Bicycle Ghosts
Behind the tea party, up on a grassy knoll, a group of diaphanous haunts ride bicycles around the tombstones. One of them rides a tandem bicycle. They are cloaked in tattered robes, and clutch the handlebars with skeletal hands. In his concept art, Marc Davis depicted them as stereotypical "sheet ghosts" wearing bowler hats, riding in circles around a smiling, anthropomorphic dead tree.
Bicycling ghosts appear in the 2003 film, but are unambiguously the ghosts of former humans.
A bicycle-riding ghost appeared in the October 1969 issue of Walt Disney Comics Digest, in a story called Spooky Tenants (promoting the recently opened Haunted Mansion at Disneyland). In 1887, Jonathan Harker (the name of one of the protagonists in Bram Stoker's Dracula) got so excited during a cross-country bicycle race that he rode off Wandsworth Cliff and into the ocean. His ghost haunted the old Harker house until it was torn down, leaving him without a home. Mickey and Goofy persuaded him, along with a few other ghosts, to move into the Mansion at Disneyland.
Read more about this topic: List Of Haunted Mansion Characters
Famous quotes containing the words bicycle and/or ghosts:
“I well recall my horror when I heard for the first time, of a journalist who had laid in a pair of what were then called bicycle pants and taken to golf; it was as if I had encountered a studhorse with his hair done up in frizzes, and pink bowknots peeking out of them. It seemed, in some vague way, ignominious, and even a bit indelicate.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“We find that even the parents who justify spanking to themselves are defensive and embarrassed about it....I suspect that deep in the memory of every parent are the feelings that had attended his own childhood spankings, the feelings of humiliation, of helplessness, of submission through fear. The parent who finds himself spanking his own child cannot dispel the ghosts of his own childhood.”
—Selma H. Fraiberg (20th century)