Quite Continental

Fact: I refused to enter the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland until I was 13 years old.  Too scary for this little scaredy-cat.  It’s since become one of my favorite attractions at the park, with its herky-jerky animatronics, doom buggies and hitchhiking ghosts.  On Halloween, my thoughts always turn to this lovely antebellum mansion, and I thought I might share a bit about the creation of the ride.  Of special interest in this video is the appearance of Harriet Burns, the first Disney woman Imagineer, at the two minute mark in part 1.