The Brides of the Haunted Mansion

[@ronan8757]

That "Bride locked in a trunk" story is actually a very old ghost story, it was even in one of the Scary Stories to tell in the Dark books.

[@shirindashti5158]

I remember that story, I have the books. Always creeped me out!

[@M0gss-d2y]

what book.... im interested

[@ronan8757]

I believe the second book, more scary stories to tell in the dark, possibly the third, Scary stories 3, more tales to chill your bones @@M0gss-d2y

[@SparklePlentyPrinces]

@@M0gss-d2yScary Stories to Tell in the Dark. I believe there may be several volumes.

[@M0gss-d2y]

@@SparklePlentyPrinces YuSSSSS THANK U

[@maryparkerraley893]

Constance is also mentioned as 'The Lady of the House' in the Epic Mickey video game. You can find her hatchet in the attic for a side quest.

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

Yet, the Beating-Heart Bride can be seen in the graveyard.

[@phantomology13]

@@TherealRNOwwfpooh new theory: all the haunted mansion brides are just roommates

[@Kawaiikitten0211]

It’d be cool if in the attic they added another changing portrait of Constance and a new husband, but instead of him losing his head it’s her without one, like she met her match.

[@phantomology13]

Yeah, I wish she had a canon death, and that would have been pretty fitting. I guess technically she’s supposed to have died of old age but I never liked that

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

@@phantomology13 Well, the reason she died of old age is because Constance Hatchaway-Hightower is tied to the Stretching Room portrait of an elderly woman holding a hatchet while sitting atop her latest husband's headstone. Originally, that portrait belonged to Master Gracey's mother (Yes, in this instance, George's relation to Master Gracey [the Dorian Gray Aging Man Changing Portrait] is a paternal one, before George's surname was identified as Hightower, thus making him instead the brother of Harrison Hightower, the owner of Disney Tokyo-Sea's Tower of Terror [still tied to The Twilight Zone franchise]) or to a woman entirely separate from the Gracey's appropriately named Abigail Peachcleaver (with emphasis on the "cleaver" part).

[@miaandreatta6037]

Let’s just say all of them are canon. I like to think that the house may have a curse on it and those who live there are doomed to have a failing love and to die a grim death

[@punprincess3214]

That would make sense, but then all the brides would be hanging out, and I think the others would not wanna associate with Constance due to her not being extremely remorseful while the others are more of grieving widows.

[@phantomology13]

@@punprincess3214 either that or maybe she would be the comic relief friend that would sometimes say things that were EXTREMELY inappropriate for the mood

[@ooliveoill]

i lovvve the idea of the brides just hanging out making their own little ghost bride club. and maybe this could connect to the book that mentioned the hatbox ghost as the husband of the bride. let's say he met constance and he was like "omg i was decapated too what a coincidence!" and they formed like a team yo like scare people with decapitation as like a gimmick. it's canon in my mind

[@phantomology13]

@@ooliveoill I feel like by her husband they meant one of the men she murdered, not that they were currently in a relationship, but I agree with the rest of it! I don’t personally ship it at all so even if they are supposed to be dating I’m just going to ignore it

[@phantomology13]

@@ooliveoill Like Melanie would be telling her about all her suitors that died and she’d be like “All your wealthy suitors died without you having to lift a finger? Lucky 😍”

[@LeBasfondMusic]

The 90's beating heart bride is the queen of my heart.

[@Unicornpryncess]

Um ok

[@oh-we-need-handles-now-ok]

right the anaheim one is so cute 🥺

[@cullenfx2395]

Elizabeth is my favorite as I like her story (with what we were given anyway) but I think all creations are beautiful.

[@BuckarooBanzai84]

I just think the Phantom Manor version needs its own movie already!

[@chrishintz1077]

Let me write that down. ;). They wouldn’t even have to option it.

[@BuckarooBanzai84]

@@chrishintz1077 IDK who you are or what you mean, but good luck! ;)

[@jacktrack685]

You know, it’s almost like they had a good plot for a movie, and then handed a morally ambiguous character (*ahem* Hatty) that could’ve worked for a KNOWN evil character (Phantom Ravenswood *ahem*) ODD…

[@BuckarooBanzai84]

@@jacktrack685 I can't say I disagree. REALLY big missed opportunity! =)

[@dxfan18]

If they made a Big Thunder Mountain movie, they could merge it with that, I suppose?

[@jacktrack685]

Black Widow Bride: "Off with her head!' Beating Heart Bride: *just stares* Melanie: "Oh, you’re back!"

[@wildkratts16aj59]

Corpse Bride: She’s the Other Woman!

[@punprincess3214]

Lol itd be funny if all the brides just were hanging out, meanwhile Constance is laughing evilly and they're all looking at her like she's a freak

[@phantomology13]

oh my god I love your profile

[@wildkratts16aj59]

@@punprincess3214What About Emily The Corpse Bride from the film of the same name

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

@@wildkratts16aj59 Different thing entirely, although, strangely enough, one of Beating Heart's many names was itself Emily (specifically, Emily Cavanaugh De Claire-Gracey [The Haunted Mansion Comic Book from SLG Comics] and given the last name Gracey tacked on to her name, SLG Comics were clearly running with the "Master Gracey IS The Ghost Host" theory).

[@neonfox6419]

My thery is that Emily is the corpse bride but the 1969 bride and the 1970s bride and the 1990s bride is Emily's decomposition in reverse And I also think constance is Emily's sister cause I found a cut peace of constances audio saying " my sister will hate me now "

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

Kind of like how Pirates shows a pirate's life in reverse.

[@memethyst]

where did you find the unused constance audio?

[@rayherostudios8135]

OKAY THAT IS A GOOD THEORY!!!!

[@phantomology13]

Has anyone else heard this line? I really want it to be true because that’s honestly a cool piece of lore Also, if anyone else listened to the lines, I want to know what the rest were

[@tylermannor4290]

Beating Heart is my favorite, we don't know a lot about her and that's what makes her scary (I mean come on it's a haunted Mansion). We know Constance's entire backstory, we aren't left asking any questions. Honestly I think Disney should rework her a bit, maybe obscure her face and have her voice lines be more vague (as it stands all her voice lines can be summed up as "I am evil")

[@punprincess3214]

Well they can be obscure but the issue is that her weapon of choice keeps popping up in her hands each time. I agree that the beating heart bride deserves more story, she's clearly looking for her groom, did he ditch her? Did he die? Did she kill him and is in denial? Was he always dead and she's just delusional? They sometimes lump her and constance together, but she doesn't really show remorse and the only way you'd know she does is by looking at her story more. So her and BHB being the same is weird. Unless they had constance's heart beat and she asked you to be her new groom.

[@themaderhatter]

You ABSOLUTELY missed the bride in the Haunted Mansion Video game from 2003!! Probably as obscure as you can get, but still a haunted mansion bride. You meet her in the Maid’s Room waiting for her groom who never came.

[@Tbone680]

All these bride stories are amazing it’s so hard to choose which one is cannon

[@jaybonn5973]

Nuptuwl Doom is my canonical version of the Bwating Heart Bride because it gives her depth and an actual story and it also shares and continues the trend of sad longing tragic brides doomed to haunt the house until they're married. And the diction used at the climax is great.

[@Savaemaz]

I once met the director of the Haunted Mansion movie, Rob Minkoff. I didn't have enough time to talk about the mansion with him but he was a great guy! Also co-directed the Lion King too.

[@djoceans]

Wow! This was great! Seriously, I loved it! I didn’t even know about the brides from the website stories!

[@MrGlittergirl554]

Definitely Elizabeth from the movie , Melanie and Constance are my favorites

[@julianalicciardi]

the tokyo bride is so pretty!! i’ve never seen her before

[@gloomy_daisies24]

I really miss the bride being an animatronic! I love Constance, but something about beating heart is eerier and more melancholy. Amazing video!

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

If you like alliteration, Beating-Heart in the Epic Mickey videogame's Haunted Mansion-inspired Lonesome Manor level is called Bernadette & can be found floating in front of her tombstone in the graveyard.

[@onyxdeathviper]

You forgot the bride easter egg in the videogame she is in the maids room

[@kyletroknya2419]

2:50, I liked what you did there😀 Corpse Bride never gets old for me. Especially Emily. She needs to make a visit to the Haunted Mansion

[@lauriesmith4575]

I read a fanfiction that combined Lillian from Ghost Gallery and Sally Slater into one, turning her into Gracey's bride- it's actually fairly well-written, and makes brief mentions of Phantom Manor, ties in Madame Leota's story from Ghost Gallery, and explains how the portrait ended up in the portrait gallery. It's Alternate Universe, and well worth a read. I think it's called 'A Delicate Balance on Archive of Our Own.

[@mintgelato4689]

To me it kind of makes sense that Constance doesn’t have a glowing beating heart, because she was pretty heartless lol

[@zarnistastudios]

This was a great retrospective. I enjoyed this. Great job.

[@jaybonn5973]

Constance and Beating Heart arent the same. Their tragedies dont share the same tone and neither do their personalities. BHB is more like Melanie except in Lousiana, not California.

[@punprincess3214]

Yeah, it doesn't make sense that they're the same, it would if constance had met a man she actually loved and he then killed her, leaving her heart longing for her man that managed to finally make it beat

[@MeltingMan234]

Nice to see the SLG Haunted Mansion comics get some mentioning. They're criminally underrated and I find them better than Marvel and IDW's versions imo.

[@garcia207]

I remember one story where the bride was to marry a sea captain. I think the last name was Gracey. Her father wouldn’t give his blessing for the marriage since he didn’t think the captain would be worthy of his daughter. The sea captain decided to set sail to bring back riches to prove himself worthy. His bride told him that she will be looking from the attic window at night with a candle watching the ocean and waiting for his ship to return. She had told the captain that she would remain in the attic as long as her heart was beating. Unfortunately the sea captain had perished at sea. In the hallway with the pictures, you see the result of his ship during the storm. At the mansion at Disneyland, the weather vane is that of a ship. I think this story was from those Disney records/books that you would follow along and turn the page when you hear Tinker Bells pixie dust. I doubt they used the pixie dust sound effect for this story though.

[@jenniferschillig3768]

I'd love to see you do a video on the Ghost Gallery. I remember coming across the webpage in the late 90s. One thing that jumps out at me...the whole business of the bride getting locked in a trunk on her wedding day (in the Ghost Gallery, it's Madame Leota who's responsible) seems to owe a lot to the old ballad "The Mistletoe Bough" by Thomas Haynes Bayly. There, a Christmas wedding is interrupted by the bride's mysterious disappearance during a playful game of hide-and-seek at the reception, leaving her husband to mourn for years, never knowing what happened. But years later, an old trunk is found in the attic...with the skeleton of the bride trapped in it. She'd hid in the trunk and been unable to get out, suffocating to death. There's a little more about this legend/folktale at www.snopes.com/fact-check/bride-and-go-seek/, and it's mentioned in passing in the Hitchcock film Rope.

[@spidersclaw2240]

I like the idea of a headless bride

[@Lady_Indigo]

I've disneybounded as Lillian Gracey and Constance Hatchaway both ^_^ (I am STILL angry that they tried to rename her Sally Slater. I get it rhymes with Alligator but bruh)

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

The change from Lillian Gracey to Sally Slater was taken from the ghost Phineas Pock's poem. Sally Slater was also used as her name in the Ghost Post game sent to those who bought it.

[@memethyst]

disney called her daisy dela cruz before they changed her name to sally slater

[@KimsLantern]

With the tech we have now I think they should bring back a more animatronic bride instead of the projected face. I actually really don’t like it currently. Great video!!

[@disneyknightspadilla1406]

unlike in the ride it's the bride who's actually the victim instead of her doing all the chopping heads but getting toxic liquid.

[@KittyKatReacts]

Constance is the best story. It fits in with the whole haunted mansion theme. Plus she creeps me out.

[@phantomology13]

I agree 100%, Constance is my favorite character besides Melanie but for some reason she’s kind of a controversial addition to the ride. So what if she’s kind of campy? It’s not like the rest of the ride isn’t.

[@andreapatane4204]

These brides are so scary and elegant at the same time. My family and I love Constance Hatchaway even though her appearance scares the crud out of the 3 of us. I'm considering playing her for a short film which happens to be called, "The Case of the Black Widow Bride." The bride with the candlestick in one hand and a bouquet in the other hand is named Emily Cavanaugh.

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

Emily Cavanaugh De Claire (Gracey-to-be, had she & Master Gracey [Which adds more fuel to the fire of the "Is Master Gracey The Ghost Host" theory] married).

[@EllieTheKiller]

I grew up with the Disneyland version but i like the Disney world one a lot more it’s just got so much more detail than the Disneyland one

[@jaybonn5973]

Melanie is in many ways the psychological telling of BHB. With BHB the story is told around her, in PM the story is about Melanie's tragic end.

[@williamconnors1510]

Considering that the Haunted Mansion gets a Nightmare Before Christmas revamp for the holidays...I think that qualifies Sally as a bride of the manor...

[@kyletroknya2419]

2:50, I liked what you did there😀 Corpse Bride never gets old for me.

[@damned_1]

My favorite bride with black face and glowing eyes, love the concept very much. 🖤🔥

[@foxbrown9478]

They're making a new haunting mansion movie.

[@hatchawayyy]

constance has always been my favorite bride. i have an insta account named after her 👀

[@phantomology13]

This comment made me remember this one time I saw a comment you made on another video, then I read your user and was like “could it be??? A reference to my tiny fandom that I never see references to?? LET’S GO, another based haunted mansion enjoyer”

[@darkgirl9706]

Just stumbled upon your video, this is really cool!

[@viktoryarozetassi8745]

My favorite bride will always be 4:01

[@rylieturner8021]

I have ridden the haunted mansion in Walt Disney World a few times. Its creepy. I've never heard of a smurf bride befoe. Don't know what kind of bride that is. Anyway, I think I'm liking the ride a little bit

[@ashleysmith8402]

The first woman in the picture almost look like scarlet from gone with the wind.

[@charleneoneill4729]

Thank you so much for this video..

[@crystalrowbotham]

Please revisit this with the new Haunted mansion movies with the Muppets and the 2023 haunt.

[@MeganCordato1955]

Omg I love the HatBox is my favorite and Madam leota

[@derwood773]

Ok, I have this vivid memory of a crying bride ghost. Am I crazy?

[@katybethgrayson256]

I’m actually writing a fanfiction with both Constance and Elizabeth

[@KrymRose]

Fun fact: the imagieers added a new beaded necklace every time she married another man

[@Neku628]

I wish I could go to The Haunted Mansion. I have never been to any of the Disney parks, always been too broke.

[@Thunder-acro]

I love Constance's story the most, but I hate the way they made the CGI look, she looks so much older than in the portrait, horribly done

[@phantomology13]

Yeah, I agree, according to an interview with the voice actress they used her face for the projection but a different actress for the portraits. The voice lines are fine but I feel like her facial expressions were too exaggerated and goofy, especially considering how sophisticated and laid back she looks in the portraits. Whoever decided she needed to waggle her eyebrows should be fired

[@phantomology13]

I feel like the expressions should have been more serious? Like not smiling so much, just less goofy in general, maybe she could, like, look down at the hatchet and run her finger over the blade to give that serial killer vibe? Also the line delivery doesn’t match the facial expressions, they’re cartoony and kind of wacky whereas the lines are delivered pretty slowly. She even says “you may kiss the bride” now (I know they probably used that line to be sinister and call back to her murders) which… uh… they did not need to give her that suspiciously flirty line out of nowhere like that, but it sort of fits her character so…

[@AdventurousDiscoveryVlog]

I love Elizabeth Henshaw and Melanie Ravenswood

[@julielelinski48]

Loving this video very interesting

[@Neku628]

17:37 Eddy Murphy kinda killed the movie for me because his goofiness contrasted with the morbid mystique of the mansion.

[@sabrinanascimento5248]

All creepy stories, that is why it’s a great ride .😍😍😍

[@rxgomez9000]

Hat Box Ghost:I am the Hat Box Ghost...BEWARE!!!

[@kingsofkhaos6680]

If there WERE any you missed... Could've fooled me

[@MsDisneylandlover]

this was great

[@jakecrowwheel3615]

I like Elizabeth the Bride of the Haunted Mansion

[@Barbariandisks]

The husband George looks alot like the wrestler Sheamus

[@BDawg-hy7pl]

What happens though!?!

[@trisharaichatterjee2578]

OK so I’ve always been a very huge fan of the haunted mansion, both the ride and the Eddie Murphy movie. Still waiting for Disney+ to drop the newest version of a haunted mansion movie though I’ve heard it’s ratings for not nearly as good as the Eddie Murphy original movie.

[@Astrolionking]

You didn’t mention: You called Emily a “young woman” but she wasn’t. In fact, she was only 15 and that’s why she died playing hide and seek.

[@owenandlightningaremylovev3066]

Is anyone excited for the new Haunted Mansion coming up in 7 days

[@AriceptIforgot]

Constance looks like a man in the projection

[@grogu-the-mandalorian]

Team Constance all the way baby!!! 👱🏻‍♀️🪓 🩸 👻

[@nathanblevins158]

I do love shadow design The design seem to feel like a ghost. And the beating heart is the only thing left that still feel human. I also love the human ghost look they gave her. I prefer beating heart bride, then the ghost bride we have today. She seems generic in my opinion. I find it more disturbing to hear a beating heart and then see a ghostly figure holding a candle with yellow glowing eyes. Then a woman that killed her husband and then take their money and having bad hatchet jokes.

[@janinerusinovich3040]

Constance is my fav bride

[@MsDisneylandlover]

i love mansion

[@ryanguinan9949]

Hi Anne Elizabeth my name is Ryan Guinan here is my favorite Bride is 2003 the haunted mansion you did you forgot the Muppets haunted mansion and the new haunted mansion

[@brittaninoble9172]

No the bride was based on old story until 2006

[@rushthefox2732]

Danm the graceys go thru so many brides Xd

[@andytheghoul]

I love the melina bride

[@alexandru18]

wait marvel comics?

[@MsDisneylandlover]

the pic with marsha thomaspon black lady. i have her n my bathroom her pic..

[@eternalriver7866]

Constance is the most horrifying and resonates with the Haunted Mansion theme

[@jacobsmith7498]

The Constance animatronic looks cheap and the projected face is off of the peanut sized head that isn’t proportionate to her body

[@manderson2003]

what is this real?

[@fangirl4life5ever]

Melanie is best girl

[@alexisgraziano]

Phantom manor forever

[@phantomology13]

If Melanie Ravenswood has a million fans, I’m one of them. If Melanie Ravenswood has 1 fan, it’s me. If Melanie Ravenswood has no fans, I am dead. If the world is against Melanie Ravenswood, I am against the entire world.

[@host_theghost507]

Turning the Bride into "Constance Hatchaway" is one of Disney's stupider decisions. It turns a chilling moment into a goof and kills the mood heading into the graveyard. I honestly wish Disney hadn't jumped on the bandwagon to give all the characters names and backstories. It was fun when fans did it, but the minute Disney turns it into part of the ride's I.P. , we lose the mystery. HM is one of the few rides where we're allowed to imagine a story instead of being told it. I'll take Beating Heart over Constant and Melanie any day (night?).

[@supme7558]

I have always thought that the hat box gohst was the groom Because she decapitated her husband

[@pirateprincess1997]

Emily and Melanie are my favorite brides, i have issues with Constance lol and dont get me started on that god awful haunted mansion movie

[@chrishintz1077]

Were Gus, Ezra and phineas ever married? Do they have backstories?

[@georgianagheorghe8848]

I prefer Constance, Emily and Elizabeth.

[@minip.8668]

Der ist auch gut an der Zeit vom Staat ist es ja schon immer ein bisschen was zu

[@alextheamazingkid7729]

Yeh we can,t have the haunted mansion Whitout Eddie Murphy the comedien himself

[@Missmysterious1955]

Disneyland Haunted mansion

[@krystalharwood6359]

elizabeth doesnt count....i think they could have called her constance to fit the movies plot

[@mlpfanboy1701]

Yah she wasn’t a reincarnation, the butler tricked the master into thinking she was to claim they would break the curse, the real constance was in the mansion guiding eddie murphie’s character and the other allied ghosts to the truth.

[@phantomology13]

um ackshually the movie came out before they added Constance to the ride 🤓☝️ (I know way too much about this ride and its lore and history someone please make me touch grass)

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

Constance is the Black Widow Bride. Elizabeth Henshaw is just another reincarnation of the Beating-Heart Bride given a new narrative to play with.

[@supme7558]

That movie was horrible

[@okikuthepuppetdog3200]

Yea for a little bit

[@tracycarmack9714]

I think they're one and the same... I think the bride that was jilted at the altar (not realizing why), and became so bitter and angry towards men that she decided to take her revenge on five future husbands by marrying and then killing them.

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

They aren't. The Beating-Heart Bride is forlorn and tragic, with her cherub face ('90s version) and present heartbeat representing this. Constance, the Black Widow, is cunning, manipulative, and evil. Connie has no heart worth beating.

[@markgomez2130]

Eddie Murphy needs to spend time with is family

[@hannaholer9106]

I think the name constant for the bride is disrespectful because I have a family member with that name who died

[@supme7558]

How can something respect you when it has no clue you exist?

[@p3achgrl]

it's only disrespectful if disney purposely named the bride after your relative, which they didnt 😭😭😭😭 its not disrespectful at all

[@hannaholer9106]

@@p3achgrl oh 😖😔 I didn't see it that way thank you

[@janinerusinovich3040]

Oh im sorry

[@texasred2702]

Ugh, this narration. Nails on a chalkboard. Couldn't listen more than 2 minutes