The Haunted Mansion’s beginning scenes set the tone in dark and forbidding ways. Every part of the mansion is designed to feel eerie, and the bust at the end of the Portrait Corridor set the tone for the idea that the Mansion is watching you.

The marvelous effect was discovered when Yale Gracey and Rolly Crump viewed the reverse of an Abraham Lincoln mask. Now, the school marm and a man in a necktie follow your movements with their eyes.

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