Queen Mary Hotel

Queen Mary Hotel

Over 50 people have died on this now docked, historic ocean liner. Whether you are in the engine room, the morgue, the boiler room, on the promenade deck, in the swimming pool (where two women drowned), or in the kitchen (where a cook who was stuffed into an oven and burned to death), ghostly sightings abound. Wet footprints are seen on the pool area deck when no one is around, and the most consistent siting is in a hallway leading to the propeller shafts where a young crewman was crushed in doorway #13 during a drill in 1966. Another ghost with a black beard, wearing overalls, has been seen numerous times in the same hallway. Chicken to stay the night? Visit the ship the entire month of October and early November for “haunted mazes�?throughout the ship for only $28. Rooms from $109 a night, 1126 Queens Highway, P.O. Box 1100, Long Beach, CA 90802, 562-435-3511, www.queenmary.com. Over 50 people have died on this now docked, historic ocean liner. Whether you are in the engine room, the morgue, the boiler room, on the promenade deck, in the swimming pool (where two women drowned), or in the kitchen (where a cook who was stuffed into an oven and burned to death), ghostly sightings abound. Wet footprints are seen on the pool area deck when no one is around, and the most consistent siting is in a hallway leading to the propeller shafts where a young crewman was crushed in doorway #13 during a drill in 1966. Another ghost with a black beard, wearing overalls, has been seen numerous times in the same hallway. Chicken to stay the night? Visit the ship the entire month of October and early November for “haunted mazes�?throughout the ship for only $28. Rooms from $109 a night, 1126 Queens Highway, P.O. Box 1100, Long Beach, CA 90802, 562-435-3511, www.queenmary.com.

I have also stayed in this hotel but I didn't encounter anything out of the ordinary...except...at about 3 in the morning, my TV came on and woke me up.  I thought I had been visited.  In discussing this with the desk clerk, she laughed and said it was probably the alarm timer on the set.  I checked that out.  Sure enough...someone, probably the previous guest in the room, had set the timer for 3 am.

The foot print bit above is true.  That pool hasn't had water in it since the ship went out of commission.  There have been several times that wet child footprints have been seen and photographed in the pool area on A Deck.  These weren't discolorations in the tile.  These were actual wet footprints.