Urban Legend or a Real Dead Boy

Rain · Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 180 Location: Philadelphia, PA

Ghost boy in "Three Men and a Baby"

I remember seeing this movie when it first came out. I didn't think the movie was great, it was o.k. And I didn't notice anything weird about it.

One evening my ex, Ann, burst through the front door and said there was a ghost of a dead boy in the movie "Three Men and a Baby". Ann was a little on the dramatic side, so I just said "sure" and brushed her off. She said she wanted to go buy the movie and wanted me to come with her. She was so excited, I couldn't but help to give into her enthusiasm.

After we bought the movie, she fast forwarded it to the part where the "boy" was, and sure enough there was somebody standing near the window. Well, the producers, actors and director all claim it's a poster of Ted Danson. But, that does not look like Ted D. If you look closely, the person looks younger, and the top hat that Ted is wearing is not on the other "person". After seeing this, it gave me goosebumps. LOL In fact, I couldn't look at it anymore. I'm a horror movie junkie, so things like this don't scare me. But this,,,,,something wasn't right. I don't care what Hollywood has said on this subject. Hollywood is notorious for lies and cover ups.

What do you think?

The "Boy"

Ted

The shotgun

[The ghostly image of a boy who died in the apartment where Three Men and a Baby was filmed can be seen in the finished movie.
The unusual image at a window appears when Jack Holden (Ted Danson) and his mother (Celeste Holm) are walking through the house Jack shares with his two buddies. As Mrs. Holden plays with the baby girl left who was left in the three men's care, a human figure can be glimpsed standing behind the curtains of a background window at the left-hand side of the screen. A rumor has persisted for several years that this figure is the eerie image of a boy who was killed in the house where this scene was filmed.

The most common form of this rumor claims that a nine-year-old boy committed suicide with a shotgun in the Three Men and a Baby house. (A detail obviously inspired by the jagged black outline created as the curtains move away from in front of the figure's left-hand side. The black portions of the figure form an outline that does resemble a shotgun standing on its end, barrel down.)

Other variations merely mention that a boy died in the house, without specifying how. The dead boy's despondent parents supposedly moved out after their son's death, and the house was rented or bought by a film studio, who allegedly used it for interior scenes of Three Men and a Baby. More detailed versions of the rumor have the boy's mother suing the film studio after they refuse her request to remove the image from the film, and/or making the rounds of television talk shows (Oprah, Geraldo, 60 Minutes) to repeat her strange tale of woe. Even wilder versions have the mother spotting her dead son, dressed in his burial clothes, in the film. In stock folkloric fashion, the mother immediately goes insane and has to be confined to a mental institution, where she has remained ever since.

As usual, the truth is much more mundane. The figure behind the curtains is a "standee" (a stand-up cardboard cutout used for advertising displays) of Ted Danson, dressed in a top hat, white shirt, and tails. The standee prop was created as part of a story line involving a dog food commercial in which Danson's character (an actor) appears, but references to the figure were cut from the finished version of the film.

(The standee shows up once more in the film: Ted Danson is standing next to it when the baby's mother comes to reclaim her child.) The figure was accidentally left in front of a window on the set by a propman and thereby "sneaked" into the background of one scene. Additionally, all indoor scenes were shot on a Toronto soundstage -- no real structures were used for interior filming.]

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