Welcome back to the Queen!
And a look back at Ghost Report #11 (5/28/19)
With the beloved Queen Mary in Long Beach reopening after a three-year shutdown for repairs, I thought it would be timely to look back at the very first Ghost Report I did on this beautiful ocean liner, which is also believed to be one of the most haunted placed in the world. So, without further adieu, here’s the first Queen Mary Ghost Report I did for Ghost Magnet With Bridget Marquardt…
If you grew up in Southern California like I did, you’ve undoubtedly been to something at the Queen Mary, whether just for a day visit or a trip to their yearly Halloween haunt, Dark Harbor…but you may also have heard that this beautiful ship, which first sailed in 1936 and was even called “The Grey Ghost” during World War II, is haunted…as in, very haunted.
I’ve had the pleasure of participating in an all-night paranormal investigation on that ship, and although I didn’t personally get to meet any of the resident spirits, plenty of others have. There’s John, in the engine room – he was an 18-year-old sailor who was crushed by one of the ship’s massive automatic doors during a routine drill, and who occasionally appears as an apparition in blue overalls. Room B-340 is supposedly so haunted that they don’t even rent it as a hotel room anymore. And then there’s Jackie, a young girl who hangs around the pool area. When I once asked a worker on the ship about hauntings, she said only, “You don’t mess with Jackie.” The pool area, by the way, is no longer in use and is off-limits, but you get to visit it in the paranormal investigations and it is one seriously creepy place.
You can book your own spot in one of the Queen Mary’s paranormal investigations by visiting www.queenmary.com . Even if you don’t get to mess with Jackie, you do get to experience this amazing piece of history in the middle of the night when the living sleep…but maybe not the dead!