The Truth About Suicidemouse.avi

One of the most well known Creepypastas is Suicidemouse.avi, which details about a lost Mickey Mouse short that depicts disturbing events. You want to know something about it? It's a ripoff of a real story. The true events happened to a close family friend named Jeff, who suffered cardiac arrest a few weeks ago at the age of 29. In his memory, I have decided to tell the true story about a real unreleased Mickey Mouse cartoon.

Jeff worked part time at the Disney Animation Research Library. As some people may know, the Disney Animation Research Library houses thousands of Disney sketches, concept art, and unreleased film footage. Jeff was slated to work on the Walt Disney Treasures in 2002. This is what he told me about a few years before his untimely death:

It was 2002, and we were working on the edition that had all the black and white Mickey Mouse cartoons. The research was led by the one and only Leonard Maltin, who took me under his wing and taught me a lot about the history of Walt Disney Pictures. We occasionally came across sketches that were either from an unreleased short or just concept art. I was beginning to enjoy this job. I was even considering it as a career. That it until October 14th, 2002. It would be two months before the DVD was released. It remains to be the darkest day of my life. The plan for that day was bonus material. Some material, such as a short film for the Mickey Mouse Fan Club in 1931 called "Minnie's Yoo Hoo" (which is now available on YouTube) , and many other tidbits and clips. So we were all excited when we found a film reel titled "Mickey B-Dance Edit DO NOT WATCH PLEASE DESTROY". It was dated February 18, 1929. Everyone was excited and urged to put it on. Maltin put it on the film projector and we began to watch.

From the titles, we realized this was "The Barn Dance", a Mickey Mouse cartoon that was released on March 14, 1929. The cartoon, which was already on the said DVD collection, is famous for it's ending, showing Mickey (who has just been rejected by Minnie to dance) pouting and crying. It also depicted Peg Leg Pete as a gentleman. So, we were all excited and many of us discussed about a possible alternate ending. The cartoon was pretty much the same as the released version, except for two things. One was that Mickey's plow horse makes kissing sounds when him and Mickey are watching Minnie dress from her window. The second thing was more odd.

At several points throughout the cartoon, everything pauses and zooms in at Mickey's face, and Mickey produces a creepy, toothless grin. We were unsure why this was happening. There is also a scene that was removed from the final film, showing Mickey going into Minnie's kitchen and playing music with her cutlery. A large butcher knife falls into his pocket during this sequence and does not reappear. We all didn't understand the significance of this. Finally, the final scene came up. Minnie realizes Mickey had a balloon to keep him up after he falls on her, and she rejects him and goes to dance with Pete. Then, Mickey began to cry. As Leonard Maltin began to explain the possibility of using the kitchen sequence as a bonus feature, the crying continued. It was unusual because Mickey's crying is seen for about three seconds before it zooms to the closing credits. But Mickey kept on crying. Our eyes sat glued to the screen.

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