{"id":399527,"date":"2026-09-14T15:24:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/399527\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T15:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:24:24","slug":"snakes-join-the-howl-o-scream-monster-tradition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/399527\/","title":{"rendered":"Snakes join the Howl-O-Scream monster tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6;\">TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 This year&#8217;s latest haunted house at <a href=\"https:\/\/buschgardens.com\/tampa\/events\/howl-o-scream\/\" style=\"color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Busch Gardens <\/a>Howl-O-Scream: Anaconda: Fear Has No Escape!<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6;\">It&#8217;s all part of the theme park&#8217;s spooky evolution for the perfect fright this Halloween season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6;\">It\u2019s Busch Gardens&#8217; 26th year of spookiness \u2014 offering six haunted houses, multiple scare zones and spooky entertainment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6;\">Also, if you are looking for a boozy drink that vampires would mistake for their favorite meal, you can get that, too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6;\">New this year, the park is offering miniature haunts like the Bloody Mary Bathroom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6;\">Call her name three times while looking into the mirror, and she shows up with horrible screams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6;\">There is also a new photo opportunity \u2014 but everything is not as it seems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6;\">This year\u2019s theme is a throwback: Creatures of the Night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6;\">The event runs on select dates through Oct. 31.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6;\">Use the video link above to go On The Town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 This year&#8217;s latest haunted house at Busch Gardens Howl-O-Scream: Anaconda: Fear Has No Escape! It&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[28,276,115,4094,7149,135,137,136,7148,835],"class_list":["post-399527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-florida","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-news","tag-on-the-town","tag-on-the-town-app","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-virginia-johnson","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}