As I always say, Imagineers do not create in a vacuum, they are inspired by all kinds of sources 📖 It should be noted that while Marc Davis was inspired by these tales of piracy, he didn’t end up using the lives of real pirates because their ends were not terribly heroic and most definitely not family friendly 😬 That’s why you don’t see a lot of famous pirates on the original version of the attraction from 1967. Some of Marc Davis‘s first sketches of these real pirates were added later though to the walls of the queue. Marc Davis called the section with the Jolly Roger “mysterious” because “people don’t know where the heck they are and they hear ‘dead men telll no tales’. They come around this corner and there’s a skull up above and pow! All of a sudden the bottom falls out of the thing! That was really scary to people at first.” The talking skull was voiced by Imagineer X. Atencio (who also wrote the lyrics to Yo Ho, Yo Ho A Pirate’s Life for Me), but when you hear the phrase later on in the attraction in the ghostly grotto, it’s performed by Paul Frees. #pirat#piratesm#deadmentellnotalese#disneye#disneyridese#disneyparkse#disneymoviest#piratesofthecaribbean #potce#disneylande#disneyworldd#marcdavisi#imagineeringe#disneyhistorye#disneystoriese#disneyfactsse#disneytriviae#disneylandcaliforniae#disneyattractionse#disneyconceptartr#neworleanssquaree#disneynerde#disneytiktoke#disneytok - @disneycicerone