{"id":198424,"date":"2025-10-08T21:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T21:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/198424\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T21:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T21:01:07","slug":"disneyland-guest-dies-after-haunted-mansion-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/198424\/","title":{"rendered":"Disneyland Guest Dies After Haunted Mansion Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tA woman in her 60s experienced a health issue and died on Monday after riding the Haunted Mansion attraction at Disneyland<\/a>, Variety has confirmed.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to the Anaheim Police Department, the woman was unresponsive immediately after exiting the ride, which is currently themed to \u201cThe Nightmare Before Christmas.\u201d According to the police, Disneyland security provided CPR until paramedics arrived and transported her to a local hospital, where she was later pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n

\n\tA cause of death has not yet been revealed. Per Sergeant Matt Sutter of the Anaheim Police Department, \u201cThere is no indication of any operating issue with the attraction, which reopened soon after.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHaunted Mansion is described on Disneyland\u2019s website as a \u201cslow-moving\u201d attraction that is OK for \u201clittle ones.\u201d It says under guest policies: \u201cThe ride itself is gentle, but young children may be frightened by the special effects.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe ride first opened at the California amusement park in 1969 in the New Orleans Square area. The seasonal makeover began as a yearly tradition starting in 2001. Haunted Mansion is not based on preexisting IP, but the ride spawned two movies, a 2003 film starring Eddie Murphy and a 2023 reboot with LaKeith Stanfield.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe ride takes visitors through a ghost-infested manor and features floating heads, dancing spirits and a room with an ever-expanding ceiling. According to EW, it\u2019s one of the only Disney attractions that features explicit images of human death, including a dead body that hangs above visitors at the beginning of the ride.<\/p>\n

\n\tHong Kong Disneyland recently opened a Haunted Mansion-inspired attraction called Mystic Manor, which follows a monkey named Albert meddling with his owner\u2019s magical antiques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman in her 60s experienced a health issue and died on Monday after riding the Haunted Mansion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75321,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-198424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-disneyland","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}