Guests come across a living suit of armor, a chair which is embroidered with a hidden abstract face, and a long, narrow corridor down the center of a parlor. Partway down the corridor is a candelabrum, floating eerily down the hallway. As guests pass through the conservatory, the Doom Buggy is spun to face backward. On the side of the room is a glass room. Dead flowers adorn the whole room with a coffin in the center.
A raven sits perched atop a wreath with a banner that reads "Farewell. The coffin seems to be nailed shut, which explains why the corpse inside is screaming for help.
After leaving the conservatory, guests travel through a dimly lit corridor. Portraits of family members, all of which resemble zombies and skeletons, hang upon these walls while monstrous voices echo through the halls.
Many doors are seen here; their handles are jiggling and door-knockers are knocking with no one in sight. A cross-stitched sign reading "Tomb Sweet Tomb" hangs crookedly on the wall.
A portrait of the Ghost Host wearing a hangman's noose and holding a hatchet is seen to the left of the corridor. Next to that, a door seems to be breathing as if it were human.
Two reliefs resembling a smiling and a snarling demon are found here as well. At the end of the corridor is a door with a pair of skeletal hands trying to open the door with an eerie green glow from inside.
A demonic grandfather clock chimes 13 as the hands spin wildly backwards, the shadow of a claw passing over it. Madame Leota, a medium whose disembodied head appears within a crystal ball, summons the mansion's spirits while levitating above her table. Madame Leota says the following:. After leaving the Seance circle, guests arrive at a balcony overlooking festivities below in a ballroom, with a number of ghosts dancing and making merry.
Ghosts are seen entering the room through a broken door, where a hearse is crashed with its coffin sliding out.
Eerie wraiths are seen flying in and out of the windows above. A merry ghost is seen sitting atop the mantle of a fireplace, with his arm wrapped around a familiar bust. An elderly ghost is seen rocking back and forth in a chair while knitting a sweater.
Many ghosts have gathered around a dinner table, where a birthday ghost is blowing out thirteen candles on a cake. A ghost can be seen at the far end of the table. A massive chandelier hangs above the table where a couple of drunks are swinging about, hanging on with their canes. Another balcony is seen across the room, where a curtained doorway is situated between two portraits of duelists.
From time to time, the ghosts of the two duelists appear and shoot each other with their firearms. A number of elegantly dressed couples are seen below, waltzing to a haunting version of the song "Grim Grinning Ghosts," played on a large organ.
The organ is played by a ghostly gentleman while skull-like banshees fly out of the organ pipes. The attic is an irregularly shaped room that the Doom Buggies enter immediately after the ballroom scene. It features a collection of gifts, personal items, mementos, and wedding portraits. In each portrait, a common bride is featured with a different groom, whose heads disappear to the accompaniment of a hatchet sound.
Just before the Doom Buggies leave the attic, the same ghostly bride from the pictures is seen floating in the air, intoning twisted wedding vows. As she raises her arms, a hatchet appears in her hands. The Doom Buggies drift out a window, turn around, and tip backwards down a fifteen percent grade surrounded by dark, ghoulish trees with knotted expressions.
On a branch overhead, a raven caws at the guests. The Doom Buggies reach the ground, and turn towards the gate of the graveyard. There stands a caretaker, one of the few living characters in the entire attraction, his knees shaking in fright and an expression of terror on his face. Beside him is his emaciated dog, whining and whimpering. Around the corner, a ghostly band of minstrels plays a jazzy rendition of "Grim Grinning Ghosts. Ghouls pop up from behind tombstones, a king and queen balance on a teeter-totter, a young princess swings back and forth from a tree branch, and a hellhound howls from behind them.
The Doom Buggies travel down a hill and turn to see five singing busts continuing the song of "Grim Grinning Ghosts. Next, guests encounter a tea party of ghosts surrounding a hearse stuck in the mud. An arm protrudes out of a crypt with a wine glass in its bony hand, while banshees ride bikes in the distance. Nearby, the ghost of an old bearded man struggles to understand the words of an awakened mummy via hearing horn.
The Doom Buggies turn to face two phantoms of the opera, blasting their voices up into the night. Beside them are three other ghosts--a decapitated knight, his executioner, and a prisoner--who also join in the song.
Get the Haunted Mansion attraction special magazine. It is worth noting, though, that while he did work extensively on the project prior to its opening, the Haunted Mansion is the first major Disney attraction to open without Walt Disney as he passed away in While much of the attraction once inside the show building is the same, or at least very similar, between the Disneyland and Walt Disney World attraction, there are some notable differences.
As far as the ones guests may notice, they mainly come in the beginning of the ride. The Stretching Room is one of the first areas of the mansion that guests interact with outside of its eerie exterior and interactive themed queues through the cemetery. In Walt Disney World, the ceiling rises, lifting the walls above the portraits in the Stretching Room to create the illusion that the room is actually stretching. If you ever have the opportunity to work at the Haunted Mansion or as a Cast Member at Walt Disney World who is lucky enough to find themselves on a backstage tour, you may be invited to lie on the floor of while the effect works in reverse , which is quite a frightening, but fun, experience!
In Disneyland , the Stretching Room is indeed an elevator. The mansion itself borrows heavily from the Florida version, albeit with many differences. In addition to a different queue, the mansion itself is more rundown and decrepit, similar to concept art of the original mansion in California.
The idea of a decrepit exterior would also be used for the design of Phantom Manor. In the California version, the queue is located outside the mansion, passing a pet cemetery which leads into a spooky parlor with cast members dressed up as maids and butlers.
It is based on the "Shipley-Lydecker" house in Baltimore, Maryland as shown above, in black and white and sits pushed to the back of a very well-kept lot. The foyer is where the guests begin their tour of the mansion.
Flickering candles light the room from sconces and the sole chandelier, while an organ plays a single-note melodic line which serves as the theme for the rest of the ride. A mirror is at the entrance. After enough guests have gathered in the foyer, the Ghost Host introduces himself and welcomes everyone to the attraction.
From there, the guests are brought into an octagonal room, where the door by which they entered becomes a wall and the chilling voice of the Ghost Host taunts them:. As the voice speaks, the walls quietly seem to stretch upwards, elongating the paintings on them to reveal the fates of previous guests.
For instance, one man - noted in an early script as " Alexander Nitrokoff " - is seen to be standing on a keg of dynamite with a candle lighting the fuse. The lights go out, lightning and thunder effects fill the gallery and, in a rare instance of Disneyland's "dark humor", a glimpse of the earthly remains of the Ghost Host are shown dangling by a noose from the ceiling rafters above - his "way out".
A loud, ear-piercing scream is heard, followed by the sound of skeleton bones clattering. In the California version, the room is, in fact, an elevator with no roof that is being lowered slowly to give the illusion that the room itself is stretching; this brings the guests down to where the ride begins, below ground level.
The ceiling above is a piece of fabric called a scrim, which conceals the hanging body until it is lit from above. This elevator effect was necessary to lower the guests below the level of the park-circling Disneyland Railroad. The actual ride building of the attraction is located outside the berm surrounding the park and the Imagineers developed this mechanism to lower the guests down to the hallway leading to the actual ride building.
It is interesting to note that although it is not necessary to lower the guests at the other theme parks, this effect of the stretching room is still used at the other instances of this attraction at the other Disney theme parks, not as an elevator like at Disneyland, but by raising the roof of the room.
In the Florida version, the queue for the attraction begins at the entrance of Liberty Square coming from Fantasyland , in a way bridging the gap between fantasy and reality.
The line snakes around the front of the attraction's facade and in front of a hearse, before winding around the riverbank shore of the Rivers of America and turns inland to the side of the attraction. Here, we see the family plot for the family that lived in the mansion prior to our arrival.
To the left side of the walkway are gravestones, while in front of us are a pair of black doors, that will open as soon as the attraction is ready for us. An awning was added to the queue a few years after the ride was opened, providing shade for those in line.
In , as part of Disney's NextGen initiative, an interactive extension to the queue's graveyard was added, diverting from the primary queue path. Several large crypts, as well as relocated tombstones are now located here, including a musical tomb implied to belong to the attraction's Organist, a water and bubble emitting tomb for the Sea Captain of the Sinister 11 paintings, and a tomb for a poet with a bad case of writer's block, calling from beyond the grave for help with her rhyming.
There is also a series of busts of a family that call out for guests to solve the mystery of who murdered the group. In addition to these interactive elements, some new stones and crypts have homages to more Imagineers and people involved in the attraction. At night, the exterior is illuminated with an eerie purple light, and lights in the windows flicker.
Every now and then, shadowy figures block the lights in the windows and loom out of view before lighting which is merely a strobe effect strikes. During Halloween, music outside the mansion is much more prominent, more lighting effects are scattered around the cemetery, and fog machines are scattered throughout the queue, but the ride itself remains unchanged.
The Florida version now features an interactive queue area. A musical crypt, a leaky tomb, and a ghost writer are among the creepy haunts located just outside the main entrance. These new hands-on experiences include:.
In the Tokyo version, the queue is very similar except for the fact that it does not go along the shoreline of the Rivers of America. Also in the queue, two stone gargoyles also stand on the pillars of the gate, occasionally turning their heads to look at us. Instead of having a family burial plot to the side of the house, this scene was moved to the front of the attraction and was replaced with a stone crypt with falling debris and a secret part of the mansion not seen at the Florida version.
When hinges creak in doorless chambers. When strange and frightening sounds echo through the halls. Whenever candlelights flicker when the air is deathly still That is the time when ghosts are present, practicing their terror with ghoulish delight. Upon entering the house, we are greeted by a dimly lit hallway. Following this hallway, we enter a foyer, which features a fireplace to the left side.
There is a picture hanging above the fireplace, which shows a handsome, young man quite possibly the owner of the mansion. Our Ghost Host welcomes us and gives his usual spiel. As he is talking, the picture above the fireplace starts to change, showing the many ages of the man until his final days.
One of the walls opens up next to the picture, revealing an octagonal room. Welcome, Foolish Mortals, to the Haunted Mansion! I am your host, your Ghost Host!
Our tour begins here in this gallery. Here where you see paintings of some of our guests, as they appeared in their corruptible, mortal state. This two story room features four pictures these pictures look like the California version's Stretching Room pictures, aside from a few differences. The wall that let us in to this room immediately closes, and the pictures on the walls begin to stretch.
As these pictures stretch, we are shown the terrible fates of the people in the pictures. The Ghost Host then begins to tell us that we are not much better off than the people in these pictures: we are trapped inside this room with no possible way to escape. Well, states the ghost host, "there's always my way. In it, it reveals the Ghost Host presumably committing suicide by hanging. A loud, frightening scream is heard, and the lights go dark.
Both the Disneyland and Walt Disney World versions of the ride have a small pet cemetery located outside the mansion. In Walt Disney World, one can see a tombstone for J. Wikimedia Commons.
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