The Queen Mary is an integral part of Long Beach, California, for a few decades and is one of the most famous cruise ships of all time. The ship was at a hotel, museum and popular tourist attraction, and the historic ship is internationally recognized and attracts thousands of visitors every year. In addition to living persons, the ship will play host to several ghosts. It has been speculated that the Queen Mary might be one of the most watched places in the world.Reports say as many as 150 have known that included ghosts, residence and lurk in various locations around the ship.
The Queen Mary drove her maiden voyage on 27 May, 1936. Be built in Scotland to be used as part of a two-ship express service from Southampton to Cherbourg to New York, the Queen Mary is 1000 feet long, and in her day was said to become bigger, faster and stronger than the Titanic. She also held the record for the fastest ever North Atlantic crossing. The historic oceanScheduled passengers were the most famous people of that time, including royalty, top entertainment figures and important world leaders.
At the beginning of World War II in 1939, remained luxury travel and the ship was to bear into a carrier ship that was used by the Allied forces, forces from March 1940 to September 1946 on. It was during this time, she described as "The Gray Ghost will be announced. By the end of World War II, the ship had carried more than 700,000 soldiers who traveledMore than 500,000 miles and played a major role in virtually every major Allied campaign. They also survived a collision at sea, the record for the implementation of most people ever on a floating vessel (16,683), and participated in the D-Day invasion.
When the war ended, was renovated in the Queen Mary and started her elegant cruises again in July 1947, with strong weekly service between Southampton, Cherbourg and New York. In the early 1960s, the popularity of transatlantic cruiseswas due to the increasing affordability of air travel. The ship attempted to revive his popularity, but without a central air conditioning, swimming pools and other amenities on most other cruise ships was offered, was the attempt failed.
In 1967, the Queen Mary was removed from circulation and has been on the town of Long Beach, California, sold as a maritime museum and hotel will be used. On December 9, 1967, she made her final voyage to Long Beach.
During her 60-year history, the QueenMary was the place of the 49 reported deaths, opening the door for potential spirits to follow her. Reported haunt a young sailor in the engine room, swimmers in the first class pool, a man in black, and a woman in blue. Some of the haunted places of the Queen Mary's are the propeller-box, engine room, boiler room, cargo space and first-class pool.
One such ghost is believed that the spirit of John Pedder, a fireman in his late teens who suffocated to death bya watertight door in 1966 during a routine drill. Unexplained knocking has been around to hear the door, and reports a tour guide, she saw a figure dressed in dark clothes, as they range in which the young man was killed leaving. She looked into his face and recognized him from his photographs. He was dressed in blue overalls and sporting a beard. The young man is often seen along the shafts Alley before disappearing from door number 13 This famous door was in the filming ofPosiedon Adventure "and ostensibly at least two men in the history of the ship crushed.
The first class swimming pool seems to be a hot spot for ghostly encounters. Wet tracks mysteriously appear, although not a drop of water in the pool. These steps lead from the deck of the pool to the locker room. Women in vintage bathing suits are occasionally seen stopping by to take a swim, although the pool is closed for more than 30 years. There were also reportsto see the ghost of a young girl who sounds like her teddy bear with disembodied voices, laughter and splashes.
In the second class pool area the spirit of another little girl named Jackie is often seen and heard. The girl drowned in the pool during the voyage of the ship day and does not seem to want to continue. Your voice and the sound of laughter is recorded in this area.
Has been used in the room when the third class playroom, there were reports of the soundChildren screaming in the nursery. There is also a report that a single baby has heard shouting. The wine is meant to be that the boy, a child died there shortly after he was born.
In some of the first-class cabins, there were reports of a large, dark-haired man with a style adapted 1930 shows in different places. In addition to the observations of people who turned on the faucets and light in the middle of the night, and phones ring in the early morning hoursbut no one is always at the other end of the line.
There are several other reports of sightings about the ship, a beautiful young woman in an elegant white evening gown who dances alone in a dark corner of the room, which was once used as first-class lounge of the ship. Another mysterious woman in white was seen near the reception. You will usually disappear behind a pillar.
Other phenomena, while the ship was the noise of theKnocking, doors banging and shrill screams, drastic temperature changes, and the recurring smells of another era.
The Queen Mary has been studied by a number of paranormal professionals, printed publications, television shows like Ghost Hunters and Most Haunted, and several others. In addition to parts of the movie "The Poseidon Adventure" filmed it is rotated, the X-Files in 1998 as a WWII era episode about time and space in the Bermuda Triangle on the ship. This was agreat episode - it was called "Triangle" - you should check to see if you missed it!
On the Ghost Hunters episode, which is probably a fantastic paranormal event caught on tape proved to be not as fantastic as it appeared someone had tampered with the video camera. Thus, the Queen Mary is truly pursuing or not? The Ghost Hunters are seeing out there on the way back in February 2008 if they find out. Hopefully there will be no tampering this time and they can capture someSupporting evidence for all claims of paranormal activity on the Queen Mary.
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