This summer I am planning a trip with my two of my friends and I to stay on the Queen Marry in Long Beach for one full week. Has anybody ever been on this ship. Most of my friends keep on talking about the ghosts. But does anyone really KNOW where/how en when those people died on Queen Mary that now are the ghosts? I'm looking for this info to write something down.

I was on that ship as kid and never noticed anything........at least 30 years ago, however we didn't STAY on the ship. Enjoy your trip!

This ocean liner, now permanently docked at the Port of Long Beach, was comissioned in 1936 and made over a thousand Atlantic crossings. Many incidents of strange rapping noises, moving object, disembodied voices, and ghostly apparitions have been reported by staff, guests, and investigators on the drydocked ship. The first-calss swimming pool is haunted by the ghosts of two women who drowned there. One is dressed in 1960s clothing and the other wears 1930s attiare. The forlorn ghost of a little boy who fell overboard near the pool has been sighted in the passageway. The old first-class lounge, now known as the Queens Salon is haunted by the ghost of a beuatiful woman in a flowing white dress. Unexplainable balls of light and the appartion of a black-haired man in a 1930s suite have been seen by tour guides in the first-class suite area.

The forward storage room, where the ship's archives are kept, is haunted by the sounds of children playing. Inexplicable pounding sounds have beeen recored near the bo'sun's locker, which is the area of the hull which sliced the British light cruiser "Curacoa" in half during World War II. Because of her wartime sailing orders, the "Queen Mary" was not allowed to stop to rescue survivors, and 338 men perished in the cold ocean. The tourist-calss swimming pool is haunted by the presence of a woman who drowned in it and the third-level Cabin B340 is haunted by a murdered purser and is no longer rented out because of unexplained disturbances there.

Poltergeist activity has been reported in the kitchen, where a cook was murdered during World War II. It is said his cooking was so terrible that it caused a riot among troops being carried to the front. The violence quickly got out of hand and the cook ended up stuffed inside an oven and burned to death. His ghastly screams are sometimes heard by startled visitors.

The ghosts in the ship's morgue could have any of a number of identities. Sixteen crew menbers, two GIs and thirty-one passengers have died on the ship. But the most documented sighting is the apparitionof an eighteen-year-old crewman, John Pedder. Pedder was crushed to death while trying to slip through an automatically closing door in shaft alley during a routine watertight drill on July 10, 1966. It was hatchway Door No. 13. Another crewman allegedly haunting the "Queen Mary' is Senior Second Officer William Stark. He was accidentally poisoned in 1949, when he drank tetrachloride that the staff captain kept in an old gin bottle. So far, over fifty witnesses have reported paranormal happenings of this ship, and list keeps growing.

i had dinner on the ship once. cool old ship.

I visited but did not stay on the ship,but have always heard great :eek:stories.It sounds like you are up for for a memorable vacation.oh yeah...love the smooth ride Mr.Bandit line from the last response.

I spent the 1st night of my 1st honeymoon on the QM back in 1978... I can't go into details here in the forums but I'm sure the ships been cleaned well a few times since then... :D: Have a good time!

I spent the 1st night of my 1st honeymoon on the QM back in 1978... I can't go into details here in the forums but I'm sure the ships been cleaned well a few times since then... :D: Have a good time!

Information OVERLOAD!!!!!!! Gmantherocket, lets hope you dont "stick" to anything.

I stayed overnight on this beautiful ship back in Jan of '89!
Don't remember any ghosts but felt an earthquake. I had no idea what it was and thought maybe a huge diesel generator had started or stopped or something like that.
The TV was on at the time with live news and the set was falling apart.. Aparently is reached 6.5 on the Ricter in SanDiego.

Anyway, my memory is a tad faded now after 17 years (:eek: ), but I clearly remember that it's beautiful ship.

It's funny...... when I was a kid, I took a tour of the ship along with the Spruce Goose (before they moved it out of Long beach). I remember the tour was mainly about the history of the ship and the engineering behind it. It wasn't until maybe 10 to 15 years ago they started promoting the haunted aspect of the ship, perhaps because tourism was down and they wanted to capture a new group of people. I took the tour of the ship again last summer and the biggest attraction is the haunted tour where they take you down to the hull of the ship......well not really, but they want you to believe you did. It seemed to me that it's more of a special effects tour like something you would see more at Universal Studios or some other amusement park. I did enjoy walking around the ship and reading about the history of the Queen Mary. You will enjoy it too. Have fun :thumbsup:

About three years ago, my wife and I spent a Saturday night on the ship and had their Sunday brunch. It was a lot of fun and we really enjoyed it. Camaro Dave is right, there is a permanent Ghost attraction on the ship. You take a guided walking tour of the lower part of the ship. A lot of lights and smoke while the guide tells ghost stories—like a Universal Studios attraction. We also enjoyed walking through the Scorpion Submarine which is docked next door (an actual Russian submarine that was in use until ’89).
I don’t know if I would stay a week on the ship. It is very expensive and the rooms are cramped. (On board dining is also pricy—a shirt and tie affair.) We stayed in a Deluxe Stateroom (about $220/night). The rooms are Art Deco in design--very neat—but the walls are paper thin. We could hear our next door neighbors like they were sitting across the room. We never met them but I got to know them through the walls. If I remember right there names were Mark and Jan and they had two kids. They had to catch a flight at 6am and so they set the alarm at. . . well, you get the idea.
If you don’t want to leave the Long Beach area, the Aquarium of the Pacific is nice. Have fun.

A few years ago my parents and I were visiting my brother who lived in Newport Beach, just down the coast from Long Beach. My father wanted to visit the Spruce Goose and especially the Queen Mary, because he sailed on her when he was in the army, from Canada to England and back during/after WWII. What a treat getting a guided tour of the ship by my Dad. Make sure you go down and check out the engine room. Absolutely amazing!
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The Goose is no longer there, it was moved I think to Seattle.