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Haunted Hotels: The Queen Mary

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Spooky Propeller

Spooky Propeller at the Queen Mary

Spooky Propeller at the Queen Mary

(c) Charlyn Keating Chisholm
I went throughout the ship, taking pictures at each spot labeled as "haunted" by the guidebook. For example, this small, dark room that houses an underwater propeller was reportedly the spot where several people have seen an older man who turns and disappears.

I had been warned that the ship itself is a drain on energy. Not for people, but for batteries. Cell phones, cameras and video cameras which cross the threshold fully charged will drain in a few minutes.

I found a different phenomenon. Whenever I tried to take pictures in the most haunted areas of the ship, like the boiler room, the bow, and this propeller room, my trusty digital camera would simply refuse to function. It would flash a light but refused to take a picture. Then, as we would ascend upwards, it would start working again. I'm sure there's a rational explanation to my camera's erratic behavior, but it was very strange. This is one of the few pictures that came out of the propeller room.

Despite this odd camera problem, I took more ghostly orb pictures in the Queen Mary than in any other "haunted" location I've ever visited (at one stretch, over a dozen in a two-week period).

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