Another of the accessible haunting areas is in the front desk of what is now the hotel portion of the ship. Sightings include a mysterious woman in white who will be sighted walking untile blocked from view by a pillar and never coming out from behind. Also, a couple has been seen walking down the hall to either side of the main entry to the first class rooms, but are never seen in the hallways them selves.
Some other areas that you have to take the behind the scenes tour to get to include the engine room number 2. Many stowaways died every time they would fire up the boilers toleave port, and sometimes a feeling of vast despire can be felt on the catwalk and somtimes also on the shuffleboard deck above. Also, I've noticed that when I'm there, the room feels much larger than it is. I can also occaisionally feel the ship sway, which it doesn't now that it's moored.
Ther are several hauntings related to the pool, including two different children, one girl who asks after her mother or her doll, and a boy. The girl is thought to have been a precocious child fron the third class who liked sliding down bannisters and was dong so when the ship hit a swell and pitched so that the bannister went straight down and she hit the wall, breaking her neck. There have also been complaints about a smell that would be from when the ship was in use to move troops during WWII, and many of the soldiers were prone tom seasickness. The thrid is a "vortex" that is located in the hallway of the changing rooms. It has been featured on tv and it's location was once confirmed by an employee, who correctly moved the chair back to the position where the psychic from the tv show had placed it. The position of the vortex is almost directly beneath the revovling door that was originally used as the enterance to the pool area. My group encountered something in this area when we went through it. The guide and I had gone around rather than going in, while my friend, and our two friends went through the hallway. About a minute later, (it only takes about ten seconds to get from one end to the other) I looked in and saw the three of them. My friend was almost all the way through, one friend was in the middle, where the vortex is, and the thrid was just beind her. When I pulled back from looking, our female friend screamed and the three of them hustled out of the hall. My friend said that he had looked and seen three people behind him at about the same time I had looked in from the other side, and he had assumed that I was with them (I hadn't told them I wasn't going through with them). The woman with us tols us that at the the site of the vortex, she couldn't move and tried to scream but couldn't, then felt a touch on her shoulder, screamed, and then came out of the hallway. The other man, her boyfriend at the time, had followed behind them and when she stopped moving, he was going to nudge her forward, and thats when she screamed, when he touched her shoulder, He saw when I looked in to see what was keeping them, and he also saw three others in the hallway. thinking that our guide was one of them. Both my friend and he described the mystery person as about 5'6 with medium length, curly hair.
The girl at the pool is also commonly seen around the third class stairwell, near the door to the old nursery. We once took the ghost tour, four years ago, Halloween, and thay no longer have that tour, which is a shame.
It included all of the places mentioned above as well as two others. One os for the fore of the ship and is characterized by a man screaming for help and sometimes just by his moaning in pain. This comes from during WWII. The ship wouldn't publish it's sialing patterns to avoid possible attack from German submarines. During one of these trips heading to Europe, hte Qeen Mary hit another, much smaller ship, broadsiding it. the other ship was cut nearly in two by the force. The Queen Mary itself sustained little damage. When the ship reached port, it was sent to dry dock to repair the hull, the outer section of which had been badly torn. When they drained the water they found the body of a man who had been thrown through a hole torn in the hull above the water line from the other ship and had died of exposure. Many techs who work in that area don't like to go alone, or at night.
the other is a cabin. For this one, the guide turned out the lights of the room and just used her flashlight. She had the entire groupe enter and closed the door. While she told us the story of the room, I could feel the ship swaying heavily and actually had to catch my balance at one point. The story behind the the room is that during one crossing, a man checked in at the desk, and his luggage was stowed. That night he asked one of the stewards if they could find a female companion for the night and gave the steward a small wad of bills. The steward found a willing companion and she and the passenger retired for the night. The next morning when the man didn't come to the dinning room for breakfast, the steward knocked at his room. After receiving no answer, he fetched the head steward who opened the room. The walls and bed were covered in the blood of the woman, who had been murdered. A check of the registrar revealed the there had been no passenger assigned to the room, and when they looked for his luggege, ther was none to be found, even though many people remember it being checked and stowed.
