Followers of the Haunted Mansion will immediately be aware of a number of issues. For one, the film Mansion is replete with three-candle candelabras, twisted, snake-shaped doorknobs, and wallpaper that may be a very specific shade of purple. These are all readily seen on the Disneyland journey, whereby company sit in shifting pods — nicknamed “doom buggies” — taking in a sequence of terrifying tableaus. In a single sequence, actor LaKeith Stanfield wanders down a hallway, and the portrait behind him appears to vary every time he passes it. This can be a reference to the altering portraits on the journey, whereby a horseman turns into a skeleton, a ship turns into a ghost ship, and a younger girl turns into Medusa. 

One of many ghosts on the Haunted Mansion journey has been nicknamed the Hatbox Ghost, because it sports activities a sizeable high hat and carries a field at its facet. Within the hatbox is a desiccated human head. Within the new 2023 movie, the Hatbox Ghost might be performed by famous technique actor Jared Leto. 

One other notable ghost from the Disneyland journey is a faceless bride who lives in an attic diorama. Her eyes glow out of the darkness, and guests can see her glowing coronary heart beating inside her chest. An extended string of ghostly grooms seem subsequent to her, say “I do,” after which vanish in ache. The implication is that this bride had murdered a number of husbands in her life. As a result of the Haunted Mansion was stringently scripted in 1959, the Bride really has a reputation: Constance Hatchaway. On the French model of the Haunted Mansion in Disneyland Paris — referred to as Phantom Manor there — a narrator even has a small poem about her, saying: 

“Be part of now the Spirits in Nuptial Doom,

a ravishing Bride, a vanishing Groom…”