The Haunted Mansion is HIDING Something...

[@FleshGolem420]

I do find it amazing how I'll be like oh no it's another Haunted Mansion video what new can he possibly have to say. I guess I'll give it a minute. And then 25 minutes later it's like wait what it's over already?

[@coasters_bgw]

How in the world did you comment 8 days ago?

[@FleshGolem420]

@@coasters_bgw You know how he has that thing at the end that patrons often get early access? I'm a patron. Sometimes it's just a day or two but apparently he didn't take this one live for a while for whatever reason.

[@OffhandDisney]

❗❗❗ I also want to make a quick addendum to the video, I've seen conflicting reports about Claude Coats and/or Tania Norris creating the final wallpaper. I want to give proper credit and recognition to this amazing woman, and I intend to do a deeper dive on her story in the future, in the meantime please read up on Tania HERE: tinyurl.com/33j24afd ❗❗❗ QUICK, what's the scariest (creepiest, most unnerving) face in the Manison (besides mine)???? Video recorded on July 24th, so if you get confused about me talking about "this weekend", now you know! It's been a wacky week.

[@W1ldestride]

Creepiest face is undoubtedly the ghost host’s. Sometimes when I see a picture of him I cover up the side with the huge eye and then the side with the small eye, love the guy to death (yes pun intended) but he just looks so damn creepy and weird (I’d say second is Father Time, something about old people… ugh)

[@sammyruntz]

I was running to the comments to mention Tania since I was so moved by the sit down interview Disney did with her last month. Looks like we still have a Mansion legend alive after Rolly's passing.

[@kyusshead]

​@@sammyruntzI shot first , looked later...

[@Hi_Im_Timmy]

The reason Rolly Crump didn't recall designing the HM wallpaper design is because he didn't. Look up recent interviews with Tania McKnight Norris, who was an interior decorator Walt hired to work on the New Orleans expansion. She confirms that she designed the HM wallpaper face when interviewed for the 50th celebration.

[@spooksdespook1520]

I always saw the fireplace as looking like an owl. Right after you leave the stretching room, if you turn around and look up there's more owl-like faces. Owls are a symbol of death in many cultures, and there was even Walt's own run in with one as a child.

[@HMFan2010]

A lot of the "wrought iron grillework" like the fireplace screen, the transoms above the doors, and the cemetery gates have faces. Rolly's book "It's Kind of a Cute Story" is very interesting and gives the reader a not-so-common behind-the-scenes account of what it was like to work at Disney, as well as his life as an artist outside of The House of Mouse. It also tells the tale about how Crump nearly lost his life at the hands of a burglar that broke into his gallery late one night. It's book I recommend.

[@cmaden78]

He was truly an original. Very cool guy and totally exemplifies do what u love and ur career will find u. I don't think he was formally trained(?) I'm not positive bout that tho. Can't

[@spectrerecords]

Here’s a face you didn’t mention! I just noticed this one recently after having been on the ride dozens of times. In Disneyland, as you leave the graveyard - the mausoleum is a giant face with fangs and teeth that swallows you and then presents the Hitchhiking Ghosts. The final raven in the graveyard is sitting on this face. I never noticed it because by the time the doombuggy swings you around to see the ghosts, you barely glimpse the raven and then you are through the mouth. Keep up the great videos! You’re delivery and sense of humor crack me up. Thanks for all your work!

[@baystated]

Some of the designs of the character objects in the castle in Beauty and the Beast feel like they could be traced back to these Haunted Mansion designs. and thank you for keeping coral--salmon-pink shirt running guy in your edit. 22:48

[@micycles1200]

Funny you should mention that, because items from the Haunted Mansion can, in turn, be traced back to the Jean Cocteau 1946 version of Beauty and the Beast. I believe I've heard some Imagineers even come out and say that yes, that movie was a big inspiration. The arm sconces that Dallin was talking about at the end are a direct rip from that film. So I guess it all comes full circle

[@baystated]

@@micycles1200 oooooh cool. I didnt know that!

[@W1ldestride]

You know it’s a good day when dallin uploads a video about the hatbox ghost (also I’m excited for hattie in wdw but not where he’s going, I think they could have put him in the attic, that spot right before you enter the attic, where he is in DLR, or in the graveyard)

[@chickenwiretire]

The hidden faces are one of my favorite features of the ride! Dallan, have you done a video of how Jean Cocteau's 1946 "La Belle et la Bete" design helped inspire the Museum of the Weird and hidden faces of the Mansion? Those arm torches at the end are directly from the film! You are awesome.

[@Courier_333]

Haunted mansion is the best theme park "ride" or themed attraction of all time. I know plenty of people who don't love Disneyland as a whole but love haunted mansion as an art piece, all on it's own. A hilarious scary macabre sarcastic ode to death

[@cmaden78]

I love both. But I get it. It wouldn't be made today. Which makes it priceless. When u have it soooo right the 1st time, it never needs fixed! Nailed it guys and girls👻💀💜🖤

[@adinsolitum]

Dallin, if you want some more eyes-in-the-walls kind of stuff, look into the films The Haunting (1963) and La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast 1946). The latter in particular might have inspired some of our favorite imagineers.

[@cathypiper9373]

Absolutely in regards to the arm sconces from La Belle et La Bete .

[@AdamConus]

I finished "It's Kind of a Cute Story" just this morning. Rolly Crump was a treasure, and I loved every word and picture in the book.

[@owen8116]

Currently watching this in line for the Haunted Mansion at WDW. Couldn’t have been posted at a better time.

[@AnimationGoneWrong]

I absolutely LOVE the Haunted Mansion. It is so richly detailed, always something new to discover. I honestly wish I could ride it more often! Knowing how many faces are incorporated into the attraction is very cool! The artwork is genius. Thanks for this!

[@jamesbissell5060]

What about the faces on all of the trees when you go down into the graveyard! Love them!

[@rodrigogil1921]

Didn’t have Dallin holding Baphomet on my Saturday bingo card

[@dylydevil1325]

Right? Here for it tho

[@nickmeade6358]

My grandpa worked on a lot of the ironwork for both mansions when they were being built. One of my favorite family stories

[@gr33ngirlsea]

Oh congrats to him. He did a great job!

[@DakoOfTacos]

So happy to see Radley's work in one of Offhand Disney videos - i'm a proud owner of one of the wax men and so so glad Radley gets a shoutout, he makes really excellent work :]

[@taniajohnson9138]

Claude Coats did the final design of the wallpaper? I thought Tania Norris held that distinction.

[@OffhandDisney]

I've added an addendum to the comments, you're absolutely right. I intend to do a deeper dive into the women behind (and haunting) the Mansion in the future to bring more attention to her!

[@luvadventuresandart]

Tania McKnight Norris is the person who created the wallpaper. Inspired Rolley Crumps art

[@jetsons101]

Maybe those "EYES" you feel watching could be all the security cameras you're feeling. Another enjoyable watch...................

[@RichDenman]

The windows on the front of the mansion are eyes, the chimney is the bridge of the nose and the rounded bay window is the mouth, the window panes are teeth. 8:45 Surprised you didn't mention it, saw it when I went as a child. Can't not see it.

[@josecastaneda6597]

I just watched some of the newer videos from Haunted Mansion in California and there were more faces towards the end than i figured. One of the ones that stand out is the faces on the trees as you fall from the attic scene. But there are others.

[@betelman]

Ok. Loved this video but, i was waiting to see if you caught, at least to me, one pretty big face. I use to point this out as i trained people to work at the WDW mansion. If you look at the front of the Mansion, the Mansion is looking at you. The doorway is the mouth.There is a nose area and the two upper windows are eyes . The "mouth " has a pair of upper and lower fangs and the arched roof above the windows are the eyebrows.

[@thevincentgonzalesplan]

Faces are a BIG part of just about every Disney Park ride (Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin for example). Animators and designers have utilized anthropomorphism since the beginning. Also... Baphomet! 5:13

[@TheCosmosprincess]

What a beautiful tribute, I admit I Teared up. You were so lucky to meet such an amazing man, I’m a bit jealous.

[@charliemacsart]

RIP WDW's Donald Duck Chair, hopefully the rumor that it's gone for good isn't true!

[@OffhandDisney]

I miss it already

[@W1ldestride]

I thought hatbox was going next to it, guess not… 😕

[@Blunis]

But isn’t there one in the library? Or is it not there anymore

[@W1ldestride]

I thought there were two

[@anthonycata9419]

So when I was there 7/21 I noticed the area where DD chair was black near the endless hallway and unlit , I figured it was just a light out or something. I was scoping out the attic figuring where the stack of hat boxes to the right before you exit out the “Window “ and assumed oh I wonder if the Hatbox Ghost is going there .. only to get the news once I was back where hatbox was going .. which had kinda made sense why the area had no light and couldn’t see the Donald Duck chair .. if it was even there still

[@BenLaurence]

Damn dude the Rolly tribute at the end caught me off guard 😭 We truly lost a legend

[@maxwellwalters180]

'How hot is it? Yes' now if that doesn't describe florida 😂

[@bethanym723]

I just watched the haunted mansion movie last night and I thought it was amazing so I’m deep diving in all of the haunted mansion info that there is right now, but your videos are awesome

[@bostongeis5123]

OOOOH thats really clever what they did with the wallpaper! Since usually wallpapers have floral or floral inspired decoration, basing the mansion’s iconic paper off the man eating plant is genious

[@AmiMichelle]

“Someone’s gotta help that guy out” LMFAO

[@JDPlaysMoth]

I loved those hidden faces, and the background photos of inhabitants as you go through the hallways

[@oliviatobin9230]

Dallin I just met the woman who designed the HM wallpaper!! Tania McKnight Morris, such a lovely lady who designed the wallpaper based on Rolly Crump’s sketches

[@TheCommonGentry]

16:44 is actually an ancient cryptid: the Blemmyes/Akephaloi

[@peterzimmer9801]

I loved this video so much! Never noticed the different faces inside the mansion until now! Holy smokes! Thank you for sharing these small details! You are the best!🤗🤗👍🏻👍🏻

[@JackDaloots]

This is how I found out about Crump's passing, enjoying his artwork. I think this is appropriate.

[@danielcarroll8889]

This is one of the reasons haunted mansion is my favorite ride. There is always something you haven’t seen or learned about yet with it

[@rwbashaw66]

Wow, Dallin!! I wish I had run into you!! I was there in the heat…and was in the mansion not too long before you!! Thank you for the tribute to Rolly Crump!!! A Favorite of the Imagineers!!!

[@filmmakerfreak]

Based on the art, sad that these amazing updates will require them to remove some of the trees and the fountain in the park.

[@lindseyb2777]

The recurring wrought iron grating design almost reminds me of a cat’s, with sharp teeth and curling whiskers. I wonder if it might be a subtle nod to the One-Eyed Cat…

[@cripplious]

@offhand disney. The statues holding candles in the stretching room are called grotesques. Gargoyles are just water spouts on the sides of buildings.

[@gr33ngirlsea]

My sister who has taken too many history of architecture classes always corrects me on that, too! 😂 (I love how smart she is, never too many classes)

[@terrakamino]

Dallen. 105 degrees. I feel for you. I work in the sun all day, central Texas. Thank you for the content, genuinely. Thanks for your commitment!!!

[@pucamisc]

Went to the website in the beginning of the video and was a little disappointed to find out it wasn’t a candy shop that was Disney park themed, but instead clothing and mugs.

[@hardcorpsvlogging]

A few years ago I got to do a backstage tour of haunted mansion and the cast member leading our tour told us there were 999 Happy Haunts but so many more Unhappy Haunts and pointed out the wallpaper, the skulls in the wall and doors.

[@Pixis1]

I don't think the gargoyles are meant to be bats exactly. Gargoyles are usually abstract, demonic-looking creatures with various animal aspects (bat wings, claws, fangs, reptile scales, etc.). And as for "that...thing" in the concept art Walt was looking at, that looks like a blemmye to me. They were creatures from Greek and Roman legend who had no heads but had faces in their chests. A face where it shouldn't be - totally on brand for this video! Too bad that guy didn't make it into the ride.

[@RawrzillaFilms]

Wow, neat-o! Those sconces are the beez knees. They looked to be very inspired by the sconces in the old film, 'Le Belle et la Bete', the 1946 French adaptation of 'The Beauty and the Beast'. It's essentially the same thing... I love it! 😊 (They also did sconces in that fashion on the walls of the Phantom's underground passages in the 2004 version of 'Phantom of the Opera'.) 😎

[@SphericalAce]

If my eyes did not deceive me, I’m pretty sure I spotted some extra faces on some flags or cloths right below the coffin with the hand coming out of it!

[@yamato6522]

“Now how hot is it? Yes.” -Dallin 8:27

[@burneyboys02]

Definitely needed a Haunted Mansion video cause I can't watch your review just yet until I see the movie which should be in a couple days but I'm getting ready for it.

[@MrGOOG-zx2if]

My thoughts: after seeing the new haunted mansion movie there was a scene where one character is in the endless hallway in the spirit realm and the clock strikes 12:00 and the hat box ghost appears in the hall way and all the ghosts start hiding, one ghost hides in a candle when he hides in the candle it shows a face on the candle in the movie, that could in theory mean that in the haunted mansion rides Where there are faces on things it could be ghost hiding in the objects.

[@STSGuitar16]

5:34 bro casually holding what looks to be a satanic temple statue and doesn't even mention it lmao

[@devsmom0122]

I love your videos. I can find faces in so many things I see in every day life. Lol when watching videos and riding the ride, I see faces all over. This video validates me.

[@johnn1381]

The anthropomorphic faces are some of favorite things about the mansion.

[@Plokman040]

Funny the Skulls carved into the wall around here 11:41 look like they are made Digitally, by which I mean a old 90s video game with early 3D for the characters. Just as much Cyberspace as fitting in the home of retiring Ghosts. Oddly the narrator in the Painting room and his implied escape is so over the top if you ask me, I don't care how I'm trapped I will never let the ghosts claim a new member*! *basically in any place I will show them they can't crush me, I know it is a story but lock me up I will live. Especially if I have a vacuum. Go weegee!

[@susan3624]

Looks like you need to do another video on counting the ghosts but include the faces too😉

[@nekograce7914]

The Haunted Mansion is either the first or second ride I hit when I go to Disneyland. It just depends on how long Pirates is when we get there, already long then we go onto the HM.

[@katelynjoymoore]

“somebody’s gotta help that guy out” 😭😭

[@UrlieGee]

Hi Dallin! I’m the Southern California State Director of MUFON. I’m a UFO Investigator. Thought I’d get that out of the way up front! Lol! I am an old OG Disneyland guy. Went on Adventures In Inner Space a bunch of times. I once took a girlfriend on the ride, and she decided it was a good place to… um. I told her, “They have infrared cameras in here, maybe wait for the toboggan.” 😂 I didn’t say anything that cool, I just said exnay on the Monsantolay. 😂 I love your videos. I’ve watched every one actually. So have you ever seen a UFO? 😂🛸 Wonderful work Dallin. Keep on! Earl Grey Anderson MUFON SD of Southern California. (I have a Disneyland UFO case if you’d like to message me). 👽

[@v.v365]

Can you address a theory I had that, since Constance in her stretching room portrait has the same hair bun as the tightrope walker in her portrait, they might be the same person? Like, what if that’s Constance in her youth, a daredevil before she became a murderer?

[@sephypsycologist]

I love it. But I think the grate looks more like an owl? with the triangular part in the center being a beak and the 'mouth' part being the front feathers??? but that's nitpicky XD

[@JavaCake]

Just went back to Disneyland for the first time since March 2020, and I feel like Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion is just better.

[@ConnorCampbell-eg7gk]

Hopefully the Donald Duck chair stays in the mansion, but if not, it’s a perfect way to incorporate Jean Lafitte into Disney World. That’s something I’d like to see

[@Disneyboy1989]

On a walk through tour I took, the Cast Member told us that the Graveyard gate face is the evil version of the “it’s A Small World” clock face.

[@hontohaunter]

I proposed to my partner on this ride! Right by the bride!! We took photos next to the bluebeard tomb too😂

[@rejectthetyrannyofprecedent]

My daughters have mentioned the hidden faces. They say that the mansion watches you. I think a lot of this works on the subconscious level.

[@IAmJKey]

I haven't watched this channel in over a year but when I hear this voice my brain instantly says "Jean La Feet" (Lafitte)

[@111calling]

KEEP THE HAUNTED MASNION VIDEOS COMING

[@writerpatrick]

It seems the Hatbox Ghost may be replacing the chair in the WDW Mansion. I assume the chair could get moved to the attic like other unused furniture.

[@bdchiaccio]

Just saw the movie and the first thing I wanted to do was go on the ride but that's kind of hard when you're in New Jersey. So this is the next best thing!

[@GangaKris]

There is a reason you don't have faces in the attic. Constance removed them 😉

[@purpleshopper3232]

Rolly is my favorite Imagineer! Small world facade, the clock in the mansion! ❤

[@mattrubin89]

I can watch hundreds of hours of Offhand Disney talking about the Haunted Mansion.

[@erinfuller2271]

The wax candle man figure is stunning oh my gosh!

[@WarholaSoup]

Love this! Huge thanks!

[@yvettefilgo5383]

I remember when I was 9 years old visiting haunted mansion in LA.Kept bugging older brother to look at the face every time I saw one and him getting very annoyed at me LOL Growing up in LA my grandma was head of board of directors went to Disney Land for free alot we alway got E tickets !! You too young before your time LOL Anyway..My family would let me and my older bro run wild on our own.I even got to ride on stuff i was too short for..but still I loved haunted mansion and seeing how many faces I could count pictures chairs entrances ext. Thankyou for the flash back.❤❤ 9:45

[@sita1993m]

Ngl the original idea for the face chair is creepy as hell...I could also just be traumatized by that one Junji Ito story.

[@oohwhop716]

I am happy the movie link the two mansions together and the Hatbox ghost finally have a lore

[@DisneyParks13]

Do the trees with the faces during the graveyard decent in the Disneyland version count? How about the gravestones with faces? Also, it's not Haunted Mansion, but there are faces in the stretching room during Haunted Mansion Holiday.

[@StellarAvenger]

Am i tripping, or did the Living Chair concept art look like Nicholas Cage?

[@clara.galley]

man, i will never get over how incredible Disney Imagineers are!!!

[@TheIndyMaestro]

Oh I can never get enough of the haunted mansion no matter which park!

[@mylifeforthelore]

How did we get through this whole video and not talk about the fact the mansion itself has a huge face on the side? The windows are eyes and the conservatory is the mouth. How did that one not get mentioned lol.

[@realDonaldTrump420]

KZbinrs are low level

[@yvettefilgo5383]

I use to find different faces in items and fixtures every time I went on that ride😂😂

[@presidentfrog4683]

I'll be park hopping September 8-10 at WDW. You should plan to be there.

[@themoonflowerfaerie]

I love the Haunted Mansion and it's my favorite ride

[@backuppixiedust1115]

I have since watched the haunted mansion movie, it’s got a lot of fun references to the ride!

[@Mrtfarrugia]

I always feel like somebody's watching me. But that's just the security cameras.

[@kyusshead]

Crump did not design the wallpaper. It was a lady from imagineering

[@shanessie6671]

I think I found a hidden face in the stretching room. The designs on the ceiling look like eyes and the rim just below look like the mouth.

[@michaelignudo9073]

What about the space found at the front of the house with the two windows being eyes, and the observatory being the mouth showing teeth

[@Irohtheweirdo]

5:33 why.. why do you have a Baphomet statue?

[@Badger.24]

Does anyone know what’s behind the front door of the facade building for the mansion always wanted to know

[@clevm002]

No one talks about the painting on the wall as soon as you go under the curtain on the left .... Anyone know why it's there and what it means or is it just a random prop?

[@travismorgan29]

Alright... if gargoyles are fundamentally goblins (which I would argue), then the Mark Twain audio is correct...

[@depressed_cow7151]

I love roley crump's art style

[@PoleTooke]

Dalin, do you sell Offhand Disney pins??

[@ryanrafuls]

that guy in orange after the ad was in a big time rush

[@disneyfanaticsanonymous6344]

Who designed the wallpaper? I thought I heard in interviews that it was Tania McKnight Norris.

[@stuffingtonjfluffypantsiii]

Went and saw the Haunted mansion movie today. Loved it :)