Exiting the Graveyard, the Ghost Host returns to warn us of hitchhiking ghosts. It seems he forgot to mention them earlier. These ghosts will follow guests home and haunt them until the guests return to the Haunted Mansion.

The Doom Buggy floats by the ghosts and into a corridor with mirrors. The mirrors reflect the guests image and the ghost, who will follow them home, sits beside them.

Disney has updated the effect, which is fun, but nothing beats the experience of going through the Haunted Mansion as a child and having a ghost sit next to you, or on your lap. With three ghosts to follow you, the Haunted Mansion had built in reasons to go back.

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For a long time, the Hatbox Ghost was more legend than real. There was a whisper about a ghost that carried his head in a box. The effect didn’t work, and the Hatbox ghost dematerialized. Its legend, however, couldn’t be killed. Imagineers worked with the ghost on and off, and he rematerialized in 2015. Fans celebrated the ghost’s return.

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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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Little Leota is the penultimate ghost (there is another ghost after her that many guests miss; that ghost didn’t make it on the list) at Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion. She stands on a mantle to the left as guests exit the attraction on the moving walkaway. “Hurry Back! Hurry Back! Be sure to bring your death certificate if you decide to join us.” She’s one last wonder before guests return to the land of the living.

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Another set of busts head up the celebration in the graveyard. Thurl Ravenscroft is among the busts that sing Grim, Grinning Ghosts. The other busts are thought to be the Mellomen, a barbershop quartet that Thurl was a member of. This appears to be untrue.

The four men filmed as Haunted Mansion busts are Verne Rowe, Chuck Schroeder, Jay Meyer, and Bob Ebright; the Mellomen are Bill Lee, Max Smith, and Bob Stevens.

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Providing the music for the swinging wake, Viktor the organist plays in the ballroom. The organ’s notes conjure spirits from the pipes, and the mood is set for a fun and spooky time. The organ is from Disney’s 20,000 Leagues under the Sea.

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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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The Birthday Girl is responsible for bringing the Ballroom and it’s Pepper’s Ghost effect to unlife. As she blows out the candles, the ghosts disappear. When the candles are relit, the spirits reappear. This is more than just her birthday. It’s her swinging wake.

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Apparently, this is a name I made up. Neither Sir Klinksalot nor Sir Klanksalot show up in search engine results. Still, I must’ve heard it somewhere and am, thus, keeping it.

Sir Klinksalot is the suit of armor positioned in front of the endless hallway. The armor makes small movements to add to the atmosphere. For a short time, the armor was inhabited by more than one spirit. A cast member would dress in armor and provide a jump scare. Reports are that the cast member was often abused by mischievous and scared guests.

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The Stretching Room portrait of Abigaile Patecleaver is often misidentified as that of an elderly Constance Hatchaway. It’s as if two women couldn’t use the same method to kill the men that they… love?

Abigaile of the Stretching Room portrait was named by X. Atencio. She was around long before Constance Hatchaway replaced the Bride in the attic. Additionally, her portrait shows an axe in “Beloved” George’s head. She didn’t decapitate him, like Constance did her husbands. Someone might say that George was Constance’s first kill and she evolved her methods, but that same person would be refuting the argument that the George in the painting is the same as Constance’s last husband, whose disappearing-head photo in the attic shows he was beheaded.

“But they have the same name!” Right, because two men of a similar era can’t have the same name. I can envision the Monty Python Sketch now. You can, too, if you head over to my Patreon page and become a member.

I stand with X. Atencio and his narration – the same narration that gave us Alexander Nitrokoff. Abigaile Patecleaver and Constance Hatchaway are two different ghosts. You might not believe that a beautiful, upper-class women is capable of axing her husband to death, but there are real-life cases that would prove you wrong. If you don’t know, you better axe somebody.

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