Many years ago a rich businessman,
George Gracey in New Orleans
and his beautiful fiancée, Emily
Cavanaugh happened upon the mansion and fell in love with
it. When they married they held the wedding on the lawn in late afternoon.
The reception followed inside the mansion.
During the evening festivities Emily suggested they should all play hide-and-seek.
While looking for a place to hide, the bride found her way to the attic
where she came upon an empty trunk. She climbed inside the trunk and closed
the lid.
Madame Leota hated Emily, so when
the lid to the trunk closed Leota locked it so there was no escape. The
young woman suffocated to death.
After hours and hours of searching,
the wedding party finally found her lifeless body. Hours later, after
everyone else had left, the husband in his grief hanged himself in the attic
(now known as the stretch room). Over the years the entire house became
haunted with ghosts of all types and descriptions, 999 in all. Legend has it
that the brides wedding ring can be seen embedded in a brick near the exit
to what is now the Walt Disney World Haunted Mansion ride
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Three of the Haunted Mansions have been modeled after otherl mansions
The Originals |
The Disney Versions |
Stanton Hall
Natchez, MS |
The Haunted Mansion,
Disneyland, Anaheim, CA |
The Harry Packer Mansion,
Jim Thorpe, PA |
The Haunted Mansion,
Walt Disney World, Lake Buena Vista, FL |
The Bates' House,
Universal Studios, CA |
Phantom Manor,
Disneyland Paris, Marne la Vallée, France |
This site is based on the Haunted Mansion in Walt
Disney World
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Find your way around the mansion!!!
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