Dec. 24, 2021

This Day in Halloween: Disney's "Lonesome Ghosts" -- featuring Mickey Mouse, Donald and Goofy -- opens across the U.S. in 1937. / Illustration by Madison Kemp

Lonesome Ghosts opens across the U.S. in 1937. The animated Disney short features Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy as the Ajax Ghost Exterminators. The cartoon likely serves as the inspiration for Ghostbusters nearly 50 years later. 

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