SeaWorld's Howl-O-Scream page still calls the fifth haunted house Coming Soon. Its new $349.99 pass names it Rave Yard

SeaWorld has been announcing Howl-O-Scream 2026 in stages, and one haunted house still has no name on it. On the event's attractions page, four houses have names, key art and a paragraph of story. The fifth is a black card with a yellow hazard diamond on it that says COMING SOON.

The name is already on SeaWorld's own website. It is sitting in the fine print of a ticket product.

The Howl-O-Scream cast on the Nautilus Theater stage at the Scream and Sweat preview on August 20, the media event where SeaWorld previewed this year's houses and scare zones. Roughly twenty performers are lined up in front of a red blood splatter backdrop and teal lit building facades, among them a hooded figure holding a hook, a masked performer in a studded leather vest, a white hazmat suited character, a shaggy swamp creature and several in nineties workout headbands. Audience members film from the dark in the foreground. Photo: ThrillGeek.

Where the name turns up

SeaWorld has added a new top tier to the Howl-O-Scream ticket lineup: the Front Line Unlimited Scream Pass, at $349.99. Its Know Before You Go list spells out exactly which houses the priority access covers, and it names all five of them:

"Includes Front Line Fear Ultimate unlimited priority access to Crawlspace, Dark Net, Everything Must Stay, Rave Yard, and I Know What You Did Last Summer: The Final Catch for one guest ..."

Four of those are the houses the attractions page has already introduced by name. That leaves Rave Yard as the one whose card still says COMING SOON. SeaWorld has not drawn the line between the two pages itself, but its own lists do not leave another candidate.

The card SeaWorld still shows in the fifth haunted house slot on its Howl-O-Scream attractions page: a yellow road sign diamond with a black exclamation triangle and the words COMING SOON. The card is labelled RETURNING! and Haunted House, with no name attached. Image: SeaWorld Orlando.

This is the returning house, not a fifth new one

Worth being precise, because the labels matter here. SeaWorld's own card marks that slot RETURNING!, and the four named houses are each flagged All-New. The archive backs the label up: SeaWorld's 2025 Howl-O-Scream attractions page carried a house called The Rave Yard, flagged ALL-NEW that year, so 2026 is its second run. What was unannounced was the returning house's identity, not its existence.

ThrillGeek, reporting from SeaWorld's Scream and Sweat preview on August 20, also listed it, describing the house this way: "The party never ends in this eternal undead celebration, where the dead are ready to keep the night going." ThrillGeek files all five houses under a heading of five all-new haunted houses, which does not square with SeaWorld's own RETURNING! label or with The Rave Yard having run in 2025. Note the spelling drift too: ThrillGeek writes it as one word, Raveyard, while SeaWorld's ticket page writes it as two.

SeaWorld's own house names are not written the same way from page to page. The attractions page calls one house The Crawl Space, the single park pass calls it Crawlspace, and the two park pass renders it Crawspace. The same page calls another house The Dark Net, while both passes drop the The.

What the new pass costs and covers

The Front Line Unlimited Scream Pass is the season long, skip the line tier, and the pricing sits well above everything else on the page.

• $349.99 for the SeaWorld Orlando version, or $499.99 for a two park version that adds Busch Gardens Tampa Bay.
• Admission on every event night for one guest, across the September 11 to October 31 run.
• Front Line Fear Ultimate priority access to all five haunted houses, plus Pipeline, Ice Breaker, Mako and Expedition Odyssey: Fire & Ice.
• Reserved seating at Monster Stomp.
• No blockout dates, and no punching or redemption: SeaWorld says the pass is checked at the house or ride entrance.
• A valid, government issued photo ID is required at entry, and SeaWorld says the 2026 tickets are subject to availability.

For scale, the existing Unlimited Scream Pass is listed at $112.99 per person, marked down from $205.99, and Pass Members can buy an any night ticket for $33.99. The event ticket does not cover daytime entry to the park, and SeaWorld says neither a Fun Card nor an Annual Pass will get a guest into Howl-O-Scream.

Key art for The Dark Net, one of the four houses SeaWorld has named on the attractions page. The title is set in white block letters edged with neon pink and cyan glitch offsets, over a dark field of magenta paint splatter and thin circuit trace lines, with small ERROR 404 and WARNING readouts tucked into the lockup. Image: SeaWorld Orlando.

What else is still blank

The haunted house is not the only placeholder on that page. Under bars, SeaWorld advertises 5 ALL-NEW Interactive Bars and names two of them, Byte Bar and The Rewind. The other three are Coming Soon cards, two of them the same hazard diamond used in the haunted house slot and one a leftover 2025 graphic of a wooden COMING SOON sign behind strips of caution tape.

Five scare zones are named: Extermination Order, Nekrosis and Just One More Chapter as all new, with Trailer Park Tragedy and Woodrot Hollow returning. Three more scare zone cards sit alongside them carrying only an ALL-NEW! label and a Coming Soon image. One of those may already be public: ThrillGeek counts six scare zones for 2026 and names a sixth, Dooms District, that does not appear anywhere on SeaWorld's page. The two accounts do not reconcile, since SeaWorld's page carries eight scare zone cards in all, five named and three blank. The page tells readers where the rest will surface, promising new announcements weekly on the event's social accounts.

When it runs

Howl-O-Scream runs select nights from September 11 through October 31 at SeaWorld Orlando. Gates for the event open at 6:30 p.m. and the event itself starts at 7 p.m.

Sources

• SeaWorld Orlando, "Purchase Howl-O-Scream Tickets & Packages"
• SeaWorld Orlando, "Haunted Attractions, Howl-O-Scream"
• SeaWorld Orlando 2025 Howl-O-Scream attractions page, archived September 27, 2025
• ThrillGeek, "SeaWorld Orlando Unleashes Pestilence During Killer '90s Scream & Sweat Preview"

Image credits: Scream and Sweat cast photograph by ThrillGeek. Haunted house card and Dark Net key art by SeaWorld Orlando.