Top 10 Most DISTURBING Dark Rides EVER

Dark rides are a core component of theme parks and amusement parks. Filled with animatronics, scary moments, and more. Here is a list of the dark rides that just leave an uneasy feeling in the pit of your gut.

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0:00 Intro
0:29 E.T. Adventure
01:46 Flooded Mine
03:09 Mine of Lost Souls
05:27 Big Red Car
07:15 Horror House
08:40 Devil's Den
09:53 Okefenokee
11:48 Jurassic Boat Ride
14:29 Hollywood Tour
16:32 Br'er Rabbit's Burrow
18:47 Comment Shoutout/Outro

[MultiPaco]

The fact Carpetbagger had to use a flashlight to even see in the Jurassic boat ride is literally sending chills down my spine, imagine hearing all the hydraulics and squeaky hinges in near total darkness knowing that some horrible dilapidated dinosaurs are lurking in the shadows, GEE-ZUS

[foreverconfusedd]

Not the yassified Okefenokee singing carrots 😭😭

[autoRegenesis]

I feel like an important lesson to be taken from this video is "Don't put props in water if they aren't specifically designed to hold up in water."

[mikethewhizz]

"Most unintentionally creepy family ride" implies the existence of an intentionally creepy family ride, and I'd love to see that

[gocholuv]

When I was a kid on the ET ride, they would have employees type down everyone in the group's names, and at the very end, ET would say "goodbye, ___" (if your name was a common one.) Hearing him croak my name with the syllables all drawn out was..an experience.


Also, one of my favorite memories of that ride was hearing an exasperated employee tell someone behind me "No, you can't have Joe Mama as your name. Please pick something else."

[vectorwolf]

That Big Red Car ride is the most unpleasantly liminal location I've seen in real life.

[Hokaru]

"The bite of 87... million BC" had me howling, great work

[jujublue]

The Big Red Car might be the closest backroom experience we could get

[ThemeParkOgre]

I can confirm that Big Red Car was VERY creepy. Wags the Dog moving down the slide in that frozen position always freaked me out!

[ajtopia]

It’s always a little disappointing when rides get infamous for being dilapidated and people want to come see it so the park restores it and takes away the deterioration charm lol

[ellnats]

the ET ride probably had the original concept design in mind, or at least the planned sequel that never got made

[mikethewhizz]

There's so much untapped potential for cool creepy dark rides in a lot of franchises. Like imagine a silent hill or Half Life dark ride, or even fallout, especially the first two games. A portal 2 themed dark ride would probably work really well

[gadiesandlentlemen]

8:36 - "There's also a witch in a bikini. No comment." SHE ATE THAT UP THAT'S THE COMMENT 👏 😭 great video btw, this was a really fun watch!

[spindleclown]

I'm so glad you mentioned the knockoff Creature on the Jurassic Jungle Boat Ride; I was the one who identified it! (Albeit on a now-deactivated Reddit account, but IIRC I have a YT comment doing it as well.) I saw The Creature in person at a local fair, and recognized it immediately in tiny knockoff form. I got into contact with the manufacturers and they said it wasn't their work, either!

[RabidHummingbird]

That Big Red Car ride is a lot like slowly remembering a traumatic event from your toddlerhood, but you just can't quite grasp what the trauma actually was.

[mutecryptid]

Dark rides have always been inherently creepy to me especially with germaphobia, but the promise of art and robots usually overpowers the fear.
These would traumatize me 😂

[SemiShweet]

I actually had a dream about the Big Red Car Ride after watching a ride through. Then years later Defunctland finally made a video about it and it was exactly like my dream. It creeps me out, it's like a liminal space thing.

[whoopdeedo]

that that the weird dino thing made is pretty much used in jumpscares

[GuitarLobster]

As someone who rode the Hollywood Tour in Phantasialand more than once I can confirm that it smelled very bad. Each time you rode it you could see it decay more and more. That big spider is from the movie "Tarantula" that's why it's in the desert. There also was a scene dedicated to Hitchcocks "The Birds", which was later turned into that strange Wizard of Oz scene.
On my first ride ever the ride broke down while we were at the King Kong scene and we had to hop from one boat to another till a staff member led us out of the ride through several backrooms. That attraction was wild.

[quadmikohybrid]

I went to Oakwood on a school trip in the 2010s The Br’er rabbit ride at the time had failed completely, and I was tramitized in the ‘spinning rabbit room’ as their laughter has turned into a mechanical mess of screeching and wailing. The lights also flickered in there. when I was off the ride I needed a moment