I have early memories touring the Queen Mary as a girl scout, and i have older memories climbing flights of stairs in heels looking for the part of the ship i was supposed to be experience winter formal at.
I've spent time stalking the ship with friends in a last ditch effort to find a bathroom, and I've even spent a night watching scary movies in the back of my toyota tacoma in the Queen Marys parking lot.
The Queen Mary has over 60 years under her belt, most of which she spent sailing cross the Atlantic Ocean as a passenger ship. But it wasn't always that the Queen Mary sailed freely, for the entirety of World War II the Queen Mary was used as a floating hospital and supply ship, over that course of time the Queen Mary became the death site of nearly 50 people.
After her retirement of 1967, the Queen Mary was moved to Long Beach, CA, and turned into a hotel and museum, many tours are offered but the the most popular is based around the myths and facts that lead to the popular opinion of the Queen Mary being Haunted.
The following is a very true story:
Me, and a few friends were frantically searching the hallways of the Queen Mary for a bathroom. It was really close, like, me, along with two other girls almost like, pissed out pants.
Well, we walk down a longggggg hall, and end up in a room resembling a chamber of doom. In the center of the room there is a huge staircase, going up forever and ever, and going down even further. The walls are all different doors, one of which being a bathroom. Hurray.
Okay so, this brings us to, the "the Queen Mary is totally haunted" part of the story.
While Girl A and Girl B are still in the bathroom, i exit and start talking to Boy A. Boy A and i decided to kinda explore the really weird room were in.
Well we begin reading door plaques and we come across the creepiest name a door could ever have. "The Immortal Chaplains Ward" well were just like, dang, the Queen Mary is hanuted, and were like, staring the office door of like, the head ghost or something. Well it goes like this,
"Open it, come on, i dare you!"
"No way, touch it, i double dog dare you!"
"Noooo way, you touch it"
well, we get closer and closer to the door, weary of our lives being at stake, and as we nearrrrr the door, adrenalin rushing, THE DOOR HANDEL SHAKES!
we ran.
Anyways, i'm not the only one who believes the Queen M. is haunted.
Charlyn Keating Chisholm, a women who studies the paranormal, has written many articles and done loads of research proving her theories of ghost encounters that have taken place on the ship.
Is the Queen Mary hantued? If you plan on trying to figure it out i suggest you avoid the tour, which costs around 30$ and is full of gaudy effects, and go straight for you own adventure, just pretend your staying at the hotel and if it all comes down to it, say you got lost looking for the bathroom. And then run.
2 comments:
This was fun to read. Ghost stories tend to be very entertaining. Although what I was thinking could have made it better was if you describe the story with a bit more literary involvement if you know what i mean.
Sorry it took me so long. Good job, I agree with Joel ghost stories are fun. I think it would have been cool if you included a link to an article by the woman you referenced, just for some further reading. good job though.
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