Talk:Ghost Host/@comment-26692295-20150720041535/@comment-6032121-20150720084047

I can.

You see, it was written in early scripts that the hanging corpse is the one of "the person who speaks"; we see it just after "there's always my way", and the idea is that the only idea he could come up with when he was alive was to commit suicide. Although it did not work well either. And what you see is his corpse, his soul/ghost is indeed outside, talking to the audience, and the Hanging Corpse cannot move. He's a lifeless skeleton.

And the Hatchet Man has a rope around his neck indicating that he was hanged. If you compare pictures of the Hanging Man taken with a flash and the original version of the portrait, they wear exactly the same suit, so it is self-evident that he was intended to be the Hanging Man

It is debatable that the Hanging Corpse is the Ghost Host's (some imagineers, and probably the ones who created the idea, thought and think so, but the current voice actor of the Ghost Host, Corey Burton, thinks the Ghost Host isn't really a ghost himself but more "the voice of the building itself"), although most people (official and fans) think so, but it is 100 % that whoever the Hanging Man is, he is also the Hatchet Man.