Is the haunted mansion elevator real?

It's not in the house you see from the park. The popular stretching room is actually a giant elevator that takes guests down to a lower floor. People exit the elevator to walk down a portrait-lined hallway to get to the actual ride vehicles called Doom Buggies.



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Skipping the Haunted Mansion Stretching Room pre-show PLUS skipping the actual ride if you change your mind (for anyone) If you get to the pre-show and decide you don't want to go through with it, you can exit before it begins. Just let a cast member know and they'll escort you out through a special exit.

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The Haunted Mansion is such a large ride that they needed to find some way to get guests below the railroad berm so that they could access the large show building beyond. Walt Disney World had no such space issues — and thus no reason for an elevator.

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It's a commonly known fact that when both Haunted Mansion and Tower of Terror aren't busy, they post a wait time of 13 minutes. This is a bit of a joke and also tells guests that the ride is a walk-on and that there is actually no wait.

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So, what's the grand total? 186. That's a far cry from the 999 ghosts Disneyland claims reside in the mansion, which, according to the “Haunted Mansion” episode of “Behind the Attraction,” was first described as a retirement home for ghosts when it was under construction.

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The house operates year round, and there is reportedly a waiting list of over 24,000 people. The newest iteration of the tour, a ten-hour experience called Desolation, offers a prize of $20,000 for successful completion. McKamey deducts $500 from the prize for every failed challenge or use of profanity.

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While it may seem grotesque using real bones, they remained for quite some time. It hasn't been officially stated exactly when the skeletons were replaced with dummies, but they slowly were swapped out and the human remains returned to UCLA during the various ride refurbishments. But, they didn't remove them all!

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The Haunted Mansion is dark and contains some mildly frightening scenes, but there is no gore. The ghostly residents are friendly and the ride is slow-moving.

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