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An amusement park Haunted Mansion delivers summer screams and lifelong memories

At an old-school amusement park in Rehoboth Beach, Del., called Funland, a generation of thrillseekers who grew up screaming in the park's Haunted Mansion now brings their kids to do the same.
Randy Curry, a mechanic who's part of the family that owns Funland, has been working at the park since 1972.

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. — Along the boardwalk in this Atlantic Coast town, an old-school amusement park called Funland is a haven for over-sunned families who feed quarters into Skee-Ball machines and use mallets to try to flip rubber frogs onto moving lily pads in pursuit of a stuffed animal prize.

And among the newer attractions that fling riders into the air or upside down, there's one ride that continues to loom large in visitors' memories: the

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