Three Men and a Baby Ghost is a sighting of a ghost in child in the 1987 film Three Men and a Baby.
Background[]
Three Men and a Baby is a 1987 American comedy film directed by Leonard Nimoy. It stars Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, and Ted Danson as three bachelors as they attempt to adapt their lives to de facto fatherhood with the arrival of the love child of one of the men.[1]
The Ghost[]
In the final act, Jack and his mother (Celeste Holm) walk through the house with the baby. As they do, they pass a background window on the left-hand side that has the figure of a person behind the curtains, alongside a black shape that appears to be a rifle. People theorized that a nine-year old boy committed suicide with the rifle in the same house where Three Men and a Baby was being filmed. His ghost and the rifle were captured on the final cut of the film.[2]
Further rumors involve the mother of the ghost child either suing the film studio for refusing to remove the scenes, going on various talk shows to discuss the incident or being confined to a mental institution after going insane from seeing her son in the film.
Disproving[]
Tom Selleck addressed the rumors when he appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to celebrate the film's 30th anniversary. He said the film was shot on a soundstage, eliminating the possibility of the acclaimed history.
The figure is actually a cardboard cutout "standee" of Jack, wearing a tuxedo and top hat, that was left on the set. It was created as part of the storyline, in which he, an actor, appears in a dog food commercial, but this portion was cut from the final version of the film. The standee does show up later in the film, when Jack stands next to it as Sylvia comes to reclaim Mary.
In Popular Culture[]
This legend was discussed on the first episode of TV Land: Myths and Legends in January 2007, and was referenced in "Hollywood Babylon", a second-season episode of the TV series Supernatural.