Dark Harbor - The Spirits Rise @ Queen Mary, Long Beach

September 20-November 2, 2024

The Queen Mary
1126 Queens Highway
Long Beach, California
$49.99-up, queenmary.com

Actual dates September 20, 21, 27, 28 & 29, 2024; October 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30 & 31, 2024; November 1 & 2, 2024

You could ask us if Dark Harbor is the best haunt in California -- we know about all of them and would tell you exactly what we think. It is the best event in all the state for these reasons:

• Authentic location with REAL ghosts
• Creative storylines enhanced by historic ship's setting
• Full bars -- with some incredible cocktail and beverage experiences.
• Cabanas and VIP spots to spend the evening with friends, dates, etc.
• Unbelievable mazes on the ship (we won't give away any secrets,) but some sights are like seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time
• Best weather with harbor location

If you're taking little ones -- this isn't your choice. Head for Disneyland, Seaworld San Diego or Legoland California's Halloween themes. However, if you're mature and looking for a night out, Dark Harbor ranks tops!

2024 Experiences

6 mazes, 13 bars which include a secret bar submerged 6-fathoms below sea level in the Boiler Room, fire shows, aerialists, sliders, Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch Sinister Swings, Panic! 4-D Experience, zombie DJs, Barrel Room Tastings, R.I.P. Lounge

MAZES

• LULLABY HUSH HUSH DON'T CRY
  Ring around the rosy, a pocket full of nightmares. The new Lullaby maze takes the visitor on a spine-tingling trip through the story of little Scary Mary.
• INFIRMARY
  A path of destruction stretches from the First-Class decks to the eerie depths deep inside the bowels of the Queen Mary where the wicked spirits of a sadistic surgeon and his accomplice, Graceful Gale, torment the living with ghastly echoes of their gruesome procedures.
• FEAST Maze: During WWII when The Queen Mary was in service as a troop transport ship, an enlisted military man serving in the ship's kitchen quickly moved up in the ranks to become a highly decorated Chef. Unbeknownst to the soldiers aboard, Chef would sedate a few solders at a time and collect them in the middle of the night to prep them for his latest dishes.
• INTREPID
  The Iron Master has returned to reclaim the precious vessel he built, fiercely guarding it from the antics of the freaks and ghouls.
• CIRCUS BIG TOP TERROR
  Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, and experience the world's most horrifying circus!
• BREAKOUT AND ON THE RUN - DOUBLE MAZE
  The mystery behind what happened in the infamous stateroom, B340
  

Iron Master: Aboard a locomotive to Clydebank, Scotland where the Queen was born, guests bear witness to Iron Master's cursed journey to save The R.M.S. Queen Mary from her predecessor's Titanic peril.

Ghoulish and terrifying nights bring guests the Sinister Seven Spirits: Ringmaster, Captain, Samuel the Savage, Graceful Gale, Half-Hatch Henry, Scary Mary and the newest malevolent resident will haunt the grounds of Dark Harbor nightly.

Ringmaster's gruesome big top of Circus is a maze that continues to disorient with horrifying illusions, death-defying acts and spirited thrills.

Scary Mary has haunted the ship since her mysterious drowning in the pool in 1952.

SEE PHOTOS FROM THE DARK HARBOR GALLERY & VIDEO

"Passengers" wind through musty smelling areas, where your eyes catch a glimpse of the empty pool in which a little girl named Mary drowned decades ago. You can see her wandering with her teddy at Dark Harbor, and throughout the year people report seeing her wet footsteps or hearing a giggle of laughter or splash when there's no water in the pool. The ghost was documented on "Unsolved Mysteries" many years ago.

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