This year’s Dark Harbor features “six blood-curdling mazes, five weeks of terror, three new secret bars, two electrifying stages, and only one way out.”
Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor will once again rise from the depths on September 27, “drenched in legend and oozing with a sordid past. Regarded as one of the most haunted places on Earth, the Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor is a thrill-seekers’ delight, blurring the lines of history and hysteria.” For the 2018 season, the event will disorient fans with an entirely new park footprint along with new maze designs, interactive alternate paths, and live entertainment.
“This coming season, attendees are invited to descend into Dark Harbor’s new, omni-immersive and hyper-enhanced mazes for its darkest season yet,” stated Charity Hill, Executive Producer of Dark Harbor. “With a myriad of voluntary experiences, alternate paths, secret bars, and hidden passages, we’re proud to deliver a choose-your-own-adventure mega haunt.”
Guests can don a detective’s hat and retrace the steps of “Samuel the Savage” to solve the gruesome murders in Room B340 or re-live childhood nightmares playing hide-and-seek with Scary Mary and her sinister teddy bear in “Lullaby.” Visitors may want to see if they can escape the Ringmaster’s Big Top before becoming a specimen in the “Circus” oddities museum or head to boot camp with Half Hatch Henry for a reimagined storyline of the fan-favorite maze, “Deadrise” to experience Captain’s rigorous training. For the truly intrepid, guests can traverse the John Brown Shipyard and try to hide from the lurking creatures in the Scottish Highlands aboard Iron Master’s express train to hell. Alternatively, visitors can clock-in for a shift aboard the infamous Grey Ghost and attempt to avoid Chef’s chopping block while working up an appetite for flesh in the new maze, “Feast.”
Other creepy immersive experiences include a bone-chilling, nine-degree Ice Bar; hundreds of devious entities; hidden havens; devilish treats; intense concoctions, Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch “Sinister Swings,” the “Panic 4D Experience,” and death-defying aerial and fire stunts.
New to the Dark Harbor creative crew is Jon Cooke who comes on board as Production Designer. Jon brings with him more than a decade of experience designing some of Southern California’s most celebrated theme parks and haunted attractions.
This annual haunt returns to the Queen Mary on September 27 and continues on 23 select nights through November 2. For more information or to purchase tickets online, visit www.queenmary.com/dark-harbor. 
