The Haunted Mansion is a spooky ride loaded with special effects. Once inside the mansion, guests are directed to a room that seems to be stretching! After this, guests move on to a boarding area where you enter vehicles called Doom Buggies. The Doom Buggies take you down hallways past door knockers that knock themsleves, busts that follow you, a live suit of armour, a plaque that says "Tomb Sweet Tomb", and all the while listening to a spine-tingling narration. You don't actually see any ghosts until you pass through a room where a head in a crystal ball is calling the ghosts to appear. The Doom Buggies climb a staircase and guests can see a grand dining room below with tons of amazingly realistic ghosts dancing and partying. Guests are then taken through the attic past many antiques and apparitions. The Doom Buggies then proceed outside where dozens of "grim grinning ghosts" are singing and dancing the night away in a graveyard. Guests pass many humorously-spooky sights such as a supernatrural band playing a haunting tune while ghostly busts sing the words, a cemetary watchman whose knees actually shake, and a bewitching opera singer who must sing for eternity. Near the end of the ride the narrator warns guests to beware of hitchhiking ghosts. As the Doom Buggies round the next corner, guests are met with a series of mirrors containing their images, plus the image of a ghost sitting beside them! All in All, this is one of the Magic Kingdom's best attractions.
Interesting and little known facts
-in the stretching room at the beginning of the attraction, the walls are actually moving up, but at Disneyland's Haunted Mansion in California the floor moves down!
-the ride doesn't actually take place inside The Haunted Mansion, but instead takes place inside a large warehouse-sized building hidden behind it!
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