RSJ>On Or About 07-30-97  03:41, Steven Acevedo said to Lyndsey Wong......
RSJ> SA> I'm glad you like The Haunted Mansion, Lynds. If you want to know
RSJ> SA> the story behind why it got that way e-mail me.
RSJ>I may not be Lyndsey, but I would love to hear about this story.
    Okay. Here's more or less The Origins.
    In The Late 1800's a sea mechant had the mansion constructed for his
    bride on their wedding day. Only when she moved in to did she
    discover that the person she loved was really a bloodthristy pirate.
    He killed her in a fit of rage one night knowing who he truly was.
    But her ghost came back to haunt him and it drove him mad. He hung
    himself in the attic underneath the art gallery. Now they "live"
    there forever trapped in the mansion he built.
    That's The Haunted Mansion story.
    The actual story was that Walt wanted a haunted house ride that
    would fit into his Disneyland plans. The first drafts had the house
    situated on Main Street all run down looking. But Walt wanted the
    house to look pristine. One of his top imagineers and The Ghosts
    could do what they wanted inside to it. It was suppose to be a walk
    through attraction with a butler and maid showing everyone about
    while weird stuff went on.
    A lot of changes took place before the actual mansion was built.
    Among other things it would be moved to New Orleans Square and the
    house would now be a mansion. A lot of the special effects couldn't
    be done in a walk through so it was decided that the omnimovers
    would take people through the awful abode. The dastardly doings
    would be in a seperate building underneath the railroad tracks.
    Madame Leota's Seance Room was devised as part of the mansion in
    homage to one of their female imagineers Leota Toombs. The face in
    the crystal ball is her face.
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