Of all of the hazards that come with a Disney vacation — screaming kids, paying $8 for a glass of “blue milk” and the shame of being surrounded by Disney Adults — it appears there's yet another potential pitfall in hitting the parks: Breathing in the remains of someone’s grandma.


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On Sunday, one vacationer headed to Reddit with a glimpse at just how gory a trip to the typically family-friendly vacation spot can be, sharing — and quickly deleting — a photo of what appears to be ashes spread through Disneyland’s Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance attraction.



“Someone spread some ashes on Rise of the Resistance at Disneyland last night, according to Reddit,” Disney enthusiast @dizchris captioned their now-viral re-upload of the photo. “Don't do this, folks.”


Despite garnering a collective what the f—k from the fine people of Twitter — “my last request is to have my remains sprayed off the linoleum by an underpaid employee's pressure-washer,” joked @coyote_actuaI — this horrifying sight is no anomaly.


Much to Disney’s chagrin, several — pun avoidable — die-hard fans have done their damnedest to make the happiest place on earth their last place on earth, so much so that maintenance staffers are called to vacuum up guest’s ashes roughly once a month the Wall Street Journal reported back in 2018.


“The Haunted Mansion probably has so much human ashes in it that it’s not even funny,” an unnamed custodian said of the practice, one that has garnered several how-to videos from a few morbidly-minded Disney adults.



But it’s not just Disney cleanup crews that peeved over having to vacuum up “Code Grandma[s]”  — as a few staffers dubbed it — on attractions ranging from Pirates of the Caribbean to Dumbo The Flying Elephant and even It’s a Small World (if those animatronic children weren’t creepy enough already).


 “This type of behavior is strictly prohibited and unlawful,” a spokesperson told the paper. “Guests who attempt to do so will be escorted off property.”


So take it from these tales of post-mortem woe: When the Ghost Host asks if there are “any volunteers” to be the 1000th ghost at the Haunted Mansion, he most definitely does not mean you.