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I've been to the Queen Mary on several occasions, and encountered more than one of the phenomenon aboard.
The most accessible haunted
area is near door 13 in the engine room, where a young man was crushed
trying to escape a fire. He was only 17 and had lied about his age in
order to get the job. We've heard knocking
from the pipes around the door on more than one occasion, once it progressed
in a circle all the way around our group. Another time, two of our group
saw a bright light with smoke in front of it as with a
fire. The woman also felt heat from the doorway, when she touched it. We had
not informed them of the haunting before.
Another of the accessible
haunting areas is the front desk of what is now the hotel portion of the
ship. Sightings include a mysterious woman in white who will be sighted
walking until blocked from view by a pillar
and never coming out from behind. Also, a couple has been seen walking down
the hall to either side of the main entry to the first class rooms, but are
never seen in the hallways themselves.
Some other areas that you have to take the behind the scenes tour to get to include the engine room number 2. Many stowaways died every time they would fire up the boilers to leave port, and sometimes a feeling of vast despair can be felt on the catwalk and sometimes also on the shuffleboard deck above. Also, I've noticed that when I'm there, the room feels much larger than it is. I can also occasionally feel the ship sway, which it doesn't do now that it's moored.
There are several hauntings
related to the pool, including two different children,
one girl who asks after her
mother or her doll, and a boy. The girl is
thought to have been a precocious child from third class who
liked sliding down banisters and was doing so when the ship hit a swell and
pitched so that the banister went straight down and she hit the wall,
breaking her neck. There have also been complaints about a smell that would be from when the ship was in use to move troops during WWII, and
many of them were triple bunked in the pool itself, and many of the soldiers
were prone to seasickness. The third is a 'vortex' that is
located in the hallway of the changing rooms. It has been featured on tv,
and it's location was once confirmed by an employee, who correctly moved
the chair back to the position where the psychic from the tv show had placed it. The position of the vortex is almost directly beneath the revolving
door that was originally used as the entrance to the pool area. My group
encountered something in this area when we went through it. I and the guide had gone around rather than going in, while my husband,
and our two friends went through the hallway. About a minute later, (it
only takes about ten seconds to get from one end to the
other) I looked in and saw the three of them. My husband was almost all the
way through, one friend was in the middle, where the vortex is, and the
third was just behind her. When I pulled back from looking, our
female friend screamed and the three of them hustled out of the hall. My husband
said that he had looked and see
n three people behind him at about the same
time I had looked in from the other side, and he had
assumed that I was with them (I hadn't told them I wasn't going through with
them). The woman with us told us that at the site of the vortex, she
couldn't move and tried to scream but couldn't, then felt a touch on
her shoulder, screamed, and they came out of the hallway. The other man, her
boyfriend at the time, had followed behind them and when she stopped moving,
he was going to nudge her forward, and that's when she screamed, when he
touched her shoulder. He saw when I looked in to see what was keeping
them, and he also saw three others in the hallway, thinking that our guide
was one of them. Both my husband and he described the mystery person as
about 5'6" with medium length, curly hair.
The girl at the pool is also commonly seen around the third class stairwell, near the door to the old nursery. We once took the ghost tour, four years ago, Halloween, and they no longer have that tour, which is a shame.
It included all of the
places mentioned above as well as two others. One is for to the fore of the
ship and is characterized by a man screaming for help and sometimes just by
his moaning in pain. This comes from
during WWII. The ship wouldn't publish it's sailing patterns to avoid possible
attack from German submarines. During one of these trips heading to
Europe, the Queen Mary hit another, much smaller ship,
broad siding it. The other ship was cut nearly in two by the force. The Queen
Mary itself sustained little damage. When the ship reached port, it was
sent to dry dock to repair the hull, the outer section of which
had been badly torn. When the drained the water, the found the body of a man
who had been thrown through a hole torn in the hull above the water line
from the other ship and had died of exposure. Many techs who work in that
area don't like to go alone, or at night.
The other is a cabin. For
this one, the guide turned out the lights of the room and just used her
flashlight. She had the entire group enter (there were eight of us) and
closed the door. While she told us the
story of the room, I could feel the ship swaying heavily and actually had
to catch my balance at one point. The story behind the room is that during
one crossing, a man checked in at the desk, and his luggage was
stowed. That night he asked one of the stewards if they could find a
female companion for the night and gave the steward a small wad of bills.
The steward found a willing companion and she and the passenger
retired for the night. The next morning when the man didn't come to the
dining room for breakfast, the steward knocked at his room. After
receiving no answer, he fetched the head steward who opened the room.
The walls and bed were covered in the blood of the woman, who had been
murdered. A check of the registrar revealed that there had been no
passenger assigned to the room, and when they looked for his luggage,
there was none to be found, even though many people remember it being checked
and stowed. I was distinctly uncomfortable during the telling, and almost
panicky by the time she turned the lights back on.
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