When we signed up for the Haunted Mansion Ghost Post 3 month subscription service, we had no idea it would be so popular that by the next day they would be sold out! Although, since they were limiting the subscription amount to 999 subscribers (get the reference?), I guess that’s what happens. Since not all Foolish Mortals out there were lucky enough to get a subscription, I thought I would share my first month’s findings with you all.
The box arrived yesterday and was full of neat trinkets and clues:
We were sent a “radio” to insert your phone into while using the app ( I made my husband build that), a teacup, a bat, a Grim Gazette, an advertisement for Bloodmere & Broomes, a set of 10 of Madame Leota’s tarot cards, a wedding invitation, and instructions for downloading and setting up the Haunted Mansion: Phantom Radio App.
There was also a letter attached to the inside lid of the box, and when you read it, you realize that in order to get more helpful hints and clues, you need to get the letter wet. Once we did that, we found some helpful advice from the ghosts on how to proceed:
In order to utilize the clues using the app, you need to scan each one. This was done by either scanning using the camera, or by entering a 3 symbol code that was written each object.
Scanning the Grim Gazette brought the radio feed to life where Phineas, Ezra, and Gus (better known as the Hitchhiking Ghosts), can be heard commenting on the state of the Mansion, and how it’s been “wrapped up in fog”, and how they haven’t been able to follow any mortals home in a long time. They then mention that a “Committee of Wandering Ghosts” has been formed and are trying to find a way to fix the ghosts travel troubles. Then we lose them and all that is heard again is static.
When you scan the radio itself, you get to listen to a conversation between Sally Slater (better known as the Tightrope Girl from the stretching room), and Victor, where Sally informs Victor that the Ghost relations Department has managed to send out the boxes with the haunted items to foolish mortals. Apparently she says the Committee was desperate and in need of help from the mortal world. We lose them again and more static is heard.
The next thing we did was to scan the advertisement for Bloodmere and Broome’s and once again Sally and Victor could be heard talking, and wondering if the mortals were up to the challenge, and whether or not we were perceptive enough to understand the clues. Victor mentions the mortals need to know to” align the moon and stars” before he is cut off by static again. Â We found the “moon and stars” punched out of a corner of the advertisement.
In the original letter the wet writing from the ghosts had mentioned you needed to use the Bloodmere and Bloome ad with Aunt Agony, which happened to be a section of the Grim Gazette. We found the same moon and stars there, and lined them up to find a special secret message!
We assume this means we’ll need to use this ad later on in another month’s clues.
Next we scanned the Bat (which is also meant to be inserted into the radio box and used as a dial), and could hear a conversation between Sally and Phineas:
Sally is heard talking to Phineas about the Committee, and he mentions how committees are for the living, and he doesn’t want to be involved. Sally keeps pushing, comfirming with him about how the fog has affected his ability to “perform his customary rounds”, which he agrees to, and she mentions how terrible it is that the mortals are visiting the Mansion, and he is being robbed of his chance to follow them home.
Madame Leota shows up and does not seem pleased with Sally trying to promote this crazy idea of allowing mortals to help the ghosts. She insists that there arent any mortals that are powerful enough to be able to pull off this task. She tells Sally she will consult her cards and take care of the matter herself, and if she needs help, then she will ask for it.
Next we decided to scan the wedding invitation, and we remembered from the opening letter that it also needed to get cold.
So we scanned it and heard a conversation between the Hitchhiking ghosts about how they think Constance, “The Bride”, is probably not even bothered by the fact that she’s “fogged in” to the Mansion. They make a few jokes about her chopping up her husbands, and how after she kills them, they’re still in love with her, so she’s probably thrilled they’re all trapped in there together and can’t travel anywhere else. They talk about how she used to keep each wedding invitation in the ice box, next to the wedding cake, which also re-iterates the fact that you need to get the invitation cold to see another clue.
When the cold invitation is scanned, it brings us to Madame Leota being interviewed by the Grim Gazette editor Pearl E. Gates, who asks Leota what her thoughts are on the Committee getting the mortals involved. Leota says to tell the readers that they will find a solution themselves, without a committee, and that revealing the ghosts secrets to outsiders (mortals), is a bad idea. Madame Leota then cuts of the editor mid-speech and states that she can feel someone from the outside listening in. Someone from outside the mansion. We’re back to static again.
Next we scanned the teacup and heard Pearl E. Gates interviewing the hitchhiking ghosts “to see how the typical spirit feels about the current difficulties”. She asks if the ghosts happen use the Gazzette’s Tasseomancy (reading tea leaves) column to cope with the situation. She mentions that what you will see will have something to do with the specific cup that you use, and how the “reflection” can give you a glimpse of the unseen. So we placed the teacup on the Tasseomancy column, and “read” the tea leaves.
We got a message. Do you see it?
“Beware Madame Leota”
At this point we could tell in the app that we were missing 2 more items that needed to be scanned,  so we scanned the tarot cards and heard Victor and Sally conversing again.
Victor tells Sally the mortals have managed to figure out how to use the clues, and that was good news. But, that it was also bad news, because Madame Leota has figured out that the mortals were listening in to the ghost world, and was not pleased.
We scanned the final radio card to see if it was our last piece, and Madame Leota suddenly interrupted and instructed us to stop, wanting to know how we got our hands on the haunted items. She says the Mansion has flourished under her guardianship, and that she can’t believe this committee is trying to do a better job than her in solving the current dilemma by bringing mortals into “private spectral affairs”. She claims mortals are without talents, abilities, and without wisdom. But the committee seems to think we have talents; some connection to the spirit world, that we are some sort of medium. But again she highly doubts that is true. However, she says the stakes are too high. The ghosts’ ability to haunt beyond mansion may be obliterated forever, which would be their doom. There cannot be failure, they can’t afford to turn away assistance, even if it comes from mere mortals.
She then instructed us in a “card trick”, for lack of better term, using the 10 tarot cards. At the end of the trick, we had somehow achieved the desired results (my mind is still blown), and she then begrudgingly agreed that we must be a very powerful medium, and that she will accept our help, and will be back in touch with us at a later date.
I am now seriously awaiting box #2!!!!
Until Next month, Foolish Mortals……..
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