Abandoned By Disney

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Published August 4, 2026

"Abandoned By Disney" is a 2012 creepypasta by internet author Slimebeast about a tourist who wanders an unfinished, Jungle Book-themed Disney resort in the Bahamas and meets a photo-negative Mickey Mouse in a service area marked "Mascots Only." A YouTube dramatic reading and fan-art wave in 2013 turned the short story into a defining Disney-horror creepypasta of the era.

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Overview

"Abandoned By Disney" is a horror short story by internet author Slimebeast, built on a mundane travelog voice that slides into a slow, dread-heavy reveal1. The narrator visits a scrapped Disney resort called Treasure Island, a Jungle Book-themed property in Baker's Bay, Bahamas, and pushes past decaying signage into a service area marked "Mascots Only"1. There he meets an inside-out, photo-negative version of Mickey Mouse, the scene that pushed the story into wider online circulation3.

What makes the story stick isn't gore, it's the tour-like setup: a traveler wandering an unfinished park, describing rust and half-built palace walls before anything wrong appears1. Slimebeast borrowed from real Disney lore, using the shuttered Discovery Island near Walt Disney World as the emotional template for the fictional resort2.

Origin & Background

Platform
Creepypasta Wiki (source) / YouTube (viral spread)
Creator
Slimebeast
Date
2012

Slimebeast submitted "Abandoned By Disney" to the Creepypasta Wiki on December 8th, 20125. On January 1st, 2013, he reposted the story to his own site and forum with a note explaining that the fictional Treasure Island resort was inspired by Discovery Island, a Disney property near Walt Disney World that closed in 19992.

How It Spread

The story broke out of niche horror forums on January 12th, 2013, when YouTuber Mr. CreepyPasta uploaded a dramatic reading4. That reading passed 380,000 views by October 2013 and pushed "Abandoned By Disney" to listeners who never touched the Creepypasta Wiki3. A FunnyJunk repost the following day drew about 25,000 views over nine months, and by February 2013 fan artists on deviantART had posted roughly 250 pieces based on the story5.

The story kept building through 2013. On March 17th, a thread on /r/Creepy questioning whether "Abandoned By Disney" was true drew replies from users who agreed the buildup felt believable until the mascot appeared3. Slimebeast expanded the world twice: "A Few Suggestions," a prequel written as escalating notes in the park's suggestion box, went up on January 11th, 2013, and a sequel titled "Room Zero" followed on August 26th, 20131.

How to Use This Meme

Fan works typically reuse the photo-negative Mickey design or the "Mascots Only" doorway as visual shorthand5. Artists on deviantART lean into the inverted color palette when drawing the creature, and abandoned-park horror videos on YouTube often cite the story as a reference point for the genre4.

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