The ghosts of the Queen Mary

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My son Liam stayed on the RMS Queen Mary in April 2008 with his grandparents. The Queen Mary is said to be one of the most haunted places in America. Liam has been intrigued with this idea ever since staying aboard the permanently-docked ship in Long Beach, California. Here is some information he has collected about the ghosts that are said to haunt the Queen Mary.

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There are so many ghosts on board, I don't know where to start!!!

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Intelligent ghosts* that I know of(starting from stories from the bowels of the ship working up):

The ghost of John Pedder, haunts watertight door number 13.

The ghost of Jacqueline "Jackie", haunts the First Class swimming pool, the now-gutted Third Class nursery, and the Second Class pool, now the Queen Mary movie theater.

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Residual ghosts+(starting from the bowels of the ship, working the way up):

The ghosts of two guards and countless German prisoners from the forward storage room, their voices still heard.

Countless amounts of ghosts in the First Class pool.

The ghost of a lady in white, haunts the Queen's Salon, originally the First Class lounge.

The ghost of a floating lady, haunts stateroom A025.

The ghost of a man in a 1930s suit, haunts staerooms A008-A022.

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Angry ghosts#(starting from the bowels of the ship, working the way up):

The ghost of John Henry-Hank, haunts the green room.

An anonymous psychopath, haunts room B340.

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Recurring ghosts**(starting from the bowels of the ship, working up):

The ghost of John Pedder, haunts watertight door number 13.

The ghosts of the collision with the Curacoa, also the prisoners held there, and the dead crewmen from the Curacoa, all haunt the forward storage room.

An anonymous psychopath, haunts room B340.

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*intelligent ghosts are interactive and still have minds.

+residual ghosts are ghosts that are unaware of the things around them, and never interact with people.

#angry ghosts are ghosts that did bad things in their life, and scare or harm people or animals.

**recurring ghosts are ghosts that are stuck in a time warp ,so they can only constantly reenact the way they died.

In order of the timeline:

April, 1937, 23rd voyage, a deranged man was placed in room B340 as a punishment for harassing his family. Because room B340 was the smallest and least appealing room on the ship, the room was used as a temporary brig. Later that night, the deranged man's family visited him. The man was outraged and killed his 5-year-old daughter, and they now haunt the ship.

June, 1937, The Queen Mary was following her escort ship, the Curacoa, when The Queen Mary's propellors dragged The Curacoa into her path, and because of the captain's no-stopping orders, 338 men drowned. You can still hear their screams in the forward storage room.

June 31, 1966, The Queen Mary's 1000th voyage, during a routine fire drill, 18-year-old John Pedder was playing chicken with a closing watertight door. All of a sudden, he was crushed in half by 50,000 pounds of pressure from the door. How many times did he get in and out of the door? Six and a half. The original door 13 was removed and scrapped, but the new door is still haunted. You can hear screams, hear the door closing when it's not, and see John himself walking around D-deck.

Deaths whose dates were not recorded:

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the death of Jacqueline "Jackie". She drowned in the second class pool, and haunts many locations.

The cold-blooded murder in locker room box 20, said to be one of the causes of the paranormal "vortex".

If you think that the haunting of the Queen Mary is fake, think again! I admit, the effects for room B340 showed the room in a blur, and the splashing in the pool was also fake, but the footprints were not! They have a live webcam there, so the footprints were not fake. Other effects were bulkhead 13 closing, the lightning through the bridge porthole, the bubbles in front of the propeller, the haze, and the newspaper. The rest is actual pictures being zoomed in on.

Berth B340 on the Queen Mary is supposedly haunted. B340 is bigger than it originally was because the wall dividing room B338 and room B340 was removed. When the Queen Mary became a hotel, visitors kept sending complaints about sleeping in room B340. They were woken up in the middle of the night while experiencing the light turning on and off, the sink turning on and off, coat hangers floating above their heads, and bedspreads undoing themselves. The Queen Mary staff decided to not rent this haunted berth to the public. It is, however, still used for research by paranormal experts.

Another haunted area of the Queen Mary is the 1st Class Swimming Pool. The 1st class swimming pool is mainly haunted by ghosts that just didn't want to leave. One guest, who drowned in the 2nd class pool (now a theater) is interactive with the public. She can be heard by ordinary people visiting the ship. Her name is Jaqueline, and her voice can be loudly heard. All she does though is moans or screams.

The "vortex" of the Queen Mary haunting is in the locker rooms. A picture of the locker room in one of the films below shows pipes on the ceiling and a man and woman smiling at the camera. The supposed cause of this paranormal "vortex" was a 32-year-old woman murdered in locker room 20.

As a guest of the Queen Mary hotel and a tour participant, my opinion is extremely haunted.

- by Liam Schofield (aged 10)

On my spring vacation, I was sitting in the same restaurant seat shown at the start of this movie clip! It was at Promenade Cafe(on the promenade deck of the ship of course, overlooking Long Beach) When I saw this video I was freaked! On my tour through the 1st class swimming pool I felt like I got hugged by a little girl called Jackie! It felt like my legs were dipped in liquid nitrogen for a couple seconds!

There are plenty of opportunities all over the US for ghost sightings. Pick up one of these books from Amazon.com and see what hauntings are close to you.

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