This Day in Halloween: Disney animated short "Lonesome Ghosts," featuring Mickey, Donald and Goofy, opens across the U.S. in 1937. / Illustration by Noah Ayub
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.
