Dec. 2, 2025

This Day in Halloween: Disney's black and white cartoon "The Haunted House" -- featuring Mickey Mouse -- opens across the U.S. in 1929. / Illustration by Julian Turonis

The Haunted House opens across the U.S. in 1929. The black and white short featuring dancing skeletons is the first of five Disney Mickey Mouse cartoons in the 1920’s, 1930s and later in the 1990s with a horror theme. 

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