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The Haunted Mansion Featured Page The exterior of the Haunted Mansion Magic Kingdom Land Liberty Square Opening date October 1st, 1971 Vehicle type Doom Buggies Number of vehicles 160 Ride duration 11 minutes Audio-Animatronics 109 Disney Genie + Yes The Haunted Mansion is an attraction located in Liberty Square History Origin in Disneyland Like many of the original Magic Kingdom attractions, the Haunted Mansion began as an idea for Disneyland. Before the park was even built, Walt Disney and artist Harper Goff were working on an idea for a haunted house type attraction. The original sketch by Goff was titled, "Church Graveyard and Haunted House" and featured a Gothic style mansion on top of a hill . The original haunted house attraction was envisioned as a walkthrough attraction, in which guests would see various haunted scenes . Some of the original ideas for the attraction included: a ghostly sea captain who killed his wife, an unfortunate family living in the mansion, and a ghost wedding which would have featured various Disney villains including, Captain Hook, the Lonesome Ghosts, and the ..→