Spooky season is almost here, and what better way to celebrate than with a countdown of the scariest spectors at the Disneyland resort? Join me as I break down the most unnerving, bonechilling and unsettling haunts at Disneyland.
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Haunted Mansion 1969 Behind the Scenes, Vault Disney, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEPdN__ZmYo
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Uhhh….
7. PeopleMover Ghost
6. Gotta be uhh the uhh Ghost of Walt or something
5. Mr One Way, easy
4. Hatbox Ghost (but specifically the Leto version)
3. Haunted Mansion Ghost that's not real
2. Haunted Mansion Ghost that IS real (you all know the one)
1. THE MUMMY OF COURSE WHO ELSE?!?!?!?!
i lost it at 15:04
BS.
This is less of an "I encountered a ghost" story and more of an "I might be someone else's ghost" story.
In 2002, I attended Grad Night at Disneyland with most of my high-school class. We were locked inside the park all night, running as wild as we felt like, and I have two lasting memories from that night: riding the teacups while Jimmy Eat World was blasting from the speakers and accidentally haunting the Main Street nickelodeon.
Around 2 or 3 a.m., most of my friends were getting tired, so they suggested finding a spot to nap. We went into the nickelodeon on the assumption that no one else would be watching a bunch of black-and-white cartoons, and we found four or five other kids sacked out on the floor. My friends decided, ehh, good enough, and they lay down too. I, however, have always been an extreme night owl and a pretty poor sleeper, so I just kind of sat there in a corner, watching the cartoons. I was raised in a strictly religious home by parents who disapproved of most movies made in color, so I had grown up watching the Marx Brothers and such on VHS. Consequently, I actually had a frame of reference for those old cartoons.
I remember one featured a polo match between Disney characters and 1930s celebrities like Clark Gable and Harpo Marx. Harpo was riding an ostrich for whatever reason, and I was tired, loopy, and culturally time-displaced enough to find that absolutely hilarious. So I sat in a little nook out of sight of the door, watching ancient cartoons, and giggling because there was no one awake to judge me for knowing who Harpo Marx was.
At one point, I heard footsteps approaching the curtained entrance and the curtain being brushed aside. Then someone hissed, "Oh SHIT!" and ran. I wouldn't get the joke until after I'd slept, but some sleep-deprived teenager had just seen the nickelodeon with its floor covered in motionless bodies and the air filled with seemingly disembodied giggling.
I would probably have run away too.
I have a photo! I took it in pirates about 4 years ago. It is near the skeleton in the bed. It is a woman wearing a very large hat standing in the corner near the bed in an area that nobody could possibly stand. I would love to share it.
Does the famous "Brer Fox said he was going to marry me" count as a ghost story?
I'm so happy someone finally put it out there that these were viral marketing. So tired of seeing them everywhere when they should be known fakes. Thank you.
I have finals coming up so I'd agree that it's the spookiest time of the year 😂😂
I went to DL 4 yrs. Ago. Super busy… could not get on any decent rides. Left 2 hrs later after spending $200+ . Scared me so bad I never went back. True story.
My boyfriend and I were in Mickeys house in toontown one night with no line. We walked all the way through and we both had this really weird feeling. We ended up leaving before even seeing Mickey. It just felt like we shouldn’t be in there or that we weren’t wanted in there…
When I die, I hope I end up in the haunted mansion, and then go home with a random family to harass them when they leave
Also if Walt is still haunting the park, he’d 100% just ride haunted mansion on loop
George appears to be real
During a Christmas party at the Magic Kingdom I rode Haunted Mansion 5 times in a row and the fourth time I was laughing with mom about how my Grammy used to be afraid of places like that because ghosts love even fake spooky places. Well on the next ride someone behind up kept knocking on the back of our doom buggy and I thought it was funny until we spun around and I realized there was no one behind us… mom still teases me about how completely freaked out I was and that was our last Haunted Mansion ride… for a while.
Back when I worked at Schmoozies in DCA there was, of course, the story that a little girl had passed away in that area in the time that it was still a parking lot (people said it was a car accident). Other CMs would spread the story that you could hear a girl laughing or mumbling in the back of house and I never believed it because the back of house leads directly into the Hollywood backlot area so it could of just been guests that we heard that were close to the door or walking by. BUT! When I had to close Schmoozies for the night with my lead and we were close to the front of house in a little corner where a computer for my lead to type end of day notes was, we could hear footsteps and movement just around the corner as if someone else was with us. Normally I would assume it was guests outside but this sounded like someone was inside maybe 3 feet away from us close to the dishes and giant freezer around the corner wall. I was going to investigate but my lead just kept typing and looking at the screen when she told me "No, just ignore it, just ignore it. Don't go over there." I know she was talking to me but it also felt like she was telling herself that. When she was done, we got our coats and booked it out the back while focusing on the ground because Schmoozies only has one entrance/exit and we had to cross the back of house area to get out…
didnt you make this video already?
Ridley Pearson, who was the author of the Kingdom Keepers books, got the idea for the famous scene in the book where the main characters went to Small World and had a battle with the dolls from a spooky encounter he had while riding Small World. He went on Small World with the all the power off to get inspiration and learn more about the parks for the books and he swore he saw two of the dolls moving.
Small world only the music stops.. the dolls move 24/7 same with the Native Americans on the rivers of America… 👎🏻
When you named dropped Alex the historian it made my day he needs more attention on his channel every video was so fire.
I don’t know about the rest of you guys but the innovations building in Tomorrowland is very eerie. I remember going in and feeling chills and cold spots in certain areas. Not to mention that the Innovations got history so that’s the cherry on the top too.
Lots-O-Hugs is a REAL THING. In DisneySea Tokyo they offer a MUCH loved collection of Lots-O-Hugs friends. And the one in the TOY STORY blast is named Duffy.
Jim in N.Y.
Me and my sister saw something weird at tower of terror in disneyland before it was replaced. After the 1st part when they make you wait in the boiler room, you can kinda look down and see people. Idk if theyre real people or not, but we saw someone with completely black eyes staring up at us
Not sure if this is a ghost story. But, I went on a ride in Epcot in Florida that I could never find again. I remember it as a water ride that people get splashed because it is a little fast on a small drop. It is not the one with the restaurant and temple – that one is slow. I went on it as a kid.
I’m convinced constance’s eyes followed me like the busts last time I rode the mansion
great video
My only Disney World ghost story:
Me, my brother, and my mom boarded The Great Movie Ride (R.I.P.) to end off our day at Hollywood Studios. Everything seems fine and we shuffle onto the ride with a few others near park close. As we pull into the western scene however that’s when things get a little odd. On the right hand side of the John Wayne animatronic sat a little saloon with a window and blinds. Between the blinds was a figure which we all 3 saw and quite honestly I didn’t know what it was. We could definitely make out an eye and part of a face but that was it. We tried looking in from the door as our ride vehicle kept rolling forward but we couldn’t see anything from that angle, our best guest was that it was likely a cast member trying to find a hiding spot while maybe fixing an issue in that room. But it seems unreasonable if you ask me, I’m not sure what I saw that day, but it definitely spooked me a bit.
Sorry George is Disneyland's not Magic Kingdom
My step daughter was riding in the haunted mansion with my girlfriend, so it was the two of them, i was in the doom buggy in front of them with my twins, then ride broke down for a good two minutes or so, all of a sudden my step daughter started screaming, when we got off i asked her what happened and my girlfriend mentioned that her daughter was touched by someone else in the doom buggy by the madam leota session room. She’s the one who always felt or saw ghosts when she was a kid. I also took pictures around the firehouse in Disneyland and might have captured a spirit around the cast member to the right of it, there was a worker walking to it and it shows another person behind him, totally different outfit from the actual worker and he was the only one there. A lot of things happened that night, I was outside the Emporium waiting for my family to finish shopping and a lady approached us and gave us a Disney tumbler for free. Supposedly she does it for selective families every night and she’s a local that lives outside the park. It was around the time I took the pictures.
Those kids were just smoking weed clear to me 😂
I am too old to have gotten in on the whole Disneyland is haunted or creepy vibe. I was a small child when these rides were going up and can remember the thrill of them opening: Small World, Pirates, then Haunted Mansion. Audioanimatronics were new and cutting edge. I remember them literally being magic for me when I was ten, but then being able to see the mechanics at eleven (brain growth). Everything was always clean and dust free. But, if I ever get to return, I will be watching.