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Woman Dies After Riding Haunted Mansion Attraction at Disneyland
NME ^ | 9th October 2025 | Alex Rigotti

Posted on 10/09/2025 9:13:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The Anaheim Police Department have said “there is no indication of any operating issue with the attraction"

The Anaheim Police Department have said “there is no indication of any operating issue with the attraction"

A woman in her 60s has died after riding the Haunted Mansion attraction at Disneyland. No cause of death has been given.

The Anaheim Police Department reported that the woman was found unresponsive immediately upon exiting the ride-through attraction (as per Variety).

Disneyland’s website describes the ride as “dark” and containing “mildly frightening scenes”, but “slow-moving”, having “no gore” and being “creepy fun for little ones”. The website cautions that “the ride itself is gentle, but young children may be frightened by the special effects.”

Though police say security gave the woman CPR until paramedics arrived on the scene, she was eventually pronounced dead upon being transferred to a local hospital.

Sergeant Matt Sutter of the Anaheim Police Department has stated that “there is no indication of any operating issue with the attraction, which reopened soon after.”

Disney recently came under fire after Jimmy Kimmel Live! was pulled from ABC’s programming “indefinitely” over the host’s recent comments following Charlie Kirk’s death.

Following the death of the right-wing-activist – who was shot in the neck while speaking at Utah Valley University campus on September 10 as part of his tour – Kimmel theorised that Kirk’s shooter was a Trump supporter: “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to characterise this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

A number of complaints about the monologue were upheld from viewers – including President Donald Trump, who wrote: “Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done. Kimmel has ZERO talent, and worse ratings than even Colbert, if that’s possible.”

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair Brendan Carr seemingly threatened immediate action against Kimmel, the ABC network and its owner Disney.

After a wave of backlash from almost all of Hollywood’s prominent creative guilds, alongside fellow late-night legends Stephen Colbert and David Letterman, Kimmel business and legal representatives were reportedly in discussions with Disney and ABC executives to reach a compromise – and Kimmel eventually returned to screens on September 23.

The Walt Disney Company said of the decision: “Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country.

“It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.”

Kimmel’s return quadrupled ratings – despite 20 per cent of ABC’s network affiliates refusing to show the episode. Disney also reportedly lost 1.7million subscribers after suspending the host.


TOPICS: Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: alexrigotti; anaheim; california; davidletterman; disney; disneyland; hauntedmansion; jimmykimmel; newmusicalexpress; nme; stephencolbert; unitedkingdom; variety
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To: nickcarraway

Article morphs from death of woman on amusement park ride to Charlie Kirk and Trump......LOL!


21 posted on 10/10/2025 3:01:48 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: nickcarraway

meh... people die all the time.


22 posted on 10/10/2025 5:04:37 AM PDT by exPBRrat
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To: nickcarraway

Oh, no! Now it IS haunted.


23 posted on 10/10/2025 5:52:50 AM PDT by dangus
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To: digger48

ABC’s of left wing bias


24 posted on 10/10/2025 5:55:21 AM PDT by sopo
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To: Hot Tabasco

As for why the article’s author did that, follow the money...

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music/2023/07/nme-print-magazine-return


25 posted on 10/10/2025 5:57:05 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: broken_clock
"The woman probably had a medical issue of some kind." - broken_clock

Correct twice a day.

26 posted on 10/10/2025 6:44:38 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN
It’s a tough job… ;^)

I was thinking more along the scared to death line but I don’t think died of fright is a cause of death.

27 posted on 10/10/2025 7:53:46 AM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Prayers answered!)
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To: broken_clock

It’s probably safe to assume the catch all cause of death, mycardial infarction.

Heart stopping pretty much accounts for all deaths.


28 posted on 10/10/2025 8:24:58 AM PDT by DannyTN
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