Thurl Ravenscroft plays the Narrator, Pete Reneday plays the Ghost Host, and Eleanor Audley plays Madame Leota.

As the wall behind them slides closed, the Ghost Host ( voiced by Paul Frees ) introduces himself with an eerie voice:

Hanging from a noose tied to the rafters is the skeletal corpse of the Ghost Host, illuminated by flashes of lightning.

" The Ghost Host lowers the safety bars, provides the safety spiel, and the journey begins.

" The walls, covered in demon-faced wallpaper, are adorned with daguerreotypes of corpses and a large painting of the Ghost Host.

** The body of the groom, hanged from the rafters in the ceiling over the stretching room, replaces the hanged version of the " Ghost Host.

The Ghost Host points out that the house has 999 spirits with room for a thousand (" any volunteers?

A portrait of the Ghost Host wearing a hangman's noose and holding a hatchet is seen to the left of the corridor.

A ghostly pianist ( which, like the music room in Walt Disney World, is in fact the Ghost Host, but never mentioned ) is seen banging the keys on an old run-down piano, playing a grim version of Richard Wagner's Bridal March.

( The Mayor's dialogue is made up of clips from the Paul Frees Ghost Host narration of the American versions of the Haunted Mansion ).

Changes to this version of the attraction during the refurbishment included the addition of a new audio system for the Ghost Host that makes it seem as if the spirit is circling above visitors ' heads, new red, blue, and gold wallpaper ( related to the paper at Disneyland but instead of green, it has blue ), different and enhanced lighting throughout the attraction, and new stretching sound effects for the stretching room.

Seven of the Sinister 11 are now located in the loading area of the ride ( These include Jack the Ripper, Arsonist, Mariner, Vampire, Witch of Walpurgis, and the Ghost Host ) while the other four are located in various parts of the mansion.

The foyer, stretching room, and ride narration was performed by Paul Frees in the role of the Ghost Host.

In Tokyo, the safety spiel is done by the Ghost Host himself.

It featured the story of two teenagers, Mike ( Ron Howard ) and Karen ( Robie Lester ), who get trapped inside the Haunted Mansion, with Thurl Ravenscroft as the Narrator, Pete Reneday as the Ghost Host, and Eleanor Audley as Madame Leota.

Burton is perhaps best known to Disney fans for his imitation of the late voiceover actor Paul Frees as the Ghost Host in Disneyland's Haunted Mansion Holiday attraction, as well as providing the same voice for Walt Disney World's HalloWishes fireworks show during Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party event.

Frees had an unusually wide four-octave voice range that would enable him to voice everything from the thundering basso profundo of the unseen " Ghost Host " in the Haunted Mansion attraction at Disneyland in California and at Disney World in Florida to the squeaky voice of the Little Green Sprout in the Green Giant vegetable commercials.

Frees also provided voices for numerous characters at Disney parks, including the unseen " Ghost Host " in the Haunted Mansion attraction at Disneyland and Walt Disney World, and several audio-animatronic pirates, including the Auctioneer, in the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.

; The Fiesta Host is an Aztec Ghost / What Now, Lowbrow?

They are called Ghost Collectibles, because they have to be picked up as a ghost, and Host Collectibles, because they have be picked up when possessing a host.

* Paul Frees as the Ghost Host, the " dead men " pirate, and the Pirate Ship Captain

Guests then pass a ruined town hall where a mayor ( who speaks clips of dialogue from Paul Frees, the original rides ' Ghost Host ) stands, inviting guests to be the Manor's 1000th ghost.

Lewis also acted as " Ghost Host " on WBFF's late night horror movie show, and did news on WBFF prior to 1988.

* Opening of " Ghost Host " ( Video )

Today, as part of Time Warner, Turner Entertainment continues to oversee its inherited library, which also includes The Wizard of Oz, A Christmas Story, Gone with the Wind, Gilligan's Island, Tom and Jerry, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo, Top Cat, Huckleberry Hound, Jonny Quest, Space Ghost and Captain Planet.

Binary Research Ltd was closed down after the acquisition, but Binary Research International Inc. continues as a reseller of Ghost, and has expanded into other software products.

He continues to work for Fury, also recruiting Tyrone Cash during the Ghost Rider incident, and is one of the last Avengers ( with Hawkeye, Blade, and Punisher ) led by Fury, until his return to S. H. I. E. L. D.

About a hundred years after Shakespeare died, Nicholas Rowe reported that he had heard an anecdote that Shakespeare himself had played the Ghost, causing a rumour that continues to this day, but which has little evidence to support it.

In Janus: A Summing Up ( 1978 ) Koestler continues the theories developed in " The Ghost in the Machine " and further elaborates on the concept of holarchy.

In the Three Stooges short The Ghost Talks, a creaking door prompts Shemp to parody the opening narration of the program, naming it " The Outer Sanctorum.

* Doug Bradley – narration on " Death Magick for Adepts ", " Her Ghost in the Fog " and " Tortured Soul Asylum "

Kemper is played by David McEwen, who also appeared in the video for " Her Ghost in the Fog ", miming to Doug Bradley's narration.

* In 1870, Mark Twain wrote " A Ghost Story " in which the ghost of the Cardiff Giant appears in the hotel room in Manhattan to demand that he be reburied.

* Dancer Karina Smirnoff explained on an episode of The Biography Channel cable series Celebrity Ghost Stories that she believes she was attacked as a young girl by a friend's Domovoi when she tried to sleep in a room belonging to her friend's missing uncle.

Ghost Dog arrives and kills the gangster, but does not realize the girl is also in the room at the time ; he leaves her alive and exits.

In the all-black room where the interview took place, the guests were given basic directions as to what direction to face when talking to either Zorak, Moltar, or Space Ghost.

Other noted residents include Arabella Weir, Alan Plater, James Heartfield and, formerly, the sculptor Rachel Whiteread, whose most famous work ' Ghost ' - now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC-consists of a plaster cast of a room in the house at 486 Archway Road.

Ghost Hunter Jason stayed the night in the room with the " ghost thief "; he stated that the bed moved, the closet doors unlocked and opened and his thick glass by the bed cracked open on the inside.

She lures him into a room, and, when Ghost distracts the werewolf by dropping a heavy curling stone, Brigitte stabs him.

The room was also investigated by the show Ghost Adventures and Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files.

* In Michael Ondaatje's novel, Anil's Ghost, the book is discussed as being placed with other novels in the doctors ' common room of a Sri Lankan hospital, but remaining unread.

In early 2009, SyFy television show Ghost Hunters filmed an episode at The Mount, and over the course of three days reported audio and visual evidence of activity, such as the sounds of footsteps in an otherwise empty room, and disembodied voices.