Richmond Haunts Short
Shrek 4-D Ghost Stories at Universal Studios Florida
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About this episode
| Before Shrek and Donkey moved into this Universal Studios Florida soundstage, the building housed Alfred Hitchcock: The Art of Making Movies. That opening-day attraction used film, live performance and effects inspired by Psycho, The Birds and other Hitchcock works before closing in January 2003. Shrek 4-D opened in the same space later that year and remained there until January 2022.
This Short explores the eerie occurrences reported after the building changed themes. Team members and later storytellers described unexplained activity inside the Shrek attraction, with some suggesting that the presence belonged to Alfred Hitchcock himself. The episode treats that identity as theme-park folklore rather than a verified haunting. The contrast is still irresistible: a bright animated comedy occupying a soundstage whose previous attraction was devoted to one of cinema’s great masters of suspense. |