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At the Haunted Mansion in Disneyland, the answer is that the ghosts aren't really there at all - they're built from mirrors, glass, and cleverly aimed light. When the ride opened in California in 1969, guests floated past a ballroom where see-through spirits waltzed, spun, and sat down to dinner. The building looks like a grand old Southern mansion, but everything spooky inside is an illusion, stitched together by artists who spent years arguing over exactly how it should feel. And that argument is the real ghost story.  \nThose arguments started long before a single ghost ever danced. Walt Disney's designers, who called themselves Imagineers, split into two camps for nearly two decades. One group wanted a truly frightening house, dripping with dread and shadows so thick you'd want to run. The other group thought that was all wrong for a Disney park and pushed for something playful, where the ghosts wink at you instead of scaring you. In the end the funny side mostly won, which is why today's ride feels more like a party than a nightmare.  \nWinking ghosts need a trick to do the winking, and the mansion's best one is older than any Imagineer. It's called Pepper's ghost, an illusion first shown to audiences in London in the 1860s by an inventor named John Henry Pepper. The idea is simple but sneaky: a large sheet of angled glass reflects a brightly lit figure hidden off to the side, so the reflection seems to hover in empty space. Dim the hidden figure and the ghost fades away; brighten it and the ghost appears out of nowhere. In the ballroom scene, those dancing spirits are actually solid models below and to the side, bounced onto huge panes of glass right in front of your ride car.  \nThat same magic with mirrors shows up in one of the ride's most talked-about surprises. As your car leaves the ballroom, you pass a mirror - and suddenly a grinning ghost is riding along in the seat beside you. It looks like the spirit hitched a ride into your very own car, but it's another reflection, thrown onto angled glass soit appears to share your seat. Little touches like this are why people ride again and again, hunting for details they missed the first time. The point was never to make you scream; it was to make you grin and look twice.  \nMaking guests grin instead of scream is exactly why the mansion became a  \nfavorite rather than a fright. Families who avoided scarier attractions felt safe climbing aboard, and kids left feeling brave instead of shaken. The ride's success helped prove that spooky and welcoming could live under the same roof, and later Disney parks in Florida, Tokyo, and Paris built their own versions. Some of those cousins wear different names and stories, but they all lean on the same friendly, funny spirit. A whole style of gentle haunted attraction grew from the choices made in that long designers' debate.  \nThose choices still surprise the guests who file past the tombstones out front. Many of the names carved into them are jokes honoring the real Imagineers who built the place, hidden in plain sight for anyone who reads carefully. The organ groaning in the ballroom is a real prop borrowed from an old adventure film,  \nand the swirling ghosts are lit models you could almost reach out and touch-if the glass weren't in the way. So the next time someone tells you a house is truly haunted, remember the mansion's secret: the most convincing ghost of all is just a beam of light bouncing off a tilted piece of glass.  \nThe Most Famous Haunted House Ride Name:  \n| Solve each problem.\u003Cbr>Use the article to answer the question.\u003Cbr>1) According to the passage, what makes the ghosts in the ballroom appear to guests?\u003Cbr>A. Actors in white sheets standing behind a curtain\u003Cbr>B. Mirrors, glass, and cleverly aimed light create the illusion\u003Cbr>C. Projected videos played on a giant painted screen\u003Cbr>D. 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