The Bride became Constance Hatchaway in 2006. This black widow beheaded her husbands and married into a higher tax bracket after every kill. In an attraction that features an executioner and his victim, a ghost that carries his head in a hatbox, and a body swinging from the rafters (which may be removed in the future), the Hatchaway storyline was seen as too violent. Constance was removed, and a technologically superior bride with a less violent background was installed.

Whether or not the change was warranted, Constance added bite to a relative tame Mansion about the dead. When she debuted, she was the killer the Mansion needed. “We said ‘I do’ and I did.” Hatchaway’s ghost still resonates with Haunted Mansion fans.

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