Skeletal detonation expert
The Lost Dutchman Mine ride begins on the "loading platform," where guests are assisted into a mining ore car. Departing the platform, the mine car enters through a swinging set of doors and then begins a steep descent, giving passengers the sensation of heading underground into a working mine of the 1880s. On a shelf to the right lies a menacing rattlesnake, illuminated by an eerie blue light. The car then trips a photocell which activates a disturbing rattle sound. This is a foreshadowing of the "dangers" that lie ahead in the ghost mine, one final warning to "turn back!" As the car enters the mine, there appears to the left a skeleton preparing to set off a dynamite charge. The ghostly miner depresses the plunger, the sound of an explosion is heard, and the walls of the mine tremble and shake. The walls now begin to collapse inwards and the ceiling is shifting ever lower. Will you survive???