"I was working in the capacity of a lead guide, which meant my job was to close down the tour route and make sure that there weren’t any stragglers behind. And I don’t know why I turned around, but I turned around and standing right behind me on the step was a man. He had on blue overalls and they were dirty. When I stepped aside to let him go by, he was gone. He wasn’t there. I don’t necessarily believe any other ghost stories that other people have come up with. I only know what I saw, and I only believe what I saw with my own eyes."
Long ago, in what has since been converted into a theater, there was allegedly a young girl who drown in the second class swimming pool. While there are no sightings of a little girl’s ghost in the area of the second class pool, there are quite a few sightings of a girl in the area of the first class pool. It’s not difficult to make the leap that, seeing her pool closed, the ghost of young Jackie Korin (or Torin) found her way to bigger and better waters. Jackie, as the ghostly child is called, loves to splash and play around in the pool. As far as anyone knows, she’s your average fun-loving child. She also loves to sing. Current tour guide, Erika Frost, of the Ghosts and Legends tours aboard the Queen Mary has occasionally been able to coax young Jackie into singing a song for passing ghost tours. While the sound could be made by anyone in the echo-y room, there have been dozens of other reported sightings of a child’s ghost in the first class pool area.
One waitress at the Chelsea restaurant states that she had been working the host podium and saw three guests walk towards her through the long hallway that leads from the deck to the restaurant. She looked down at the reservation book for a party of three, but when she looked back up there were only two people. She asked the guests whether or not they prefer to wait for their third member before being seated, but they said that there were only two of them. She also reported that the faucets in the nearby womans bathroom go on and off by themselves.
One of the most famous ghosts of the Queen Mary is believed to be that of John Pedder, a fireman in the engine room who was crushed by the infamous "Door 13" in the part of the ship known as "Shaft Alley." Apparently during emergencies, the watertight doors would be closed to seal off sections of the ship to avoid sinking. The legend goes that crew members would hop back and forth through the doorways as many times as they could before the door would close. John Pedder apparantly tried one too many times and was crushed by the closing door.
Stateroom B340 is no longer rented out because the the volume of paranormal activity. Some people claim that it is haunted by the ghost of a murdered pursur, but we found that information on other ghost websites and not on any of the tours conducted by the Queen Mary. The faucets are supposed to turn on by themselves, and sheets from the bed are said to have flown across the room. The room is now stark white with very little firniture in it.