After being closed for nearly three years, visitors were able to once again board The Queen Mary when the ship reopened last summer.
And it looks like the ghosts who are said to haunt the vessel are really happy to welcome back the living.
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“Since she’s been reopened, it’s just been nuts. Paranormal investigations on the ship have been capturing things literally everyday,” said Aiden Sinclair, the ship’s resident master magician and apparitionist, who is on the hunt for these spirits with a new theatrical séance aboard the ship dubbed “57 Ghosts.”
With the ghosts now fully awake and seemingly longing for some human attention, the 90-minute show highlights the 57 lives that were lost on the nearly century-old ship.
“This show is about spiritualism and séance and that old practice and the interactions that people experience on the ship,” Sinclair said. “We’re also seeing these really cool, I guess you can call them synchronicities, in the show itself where participants will find connections with people they lost in their lives, memories they forgotten they have had come rushing back.”
The Queen Mary has long been rumored to be haunted with guests and visitors throughout the years reporting ghostly encounters. It was even voted as one of the Top 10 Most Haunted Places in America by Time magazine in 2008.
The ship’s history has made it a fitting home for Halloween events like the long-running, but now shuttered Dark Harbor and the new Shaqtoberfest Halloween Festival. The spirits also inspired Hollywood producers, who recently released a supernatural horror-mystery titled “Haunting of the Queen Mary,” which was filmed on the ship itself.
The new show will take place in a chamber located within the remains of the third-class dining hall, which is said to be one of the places where a lot of new paranormal activity has been detected…
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