"When hinges creak in doorless chambers. When strange and frightening sounds echo through the halls. Whenever candlelights flicker when the air is deathly still... That is the time when ghosts are present, practicing their terror with ghoulish delight. - The Ghost Host"
==The Stretching Room==
After the Ghost Host introduces guests to the Haunted Mansion, guests are ushered into an octagonal gallery known as The Stretching Room. The room features verticly stripped wallpaper and menacing green gargoyles. The room also features four seemingly normal portraits of a unknown people. The Ghost host once again speaks to the guests saying:
"Your cadaverous pallor betrays an aura of foreboding, almost as though you sense a disquieting metamorphosis. Is this haunted room actually stretching? Or is it your imagination, hmm? And consider this dismaying observation: this chamber has no windows, and no doors. Which offers you this chilling challenge: to find a way out!"
As the Ghost Host speaks, the walls begin stretch upwards. The paintings are also elongated to show the true nature of the portraits, a depiction of various Haunted Mansion "residents" deaths. When the room stops stretching the Ghost Host says "there is always my way out!", at which point lighting flashes above to show the corpse of the Ghost Host hanging (having apparently committed suicide).
During the 2007 refurbishment of the Disney World Haunted Mansion, the gargoyles that light the room were given dialog. After the Ghost Host tells guests to "stay together please" the gargoyles whisper "stay together" and then giggle like haunted children.
===The Loading Area===