Captain Gore

Captain Gore (Captain Gideon Gorelieu, his full reputation name being Captain Gideon Gorelieu, and called by some Captain Blood, another drafted name is Black Bart.)  was the original antagonist for an early version of a port-side Haunted Mansion made up by Ken Anderson. Captain Gore was a murderous, yet wealthy sea captain that owned a sea-side mansion. His story has since been downgraded, and now only serves as the inspiration for the sea captain portrait in The Haunted Mansion.

Story
The attraction this was housed in was originally going to be a walkthrough-type, with many of it's concepts and functions making it into the more lighthearted Haunted Mansion, and a loose variation of the storyline winding up in Phantom Manor. The Priscilla character eventually became the famous Bride Ghost seen in the attic of The Haunted Mansion.

Ken Anderson first wrote up a story for Disneyland about a nautical themed manor owned by Captain Gore and his bride. Captain Gore has a shady backstory, though it varies in drafts, though one thing is certain, Captain Gore is a murderer, and his bloodthristy acts gave him that name.

The tour of his abode would take place in a picture gallery, with a winding staircase leading up to an unseen room. The host is a butler named Beauregard, who then lowers the guests into the basement, as the floor is a secret lift, a concept that would later be thrown into the Stretching Gallery. The tour begins in the basement, and proceeds up to a foyer room. As the butler would tell the story of Captain Gore, hairy hands would emerge from the wall behind him in an attempted kidnap, supposedly Captain Gore's hands. Guests would then encounter the ghostly bride, Priscilla, slowly reveal the true story of Captain Gore. The end of the attraction would be marked by a well, with a massive clue to the events scratched in the walls saying "Ding dong dell, Priscilla's in the well. Who threw her in? The wicked cap-a-tain!"

The butler finishes by saying "And about the color of the water, maybe it's the reflection of the sun, but by on odd coincidence, it's blood red."

Many believe Captain Gore killed his bride by stuffing her in a chest and throwing her down a well, and another draft states that he just threw herself and no chest into the well, either way, the ghost of Priscilla tormented Captain Gore every night, and he hung himself in the rafters.

Haunted Mansion comic series
In the non-canonical comic series, Captain Gore reappears with a refurbished storyline that blends Pirates of the Caribbean and The Haunted Mansion.