===The Loading Area===
After leaving the stretching room the guests enter the loading area. Here guests board their "Doom Buggies" and begin to ride through the mansion. Having guests ride through the attraction in Doom Buggies, allowed Disney Imagineers to control what scenes guest would see at a particular time.
On the walls inside the loading area are nine of the eleven "Sinister Pictures". The Sinister Pictures are the portraits who's eyes seem to follow guests as they move.