Mildred Van Horn was a scareactor that was featured in the Universal Horror Hotel haunted house during Halloween Horror Nights 2022 (Hollywood).
Backstory[]
Mildred Van Horn, who was called "Millie" by her friends, was born Mildred Grace Pederson in Newport Rhode Island in 1872. Her father ran a successful haberdashery and eventually moved the family out west as his business grew. She met her future husband, Randolph Van Horn, at a dinner dance in Los Angeles in 1892, shortly after he divorced his first wife Agatha after having her committed to a mental hospital, Randolph, who at the time had been a partner in the Pan American Petroleum and Transportation Company with Edward L. Doheny, made a fortune that grew substantially as his multiple land holdings produced more and more oil. When Randolph died of a sudden heart attack in 1921, his entire fortune passed to Mildred and soon passed to their only child, Lillian.
Mildred was upset with her fortune being used by Lillian's new lover and future husband Maxie Deville to create a hotel called The Hotel Universal, where the celebrities of Hollywood would party the night away. Depressed and not amused by the success of the hotel and its inhabitants, as well as that of her son in law and daughter, she would constantly berate the hotel and its staff. On the night of the New Year's Eve Celebration, Mrs. Van Horn had an argument with her son in law. Upset, she disappeared into her hotel room for the night and was discovered dead the next morning in her bathtub. Her cause of death was stated as drowning. Her death, alongside her daughter's, would be linked to Maxie Deville. He would later die in a gas chamber for their murders as well as the double suicide of two of hotel members.
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Appearance at Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood[]
| Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood 2022 |
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| Characters: The Mummy • The Wolfman • Count Dracula • Michael Myers • Blissfield Butcher • The Grabber • The Weeknd • Killer Klowns • Kingcrow • La Llorona • Lillian Deville •Maxie Deville • Mildred Van Horn • Hollywood Harry • Edgar Allan Crow |
| Haunted Houses: Universal Monsters: Legends Collide • Halloween • The Horrors of Blumhouse • The Weeknd: After Hours Nightmare • Scarecrow the Reaping • La Llorona: The Weeping Woman • Universal Horror Hotel • Killer Klowns From Outer Space |
| Terror Tram: Terror Tram |
| Scarezones: El Pueblo Del Terror • Sideshow Slaughterhouse • Clownsawz |
| Unofficial Scarezone: Pumpkinsawz |
| Show: Jabbawockeez |
| Other Attractions: Haunted Forest • Dia De Los Muertos Plaza • The Weeknd: After Hours Nightmare Bar • Death Eaters Encounter • Halloween Horror Nights NFT Scavenger Hunt • Chucky's Good Guys Toy Box Photo Op • Every Day is Halloween Store • R.I.P Tour Lounge |