Tom Selleck and Ted Danson have addressed an age-old urban legend that has followed them since their film, Three Men and a Baby.
The two actors starred alongside Steve Guttenberg in the 1987 comedy about three bachelors living in New York City trying to figure out how to raise a baby girl that had been dropped off outside their apartment. The baby, named Mary, had been left with a note saying Danson's character, Jack, was the father.
For decades, rumors have persisted that a boy had died in the loft that the three characters lived in—and a ghost has haunted it ever since. This is because the figure of what looks like a boy can be seen standing between the sheer curtains in a scene between Jack and his mother.
However, Danson and Selleck put this theory to rest during an episode of the Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast titled Tom Selleck Kicked Ted Danson's Ass In Magnum P.I.
Newsweek emailed spokespeople for Danson and Selleck for comment on Wednesday.
"You must get this a lot, I get it a little, but what—the ghost thing—have you been asked that everywhere you go?" Selleck asked, to which Danson said the theory "just got crazy."
"Used to be [asked a lot] yeah, and I'll have to admit, when you go back and you look at it, you get chills, it's a little spooky," the Cheers actor said.
Selleck agreed, adding: "Well you were playing, as I recall, a vain actor—I don't know where they got that concept for an actor—I think you had posters of yourself all over."
"Cutouts, also life-size cutouts or short cutouts of me in my commercials. And there was one that was about you know six, seven-year-old boy size," Danson said.
While Selleck said it was "great" he also acknowledged that it was "very scary," before wondering who came up with the idea.
Danson dashed people's hopes that this urban legend was true even further when he revealed that they shot the scene on a sound stage, not in a New York apartment.
"We shot in Toronto, which is another reason why some kid didn't die in this building in New York because we shot it—because it was on a sound stage," he said.
Selleck previously addressed the urban legend during a February 2017 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. He confirmed that the ghost boy in question was actually a cardboard cutout of Danson dressed in a top hat and tails
"This was a big deal for video sales and all, and maybe Disney made it up—'cause the story was that this kid died in the house where we shot the movie, this little boy," Selleck said.
"Well, we shot on a soundstage, they built a set and all … I saw it, and it looks a little spooky but the story is ridiculous."
Fallon then explained that after speaking to Disney, who distributed the film, he learned that the story surrounding the cardboard cutout was from a deleted scene.
"I think it is ghost boy and actually, I'm going to call Ted and Steve because I think we participate in video sales, it's a ghost," Selleck joked.
Newsweek emailed a spokesperson for Disney for comment on Wednesday.
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