{"id":413858,"date":"2026-09-29T16:14:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T16:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413858\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T16:14:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T16:14:26","slug":"ghostly-hijinks-await-at-zootampas-creatures-of-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413858\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghostly hijinks await at ZooTampa&#8217;s Creatures of the Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0.5rem 0; line-height: 1.6;\">TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 If you are looking for some \u201cLight Frights\u201d for your little ones, ZooTampa\u2019s Halloween event, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/zootampa.org\/events\/creatures-of-the-night\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Creatures of the Night<\/a>,\u201d has opened.<\/p>\n<p>From the scariest to the silliest, the aforementioned \u201ccreatures\u201d offer a little fear and a little fun, while their non-creature animal educators offer facts about the animals in our world.<\/p>\n<p>First up: their newest, most frightening haunt, \u201cScared of the Dark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was created for tweens, teenagers and adults and then maybe those brave little kids that want to come in and explore,\u201d said ZooTampa Director of Communications Sandra Morrison.<\/p>\n<p>The haunt explores the subject of nightmares.<\/p>\n<p>Nightmare 1: Vampires opening their upright coffins, looking for dinner<br \/>\nNightmare 2: Mummies<br \/>\nNightmare 3: Spiders and the Spider Queen<br \/>\nNightmare 4: Stranded, green-eyed aliens along with their wrecked spaceship<br \/>\nNightmare 5: Werewolves\u2026in blue jeans<br \/>\nNightmare 6: Life-sized Voodoo dolls<br \/>\nNightmare 7: Walls come to life<\/p>\n<p>If all this is too much for your little one, then head on over to the \u201cGhostly Groves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is going to be their first Halloween haunted experience,\u201d said Morrison.<\/p>\n<p>Ghosts frolic with guests and grumpy farmers \u2014 grump it up! Once you get through the schoolhouse, look for the silly names in the cemetery. All the silliness, in hopes that humans understand animals need our help.<\/p>\n<p>In lightly frightful fun, the mission of conservation persists.<\/p>\n<p>Creatures of the Night at ZooTampa is open select dates through Oct. 31 from 4 p.m. \u2013 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are $35 &#8211; $40.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 If you are looking for some \u201cLight Frights\u201d for your little ones, ZooTampa\u2019s Halloween event,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[274,104,2200,115,4094,7149,135,137,136,278,2032,7148,835],"class_list":["post-413858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-top-stories","tag-entertainment","tag-instagram-bn9","tag-news","tag-on-the-town","tag-on-the-town-app","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-top-stories","tag-trending-topics","tag-virginia-johnson","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413858","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=413858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}