Haunted Castle Ride - Dark Ride under Santa Cruz Boardwalk 

Love these types of rides. I was expecting it to be over-the-top cheesy, but surprisingly it seems to be pretty atmospheric. Especially with those sound effects (some of them, yes, cheesy, but high quality nonetheless)!

This ride is an oldy but goody and was recently completely overhauled with completely new interior and scares.

4:34 *When the edible kicked in and you're all by yourself*

This was probably my favorite ride as a kid! I haven’t been in over a decade but I’m glad it’s still up and running

I still remember riding it before the renovation where it was just a dozen scenes all repeating "welcome to the castle" and that was it. Flash forward to the first time riding the renovated version (this) and I was COMPLETELY blown away.

Anyone remember in the 80's the way this ride was? The school bus stopping and everyone inside of it hitting the windshield? Anyone remember?

Fun fact: (It's not shown here cause maybe it wasn't working when filmed, but) the cars actually turn to face certain scenes. At the start you're actually suppose to go down the spiral decent BACKWARDS. It's also why at 2:54 there's an open area with some blinking eye lights set up cause technically you're not suppose to be facing that way.

Looks like an old school scary ride.. like the one at Wild Wood New Jersey beach I went long time ago as a child. Children will love it.

It was alright. I liked the Crocodile/Alligator with the dock breaking up.

You have no idea how many people make out on this ride

Yeah after Us came out I’m not sure I’ll be able to handle anything related to the Santa Cruz Boardwalk again 😂

Omg I grew up with this ride!! I don't live in the state anymore so this was fun to see. I love it!

4:35, some puppet thing was riding wth

I like that bridge feature! Where it looks like something’s coming at you from under a bridge/dock. Actually pretty rad!

Is this where our teathered hangout at?

Aww I miss Santa Cruz , I used to go there all the time when I was younger

seems like some of the props and the car rotations weren't working

I liked the older version better but this one is still fun. Got to go to the dedication and grand opening of the refurb. I like the way they added some local themes.

I was just at Santa Cruz boardwalk about a month ago. Awesome place!

This reminds me of a Haunted House ride they had in Kings Island that really wasn't scary at all. I remember my best friend and I rode it and she said, 'It's really not at all scary', it was actually quite fun. I loved it, but as far as 'scary' rides go, the best one I've ridden is the Haunted Mansion in Disney World. That's what really turned me on to amusement parks. I have never been the same and whenever someone gives me an invitation to go to one, I am like, 'GAME ON, SON !'

The cars used to rotate to face certain scenes (Ex: used to face backwards on the way down). Hope they fix it, it would be a shame to see this ride fall into disrepair.

Oh god, a classic! I love Santa Cruz!

Well, that’s a long scary ride, isn’t it.

They did an epic job with this

A park can't spend too much on maintaining and modernizing a dark ride. Always popular.

Thanks so much for posting!!❤❤❤❤

It's great that Santa Cruz has three quality darkrides!

What an AMAZING ride!! I would be thrilled to take the journey

Nice video of a great ride in not-so-good condition.

“Dinner time!” I crack up every time I hear that!

Gotta love these rides!

I liked the one when i was a kid back in 19 _8. But it has been through a change or two. The cars entered to the left then. Thank You for this, the one I never got to ride.

For a tiny amusement park under a pier, this is pretty amazing

I actually liked this ride, plenty of time to enjoy the scenes.......

One of my favorite rides I wanna go on in Santa Cruz! 🧛🏻‍♂️

Gotta praise a ride that can keep it's atmosphere on the higher quality side

Rip, never forget what this ride used to be

This place is very fun! I recommend coming here

Gteat spooky Ride hanks for showing

Pretty decent i would be happy to give this one a go ! thank you ! :-)

7 people got scared

Looks better than most of those rides in Dubai.

OK, this has opened my eyes on how long it has been since iv'e visited Santa Cruz B&B, I never even seen this ride

Nice desing on the carts

Nice video

Looks really nice. The Swamp Area feels out of place, but pretty good otherwise.

That is a really cool ride- thx!

@2:32 OK, I love this pier effect

Neat little attraction

This takes me back!

And now it really goes "down under the boardwalk"!

Awesome video!!!!

This may be the version of the haunted mansion that our mothers have for us at home, but we’re ok with that 👌🏽

Very creepy ride

This is interesting.

Aw man, the skeleton holding its head is suppose to talk. Bummer.

This is a cool haunted house.

Would've been cool had they used this ride in the iconic lost boys movie!!

That is weird I was just there yesterday

I remember going on this ride when I was 4. 😭😭

It's changed so much since I was a child. The plunge is gone. The fun House is gone. Some of the old food places are gone. The Cave Train has changed and may be removed. Sad.

4:32 お代わりいただけただろうか？

Wait, I think this is where they done the movie The Lost Boys here!!!

I think everythings new at this ride

We always appreciated the gator

That was actually really good, lol.

Can't belive the rides already over 10 years old, I can understand wanting changes, though the vehicles seem to often not rotate? And they got rid of the rabbit stew, seemed to make more sense to pull up a deranged rabbit by the ears rather than an entire giant rat that you can see the lift support on imo

Is that it? I was always scared to go on the ride since I can’t handle horror or anything scary but that didn’t seem too bad. Don’t get me wrong it looks fun but I thought it would be much scarier?

love the music

i love the part were the guy, who looks like me in red overalls, stabs you with scissors

Do you think in the future we will have rides in space?

Please upload more Disneyland!!!

Are they really using Midnight Syndicate's music or was that added?

So much fun

the animatronic at the end is not bad but weird how the cars weren't rotating backwards

Even scarier is losing a match playing tic tac toe with a chicken…

1:47 Goldeneye 64 Tank Scream!

Wooooo……

Isn't this ride cars supposed to be rotating?

これでもお金かかってると思う。うん。 でもディ○ニーってやっぱりスゴい。

This ride is creepy. 👻

Watching this cause when I went on it I kept my eyes closed the whole time-

Is it an amusement park or a kind of funfair? It looks like a amusement park, but then I don´t pay for a seperate attraction! Or you are on a funfair, then the entrance is free, but you pay for every attraction. So it is in example here in Germany!

I've been to peoples backyards with better haunted houses during Halloween!

Well backwards is broken

surprisingly There's no Backstory Behind The Castle Haunting. Theirs a King and That's it.

was that a demon in an onsen?

4:30 What's up with the fake Flintstone going the other way? do they just randomly do that on some of the tram cars?

1:15PDRさん

What's going on at 3:09? XD they caught a tourist?

Merlin’s Forest 🌳😳

乗り物式お化け屋敷かな？

Too bad you can see the ceiling of the building.

NorCal Attraction

i went on that ride

You should play some Michael Jackson Thriller

Kann sich aber sehen lassen, sind ein paar schöne Effekte dabei.

I STILL DONT UNDERSTAND THE DINOSAUR

I went on it but I closed my eyes for the whole ride lol but my one cousin was telling my big sister to shut the f up bc she was in the back with him and my other sister was in the front with me

こんなんずっと叫んでる自信あるな怖すぎ死ぬ