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I think I only saw the ending and can't get it out of my head because it was rather grim for a kids show. This is what I remember but not sure how accurate I am. There is a pale faced kid silent type who is the heir and a lady guardian is trying to use him to get to a crystal in a secret room hidden by the tide that the kid can only find or open. Above the door is a picture of the father/ancestor (beard, mustache) that the kid stares at and from it there is an apparition of its disembodied head looking at him angrily. The crystal is inside a spherical cage and when the lady tries to reach for it she sets off a trap and her hand gets stuck. I think the ghost appears here again and the kid manages to escape the room. Sound familiar to anyone? May have been around the time the demon headmaster was aired.