Disneyland guests have been riding Doom Buggies for 55 years now, but what story is the attraction trying to tell?

As the ride re-opens this weekend after its annual holiday makeover, fans might not be too keen on the change to the classic spooky attraction.

The Haunted Mansion has always been a strange blend of horror and humor, and arguably the scariest part of the entire attraction comes at the very beginning. The disembodied Ghost Host that narrates your experience reveals that he only found one way to escape the famous Stretching Room, by hanging himself from the rafters.

The challenge for Walt Disney Imagineering is fitting a rethemed scene in the limited space above the stretching room.

Disney parks are 'looking at' removing the hanging corpse from the Haunted Mansion ride's stretching room at Disneyland and Disney World.

Walt Disney Imagineering introduces a new ghostly bride utilizing projection technology in the Haunted Mansion’s attic scene.