RMS Queen Mary
The 1936 ocean liner, now a hotel, with dozens of recorded deaths aboard. The engine room and the former third-class pool area are its most active spots.
Case File No. 009
FILE 01 The Legend
The RMS Queen Mary carried wartime troops, celebrities and 1,000-plus transatlantic crossings before docking permanently at Long Beach in 1967. Her documented deaths include a 16-year-old crewman crushed by a watertight door in 1966 and the 1942 accidental capsizing of a escort ship in her wake. The 1936 liner is now a hotel — and its 'haunted hotspots' map lists the first-class pool, the engine room door and Cabin B340 as the core three.
FILE 02 The Sightings Log
Cabin B340: guests report the bed shaking, calls from dead phone lines and a presence — the cabin was off-market for years and is now bookable 'at your own risk'. The first-class pool, dry since the 1960s, produces wet footprints and a 'lady in white'. The engine room's Door 13, site of the 1966 death, reports overalls-clad figures and touching. Children's nursery calls and the B3 deck corridor round out the file.
FILE 03 The Skeptic’s File
The ship's owners market the hauntings openly — tours, events, a haunted attraction — and the hotspot list is curated. The 1966 crush death is documented; most other 'deaths' attached to rooms are not. A steel ship flexes, groans and creaks by design, and a hotel where guests expect ghosts gets ghost reports. But the Queen Mary's scale is undeniable: 1,000 crossings, a war, and a documented death behind the most-claimed door.