Liberty Square in the Magic Kingdom.

For more information about visiting DisneyWorld, see The Official Disney World Web Site featuring Liberty Square's Haunted Mansion

To visit Blood Cemetery

"Blood Cemetery" is the nickname for Pine Hill Cemetery in Hollis, New Hampshire, USA.

To visit this cemetery and see the real, haunted Abel Blood headstone shown in the diary photos:

Take Exit 6 (Rte. 130) from Rte. 3, go west to Nartoff Rd., and then travel north on Nartoff (which jogs right and then left) to reach this very haunted cemetery. Locals call it "Blood Cemetery" for its most famous ghost, Abel Blood. However, the cemetery is closed dusk to dawn; the police patrol steadily, especially around Halloween.

To see the Mary Magdalene headstone

This headstone was near the center (at the driveway/loop) in Vale End Cemetery, in Wilton, New Hampshire, USA.

This lovely headstone was stolen by conscienceless vandals in 2001. Many of us who are artists, mourn the loss of this wonderful sculpture. My only consolation is: The person who stole it--and those who own it now--are probably experiencing hauntings and bad luck to rival the Hope Diamond. I'm good with curses, but this one... even I wouldn't promise to lift it.

I don't even take pretty leaves home from this particular cemetery!

Like Pine Hill/Blood Cemetery, Vale End Cemetery should not be visited after dusk. It is dangerously haunted.