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Attic
As the sounds of the ghostly party slowly fade into the distance, the Doom Buggies carry guests into the heart of any good haunted house: The Attic -- a musty, dusty, bat infested realm filled to overflowing with hundreds of family heirlooms, knickknacks, and curios, in addition to assorted ghosts, ghouls, and goblins who "pop-up" from the floor to terrorize guests. |
The Attic is also home to one of the Mansion's most infamous residents and a veteran of more than one story line over the years. According to X. Atencio in Storyboard magazine, "The story line was supposed to be about a bride who died, and they have an illusion of a bride in a bridal costume, her heart thumping away. The bride becons with a flickering candle as her heart pounds loudly, glowing the color of blood." |
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"We have 999 happy haunts here -- but there's always room for a thousand.
Any volunteers?"
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Many of the more than 200 objects that fill the attic are musical instruments, which relate to the musicians that guests are about to encounter in the Graveyard, or nautical artifacts that are a likely throwback to the early sea captain story.
Although the bride and the melancholy sound of her beating heart create a truly foreboding atmosphere, most of the scene's scares come from the black-lit heads on pneumatic rams that shoot up from the bric-a-brac -- a simple gag that Rolly Crump and Yale Gracey had been playing since the late 1950s. |
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