A friend pointed me at this, saying “Straight to CIDU — it’s ghost of sea creature? Very weak if so”.
I have to agree. I’ve enlarged it to the point of serious pixelization and still don’t get it at all.
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The ghost is wearing the stereotypical animal skin.
Lost has it @1 – With the exception of Caspar, virtually all movie ghosts are decently dressed for the occasion when they go haunting, so it’s only fitting that a Neanderthal ghost would don a leopard skin before entering the cave.
P.S. I must admit that before I zoomed in to see the spots, I was wondering whether this ghost’s name might be “Pinky” or “Clyde“.
I remember an old Chuck Jones WB cartoon about a young ghost wanting to get a job as a house haunter. A neat gag was that the white “sheetness” of his was a onesie he took off in order to invisibly bathe. And yes, it had a flap in the back like cliched long johns.
@ Daniel (3) – After a fair bit of hunting, I finally discovered that you were referring to “Ghost Wanted” (from 1940). Unfortunately, it was only included on the WB Laserdisk collection; it’s not anywhere in the DVD set that I own.
Ghosts haunt houses. But this ghost was before houses, back when people lived in caves. He is haunting a cave.
Thanks for making this site! It let’s me know I ain’t the only one!
Q: Why do ghosts wear sheets?
A: Because the sheet they’re wearing is their burial shroud.
The above might sound like a joke, but it’s not… It’s meant to illustrate why so many ghosts are depicted as wearing a sheet.
So the very first human ghost wouldn’t have worn a woven sheet, as weaving looms hadn’t been invented yet. Instead, the very first deceased-person-turned-ghost would presumably have been buried in leopard skins — or some variant of primitive animal skins.
@ J-L @8 – In addition to their famous “fairy tales”, the Brothers Grimm also collected a huge volume of German “sagas”, or “legends”. A large percentage of these tales are ghost stories from various castles (most of which no longer exist). Even discounting the fact that people were far more superstitious back then, I suspect that in many cases, the origins were actually pranksters who put on a sheet to scare the other residents.
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The ghost is wearing the stereotypical animal skin.
Lost has it @1 – With the exception of Caspar, virtually all movie ghosts are decently dressed for the occasion when they go haunting, so it’s only fitting that a Neanderthal ghost would don a leopard skin before entering the cave.
P.S. I must admit that before I zoomed in to see the spots, I was wondering whether this ghost’s name might be “Pinky” or “Clyde“.
I remember an old Chuck Jones WB cartoon about a young ghost wanting to get a job as a house haunter. A neat gag was that the white “sheetness” of his was a onesie he took off in order to invisibly bathe. And yes, it had a flap in the back like cliched long johns.
@ Daniel (3) – After a fair bit of hunting, I finally discovered that you were referring to “Ghost Wanted” (from 1940). Unfortunately, it was only included on the WB Laserdisk collection; it’s not anywhere in the DVD set that I own.
Ghosts haunt houses. But this ghost was before houses, back when people lived in caves. He is haunting a cave.
I like Mark’s answer – makes sense to me.
Hi All,
Ghost Wanted is on this BluRay collection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looney_Tunes_Collector%27s_Choice#Volume_2
The song is here-
https://archive.org/details/carl-stalling-ghost-wanted
Thanks for making this site! It let’s me know I ain’t the only one!
Q: Why do ghosts wear sheets?
A: Because the sheet they’re wearing is their burial shroud.
The above might sound like a joke, but it’s not… It’s meant to illustrate why so many ghosts are depicted as wearing a sheet.
So the very first human ghost wouldn’t have worn a woven sheet, as weaving looms hadn’t been invented yet. Instead, the very first deceased-person-turned-ghost would presumably have been buried in leopard skins — or some variant of primitive animal skins.
@ J-L @8 – In addition to their famous “fairy tales”, the Brothers Grimm also collected a huge volume of German “sagas”, or “legends”. A large percentage of these tales are ghost stories from various castles (most of which no longer exist). Even discounting the fact that people were far more superstitious back then, I suspect that in many cases, the origins were actually pranksters who put on a sheet to scare the other residents.