EP4 - Dolly’s Dip: The Matterhorn Death Disney Wants You to Forget

The Scarecast: Scary Stories, Mysteries, and True Crime

Michael Crutchfield

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Disneyland sells itself as the happiest place on Earth—but behind the music and fireworks, there are stories the park will never put on a brochure. In this episode, I take you inside the concrete heart of the Matterhorn Bobsleds to unpack the horrifying and still‑unresolved death of Regena “Dolly” Young, a 47‑year‑old woman who fell from her bobsled in 1984 and was struck and killed by the next oncoming car in a section of track now known as “Dolly’s Dip.” We’ll go back to Disneyland’s first recorded guest fatality on the Matterhorn in 1964, examine how lightly regulated theme park safety was in the 1980s, and break down the three leading theories of how Dolly’s seatbelt mysteriously ended up unfastened. Then we move into the paranormal: after‑hours track walks, cold spots, dead work lights, and cast members who swear they’ve felt Dolly watching them from the darkness inside the mountain. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Disneyland has always been this strange mix for me, pure childhood magic on the surface,
0:08.6	something much darker simmering underneath. The story I'm about to tell you is one of the
0:14.2	ones that haunted me the most. I was just at the park last week with some friends and we decided
0:20.1	to brave the Matterhorn.
0:22.0	I've even tried to film the whole thing so I could finally make a video about this exact case.
0:27.6	But the ride was so fast and violently jerky that I slant my elbow twice and nearly lost my phone.
0:34.0	And somewhere in all that chaos, I realized that I probably blew past the very section of the
0:39.2	track where a woman once lost her life.
0:42.6	That thought stuck with me as I got off the ride.
0:45.8	By the time we were back on Main Street, I knew I needed to do a full deep dive into the
0:50.5	death, impossible haunting of Regina Dolly Young, the woman whose ghost is said to linger
0:57.2	in a stretch of track now known as Dolly's Dip.
1:05.0	On January 3rd, 1984, Regina Doaly Young's life was ended on the Matterhorn bobsled at Disneyland
1:16.2	in Anaheim, California. After falling from her bobsled roughly one minute into the ride,
1:23.0	she was struck and killed by the next oncoming sled approximately 30 seconds later. Her seatbelt was
1:29.8	found unbuckled but not broken, and how she came to leave the vehicle has never been definitively
1:36.5	answered. The incident spawned a $5 million lawsuit, changes to the ride's restraint system,
1:43.2	and one of Disneyland's most enduring
1:46.1	legends, Dolly's Dip.
1:50.7	Dolly Regine Joyce was born on February 2nd, 1936, in Fremont Alameda County, California.
1:59.2	She was married to John L. Young and had two sons, Dale and Derek,
2:04.1	and by 1984, Dolly was described as estranged from her husband John, who was living in Campbell,
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