7 frightfully fun facts about Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion Holiday

Every year during Halloween and the Holiday seasons, the 999 ghosts inside the Haunted Mansion in Disneyland take a little vacation as Jack Skellington and his friends from “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas” move into the manor.

In this collision between Halloween and Christmas, Jack dresses up as “Sandy Claws” and brings ghoulish delights from Halloween Town. This year, Haunted Mansion Holiday beckons guests from Sept. 2, 2022, through Jan. 8, 2023. 

One of Jack’s holiday traditions is leaving a special treat for the ghosts who dance around the Haunted Mansion’s Grand Hall. The annual centerpiece for this “waltz of the weird” is always a huge, creepy gingerbread house. This year’s creation is a “cut above the rest” as mischievous gingerbread cookies of Lock, Shock and Barrel use a guillotine and long spears to slice up holiday cakes and treats for the ghosts and ghouls in the mansion.

Here are seven frightfully fun facts about the mansion:

1. From man-eating wreaths to vampire teddy bears, more than two dozen additional animated figures “materialize” as part of the Haunted Mansion Holiday transformation. 

2. More than 400 flickering candles create a ghostly glow on the façade of Haunted Mansion Holiday.

3. Each night, more than 100 jack-o-lanterns shine their ghoulish light. 

4. Jack Skellington and his ghost dog Zero appear in a fully animated sequence on the ceiling of the “stretching” room, which transports guests into the depths of the mansion. Zero also makes surprise appearances among the transforming portraits in the gallery corridor. 

5. In the Séance Room, Madame Leota’s “13 Days of Christmas” are featured in 13 spinning fortune cards that tell of the Christmas gifts which, as she proclaims, “My ghoul love gave to me…”  

6. In the graveyard scene, the rag doll Sally can be found resting against a tombstone, admiring Jack from a distance. 

7. The graveyard is covered with nearly 7,500 square feet of snow, and nearly 1,000 tiny orange lights decorate the trees – making it a festive place to rest.