Terrific job to the people who restored this footage, my favourite ride ever.

I wish Thorpe Park builds and opens a new dark ride like this one.

I miss this ride so much it’s not even funny 😭 THE BALLROOM DANCING SKELETONS THOUGH! No I can’t explain why I loved that bit so much.

Amazing ride, those witch cackles truly haunted me as a child! But this ride was really brilliant and has to be one of it's best in the UK. So devastating that we lost it in the fire. Though I wonder what happened to the surviving witch at the entrance.

This was one of my favourite rides ever! So many good memories of going on this, with my family. I remember all of it, watching this again. So cool that there is footage of it. Thanks for uploading it!

My all time favourite. Thorpe park used to be a fun place. These days it's just how high and how many upside downs can we fit in. Not been there in years. I miss all the mascots and innocent fun.

I couldn't have been on this ride more than twice but sooo much of it is still so familiar to me. The saddest part isn't that this ride burned down, it's that the whole ethos of dark rides is dying off. You get an IP that will sell, slap something together and then hope it starts to fall to bits in a few years so you get to do it all over again. It's a tragedy.

I remember certain changes had been made when the ride changed from Phantom Fantasia to Wicked Witches Haunt. The spiders were not part of the original ride and a few other elements. It was my favourite ride there and I once rode it three times in one day. I even remember my very first time because I was afraid and I didn't want to go in. I was a nervous kid about rides but somehow got the courage to go in. When I came out I remember wanting to ride it again because it was so awesome. I also remember as a teenager many years later wanting to put in a bid to buy the entrance skeleton chandelier should the park ever get rid of it. Shame it all went up in flames.

Big shame about the fire, I loved this ride!! That tolling bell brings back memories... Particularly liked the entrance where you had to rush to get on cause the carts are still moving!

i really want an mp3 of the music that begins at 3:18. that is mesmerizing

Fantastic footage. I've been looking for years for footage of this ride that wasn't all just black! I was 9 when I last rode it, but I still remember it to this day.

I remember crying on this ride when I was 4 years old! Still looks really creepy even now but very well designed and lots of detail and spookiness.

Oh man mega nostalgia tingles for the music and scene at the ballroom dance towards the end!

This ride is my all time favourite! I remember being really scared when my parents first took me on it, but afterwards it became my absolute favourite. So sad it no longer exists.

I went on this ride many times across the 80s and early 90s when it was called Phantom Phantasia and I loved it. Perhaps this is just nostalgia (I guess I'm just an 80s kid) but I think it was better in its original form. On the WWH ride they added a much busier soundtrack, which just overcooks the experience and makes it feel a lot less spooky. You can see the original ride in another video on KZfaq although you really had to be there just to see what a masterpiece it was. It wasn't frightening and some bits were a little childish but it was a genuinely eerie ride through English history.

I remember going on this ride when I was a kid. I also remember the ride being featured in this kid's educational show where this guy was so freaked out after going on it he accidentally knocks the head off the Witch statue at the entrance. So his friend helps him replace it by teaching him pape' mache. However the guy gets mixed up and replaces the missing head with a pape' mache version of his friend's head!

Dark spook house rides used to scare me. I hated going on them but for some reason I bloody loved this ride. I really lost count how many times I went on it. The only part that I didn't like was when the witch pops up. in the mausoleum. Next to the "bring out your dead" scene. I felt so damned sad when I found out this ride burned down. : ( I had so many good memories with this spook ride that didn't scare me.

I loved this ride as a child! Especially the witch outside!

I went on this before and after the UV upgrade/retheme. I was just too young at the time to appreciate how well themed it actually was.

This is a pretty good ride in the essence of Disney’s Haunted Mansions with all the ghost stories of the UK. I particularly enjoyed the Henry the VIII scene. And the spiders and the skeletons playing “ Danse Macabre “

Ah I remember this ride! I remember the skeletons and the dancing part with the guy on the chandelier!

Oh gosh... I remember this ride haha, I was 9 years old when I went on it! My mum forced me to go on it, even though I didn't want to, cause I was scared, but I'm kinda glad she did force me on it, otherwise I would have never have gotten the chance to experience it! Really sad it got destroyed though :(

It's a shame Thorpe doesn't have a proper dark ride. I wonder if my mum ever rode it.

I wonder what would have become of Wicked Witches Haunt had it not caught fire. I’m pretty sure it would’ve become an interactive Shooting Dark Ride,like Forbidden Tomb at Chessington and The Haunted House at Alton.If Forbidden Tomb and The Haunted House are anything to go by,the ride would’ve been made less scary and received a new narrative. Fortunately rumour has it that Duel has been “repossessed” and will once again be The Haunted House. I feel it’s only fair to congratulate Emily Alton for evicting the Zombies and reclaiming The Haunted House. I hope Emily Alton can redecorate after the Zombies decorated it to their liking. Not only this but I hope Emily swaps her Dollshouse for the entire ride. It would be unreal if Duel was rethemed into a journey through Emily Alton and Snowy’s Dollshouse where you meet ghosts and ghouls along the way.

When I was young we got evacuated off this ride. It broke down right where the witch popped up. I was petrified.

This thing used to horrify me. I hated it. To know what silly things scare kids. I think Thorpe Park are foolish to not using it's history in the end Ghost Train. Maybe they will... Thank you for archiving it

Used to love this ride!!! Memories

Amazing ride I used to go on it over and over

Beautiful piece of music at 3:16

It is such a shame that this ride is no longer around. It was an amazing. See this is why the theme park scene is dying out because rides like this are gone, they were safe. Not like these rollercoaster rides that dangerous and in the press all the time. That and building rides based on TV shows. Please Thorpe park, bring the wicked witches haunt back.

IN 2018 you wouldent even think this was at Thorpe Park

I remember riding this as a kid. Scared the Hell out of me. I had nightmares. I was like 4 years old.

That ride is absolutely amazing it's almost like a grittier version of Disney's Haunted Mansion I wish the footage had move slower so I could actually see everything one of the KZfaq videos that led me here mentioned a hunchback swinging on a chandelier and I could not find him the rest of this I thought was amazing especially the ballroom full of dancing skeletons that was cool hope they rebuild it someday I go see it

One of my fav rides ever n so many early Thorpe Park memories, shame the ride did not have a fire safety system installed.. RIP WWH

Great video. How was the sound restored so well? It sounds like it's in stereo too. Was the audio/music different to Phantom Fantastia?

I swear this ride used to be more terrifying like I remember these weird ventriloquist type dummies torturing people with medieval stuff and a giant devil sitting on a throne or something

Have you got any Phantom Fantasia, Pirate Adventure, Excalibur, Ghost Train or Ranger County footage. Thank you! Great channel and content! This looks terrifying! Also when are the documentaries returning?

They should of just wrecked the full thing down after the fire and restored it to it former glory fro scratch with the blue prints

Looks like it was a very similar experience to Geisterschloss at Europa Park, with the Omnimover style ride system and the Haunted Mansion "inspired" aesthetics.

This was recorded a week before I was born 25 years ago (26 years ago this year)

Have you got any footage from Oakwood park 2000s?

DO's this ride still exist? Its like the haunted mansion but even more demented love it! - DR V

Shame it burned down. One of the best GT around. IF it had survived I'm sure Merlin would have found a way to stick juns on it and ruin the ride.

Does anyone know what the music is playing at the end with the ballroom dancing skeletons?

If I remember rightly was it clam shell type things you sat in?

Was that a fart @ 1:04 ?

I've never seen this before. I was always too chicken shit to go in.

Let's be fair... if this ride still existed today... merlin would of turned it into a lazer shooting game

Filmed on halloween 🎃🎃

Does anybody know what the name of the song at 3.15 is?

what is the music at 3:22 called?

Guys... anyone got footage of "House of Grandish" at Sega World London? There is NOTHING on the internet about it.

didn't this burn down?

I wonder what the future of the park would’ve looked like if this ride had never been burned down. Would inferno ever have been built and would Thorpe thrillseaker agenda never have been fully realised. But tbh this ride itself would’ve probably been turned into a shooter dark ride like terror tomb and the haunted house

I would take this over derren browns ghost train every day of the week.

Was this a walk through ride?

And now we have Inferno in it's place.

Even if it didn't burn down it would have closed in about 2005.

Pretty cool visually esp the skeletal banquet scenes and the skeleton heads that pop up and down! Anyone who keeps insisting that UK dark rides are a joke must be delusional!

Phantom phantasia was cool but this is better

Bet you Merlin would have turned this into angry birds the ride

I remember this I hated it

There’s so many sad people in the comment sections. Don’t worry at least we have Nemesis Inferno and detonator. This ride was gone 20 years ago.