- "Buried here, a dubious band
Up to their necks in hungry sand" - ―Epitaph, "Ghostly Friends of the Haunted Mansion", My Disney Experience app
The Quicksand Men are three of the ghosts who are also haunting the Haunted Mansion.
Description[]
In the Stretching Room is the large portrait of a wealthy smug-looking man with his arms crossed, wearing a brown jacket and a brown bowler hat. When the painting stretches, it is revealed that the man is sitting on the shoulders of another man in a purple jacket with short, straight white hair and a white mustache, who is sitting on the shoulders of another man in a blue jacket waist-deep in quicksand. There's a sign that says, "Quicksand" which appears in front of the man in the blue jacket who has short, straight brown hair and a dark brown goatee.
Other appearances[]
Printed materials[]
SLG Comics[]
In the SLG comic story Three of a Kind, the men are named (top to bottom) Big Hobbs, Hobbs, and Skinny Hobbs. They were notorious gamblers and late one night were chased out into the bayou near Gracey Manor by Bartholomew Gore (William Gracey using an alias). They decide to play cards to see who will carry who across the quicksand, which they thought was mud, but while stacked up on top of each other, they sank into the quicksand and drowned. Like other people that died suddenly, they did not realize they had become ghosts and are still standing in the quicksand playing cards.
Ghost Gallery[]
In the unofficial Ghost Gallery storyline, the three men were said to have been mansion servants Asa Gilbert, Eddy Foster, and Daniel Patterson. The three were lured into the quicksand pit by Little Leota after they rejected her advances. Daniel was also said to have been the illegitimate son of the Ghost Host's father George Sr, Asa was the runaway half-brother of Master Gracey's mother Mary, and Eddy was the secret son of George Sr's brother Edward.
Film[]
Muppets Haunted Mansion[]
In the special, the stretch painting appears with Link Hogthrob, Dr. Julius Strangepork, and Ms. Poogy in the roles of the three men.
Haunted Mansion (2023 film)[]
The three appear as animate portraits in the stretching room as quicksand appears below the mortal characters. Earlier in the film, Bruce mentions explosions and quicksand as part of the mansion's history, indirectly referencing them and the dynamite gentleman.
Television[]
Mickey Mouse Funhouse[]
The man on the top makes a cameo in "The Magic Mansion" as a staring portrait watching Goofy and Daisy as the explore the house's halls.
Trivia[]
- The allegoric interpretation of the original portrait is that it's an allegory of the futility of money, which won't stop death, just like the Tightrope Walker is thought to be a reflection on the futility of beauty and the Dynamite Guy on the futility of power (for the same reason that they don't stop death, either).
- For that reason, the SLG comics' backstory contradicts the original message.
- The man with the bowler hat is notably similar to the Traveler Hitchhiking Ghost, "Phineas", and it has been theorized by some fans that they might actually be the same character.
- In the 1991 dark-comedy classic The Addams Family, there is a tombstone with a design very similar to the Quicksand Men which depicts three plump suited men on each other's backs, sinking into the dirt.
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