==History==
===Origin in Disneyland===
Like many of the original Magic Kingdom attractions, the Haunted Mansion began as an idea for Disneyland. Before the park was even built, Walt Disney and artist Harper Goff were working on an idea for a haunted house type attraction. The original sketch by Goff was titled, "Church Graveyard and Haunted House", and featured a Gothic style mansion on top of a hill. The original haunted house attraction was originally envisioned as a walkthrough attraction, in which guests would see various haunted scenes. Some of the original ideas for the attraction included: a ghostly sea captain who killed his wife, an unfortunate family living in the mansion, and a ghost wedding which would have featured various Disney villains including, Captain Hook, the Lonesome Ghosts, and the Headless Horseman.
===Museum of the Weird===
When One of the other ideas for the Haunted Mansion was originally being developed by Walt Disney that Rolly and the Imagineers, Walt and Imagineer Rolly Grump came up with explored, was the idea for a Museum of the Weird. The museum was to be a part of the entrance and queue to the Haunted Mansion. Showing guests various oddities "discovered" around the world, the Museum of the Weird would also have doubled as a restaurant and would have been located near the entrance (similar to Disneyland's Blue Bayou restaurant, which is a part of the [[Pirates of the Caribbean attraction]]. Rolly Grump Crump came up with various ideas for the museum including : coffin clocks, candle men, man-eating plants, tiki busts, a mirror with a face, and a "living gypsy cart". With the death of Walt Disney and the subsequent uncertainty about the tone of the attractionhowever, the idea for the Museum of the Weird portion of the attraction was eventually scrapped.
Although the Museum of the Weird was never built, ideas from the museum can be found within the Haunted Mansion itself. Examples of this include:
*The red chair that appears to have face* The wallpaper in the "Corridor of Doors" with various faces and eyes.* The gypsy cart that sells merchandise outside of the Disney World Haunted Mansion {originally a similar cart would have been located in the Museum of the Weird and would have interacted with guests}.
*The wallpaper in the "Corridor of Doors" with various faces and eyes.
*The gypsy cart that sells merchandise outside of the Disney World Haunted Mansion {originally a similar cart would have been located in the Museum of the Weird and would have interacted with guests}.
===Disney Imagineers===
The main Disney Imagineers that worked on the designing and construction of the Haunted Mansion were:
*Harper Goff (original sketches and design)
*Ken Anderson (storyline)
*Yale Gracy & Rolly Grump (special effects)
*Claude Counts (plot/storyline)
*Marc Davis (character design/storyline)
*Blane Gibson (sculpting-many of the ghosts including the hitchhiking ghosts and the singing busts were sculpted by Blane Gibson)
*X Atencio (Writer of both the Ghost Host narration and the attractions theme song "Grim Grinning Ghosts".
===Disney World Construction===