Scanner Group Says April Death at Disney’s Magic Kingdom Was Hidden by Feed Outage
The discovery exposes a two-day scanner outage that left 64 emergency calls unrecorded, prompting scrutiny over whether technical failures plus privacy policies limit public access to on-site medical information.
Overview
- Scanner-monitoring outlet WDWActiveCrime posted updated logs on May 28 that show a “dead person” call at Magic Kingdom Park was recorded at 11:46 a.m. on April 24.
- A technical outage of local emergency scanner feeds on April 24–25 caused 64 law enforcement calls in the Walt Disney World area to go untracked in real time, which kept the incident out of public view for more than a month.
- The Magic Kingdom entry was logged to 1460 Magic Kingdom Dr, the general address the resort uses to summon first responders, so the records do not show the exact location inside the park where the emergency occurred.
- WDWActiveCrime shared the finding on X and media outlets reported the logs on May 28; Walt Disney World Resort has not issued a statement and no identifying details about the deceased have been released.
- The same restored logs also show two other April 24 “person down” calls at Disney Springs and Hollywood Studios that appear to have resulted in paramedic treatment or hospital transport, and the episode raises questions about how outages and resort privacy practices affect public visibility into on-property medical events.