Heartbreaking phone call between teenage Disneyland worker and parents before she suffered one of the worst deaths imaginable

A woman who suffered one of the worst deaths imaginable while working at Disneyland had a phone call with her parents shortly before the stomach-churning incident.

Deborah Gail Stone was just 18 when she died at the Disneyland resort in Anaheim, California, having got a job there to make some money before she went to college.

She'd got a job at the now defunct 'America Sings' attraction, a rotating theatre where the audience would see a series of animatronics singing tunes from various times in US history.

Sadly, on 8 July 1974, just a over a week after it first opened tragedy struck as at around 11.00pm that night it's thought Deborah became trapped between the rotating walls of the attraction.

The exact course of action that led to the 18-year-old's tragic death has never been conclusively worked out, but Deborah died after she was crushed between the walls of America Sings and most of the audience for the show that was going on thought her screams were somehow part of the show.

The America Sings show was redesigned after her death. (YouTube/Eric Denney)

By the time other staff members were alerted to the catastrophe it was too late to do anything to help her.

Deborah's parents Bill and Marilyn had spoken to her on the night of her death, telling The City Weekly that they got a phone call at 'around two o’clock in the morning' from a neighbour telling them the police were trying to find their house.

Bill also talked about the last conversation he had with his daughter, which had happened on the day she died.

He said: "The night of her death, she had called us and asked if it would be okay if she got married.

"She really got engaged that night, so she was calling to get our permission. I think the hardest thing I had to do during the whole thing – other than go through it – was to call her fiancé in the morning to tell him."

She had called her parents to ask for their permission to get married the night she died. (Facebook)

After the 18-year-old's tragic death America Sings was closed for a few days, with safety lights installed onto the attraction and the walls swapped to breakaway versions which would give someone stuck within their rotations a chance to escape.

Stone's parents filed a lawsuit against Disney and were said to have received a 'small settlement', though 30 years later when they spoke to The City Weekly they said people working for Disney 'were very nice' to them even after that.

America Sings continued to operate until 10 April, 1988 when it closed down for good.

Most of the animatronics were moved to Splash Mountain, while the building was used for office space and storage until 2015 when it was redesigned as the Star Wars Launch Bay.