Why Rasputin isn't in the Haunted Mansion

By at 1:29 pm Tuesday, Mar 22

Walt Disney vetoed the inclusion of a creepy portrait of Rasputin in early designs for the Haunted Mansion, because he worried that Rasputin's descendants might sue.

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Cory Doctorow

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