What is Little Leota?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ต.ค. 2018
- DAY 10
The tiniest Haunt at the Haunted Mansion, the one who tells you to hurry back... Why the heck is she so small?
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I always thought little leota was like a doll that madame leota could possess to get around,, Also if that is suppose to be a view from far away that perspective is very very off
Yea those vases must be HUGE.
@@TECfan1 lmao
According to the unofficial cast member profiles for the ghosts, they more or less hint that Little Leota is the love child of Master Gracey and Madame Leota while both were alive. The reason why she’s so small is because while tricking the three groundskeepers into getting stuck in some quicksand, the branch she was safely sitting on broke and she drowned in a river. When they found her body, it inexplicably shrunk to the size of a doll. So perhaps she is a voodoo doll that Leota brought to life.
That’s so cool! Thanks for this information.
You always ask what is Little Leota, but never HOW is Little Leota... :(
...dead... she's dead
Or How little is Leota..?
Or Why is Little Leota.
It is VERY clear to me what happened. The Ghostess was in the last audience for "HONEY I SHRUNK THE AUDIENCE", then she fell asleep and the attraction got shut down...leaving her small.
I don't think it's a wedding dress, but a mourning outfit. I suspect it's meant to be an ethereal, wispy gown or cloak. The association there is only in the mind of a modern audience which doesn't see that sort of clothing these days outside of a wedding.
I agree. Either mourning or a shroud.
I think Little Leota is a haunted doll, perhaps based on Madam Leota
I like that idea
They're ghosts they can be whatever size they want.
...Can they though? Growing and shrinking isn't a power ghosts seem to have in any media _I've_ ever seen. The closest thing is manifesting in humanoid form or just like a floating ball of light.
@@elsie8757 ok let me put it this way they're DISNEY ghosts they can do whatever.
The song literally says "Ghost and Ghouls of EVERY size."
That helps. In my younger years, I always thought “Little Leota” was the Bleeding heart Bride reappearing in regular form instead of her creepy glowing eye form from the attic. Thanks for the clarification.
I saw little leota when I was was like 6 years old and i thought I was imagining her! I’ve never heard anyone talk about her before
I always imagined it was Leota. In WDW she possess a tombstone out front so I assumed it was her full apparition since she seems rather mobile; she's even able to visit Moment Mori outside of the Mansion! Leota is just lonely and wants us back for another seance...
I remember a site years ago, I think it was Ghost Gallery, wherein it told a few stories of Little Leota. The one I recall is that Little Leota is the child of Madam Leota and Master Gracey after his wife, Lily O Malley (tightrope girl) had died. Master Gracey was ashamed to admit she was his child because of the class difference between him and Madam Leota and the fact that they were unwed with a child.
I adore her cloaked version. The dress us lovely, but the cloak seems more ethereal given her corrupted mortal state.
Maybe she's pulling a Luke Skywalker. She's projecting herself but only has so much power to make a tiny, little version of herself.
Oh God The last Jedi was a horrid movie, it makes my tummy churn when thinking of it :(
@Nob the Knave they're the new hitchhiking ghosts
Gonk I mean it was aight, I mean on a scale of phantom menace to Empire it's somewhere between Attack of the Clones and Force Awakens. No where near the best, def not the worst though.
Drama Geek no no I'm so sorry but it wasn't even close to "Aight" status, hell I wish it was believe me. The Last Jedi is clearly and undoubtedly at the bottom of the Star Wars movies list and if this third movie can be worse than that I'll be amazed. When the Actor who plays Luke began speaking out about the film on how he thinks it's bad and other actors agreed since they all noticed the Director didn't have a clear vision is when the red flags aroused around that stinker of a movie. Never Again.
@Nob the Knave I dunno, Stars and holidays don't mix so well...
I actually find Little Leota/ The Ghostess a disturbingly cute member of the mansion.
I always thought of her like a wisp (like from Brave) because she was small, ghostly, and led people to where they needed to go, in this case the Haunted Mansion
lol
Wisps ONLY lead you where you need to go in Brave. In every other version of the story, they lead you to your death.
They probably made her small to fit on the shelf. It might've been the only place to stick it.
Heyy so is Little Leota also the voice that tells you to hurry back and bring your death certificate in the Grim Grinning Ghost song?
Cool, thanks!
And I believe it is Leota Toombs’ actual voice there.
Little Leota is often depicted with flowers, maybe she’s a bridesmaid of Constance Hatchaway that was trapped to the mansion after she was killed by the bride herself.
Kara RG maybe a banshee? They roam in forest, gathering flowers for the inevitable death of someone nearby
Little Leota is from doll format. Leota is a witch and dead. Ghosts can change from format, form or object.
Short: Leota is a morphing ghost, not a fairy or other fairytale creature.
One question left: WHY is she dressed like bride?
Possible theory: she died by a broken heart, she lived in the mansion as medium for young mister Gracy. To the day came that Gracy fell in love with an another girl from an another land. Leota poissened herself and died where she met the death (Esra) and blew off his deal.
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She's not dressed like a bride. Back in the day, EVERYONE dressed like that at all times. That's literally just normal clothing from her era.
@@LordofFullmetal Yeah alright... she IS dead that can be an explaining to her White clothes she is wearing. Further research follows thanks ^^
I thought that also! But he did not... so what do you think what happened to her? We have three dead brides now in The Haunted Mansion.
Well if Tinkerbell and Haunted Mansion are in the same universe, and the Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean are in the same universe, does that make Jean Leffet one of Captain Hook's crew in Peter Pan?
I think you did something here 🤔
"Leffet" is my favorite part
Jean Leffet? Who is that??? It’s Laffiete, and I’m not a member of Hook’s crew lol.
My question: is Elizabeth Swann the daughter of Captain Hook and Emma Swan? Given how much time stopping/time traveling they do on OUAT, I think she may very well be...
No HE IS Captain Hook
Eleanor Audley, also played Eddie Albert's character's mother ('Oliver Wendell Douglas'), 'Mother Eunice Douglas', on "Green Acres" (1965-1971)
I've always considered Little Leota to be a small, haunted, mourning statue (google mourning statue for images if you don't know what I mean). They are usually depicted as young women, wearing cloaks or draped clothing, and holding bouquets of flowers...just like Little Leota.
A bit off topic from Mansion but I heard from a Monorail driver that not only are they redoing the queue for the Matterhorn but they are also redoing the track, which could make it smoother
If they make the left track smoother I'm gonna have the biggest tantrum. I ride that side exclusively solely because it's rougher.
Finally!!!!!! I'm 19 and I have back problems from that ride (AP Holder)
Well, if you go by the stories written by the cast members in the Ghost Gallery notebook, Little Leota was Madame Leota's daughter who fell into a river and drowned. By the time her body was discovered, it had shriveled up to the size of a doll. The whole story involves the three guys in quicksand in the Stretching Room, but there's the short version.
Little Leota was the reason I couldn't go on the Haunted Mansion again for over a decade. I was 5 my first trip and I thought she was some kind of haunted green Virgin Mary statue and the dissonance scared the shit out of me.
When I first saw her, I thought she was just a ghost possessing one of those small porcelain dolls. You know, those dolls that you leave on your shelf for decoration?
Ah, those evil things.
I think Leota possested a doll or something
I have no evidence to back this up, but I think the forced perspective aspect might be the key. "Little Leota" may have originally been part of a proposed scene where she is seen in the distance, and therefore appears full sized. The figure was produced and tested but the scene itself was never created. Since the 'talking head' effect is quite convincing (and cool), the Imagineers simply decided to use it anyway, and placed "Little Leota" within a normal sized scene. Well, that's my guess anyway.
I always heard "Hurry Back" but never saw her figure. It really ties the story together, thank you for this informative content.
What is Little Leota?
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No, I’m Jean Laffiete
Dang it you beat me to that comment!
I think you’ll find I am
Dammit, Jean, who and what AREN'T you?!
I don’t know who this IMPOSTER is, but I’m the REAL Jean Laffiete. (First replyer).
She was pretty terrifying as a child. Still is an adult! lol
There's something about a little ten inch person calling out that's wildly creepy.
I always felt she was small so people would be less overwhelmed, like she was smaller so the whole experience seemed to fade into the distance when the light at the end of the escalator appeared. Or perhaps she is small is because thats the size of the Pepper's Ghost projector under the escalator and that's all they had room for...
Little leota is the creepiest part of the ride
Nick’s Universe I second that
Nick’s Universe why?? I’ve never been on the ride
Well when I've riden the one in Walt Disney World. It always seemed like she wanted to kill me...she also creeps me out with the "Come back...Come back..."
I saw a theory or something somewhere ages ago that said little Leota was a bride-to-be cursed by a jealous rival with a voodoo spell that made her painfully shrink in size.
IMO the fairy/possessed doll theory makes more sense to me, but the voodoo curse theory stuck in my head because of how creepy it is.
Maybe Madam Leota split her spirit into a crystal ball and a doll using a horcrux.
As a former cast member (at DL, WDW and TDL) who also knew some of the people involved with the Mansion's creation, I thought this might help:
The "little bride" is just another version of the (originally silent) Bride character that appears in the Attic scene. She has no official character name, but the production staff took to calling her "Little Leota" because Leota Toombs (an Imagineer who did cosmetics for the animatronic characters' faces, and whom I had the pleasure of knowing!) did the face-acting for the Madame Leota character in the Seance scene (voiced by Eleanor Audley), as well as the "little bride" character (voiced by Toombs). There's no other connection between the Madame Leota and "little bride" characters.
And no, they weren't trying to achieve any kind of forced perspective effect with the "little bride"; they just thought it'd be spooky to have such a small character with such a lifelike-appearing face, and thought it'd give guests something to see and wonder about as they rode the escalator back up to the park's ground level.
The Mansion show originally had no unifying story. So many Imagineers had so many ideas, and there was such a lack of unity when Walt died, that the show ended up being a collection of unrelated characters and effects, loosely tied together by the Ghost Host's in-car narration. Only later did fans start constructing possible "plots" for it all. When Disney designed Phantom Manor for Paris Disneyland, they made more of an effort to create a storyline (the abandoned Bride, etc.)-but there's still the feeling that it's largely a series of unrelated characters and effects, because Disney wanted to include all the ideas from the original attraction. Cheers!
I think she's the daughter that Constance never had. She does sound like Constance, many people think she's in a wedding dress... she tells people to bring their Death Certificate because she will never have a Birth Certificate. I don't know, that's just what I think
Maybe she's the ghost of a fairy that stopped being believed in...
I think that maybe originally it was supposed to be forced perspective but it never played off right .. but people got so used to seeing her and she became such an iconic part of the ride that they just gave up and were like OKAY she smol.
I always thought instead of Little Leota, it was a mini Constance. Thanks for clearing that up
Hai, Dallin! Huge fan, and I have gotten a LOT of Disney information from you. I LOVE Disney.
Ever since I was a kid I wanted one of these in my house.
you make a good point about the differences between Little Leota and Constance Hatchaway/the bride--i think my own uninformed perception of the character from childhood had always been that she was supposed to be a second appearance of the bride character, particularly the taunting tone to "Hurry baaack..." and all that stuff (long before Constance was basically canonized, i'd heard that the story behind the bride from way back when had been that she swore she'd kill one person a day for each day that the man she loved wouldn't marry her, eventually killing him and then herself as well, and that's where the hundreds of ghosts in the mansion came from. this had been told to me in the era before the Internet came to dominate our lives and, in all likelihood, had been from a castmember who wasn't really a Disney buff)
Ooooo this is super interesting 🤯 i like to think pirates and haunted are during the same time but i never thought of Tink’s time merging with this time.. interesting.
i’m REALLY loving this 31 days!
I assumed she was just possessing some figurine on the shelf.
But if you've ever seen the Pixie Hollow movies, you know the fairies tend to categorize themselves by their Talents (Tinker, fast-flying, gardening, light, animal, etc) one Talent could be like... mortuary or necromancy, like fairies that take care of the dead and dying things or the spirits of the dead. That would be freaking _wild_ To add to canon. but honestly... not outside the realm of possibility for disney.
A surprise haunted mansion pixie hollow crossover where Tinkerbell and friends meet a spooky fairy with no friends in Neverland who just wants to go to the mainland and take care of spirits, make a safe place for them to happily haunt and have a little more fun in the after-life than they got the chance to in life. _just wild_
I love this series! !
I always thought that was Constance at the end!
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I think that the Ghostess might have possessed a doll, once she passed on. Not much canon evidence to support it, but I like that idea.
Also, I headcanon that she and Madame Leota were relatives - either twin sisters or mother/daughter, depending on my mood. That cut Ghost Host dialog spurned a headcanon that they were a couple, as well. I have a lot of dumb Haunted Mansion headcanons, lol.
I always thought it was the bride. Hmmm. How fun!
She is my favorite part of the ride. :)
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I figured she was a Haunted Doll since those are a pretty common trope in scary stories
I read on the horizons blog that little leota used to be the hologram girl on horizons, and that a cast member backed this up by showing a picture of the hologram girl being painted. I wonder if this is true
I have genuinely never wondered why Little Leota is so little. My mind is completely blown.
Would you know if there's any story to the demonic laughter that can be heard echoing in the exit archway after Little Liota in Disneyland. I always found that to be very disturbing.
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Great series! I always thought that statue was the Bride!
Love this channel
I think she is suppose to be a Haunted figurine on a shelf.
In Phantom Manor she's Melanie Ravenswood, the bride of the entire attraction. Because I didn't know she had been there in America before EuroDisney opened, I always assumed when I saw her at DisneyWorld that the bride was still Melanie.
Oh my goodness! I thought that was Constance the whole time! Thank you for this video, I gotta brush up on my lore.
when i was a kid i used to think it was the bride [emily, the bride from the early 2000s who didn't talk or anything]
after i started researching haunted mansion lore i always followed the theory that she was leota and master gracey's daughter
love these vids!
Personally, I always thought she was possessing an old doll!
You forgot to mention that Eleanor Audley also played Oliver Douglas' (Eddie Albert) mother on "Green Acres".
I always thought it was Constance. She was so far away and she lacked a crystal ball carrying her head
Love this!
I just watched the movie and at the end it is Madame Leota who says hurry back and something else that was also from,the ride.
Don't forget Eleanor Audley also was Mother Douglas in Green Acres
When I first went to the haunted mansion, I always thought Little Leota is a living statue of Virgin Mary, and that made it even creepier.
I swear the Haunted Mansion is haunting my mind
I always thought that that was just the bride. Nonetheless she always scared me, I always get chills.
Nice video man
Thank you I wanted to know about this since 2008
1:17 Actually, "Ravenscroft" merely means "Black Bird's Home", because a croft is a home and Ravens are birds. *wink*
I just never liked the fact people referred to her as “Little Leota”. She didn’t seem to be connected to Madame Leota to me, but now that I realize it’s a reference to the face inspiration I’m less annoyed.
I also just assumed it was like a mock up of the wedding dress for the bride Leota was “ghosting” herself on. This is probably because as a kid I thought the Bride was just a gown left there and a ghost was possessing it.
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Happy early Halloween👻🎃
When I was younger I always thought that a ghost had possessed a doll and never questioned it until now
i like the idea of her being a possessed doll,,but i also think she might be a banshee. i mean,, she’s there right as you’re leaving and basically implying that you’re gonna die,,,
Isn't she voiced by Leota Toombs, hence why they call her Little Leota? As for an in-story explanation, not too sure. Although, I do like what I've been coming across here.
I think a similar projection effect is done with her face, too
My mom told me that the woman that was originally supposed to be the ghostess was never used as the woman who was used in test footage did such a good job. So the ghostess is just the stand in but is now part of Disney history. Don’t know if it’s true but it’s cool
I love these
I’m watching this video right after I just rode the ride haha
This just creates more mysteries. If she can transform into human form, why would she want to be in a glass ball?
I think it’s just a spirit who posses real objects (like the crystal ball) and she just posses a doll at the end that could also explain why she’s wearing a wedding dress because it could be a doll relating to Constance
rewatching to do some research for a costume :D
That thing she's standing on always looked like a mantelpiece of sorts to me (even though we use it as a doorway), so at a guess I'd say she's a decorative figurine that's being possessed either permanently or temporarily by a ghost, although whether that ghost is Leota or someone else, I'm not sure. Her voice doesn't sound like Leota's (in fact I think the only reason she's referred to as "Little Leota" is because her voice is provided by Leota Toombs instead of just her face like with Madame Leota).
I hope you plan on compiling all of these little vids together at the end of the month. :D
The part at 1:46 is still in WDW's at the scene with all the stairs
The most adult parts of the ride....the woman inside the crystal ball and the small woman over the exit......very strange, very creepy, and because their speech is not totally clear, understanding only about 60 percent of what they are saying makes it strange too.....
Man I thought that everyone forgot of the man from U.N.C.L.E
The little Leota in WDW is the old miniature Holo-Girl from Horizons.
I always thought that Little Leota was Constance. In the Magic Kingdom version (the one I'm most familiar with) she appears overhead on a ledge, which I thought was meant to imply the attic. She of course wore the wedding dress, and her voice even sounds a lot like Kat Cressida (the voice actress for Constance).
Also in the Paris version, Melody Ravenswood, who serves the role of The Bride, also serves the role of Little Leota. She even says the "Hurry Back" line.
Get this, she's an apparition casted by Crystal ball Leota of her "Corruptible Mortal State" to be a final parting to the guests. Remember this is a retirement home for ghosts. Leota could very well be the HR department cause she bridges the living and dead. The cloak would make sense cause gypsy travelers (and Priestesses of the ancient world) often wore cloaks like that. So in short Leota casted an apparition NOT A GHOST of her self during life to get guests to come for a.... longer stay
yey a new video!
In Disney World, to me it looked Leota was just far away standing on a balcony. Or maybe it’s a possessed doll
When I was little I always thought it was just the bride.