" Never did a dishonorable deed, yet found face down in canary seed " -Florence's epitaph
Aunt Florence also known as Florence Dread or Florence McGriffin Dread is a member of the Dread Family and a woman whose tomb is found in the Haunted Mansion in the Magic Kingdom of Walt Disney World.
Description[]
Background[]
Florence Dread (née. McGriffin in original scripts) was the wife of the wealthy Jacob Dread. Following her husband's death at the hands of family-member Bertie Dread, she murdered Bertie with a flintlock.
Following the murder, Florence herself was killed by young family-members and twins, Wellington and Forsythia Dread who presumably wished to take her inheritance and the late Jacob's inheritance. The two went about this by suffocating her in canary-seed where her corpse was later discovered.
Following her death she was memorialized as a bust alongside Jacob and Bertie in the burial-grounds of Gracey Manor.
History[]
Florence's original epitaph would have read as, "Got a taste of her own medicine" referencing how she had her medicine poisoned by the unused character of Whitfield. Florence herself would have been responsible for the murder of the also defunct character of Ruben Dread by poisoning his dessert.
Appearances[]
They are presented as busts in front of the Walt Disney World Haunted Mansion as part of the 2010 interactive queue installation and work as a mystery game where guests use clues hidden on the busts and epitaphs to solve the mystery of who killed who.
Each member of the family's plaque is decorated with symbols that represent their murder weapon with Florence's having a flintlock as an allusion to her shooting Bertie Dread dead.
Trivia[]
- Florence was only fully named in the original testing phase of the Dread family.
- Although most of the Dread Family murders seem to revolve around inheritence, Florence seems to stray from this. Never having done a dishonorable deed, it is not likely she murdered out of greed, but more likely to avenge her husband's death and thus restoring honor to his name.
- Her name may be a reference to "Aunt Flo," a common nickname for the menstral cycle.