The Captain's Treasure is an item from Disney Kingdoms' Haunted Mansion comics.
History[]
The treasure was a supposed great wealth believed to have been hidden within the Haunted Mansion by its original owners. The mansion was supposedly built to be a labyrinth as a means of hiding said treasure with its chest being in the attic but there also being a secret room decorated with a skull made as a red herring. However the treasure was not located in the mansion for unknown reasons, possibly having never existed and possibly being somewhere different.
At some point in the 19th century the treasure was sought after by a pirate only known as, "The Captain" who drowned in the manor's basement while searching for it. In the 21st century the captain used dark magic to trap the ghosts of the manor as a plot to find the gold. He'd force the mortal Danny Crowe to retrieve the treasure chest only for Crowe to discover the chest was empty. Following this, the captain was dematerialized by the attic's resident spirit Constance Hatchaway who decapitated him and left his head in the possession of the Hatbox Ghost.
The cursed treasure as seen in Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean
Identification[]
It is theorized that the pirate's treasure is intended to represent the cursed treasure from the Haunted Mansion's sister-attraction Pirates of the Caribbean. This is partly due to Disney Kingdoms comics being known to reference several attractions while also interconnecting them and a reference to the famous attraction seeming an obvious inclusion. Pirates of the Caribbean is also referenced by Constance herself mentioning them, "Singing too much" as an allusion to the crew of the Wicked Wench in the attraction singing, "Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me)". The red-herring room encountered by the captain also has a skull decorating it resembling the skull Captain X from the original Pirates of the Caribbean ride.
In the original Disney attraction, the cursed treasure was a collection of gold, silk, art and jewels which was kept in the possession of the Spanish colony Puerto Dorado on the Caribbean island of Isla Tesoro. At some point in the 18th century (likely the 1710s-1720s), the island was ransacked by a pirate crew aboard a ship called the Wicked Wench searching for the treasure. The crew of the Wench would eventually successfully obtain the treasure and hide it in the caverns of Dead Man's Cove on the island where they made a lair. This resulted in the pirates being cursed and left in the cove as undead skeletons and ghosts. One of the treasures is a stone of Aztec gold from the film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl which in the film was blood-money paid by central-Americans to the cruel colonist Hernan Cortez whose greed and genocide resulted in the Aztec gods cursing the gold.