Haunted Mansion Story

When hinges creak in door less chamber and strange and frightening sounds echo through the halls, whenever candlelight's flicker where the air is deathly still, that is the time when ghosts are present, practicing their terror in ghoulish delight. Welcome, foolish mortals to the Haunted Mansion. I am your host, your Ghost Host. Kindly step in all the way, please, and make room for everyone. There’s no turning back now.

Our tour begins in this gallery, where you see paintings of some of our guests as they appeared in their corruptible, mortal state. Your cadaverous pallor betrays an aura of foreboding, almost as though you sense a disquieting metamorphosis. Is this haunted room actually stretching? Or is it your imagination? And consider this dismaying observation: this chamber has no windows, and no doors. Which offers you this chilling challenge: to find a way out! Of course, there’s always my way.

Welcome, dear friend, to my humble homestead. Please try to obey the house rules. Do not play with the bats or disturb the undead, and remember: don't hassle the ghouls. Put aside all your fears; follow me if you dare, and I'll tell you some tales, my dear friend. Just ignore those howling wolves, sit right down, take a chair, and we'll see if you get to the end.

Wouldn't it be great if Disney handed out little stories about the attractions before you went on them?! It would be so much more fun to know the history of the attraction. Most people have no idea that there IS a history to the Mansion or other attractions. They get on them, ride them, laugh at them, cry at them, shiver at them; without knowing the story-line.

As this story goes... Many years ago a rich businessman in central Florida and his beautiful fiancée happened upon the mansion and fell in love with it. When they married they held the wedding on the lawn in late afternoon. The reception followed inside the mansion.

During the evening festivities someone in the wedding party suggested they should all play hide-and-seek. While looking for a place to hide, the bride found her way to the attic where she came upon an empty trunk. She climbed inside the trunk and closed the lid.

What she and the others didn't know was that the house was haunted by a jealous male ghost. He also fell in love with her and decided to make her his bride. When the lid to the trunk closed the ghost locked it so there was no escape. The young woman suffocated to death.

After hours and hours of searching, the wedding party finally found her lifeless body. Hours later, after everyone else had left, the husband in his grief hanged himself in the attic (now known as the stretch room). Over the years the entire house became haunted with ghosts of all types and descriptions, 999 in all. Legend has it that the brides wedding ring can be seen embedded in a brick near the exit to what is now the Walt Disney World Haunted Mansion ride.