What do you think about this?
The RMS Queen Mary was once the fastest, grandest ocean liner in the world. She carried movie stars across the Atlantic, then carried thousands of troops through World War Two. In 1967 she sailed into Long Beach, California, dropped anchor for the last time, and never left. Today she is a floating hotel. She is also called one of the most haunted places in America.
During her decades at sea, at least forty nine people died aboard her. Most were ordinary deaths, illness and heart attacks. But two of them happened in the engine room, fifty feet below the waterline, where a heavy watertight door known as Door 13 crushed two men at different points in the ship’s history. Guests today report cold spots there and the sound of someone trapped below.
Then there is the first class pool, drained for years now, where staff and visitors describe hearing a child laughing and splashing in water that is not there. And Stateroom B340, sealed off for decades, where guests have reported sheets torn from the bed, faucets turning themselves on, and knocking from inside the walls.
Skeptics rightly note that some of these tales were polished up over the years to sell tickets. Yet people keep walking off that ship shaken by something they cannot explain.
Could it be that a ship that carried so much life, and so much death, held onto a little of both?
Clever marketing, or a haunting that earned its name? What do you think people keep meeting aboard the Queen Mary?
