In 1967, with the openeing of Disneylands new attraction "Pirates of the Carribbean" the last thing eager fans expected were to gaze upon actual human skeletons. The attraction was made to be a walk-in wax musuem that costs Disney a pretty penny (approx $15 million at the time), however with all the money sunk into it the designers could not create realistic skeletons.
With the designers stumped on what to do they turned to an unlikely ally, UCLA (University of Claifornia Los Angeles). With the procurement of human skeletons they proceeded to place them all throughout the attraction.
However, with the advancements of "fake skeleton technology" they began replacing the real skeletons with fake ones, giving the attraction a lighter, less dark feel to it.
Some do say that they still use a few real skeletons here and there for effect, but who knows.
If anyone has any more information on this please let me know because it is a really interesting topic!
