This Day in Halloween: The Disney animated short "Lonesome Ghosts" --starring Mickey Mouse -- opens across the U.S. in 1937. / Illustration by Julian Turonis
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.
