00:00This is the real Goofy. He wasn't a dog. His face was stolen from a boy locked in an asylum.
00:05In 1903, the Indiana State Children's Home kept a ward for the incurable.
00:10Children with jaws that never closed, strapped to iron beds.
00:14One boy laughed without pause. High, broken, almost animal.
00:18He laughed until his lips split and his throat bled.
00:21Visitors wrote they could hear it echoing down the halls at night.
00:24Nurses called him Goof. When he died at 13, his file vanished.
00:28But the photographs remained. A long body, sagging ears sewn from bandages.
00:33Two decades later, animators were shown those photographs in secret, told they were reference material.
00:39They traced a dead child's grin onto paper, frame by frame.
00:43Even the sound department was told to mimic the pitch of his broken laugh, pressing wax needles deeper each time he screamed.
00:50In 1932, Goofy appeared on screen. Same grin, same laugh.
00:55Families who had children in that asylum swore they recognized the sound.
01:00Because it wasn't created. It was taken.
01:02That laugh you still hear, high, cracked, unchanged in a century, isn't a cartoon.
01:07It's a boy who never stopped.
01:09And every rerun, every recording, repeats his last breath forever.
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