Fans of the Haunted Mansion who have always dreamed of sleeping inside the Disneyland attraction will be left wondering only one thing after bolting awake in the middle of the night in the Ghostly Retreat Airbnb: Is this place really haunted?
“We heard the voices again last night,” an Airbnb guest named Ellie wrote in the guestbook after spending a frightful night in the Ghostly Retreat. “First the crying. Then the young girl’s voice calling for Miranda. It was very clear at first, then it got distant and muffled.”
The delightfully creepy and spooky Ghostly Retreat Airbnb vacation rental in Fullerton that pays tribute to the Disneyland classic will set you back $450 to $750 a night, whether you leave with lifelong memories or recurring nightmares.
The Ghostly Retreat is a passion project of Jeff Schiefelbein, who has worked in the Halloween and haunted attractions industry for more than 20 years. His Sinister Pointe Productions builds haunted mazes, props and special effects for Knott’s Berry Farm, Universal Studios, SeaWorld and the Queen Mary.
“The Haunted Mansion is the reason I do what I do today,” Schiefelbein said during a phone interview. “I always had a dream of one day I would love to live in the Haunted Mansion.”
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It took two months and $200,000 to transform the run-of-the-mill subdivision home into the Ghostly Retreat worthy of comparisons to the venerable Disneyland haunted house.
Schiefelbein has spent long hours in the Ghostly Retreat, but he has never spent the night in the house that he says is not truly inhabited by 999 happy haunts or any other types of spectral spirits.
“I’ve haunted it myself, but there’s nothing supernatural,” Schiefelbein said. “I’ve never had anybody say that they’ve seen any apparitions or anything like that. Nobody has ever told me that they have felt anything and I have never felt…
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