“Casa de los Sustos” in Mexico City

We recently discovered a photo dating back to 1993 of Tracy’s “Casa de los Sustos” (Scary House) dark ride at Chapultepec Park in Mexico City. The two-story ride opened in 1964 and closed in 1994, and was designed and constructed during the same time period as Trimper’s Haunted House in Ocean City, MD. Many similarities in the ride’s façade styling are evident, but unlike Trimper’s Haunted House, this ride originally used an Allan Herschell ride system that was comprised of 10 cars. Later in the ride’s history, the ride system was removed and it was converted to a walk-thru attraction with live actors and new theming. Given the time period, simple logic tells us this attraction likely included many similar stunts to Trimper’s Haunted House, West View’s Haunted House, and Hunt’s Whacky Shack, including the Knit Wit, Old Mill, Mad Scientist, and Attic Stairs, but it’s impossible to tell for certain at this point. Very little about this attraction is known or recorded but it remains one of our biggest curiosities.