The Queen Mary is one of the most recognized ghost ships, because of its touring abilities in Long Beach, California: You can actually stay the night in the water hotel and go on many ghost tours. The story begins when the huge ship is set to sail and does an excellent job. It was larger and more advanced than the Titanic which sank almost half a century ago from the present, 1942. Its' luxury, however, faded when it was used as troop transportation in World War: 2. During one of its journeys with a massive amount of troops on board, the ship was struck by an enemy's boat; Curacoa. The Curacoa was a terrible loss to the enemy with 338 out 439 men dead. The Queen Mary, being as large as it was, hardly fealt a thing and continued its journey back to Long Beach, California. It was docked and construction had begun on the interior to make the ship a water hotel. Many occurances disturbed the workers while building, but the ship did become a hotel on water.
One siting was that of a woman (with a 50's swimsuit on) leaning over the one drained pool as if to dive. A man in the pool room screamed out to her to stop her from hurting herself, when she vanished. Later it was determined that a woman had drowned in the pool during its' luxurious days.
Another siting was that of a man behind a door, watertight door number 13. The man had been crushed by that door sometime when it was still a sea bearing ship. His name was recorded as John Pedder.
The first captain, who died on the ship (not absolutely sure how), has been spotted walking back and forth around the captains quarters and along a bridge that is on the Queen Mary.
The most shocking incident is one of reocurrance: One man has reported hearing a massive amount of noise, where is metal is being crushed and men are screaming in panic and disbelief. This was most likely the remembrance of what happened on that day many lives were lost.
~*~ ~Titanic~ ~*~
On April 14, 1912, the Titanic (the "unsinkable" ship) hit a massive ice burg while heading for New York, split (nearly) in half, and sank to the bottom of the sea. Only 711 passengers of an astounding 2,201 survived one of the most recognizable ship wrecks of all time. A man by the name of Morgan Robertson actually tried to publish a book with the same predicaments as the Titanic, but was unsuccessful. You might think that his Titan ship would be an excellent copy of the Titanic tragedy, but he got the story first; trying to publish the book in 1898. The Titanic sank in 1912!
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