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Hidden Hauntings – 10 Things You Might Have Missed on the Haunted Mansion
1. A Mysterious Voice Our last entry is one only the Disney historians may know, but all should take note. Upon exiting the ride, there is a large mausoleum towering next to the exit gate. Much like the graveyard queue, on each stone is written a humorous phrase about the deceased. One of these stones reads: “Farewell forever, Mister Free
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Hidden Hauntings – 10 Things You Might Have Missed on the Haunted Mansion
2. The Hidden Hitchhiker Along with hiding Easter eggs and references in their works, Disney is also known for recycling certain elements and sequences in their materials. This can be seen in films like The Aristocats, The Jungle Book, and Robin Hood; but it can also be seen in The Haunted Mansion. The graveyard is home to several “pop up
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Hidden Hauntings – 10 Things You Might Have Missed on the Haunted Mansion
3. Phantoms of Fantasia In the ride, as one falls backward out of the attic scene and toward the famous Haunted Mansion graveyard, a swirling series of ghost projections are shown in the sky. Too many Disney fans, these phantoms are fiendishly familiar. These ghostly visions are very reminiscent of Chernobog’s minions of darkness from the
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Hidden Hauntings – 10 Things You Might Have Missed on the Haunted Mansion
4. Music From Regions Beyond One last ballroom mention before we dearly depart. In the farthest corner of the ballroom, right past the waltzing ghost sits a large pipe organ where a well-dressed ghost plays out the famous Phantom Waltz, an eerie image and definitely an icon of the manor. This next tidbit did not reach my eyes till my sec
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Hidden Hauntings – 10 Things You Might Have Missed on the Haunted Mansion
5. Shall We Dance While we’re in the ballroom, let's have a look at those waltzing couples. Any Disney historian or magic aficionado will tell you how the illusion is created by an old magicians trick called Pepper’s Ghost, an illusion created by using a mirror and glass. However, some riders, even the most seasoned Disney fans, often mis
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Hidden Hauntings – 10 Things You Might Have Missed on the Haunted Mansion
6. In Plain Sight The Haunted Mansion ballroom is the favorite scene of many a fan. Second only to the graveyard, it has perhaps the highest amount of ghostly activity. It is also the perfect place to hide a Hidden Mickey. I use the word hide very loosely here, as the Hidden Mickey is not concealed at all, rather hidden through the use of
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Hidden Hauntings – 10 Things You Might Have Missed on the Haunted Mansion
7. The Maddest of Hatters Any Haunted Mansion fan will tell you that one of the most favored Happy Haunts is the infamous Hat Box Ghost. This shady specter is most often found at The Haunted Mansion in Disneyland’s New Orleans Square, but he can also be seen in the mansion at The Magic Kingdom. As the Doom-Buggy rolls through the hallway,
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Hidden Hauntings – 10 Things You Might Have Missed on the Haunted Mansion
8. Moonlight Maestro This one took me by surprise on my last visit. As the Doom-Buggie travels through the hallway, it pulls guests by an old piano that appears to be playing by itself. Self-playing instruments are nothing new in the field of haunted houses. There’s practically an invisible marching band in Madame Leota’s seance room. How
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9. There’s Always My Way Every Haunted Mansion fan is familiar with the Ghost Host, that eerie voice that floats over the Doom-Buggies as they flow through the mansion. For some that’s all the Ghost Host is, a voice. However, he does have a physical form. In the “Stretching Room,” when he delivers the line “there’s always my way,” a proje
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10. O’ Captain, My Captain As many Disney historians know, one of the original ideas for The Haunted Mansion involved the ghost of a murderous sea captain with a sharp harpoon and an appetite for gore. This character was scrapped long ago and never brought to the mansion. However, a soaking sea captain does reside in the graveyard queue a
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