You haven’t heard screaming children until you go see the 3d “It’s Tough to be a Bug” movie in Animal Kingdom (WDW). Everytime I see that, when the bugs start to “attack”, every kid in the place wants to leave NOW.
The pictures in the hallway that change from regular people to monster people creeped me out. It’s a pretty campy effect but it still manages to make me uneasy. It’s surreal stuff like that that scares me the most.
“Hurry baaaaaaack. Hurry baaaaaack.”
Creeps me out every time.
When I was just a wee little tot, I was scared to death by the magnified sounds and sights of the walk-through model of a beating heart…at a local science museum. Returning again for the first time since then, as a pre-teen, a panic went through me by instinct…like a flight-or-fight response. It was short-lived, and I laughed it off. Still, those first impressions last, don’t they? (To me, hearing that incessant beating once again was like what Edgar Allan Poe describes in his poem, “The Tell-Tale Heart”!
OK, after years of shock therapy. I’m pretty much ok. Aaahh get it away, get it away! 
…just kidding! 
Didn’t get to go to Disney until I was a pre-teen, so no psychological damage there…whew! (My parents had a perverse sense of fun, huh?) - Jinx, with a nervous tick, tick, tick…
I went to Walt Disney World in Florida for the first and only time when I was 16 or 17 years old. I was still leery of going on the Haunted Mansion. I did go, but I was creeped out by some of it.
I’m a wuss.
Don’t forget your … DEATH … Certificate!
I had that very same thought when I witnessed little kids who were screaming and crying being dragged into Alien Encounter. What did the parents say? “Don’t be such a wuss, I’ve been on this ride and it wasn’t scary at all.” DUH??? One of the scariest things on Disney property…
But then again, I am scared by Haunted Mansion. Especially by the “bulging doors” when you’re going backwards and the knocker is moving all by itself. My imagination just runs wild with what’s behind it.
I particularly like the ghost that resembles Leslie Nielson.
Want to hear about a real wimp? I’m way too old to have been scared by HM, but when I was about 4 I stayed with my great aunt in NYC. She took me to the King and I movie. The very beginning, when Anna (whoever played her) was on the ship and met by the King’s men, scared the crap out of me, and I left.
It also took years for me to get past the introduction of the Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz.
Hope you feel better now. 
Hermann: This guy?
(warning: link is much more disturbing than the actual Haunted Mansion version; I’m a bit creeped out here)
Masonite–can’t think of his name right now but that guy in your link is th e SAME guy who’s done the voice of Tony the “They’re grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat!” Tiger.Legend has it he was a good buddy of Unca Walt’s and the Imagineers put him in there for laughs.
** Einmon**–you wanna talk about therapy bills…last time I went, CG and I went on Alien Encounter.About four or five seats down from us was your Typical American Family(tm pending).Sporty,tanned dad,perfectly built blonde mom and their two perfect children who were about seven and five,IIRC.About midway t hrough the show,the kids are screaming their bloody little heads off and the parents are freaked out.Mom somehow(and she must have been VERY flexible…if ya know what I mean)managed to slither out from under the restraining harness.She was tugging at the kids,trying to get them out and yelling at her husband to get the kids outta there NOW!!Her husband just kind of shrugged (as well as he could with a harness on anyway)and said something to her I didn’t quite hear with all the noise.When it was over,we walked out past them in the lobby and both kids looked like they’d been to Hell and back.Mom was screaming at Dad saying he should’ve gotten them o ut and Dad was screaming back at her that they shouldn’t have taken them in the first place.
No…I really WAS looking at stuffed Astronaut Mickeys…I swear.
IDBB
The haunted mansion at Disneyland was probably the scariest ‘haunted mansion’ rides I ever went on. The stretching room was particularly frightening. Does anyone remember what the paintings looked like when the room stretched out? All I can remember is a guy in a ‘thinker’ pose, then when the room stretches he’s sitting on a keg of TNT.
The holographic ghosts scared the bejeezus out of me. I thought they were honest-to-goodness ghosts. Fortunately, that ride was more ‘fun adrenaline junkie’ scary, and not ‘ten years of therapy’ scary. When I went back years later I was actually disappointed that I didn’t get as scared on it 
I_Dig_Bad_Boys: The person you’re thinking of is Thurl Ravenscroft. He’s the bass baritone voice of Tony the Tiger on the ads for Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes, and he’s the singing voice in the animated version of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (“You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch. . .”). You can see him and the other harmonizing Phantom Five from the Haunted Mansion’s graveyard, here.
Ravenscroft is the ghost in the flash frames linked above by masonite. Those are actually still frames of him singing the mansion’s theme song, “Grim Grinning Ghosts”.
Incubus: Here’s more on the stretch paintings in the Mansion’s octagonal gallery.
What you think are holographic ghosts are actually something simpler: solid, mechanical manequins that are superimposed over a ballroom by use of a mirror. Likewise, the ghost you see in your car as you exit the graveyard is another mechanical mannequin moving on a track on the opposite side of a mirror from your car.
Hey, I was totally cool with the Haunted Mansion at WDW. I thought it was too fun to be really scary.
However, I will never as long as I live ride that satanic “Adventures of Snow White” ride again. There was a sign at the beginning of the ride that read, “There are some scenes in which the witch appears that might frighten small children.”
SOME scenes? Try every single scene in the ride. And never mind being small either.
The damn witch comes flying at you out of nowhere, is about eight feet long, cackles and shrieks like some demented clown and looks and behaves like a live person. This happens at least fifteen times during the ride and every single time that nightmare on a broom comes from a different direction and just about winds up in your lap!
I spent the entire ride with the cushion sucked all the way up my butt and my heart thudding like a herd of elephants. I have never been so terrified in my life. I literally leapt out of the ride the instant it stopped.
I was thirteen. I wouldn’t ride it again for a million dollars. Forget it.
Paul Frees (re-recorded when necessary by a soundalike) is the narrator of the ride at the Haunted Mansion.
Completely out of nowhere, but for anybody who has a Playstation One (or two, for that matter), there is a racing game out there called Walt Disney World Quest: Magical Racing Tour that is kinda fun. It’s a racing game ala “Crash Bandicoot” where all of the tracks are based on actual rides at Disney World including Haunted Mansion, Pirates, Dinosaur, Space Mountain, and Rock’n’Roller Coaster.
Not the greatest game ever, but kinda fun for people who love Disney World.
Oh. God. I had that ride blocked out of my mind. I recall being traumatized by that ride, as well as “Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride.”
I think the thing that started my bad experience was seeing the portrait that turned into three guys standing in quicksand. I’m apparently not disturbed by people being blown up or eaten by gators, but slow suffocation in mud–not fun.
Anyway, I’m glad to see I’m not the only one. And what great responses! Especially for someone with a post count in double digits.
::sniff:: Thanks, guys.
I love it!
My favorite WDW freak out was a maybe ten year old boy with his small sister. He caught my attention by slapping her across the face like a hysteria victim, slamming her to the ground and growling “No! We will not do the Tikki Room again!”. The tot nodded slowly, her brother helped her up and they walked off hand in hand toward a different attraction. Not a solution any of the nearby parents could use, but from the looks of it, some of them were beginning to consider it.
My mother and I did Alien Encounter together. You can get out of the harness if you puff up when it first comes down. Not that I wanted to, I was focusing on trying to make myself one with the seat and get overlooked by that thing that was walking on my head. I was 18 at the time and I still think it was the scariest moment of my life. If they destroy that wonderful experiance before I can take my SO there and see if he wets his shorts, I will cry.
Lets see…
Haunted Mansion Lots of ghosts and such, the bride in the attic was the creepy part for me. Now Mrs. Z and I just make out during the ride)
P of C Lots of skeltons and torture and murder and drunkeness and white slavery and attempted rape (well in the good old days)
Jungle Boat Cruise More skeltons, shrunken heads and cannibals and carnivorous animals.
Its a small world Creepy as hell
Alien Encounter Best scare ride I’ve ever had.
Submarines Didn’t they have a part where a diver was being attacked by squid or sharks? Or was the sub itself attacked by a giant squid.
At Disneyland Paris in the basement of the castle there is a large animatronic dragon. Man if you want to see some kids get the crap scared out of them go there. But also at DLP they have a very nice mock-up of the Captain Nemo’s sub from the movie and the giant squid attack is one of the worst things I’ve seen at any DL park. Not scary, cheesy as hell.