

Without Walt's guiding vision, debates raged whether the Haunted Mansion should be frightening or lighthearted. The result was that both Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion changed from walk-through to ride-through attractions.Then we lost Walt himself in 1966. In the process of designing the fair's four Disney attractions, they learned a lot about moving Guests. But then the history of the Haunted Mansion takes a long detour.First, Disneyland plans went on hold so Imagineers could focus on the 1964-65 New York World's Fair.

By 1957, plans moved the house to Frontierland next to a planned "pirate museum." Following Walt's insistence that this haunted house be a Mansion whose exterior showed no signs of age or decay, Imagineers completed the exterior of the stately southern estate in 1963. Forever.By the time the Haunted Mansion opened, there was almost no trace of the original tale-except for the ship weather vane, the body hanging in the Mansion's cupola, and the bride who haunts the attic, her love demonstrated by her glowing, beating heart.A haunted house was always planned for Disneyland-one appears at the end of Main Street in many early Park renderings. Together, they walk the halls of their Haunted Mansion. Her ghost sought revenge, walking the attic and eventually driving him to hang himself. In a rage, the Captain murdered his bride. After moving into the home, she discovered her husband's secret identity-Captain Gore, a bloodthirsty pirate. As originally planned, the attraction told the tale of a wealthy sailing merchant who built the home for his young bride. It mysteriously remains always night within the house.We recommend that you stay close together during your visit, and please, above all, obey your guide's instructions.So begins a never-recorded script written for Walt Disney as an introduction the Haunted Mansion. This is the lakeside estate of the unfortunate Blood family.Our house had a tragic and bloody history of unlucky owners who died sudden and violent deaths, which resulted in their unhappy ghosts remaining behind to fulfill the uncompleted missions f their lives.We started the work of restoration as soon as it arrived at Disneyland, but strangely enough, the work of each day was destroyed during the night. HINGES CREAK IN DOORLESS CHAMBERS for 30 Years
