Review of Queen Mary's Paranormal Ship Walk and Haunted Encounters Tour (Review Piece)

 

Group conducting a spirit box session

Looking for a paranormal tour that's bound to give you an ghost encounter and nightmares thereafter? Hop aboard the RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach, California for the Haunted Encounters & Paranormal Ship Walk to get a spooky adrenaline fix and possibly even a personal encounter with one of the ship's infamous spirits.

Upon arrival, guests are checked in and are given protocol of where they will be touring on the ship and going over safety precautions since they will be going into old engine rooms and areas with tight spaces. Guests are also told to wear comfortable, closed-toed walking shoes. But that is not the only reason for safety precautions -- guests are given a warning to be respectful to the ghosts and spirits on the vessel and when interacting with them with special ghost hunting equipment, that they do no ask triggering or disrespectful questions like "How did you die?" or "Did it hurt when you died?" or any taunting of the spirits.

The tour starts off like any other paranormal/ghost walk as a brief history of the Queen Mary is told. Guests are taken to the main paranormal hot spots on the ship where people have reported seeing the spirits of the Queen Mary most often. Some of the spots consist of the second class pool room, room B340, the B floor staircase, the back engine room, and water tight door #13.

As guests are lead from area to area, the hosts of the tour share why the area is important and what the significance is for why spirits tend to hang around in these areas. Guests are even allowed to use some ghost hunting equipment provided by the hosts. The tools range from EMF detectors, spirit boxes, voice recorders, and even good old-fashioned dowsing rods.

At the end of the tour when we were almost about to be excused, I noticed a girl in tears and hugging her partner. I asked her what was wrong and she said she had just found out she had psychic and sensitivity to spirits and decided to come on this tour to test her abilities. She had become overwhelmed with negative emotions and sadness from all the spirits and death she felt here.

Our tour guide and his friend the psychic medium were kind enough to approach her after the tour and help her. I admired that because that doesn't happen often and it takes someone with a kind heart to do that.