Okay, this is the honest to God truth.
On a trip several years ago, after likely reading about George on this web site, we were in line at POTC. I had kept the George secret to myself as my kids are always looking for some ride info or secrets and I figured I'd wait until we were in the building to spring it on them.
As I was telling them the story of George and how he died in the ride during construction of the ride and if you say his name 3 times, something will happen, there was some clear disbelief from my family. The skepticism grew when I was unsure of George's name. I actually had forgotten his name was George and was calling him "Bob".
When we approached the CMs at the boat loading, I asked them "Isn't there a ghost in the building named Bob who died during construction". They both played coy and actually acted a bit putoff by my questioning. I couldn't figure out why, but I quickly stopped asking questions and my kids were like, "Yeah, Dad, nice try, there is not ghost!!!"
We loaded the boat, and just as we were pulling away from the dock, one CM turned and said, "Oh, by the way, his name is George!!!".
My kids then became obsessed with say chanting "George, George, George".
I'm not sure if I believe in ghost or not (although experiences like this make me want to believe). However, there is only one person that I know who is absolutely certain that she has seen a ghost, and that's my mother. Coincidentally enough, my mom was with us in the boat.
You can call this chance or coincidence or whatever, but as our boat approached the drop just after the skeleton and crab beach scene there was a substantial "bang" and jostling of the boat, as if the boat came off the track.
As I assume most of you know this part of the ride, it is very dark in front of you so that you can't see the drop, so it was a little scary not knowing if our boat was going to continue down the fall. Then the boat suddenly stopped.
We were stuck dead at the top of the drop for about 15 minutes, during which time we were apologizing to George. At that time several CMs came out with a rope, tied the boat and helped us off the boat and out a door at the top of the drop and around the back side of the building. They said we couldn't take any pictures.
Anyway that is a TRUE STORY. You can believe what you want about whether George was involved. Of course, we believe he was directly involved. We have taken several rides on POTC after this without incident.
I say hello and goodbye to him every time I ride POTC! LOVE it! LOL! 
