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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

342: The Disney Hall of Presidents Conspiracy

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Unknown, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7928 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

A presidential conspiracy unfolds in 2016.


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0:00.0

Ever wondered why people gone kill in sprees?

0:05.2

Are you interested in exploring the paranormal?

0:07.9

Faffled by stories of previous lives?

0:10.2

Well, so are we.

0:11.6

In each episode we'll be discussing the weird and wonderful stories that are truly confusing

0:16.0

for nominums and some horrific, true crime cases.

0:20.2

Find us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok and join us every Tuesday wherever you listen to your podcast I'm Jason Horton.

0:50.6

I'm Rebecca Leib.

0:52.0

And this is Ghost Town. In 2017, a year into his first term, Disney's Hall of Presidents at Walt Disney World Resort

1:15.6

in Orlando revealed a new animatronic, Donald Trump.

1:21.4

Now I probably don't have to tell you that Trump is a controversial historical figure for many reasons.

1:27.2

But the animatronic, a life-size specimen of robotics that spoke, reacted and engaged with a

1:33.3

Disney-going audience, had its own air of strangeness and notoriety, physically inaccurate and

1:40.0

somewhat disfigured, called, quote, horrifying, and nightmare fuel by its critics.

1:46.7

It's not that the United States was freaked out by another bizarro Trump in their midst,

1:52.0

but because word on the street was that this animatronic was supposed to look like Hillary

1:56.7

Clinton and was hastily refashioned to mimic the features of the President-elect Donald

2:02.7

Trump.

2:03.7

Today, another strange tale from the halls of

2:06.2

Disney, the Trump Clinton animatronic conspiracy. In 1957, as Disneyland gained traction as a popular theme

2:13.6

park, Walt Disney proposed an expansion of the park's Main Street USA called Liberty Street,

2:19.0

a wholesome yet viby representation of colonial Boston on the eve of the American Revolution. Liberty

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