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The RMS Queen Mary was once the fastest, grandest ocean liner in the world. She carried movie stars across the Atlantic, then carried thousands of troops through World War Two. In 1967 she sailed into Long Beach, California, dropped anchor for the last time, and never left. Today she is a floating hotel. She is also called one of the most haunted places in America.
During her decades at sea, at least forty nine people died aboard her. Most were ordinary deaths, illness and heart attacks. But two of them happened in the engine room, fifty feet below the waterline, where a heavy watertight door known as Door 13 crushed two men at different points in the ship’s history. Guests today report cold spots there and the sound of someone trapped below.
Then there is the first class pool, drained for years now, where staff and visitors describe hearing a child laughing and splashing in water that is not there. And Stateroom B340, sealed off for decades, where guests have reported sheets torn from the bed, faucets turning themselves on, and knocking from inside the walls.
Skeptics rightly note that some of these tales were polished up over the years to sell tickets. Yet people keep walking off that ship shaken by something they cannot explain.
Could it be that a ship that carried so much life, and so much death, held onto a little of both?
Clever marketing, or a haunting that earned its name? What do you think people keep meeting aboard the Queen Mary?
What do you think about this? Over five months from late 1989, more than 13,000 people in Belgium reported a silent black triangle with three corner lights. In March 1990 two F sixteen jets locked radar on it, and it made moves no pilot could survive. Secret aircraft, or a genuine visitor?
What do you think about this? The Abenaki spoke of something in Lake Champlain long before Europeans arrived, and Port Henry still keeps a sign counting sightings. In 1977 Sandra Mansi photographed a long neck and a dark hump, and no hoax was ever found in it. Log, or a real animal?
What do you think about this? In 1579 Francis Drake beached the Golden Hind somewhere on the northern California coast and claimed the land for England. Nobody can say which beach. A brass plate found in 1936 was celebrated for decades, then proved a hoax. Point Reyes, or somewhere else?
What do you think about this? Among the Dead Sea Scrolls, one is engraved on copper instead of parchment, and it is a treasure map. It lists 64 hiding places holding tons of gold and silver. Not one has ever been found. Real temple gold, or an ancient legend set in metal?
What do you think about this? On August 15, 1977, an Ohio telescope caught a 72 second burst from Sagittarius, 30 times stronger than background, right on the hydrogen frequency. The astronomer circled it and wrote Wow. It never came back. Fluke, or one word of a conversation?
What do you think about this? The Shroud of Turin carries a full length image of a man that behaves like a photographic negative, which nobody noticed until it was first photographed in 1898. Carbon dating said medieval. Nobody can explain how the image formed. Artwork, or something else?
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