This Paranormal Life - #106 Queen Mary 2: The Most Haunted Ship On Earth

Episode Date: April 2, 2019

The Queen Mary 2 has lived many lives. At one time it ferried the rich and famous around the world in unbelievable luxury, then just a few years later it would carry tens of thousands of US troops to Europe to fight in WW2. So maybe unsurprisingly those who visit it today in Long Beach, California report seeing and hearing terrifying paranormal apparitions. Does the boats reputation precede it, or are these real phenomena?Support us on Patreon.com/ThisParanormalLife to get access to weekly bonus episodes!Buy Official TPL Merch! - thisparanormallife.com/storeFollow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTubeJoin our Secret Society Facebook CommunityIntro music by www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is it possible to astrally project? If I can stop Big Ben, will I stop time itself? Answers to these questions and more on this episode of This Paranormal Life! Hey! Welcome back to the podcast. It's Tuesday once again. You're listening to This Paranormal Life, the only podcast where every week we dissect a different paranormal tail case or claim and get to the bottom of whether it is truly paranormal or not. And you are joined by myself, Mr. Kate Greer, this professional paranormal investigator

right over here, Mr. Roy Pars. Hello, everyone. How are you doing today? Very excited for this week's episode. Oh, you shouldn't be. Oh, really? Yeah. A bit of a doner, I have to say.

A bit of a doner. In what sense? In like a paranormal way? Like the ghost has like, his family was killed no no this is more just like this is actually very much this is your life kind of 60 minutes like we're gonna go deep into your past oh but like the ghost from my past like all the crazy creatures mostly just the bad shit you've done in your life all right some of the good shit mostly the bad shit we're just going to focus on all the embarrassing stuff over the years if anything paranormal turns up great okay if not look i don't know if this is going to come up or not but i'll

just get the little bit of defense before we start if you're going to spend that long on the jungle gym you can't you can't bagsy the swings so that's all i'm going to say he broke park law i don't know if that's going to come up but um is this to do with that gorilla thing or like what what are you talking about right now um i don't know because you're talking about bad shit i've done in my past well i guess we might as well bring it but like what age were you then that makes this so bad this was like three weeks ago oh so you're a grown man yeah wait was this not so this wasn't in your notes oh so you don't know about this i'm gonna probably need to...

Actually, let's just circle back. We can start recording. No, let's breeze on. Let's breeze on. Let's breeze on. What about my past or whatever? Like compared to my future, my past is sparkling clean. I'm just going to say one more thing.

The little shit was begging for it. He deserved everything that he got. So continue though. But I don't regret anything. I want that on the record. Okay, I was going to just move past it, but you keep bringing it up time and time again. He was eight, but he fought like a nine-year-old. You fought him?

You should not admit to that. He fought like a nine-year-old, aka I beat the living shite out of him. It was easy. As always in this podcast, we do not dilly-dally around. Today, we're going to jump right into it. And first up, thank you to emily mcdonald for sending this one in it's the 40s and we're on the high seas of the atlantic ocean aboard a ship a massive ship with hundreds of crew it's night and it's stormy and deep under the deck in the metal maze

of the hull is one john petter an 18 year old cabin boy fresh to the world of sailing the high seas. Well, he's doing the rounds down there with the other crewmates when they decided to play a game of chicken with one of the watertight doors, door number 13. This door, as its name implies, is capable of shutting in the event of flooding to stop water going any further into the boat. Very cool. I'm into this. You know, these guys probably have, like, you know, cool old-timey sailor outfits. They've probably got, like, anchor tattoos, maybe a heart with mom tattoo in the other side yeah we're talking about like missing legs from the last round of who can slide through the door

before it shuts john's like hey how come i'm the only guy with two legs around this place they're like shut up newbie shut up newbie you'll learn get over there and try it's like okay johnny double hook hands he's basically like mostly wooden hook at this point being the new kid john hasn't done it before but he wants to join in to fit in so as the crew are laughing and jumping through right before it closes it comes to his turn he breathes deep a few times watches watches the door open and close, and runs at it. Except he trips almost instantly, and by the time he should be out the other side, he's stuck. He looks to his right, he's right in the middle of the door. The other crew yell for him to move, and then... John Petter is cut clean in half.

Oh my god! Some say it was a simple accident. Others say that he was actually held down in the doorway by the other crew members. Whoa, that escalated quickly. It's like an initiation or something. Not really, because that initiates something. Like a hazing, maybe? Yeah, that's pretty harsh hazing.

To end your f***ing life? Yeah, it's pretty bad. That's kind of like getting all the pledges to like drink a dirty pint and while you're all chanting and then as soon as they finish you just stab them it's like congratulations welcome to the brotherhood you're just kind of like poking the dead body it's kind of a it's a harsh hazing i would say but again these are pirates they're not men of the land they're men of the sea yeah i a harsh hazing, I would say. But again, these are pirates. They're not men of the land. They're men of the sea.

Yeah, I mean, I don't think they would call themselves pirates. But in my book, if you're in the 40s and you're on, that's long enough ago that if you're on a big old ship sailing the seas, you're a pirate to me. Absolutely. Fair enough. Christopher Columbus, absolutely a pirate. A pirate.

Long John Christopher, I call him. He's enough of a bastard to be a pirate anyway john christopher i call him he's enough of a bastard to be a pirate anyway he did gank a lot of shit so to say the least he ganked a lot of people's lives more than anything could you imagine if like all of these years like granted it's he's quite a horrible person but in a lot of places in the world he's still revered as like this fantastic explorer can you imagine if uh one day they're like oh my god like they finally unearthed like an actual early artistic impression of of him as he approached the seas for the first time and it's just this picture of him like y'all like full-on beard parrot like where did he even get the parrot that's not native there's there's you could imagine the like

kind of national treasure style scene if you're in the library of congress and you're going through the original letters that christopher columbus wrote back to you know europe yeah and then you you blow some dust off it and someone's just like tippexed out all the yarhars out of the original letters. It was like every sentence began with yarhar. He was an actual pirate all along. That's right. Was he held on? Was it an accident? All we know is that to this day, if you're lucky,

you can see the ghost of a young man in white overalls haunting door 13 on this very ship. So today we are talking about somewhere actually a little bit more fitting for us than usual way too often we're talking about dusty old ranches dirty old graveyards haunted mansions that are just falling apart when for classy gents like us these are simply not the kinds of places that we usually hang out or want to investigate sadly we don't get to investigate very many country clubs or spas yeah because we're not welcome there anymore which is horseshit personally there aren't many ghosts

in michelin starred restaurants unfortunately no but thank god today we're going somewhere extremely classy extremely sophisticated and that is the rms queen mary 2 have you heard of this thing no i haven't one of the finest ships ever built 80 000 tons of floating luxury it is over a thousand feet long 23 stories tall can sleep over 2 000 people in 1936 when it was built it was the largest ocean liner ever made it was like twice the size of the titanic wow oh my god okay so this is a big big big boat a thousand feet long it's gigantic wow the legend goes that the builders wanted to name this ship after queen victoria so they went to king george at the time and asked him for permission to name the boat after britain's greatest queen and he said brilliant mary will love that mary they're gonna

name the ship after you love savage but no one had the heart to tell king george that they didn't mean mary they meant victoria oh my god is that true i don't know it's a good story mary they're gonna name a boat after you what kind of boat it's like the biggest one that's ever been it's fat as hell you are oh you love it floats on the water like a big fat dead swan it had it all swimming pools beauty salons libraries nurseries a music studio a lecture hall dog kennels car garages jesus honestly i'm starting to get a few ideas about a cruise ship based commune but we can talk about that later that is a great idea brother because we are then we can go out to international waters yes that's very smart it we've been getting some legal advice

thankfully there's a few legal experts out there in the commune yeah and they've been telling us that what we are doing is largely not above board uh so we need to bring it below board in the vicinity of door 13 very deep underneath the surface of the deck absolutely because i don't know if you know this but a boat floats on water yeah um which means the majority of the boat is underwater yeah and that falls out of human jurisdiction and into the realms of atlantis yes sea world if you will they have different rules there they don't frown so much upon you know our everyday activities monkey knife fights very illegal gambling yeah a lot of gambling actually horse knife fights uh any sort of animal knife fights yeah sort of drug trafficking um just we have to make money yeah you gotta make money somehow so jesus so sue us so sue us oh uh poseidon

oh but he won't because he loves it he absolutely loves it you don't think he's down there doing little seahorse knife fights duct taping little blades to their weird hooves starfish knife fights it's great because they cut off one little arm and it grows back the next day swordfish sword fights they've got it all down there this ship truly saw it all it crossed the atlantic hundreds of times it was even drafted into the war where it carried soldiers and royalty alike winston churchill even said that the queen mary ii helped so much in the 40s that it shortened the second world war by a full year it is infuriating that everyone remembers the boat that was shit like everyone remembers the titanic there's a titanic movie there's a titanic museum yeah that was the the worst boat of all time yeah it was it was trash it's famous for how spectacularly garbo it was yeah it didn't make one journey one measly

journey yeah across the atlantic isn't that so weird like that doesn't happen anywhere else yeah like think about neil armstrong the first guy to walk on the moon. If I had tried to go to the moon and I completely biffed it, I crashed the plane and then shat my spacesuit, that wouldn't make me more famous than Neil Armstrong. No, absolutely not. That makes me a bad astronaut. It does. I think it's because the Titanic had Leonardo DiCaprio on it.

I think if Leonardo DiCaprio had tried to get to space and shit himself and crashed maybe that would also be one of the best-selling movies of all time it's a good point anything leo has his paws in is automatically one of the greatest things of all time yeah these days it's kind of sad it's just like vaping yeah being middle-aged it's a really good point though uh like you know in the movie it was all about jack and rose's romance if they'd been on the queen mary too they would have had a way better time they would have still be alive they would have bit there's a there's a you say there's a theme park on this bad boy there's everything there's a beauty salon there's dog kennels

imagine that i i a three-hour movie where they just have a great cruise that would be great you could bang in the cars in the garage you can uh bang in the wave pool or just jump overboard banging the waves a little more dangerous but i honestly think that would have sold more movie seats i think what we're just describing is some sort of porn version of the titanic where the boat never actually sinks and they just bang all the way from point A to point B. Is anyone making this? The movie ends, you're like, that had nothing to do with the Titanic. All it was, it was just on a boat. Sure, it was hot. It was hot as hell. Granted, I watched the whole three hours. That's right, this thing was used in the war,

but that meant that peppered among all the rich travellers luxuriously sailing to America aboard the Queen Mary, there were dark stories too. Soldiers and prisoners of war that died on the ship in massive numbers. Yes, there were many people who never made it to their final destination. Perhaps, most famously, on one day in 1942. on one day in 1942. That's right, on one fateful day during the war the queen mary being the fastest way across the atlantic was carrying something like 10 000 soldiers to europe when it hit an ally ship and it couldn't stop so it left hundreds of men to drown that is the most baller move in the world really like i'm assuming the captain was just like right up there like airpods in like everyone's screaming the other ship is exploding and he's just like yo what are you

what i really really want like having a great time as he like plow through this other ship i mean this thing must be i know we said it was like incredibly huge but if the titanic was brought down by an iceberg and this ship is going through another ship and not even stopping pretty crazy that's crazy he didn't even have to take out one airpod to like hear what he had just happened yeah it was literally like a hot knife through butter like they just went straight through this bad boy but this is just one of many dark stories aboard the queen mary there were unusual tragedies accidents people going missing not to mention all the murder mystery cludo shit that rich people got up to back in the day on this ship we're talking colonel mustard professor plum miss scarlet they're all on

this boat and they're all trying to kill each other with a candlestick in the dining room it's that type of people right and of course this thing is huge so today we're going to take you on a kind of audio tour of the queen mary's most haunted places very cool on a ship like the queen mary looks can be deceiving yes the reception and dining hall have exquisite decor and crystal sculptures yes there is a string quartet playing classical music at all times. And of course the first class cabins are befitting of the most distinguished guests like you and I. But underneath the surface exists a dark underbelly. This ship was used in war, so where do they keep prisoners? Where do they keep people that were sick and injured? They were kept in places like the isolation ward. god here people who were sick with horrible diseases

were quarantined and during wartime doctors battled to save the injured and mortally wounded i think if like if this is something that you have to do on your ship i wouldn't i mean don't call it the isolation ward call it like paradise sunset palms call it the penthouse just go all out just lie yeah so you know like someone someone on board is like like you know feeling a bit ill i think i've got a bit of the sea lung which is a disease i just invented um and then you know you just be like the captain's like oh like you seem a little tired like i think you should you should come down to um the sun to sunset sunset to rainbow village that's right the nurse is going to take you in a wheelchair and straitjacket to rainbow village the guy's like

well i've seen a lot of people go into rainbow village and never come out of rainbow village oh it's because it's so nice they never have to leave right but i i do hear screaming from the inside i'm screaming with joy do you give it a nicer name? That's all I'm saying. I think it's a good idea. Yeah, I guess, you know, this is the benefit of, like, hindsight's 20-20, right? This is the 30s. They're just trying out concepts like the isolation ward for the first time.

Very true. So if ghosts are created by people with horrible, painful deaths left with unfinished business on Earth, here is the manufacturing plant of such ghosts numerous paranormal investigators have reported seeing and hearing dying patients calling out for help even ghostly doctors and nurses unable to help them it's said that even by spending time here people have got pains where the soldiers were injured like in their leg or their head but if you think that's bad even deeper into the hall we have an extremely cursed location known as the pit again why are you calling it

these things like when they're given the tours do they have to be like yes you have like the penthouse the dining halls the residence area the isolation ward the pit uh the devil's asshole the mariana trench which is just where the ship is just open and we just push people into the seawater this is this is crazy i'm imagining that whenever you buy a ticket to like sail across country in this thing as well you kind of run down the options with your travel agent and you're like so um thanks for looking at these options with me sally so with our budget with our savings like what do you think we could afford it's like

oh uh with your budget you could probably afford to be dragged along the back of the boat attached to a rope for about 50 extra we could probably talk them into letting you hang onto the propeller and spun around for two weeks you get a really good panoramic view of the the ocean floor as you go it's gonna be really great uh and for an extra 50 bucks we can throw in the anchor experience where we tie you to the bottom of the thing it's like you know honey we deserve this let's go all out all right two rooms in the pit congratulations between you and me if you pretend to be a german prisoner of war they'll put you in the pit for free. That's right.

In the metal belly of this shiply beast, German and Italian prisoners of war were held in isolation against their will. Food and water was lowered down to them on a rope. But many died of injury and disease and when found would just be tossed into the sea, sea burial style. Oof. It's said that you can hear the moans and groans of these prisoners calling out for bread and water. But in recent years, the pit has been closed to the public for tours. Is that because it's just too damn haunted? Yes. I'm going to go on the record and say yeah.

Well, we mentioned John Petter at the start, but it turns out there's a long line of similar curse-like stories, like the story of William Stark. Paranormal investigator Tom Ogden wrote about this man, William. On Sunday, September 18th, 1949, the staff captain told William Stark that he had a bottle of gin in his cabin and that he and two other officers were free to go there and have some

after completing their shift at 10pm. Stark got there before the other two men, and while waiting, he found what he believed to be the gin in a closed cabinet and poured himself a drink. Because he had a cold, Stark didn't notice the liquid's unusual odour, but he knew that something was wrong as soon as it hit his tongue. Upon closer examination, he discovered that someone had filled an empty gin bottle with poison. After his initial panic, Stark was relieved when there were no immediate consequences. He joked about the accident with his friends and the staff captain, but his flippancy was premature. He felt a bit queasy the next day, but the ship's doctor only recommended bed rest. Oh, f***. By Tuesday,

Stark's condition had deteriorated and he was admitted to the hospital. He was admitted to the bit? Oh, I'm sorry to hear that the bed rest didn't quite cut it, Billy. We're going to bring you down to the infirmary. You're wheeling me to the pit i

know where the pit is i work here i've put people in the pit we're gonna bring you to a little place hurry him to the pit he knows where he's going and within hours he had sunk into a coma and died and that was the end of billy stark i mean why is why does a captain have poison on his boat and let alone drank all the gin filled the bottle back up with poison it's also kind of funny because i think people sometimes get mad at like people who are into gin and craft beer yeah they're like you're just being snobby no one can taste the difference it's kind of funny the idea though of someone drinking literal poison and not knowing the difference between that and gin yeah if anything they're like they're too embarrassed to say that they don't know it's like oh oh yeah oh yeah that's um that's that's a good

what year is this this is great the captain says signs like he's like oh yes it's a good, what year is this? This is great. The captain says, sounds like he's like, oh yes, it's a good vintage. Yeah, it's about 10 years old, this bottle. He takes a sip. This is f***ing poison, man. How are you drinking this? I'm glad you said something because my throat is starting to burn. Honestly, captain, I'm glad you mentioned it because my nose is bleeding and I don't think that's supposed to happen with gin. I thought I was just a lightweight.

I don't think that's supposed to happen with gin. I thought it was just a lightweight. And the list of these kind of weird curse-like incidences kind of goes on. The first captain of the Queen Mary II, Sir Edgar Brittain, died of a stroke just two hours before the boat was due to set sail for the first time. Wow. Two hours. People have even died in recent years. time wow two hours people have even died in recent years very tragically in 2003 i think about 13 people died when the floor gave out and they fell like 30 foot just onto like scaffolding oh my gosh i mean this is an old ship we're dealing with now it's been around for a long time it has it has but

look i know how this works we need evidence and that's why I'm going to talk about the Queen Mary's most famous ghost, the Lady in White. Actually, as an interesting side note, something we might have to talk about in future is apparently the Lady in White is kind of like a universal paranormal trope. It's not just confined to the story of the Queen Mary, but rather ladies in white pop up all over the world i um i used to be a camp counselor at a summer camp back in northern ireland oh yeah and there was uh this was in uh it was in newcastle northern ireland tollymore forest that was the name of the park yeah um great forest it's a fantastic they filmed a lot of uh game of thrones there actually i stumbled into a game of thrones set in 2010 in tullamore forests next thing i know

i've got a sword i think i'm a stark or something i got lines i just walk in and tell them my name's kit and suddenly i'm the lead next thing i know i blink i've been at the wall for three years i have a wife i haven't seen but i sent ravens to her i don't even know if she's getting the messages i'm 18 i don't know if this is my just regular life or if this is what it's like to be an adult but at tolimor forest they have um they have the legend of the blue lady oh which is i mean it's probably a similar thing to the lady in white it's um a woman who walks around who wears like a blue dress and illuminates the forest and a couple of the

camp counselors that i knew quite well have sworn on their lives that they have seen some apparition before and we actually went out uh one one year very early in the morning or late at night and had a little hunt for ourselves but didn't see anything unfortunately damn i wonder if there's like some kind of you know connection or pattern between seeing these like female spirits in different colored dresses yeah like what do the colors mean very good at the bottom of this is it just some pokemon shit like the blue maiden is strong against the red maiden and the red maiden beats the green maiden and then you know down the line it gets a little muddier there's like a fairy maiden

like a ghost ghost maiden which is really contradictory it's ridiculous one of the maidens just an ice cream for some reason yeah they really ran out of ideas towards the end and then you got the digi maidens which are are like maidens but with guns. And then lots of other just like from the same era but just like worse ideas like the Beyblade maidens. Beybladens! They just spin around like mad in the woods. Christ. That's right. The Lady in White has been reported by many many investigators and

tourists alike an elegant woman dressed in a white ball gown can be seen at night walking the main hall sometimes walking to the grand piano and can even be seen swaying and dancing slowly to silent music in the hall. Ooh. It sounds absolutely terrifying. Yeah, really terrifying. But thankfully, in 2012, an ex-model and paranormal investigator, Valentina Lomborg, was checking out the ship on the lookout for spirits. Wow.

She wasn't seeing anything just yet, but took a bunch of photographs of her surroundings for research anyway, I guess just to be able to record her day, check out the surroundings. But as soon as she got home, she started looking through her photos and she discovered something that her own eyes didn't pick up at the time. Feast your eyes on this. Pick up at the time. Feast your eyes on this. Wow.

Okay, so what I'm looking at here is a picture taken presumably on board the boat, looking down one of the hallways on board. And towards the end, it's quite a grainy picture. So presumably this is like been hyper zoomed in on a regular picture. It's an extremely small picture. But what we do see is some sort of figure at the back of the hall that looks like they are wearing white it is it's quite difficult to see again because it's quite blown out but as far as evidence goes on this podcast that's pretty damn convincing it's one of those ones where the more you look at it it's like oh that's that could

be anything but i think everyone who looks at it sees it right away. Yeah. Because also, the bar of evidence on this show is not very high at all. Oh, we have to say that. Yeah, of course. I think on the last episode, we said the standard is pretty much a man's word that we're using for evidence these days. Yeah. And I'll be honest, Rory.

I'm pretty glad that that won you over because that's kind of the height of the evidence on this thing all right all right it's one of these stories where it's very world famous as a haunted location i think it kind of almost came to prominence in lots of people's minds because it was featured in like a time magazine 10 most haunted locations on earth yeah and uh the queen mary 2 was listed on there lots of amateur investigators professional paranormal investigators have gone to check it out people go there i think it's currently docked in long beach california um it's like never going to move from there it's like permanently docked oh so it doesn't sail anymore it's just kind kind of like. Exactly. It got retired in the 70s, I think, and has sat in California ever since.

You can go stay on it. I mean, there's a ton of stuff I haven't covered on this. There's famous rooms. I think it's like room B340 or 370. These are supposedly rooms where terrible things have occurred. Wow. And you can specify to rent that room if you want to do some investigation of your own. That's very cool.

There's even videos online of people kind of documenting their stay. The people that run it are very much aware of the haunting situation. Yeah. They're aware of people's interest in the pit, in the chambers. Because it's so popular in the hearts and minds of visitors,

I thought it would be cool to look up what people were saying online about their experiences. Great idea. And I came across, there's a lot of interesting stuff. I won't go through all of it, but there was one lady's testimony that really jumped out at me. Okay. So on an article about this story, one Patricia V. Davis wrote, without a doubt, cabin B340 is not to be missed for those intrigued by the paranormal. However, several professional investigators claim that this particular cabin isn't actually the most haunted on the ship. Either way, Queen Mary is definitely a Long Beach must-visit, and not just for the otherworldly experiences, but for the rich history of the ship itself.

But then again, perhaps I'm biased. During a business trip, my first stay aboard the ship, before I even knew of its status as a top 10 most haunted place in the USA, I had a paranormal experience that I will never forget. When I phoned my husband and told him what had happened, he thought I'd been drinking too many martinis with my colleagues. His disbelief prompted me to do some research. And research inspired three novels all set aboard the modern day queen mary the first two novels cooking for ghosts okay the first two novels cooking for ghosts and spells and oregano have won accolades i never imagined and the third demons well seasoned is due to be released in 2019 so i guess i can say my paranormal experience above the ship turned into a remarkable muse ask me anything you'd like to know about the queen marion of ghosts i could

tell you they do exist and they got plenty of stories to tell i was what is cooking for ghosts the name of the books just in case anyone missed those was cooking for ghosts these are in block capitals by the way cooking for ghosts spells in oregano and the the upcoming 2019 title demons well seasoned okay i thought this was a piss take i looked these books up they're borderline popular what what is it what it sounds i know it's don't judge a book by its cover but i mean i'm i'm trying not to here i'm really struggling to grasp the concept and i have a paranormal podcast hey it's got uh 4.3 out of five on goodreads it'll seem to be like a paranormal mystery novel set on the Queen Mary. Okay.

So that's kind of interesting. Right, okay. So it's probably like, maybe from the perspective of the hosts of the ship, like serving food and there's ghosts on board. Why spells in oregano? Okay, that's my idea. Why demons well-seasoned?

That's so evidently about cooking ghosts and demons i don't know why would you say demons well seasoned that's crazy well rory i presented you with a bit of a whistle stop tour of the um the spark notes if you will of the thank you i loved it that was fine that was a great episode the queen mary too um it's a lot to digest what are you thinking right off the bat this is this is great you know we've uh we've talked a lot about this podcast about you know a lot of different things we've touched on uh today ghosts uh ghosts who die while in vehicles yeah we had ghosts on a plane that was an interesting one um we talked a lot about pirates but now we're talking about an actual haunted ship

and it's something that we've talked about in the past you know if a ghost were to die on a boat you know you you haunt that place of the earth where you died and um you know we've thought about the the conflicts between do they haunt that spot on the earth so they're just like standing in the middle of the ocean now or are they carried along with the actual place that they died which would be this boat because if a ghost died if someone died in a car you wouldn't expect them to haunt the car but some for some reason if it's on a boat you feel like they should probably haunt the boat yeah i guess maybe because a boat is more of like a giant it's like a hotel or a house it's like a like yeah it's like a building almost yeah because yeah like it's it's like if someone dies in a hand glider are they gonna haunt the hand glider

for the rest of time probably not yeah i don't know or a skateboard yeah are you forever like on the board wherever the board goes doing curse to do sick tricks until the end of time. That's the most like bro ghost thing in the world. Forever on the board. Every time you do a kickflip, it's like boo dude as the board spins. All he wants is to just rest, but he just can't. He's so rad. There's no chill.

Yeah, it's a scary one for sure because i mean what we're talking about here essentially is a uh a sea-bound ghost factory i mean this thing has been through so much and so many horrible things have happened here that of course it's perfectly natural for there to be spirits and entities um haunting this ship and this is probably the worst place it could happen because if you're having paranormal experiences you know a lot of the time the best thing you can do is gtfo yeah and just bounce yeah you know that's the first thing that happens in every horror movie is move house is that's what you should do just move house burn it down and move on yeah we say that

how do you burn down a boat it's in the water yeah and you best have another smaller boat ready before you burn down the big one i learned that the hard way exactly and if we because if we've learned anything from the maidens it's water maiden beats fire maiden yeah you're trying to burn down a boat it's not gonna work so it's it's i really like it from that perspective because if you're getting haunted on this ship there's really nowhere to go i mean at least there was now it's docked now it's docked i think long beat i think the city of long beach california fucked up in that regard by letting the boat dock oh yeah yeah that's terrible you know they were like oh wow great like one of the most famous

boats ever like we'll have it that'll boost tourism i'll tell you what else it'll boost fucking curses it's like um uh you know when when uh when a pirate ship would dock at a at a local pier and the pirates just spread like a disease through your town yeah these are ghost pirates even worse you can't even put up a wall they go straight through it yep it's a nightmare i think the only the only way i could come to a uh strong enough conclusion uh to edge towards a yes would be to go to this ship for an all expenses paid 14 maybe 15 day investigation yeah where we stay in the most haunted rooms we eat this ghost food these seasoned demons yes you know i want to i want to see it all i want to swim it all i want to sunbathe in the ghosty glory of it all i want to stay in the most uh haunted location which i probably

didn't mention but it is the penthouse suite it is the most luxurious suite of course the pit of course is haunted but nowhere near the degree of haunting that goes on in the presidential suite yeah yeah i think that's the best place for us to really start maybe work our way down yeah stop at the buffet work our way down a little bit back to the buffet back to the buffet we'll do a little bit of it all i'll actually stay on deck sunbathing for a lot of it because i mean you're in california you want to get some of that sun you want to get some of that golden sun baby yeah i heard the buffet was haunted as well um so we should probably check that one out again just before the cocktail bar also hunted but the

ghosts only appear when you've sunk like 11 martinis so we're gonna get started on that as well you you you just sink your 11th martini and a ghost is like you should write a cooking book for ghosts you're like you're a genius that's a really good idea mr captain it's just the actual captain of the ship he's like you should also leave please now um yeah i think until we have that investigation slash vacation yeah that's when i'll be able to come down more towards a yes and i don't want to put us on the spot but we're both going to california this year we are not not at the same time yet but uh it's possible that's a good point that's a very good point i'm always on board for some on the field investigating i love it i think it's great i like getting my hands dirty covered in

salt water and barnacles and goddamn chicken wings at the buffet yeah mostly the barbecue sauce um but until then unfortunately i think it's gonna be a no from me this week i just don't have the evidence to back up this case i can't go on the record to say that this place is haunted unfortunately it's true we got to see those things with our own eyes touch them with their own mitts pretty fascinating altogether though and thank you again to emily mcdonald for sending that one into us fascinating stuff hope you guys have enjoyed this week's episode if you have any of your own thoughts about the goddamn queen mary too if you've been there maybe you've stayed in the pit maybe you've stayed in the isolation ward maybe you are a world war

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and we're uh actually kind of looking around the world different how different countries work we're taking a lot of leaves out of the book of people like um donald j trump you know his kind of uh isolationist policies we're talking about walls talking about travel bans uh we have to contain the amount of people we have we can't let anyone in we do not have the resources yeah they're ruining they're tanking our economy all these commune freeloaders we also can't let anyone out because they've all seen and heard too much um so it's really like it's just we need more of a dome yeah you get your passport shredded on entry to the commune. That's for sure.

And branded with the paranormal passport of shame. I meant pride. Sorry, Cammy, cut the first one in the edit. It's called a pride port. Whenever they enter like our customs, we're like a passport for identification. They give us a passport. We check it. We hand them back a fake passport. They're like a passport for identification they give us a passport we check it we hand them back a fake passport they're like i'm sorry oh welcome to the commune all right i love that

they like put all their bags and cell phones and stuff on the conveyor belt they think it's gonna be x-rayed but it just goes straight to a shredder like what the hell it didn't come out the other side you signed up for this. You signed up for this. I think that's a bug or something. Why don't you go in and we'll send you your bags. Send your bags and we can retrieve them. I can feel the heat from the incinerator. I probably got lost in transit.

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couldn't i simply couldn't uh so hopefully santino got a little bit further than i did and picked up some gcses thank you for support i think everyone did more than you did well yeah i did one and i failed it you know you're supposed to have ten. Yeah, but I wanted to pass muy muy rapido. So I thought if I just do one, it would be quicker. At age 16, I was very much in a rush to go no f***ing where. Thank you, Santino. Thank you also to Killian Maher. I heard this guy donated one billion trillion Killian dollars.

Whoa! The highest amount of money possible. 1 kilion dollars? 1 kilion dollars. Which I think is just when you upload a Trojan virus into an ATM and it distributes an amount of money that is just, it can't even be displayed. Just matrix code bleeds down the display unit.

It's deadly, whatever it is. Yeah, I think it actually took money from us. Yeah. Because it's like a wild card. So thanks for the Killian dollars. We're broke now. I hope you got some of that in return. But thank you for your attempted support.

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Then to the bar, then to the after party. Then to the rager. You're like, when is the show? When was the show? That is no show. Listen, I'm really excited you're into partying. Thank you for your support. I don't know how you've got spare money because you're raging 24 7 but hell thanks for throwing us whatever you got buddy thank you

also to giovanni giovanni or should we call him og vanny because this was the first freaking dude ever made what yeah they changed it down the line they changed it to like adam and eve but originally it was giovanni and eve holy shit how many people know this people think that the first meal served up in the garden of eden was a apple from the forbidden tree yeah no giovanni was making the spaghetti Alfredo The goddamn spaghetti with clams Yeah, the meal of sinners They were cast out almost immediately Giovanni was the original sinner But now he's redeeming himself

By listening to the greatest paranormal podcast This side of the Mississippi So thank you for your support Giovanni Thank you also to john steven aka john tron aka bumble steve this guy is the number one transformers fan in all of the galaxy he collects the toys he watches the movies he reads the comics he tried to transform his car into an actual transformer he actually just permanently talks in the optimus prime voice yeah it's incredibly incredibly frustrating it led to the breakdown of his marriage and marital relationships it's like

john like this is an obstacle i thought we could get past but i have to leave and i'm taking the kids but martha please i can change no you can't what into a car um so thank you uh thank you mega john bumble steve for your for your contribution to the patreon thank you lastly but not leastly to dylan shabbat dylan shabbat half bunny half rabbit excuse yeah you thought i was gonna say half human half rabbit uh equally interested in the ability to transform this rabbit went half bunny to create some sort of bunny rabbit hybrid wow yeah it's incredible i guess through that process he's also gained the consciousness of a human man wow i don't know how that was thrown in there i don't know i mean

so half of him is half bunny is very cute and cuddly and cartoon like and the other bit that's half rabbit is just uh it's just shitting all over the place there's little rabbit pellets yeah i think he thought it would be the split would be more indistinguishable it's like half bunny half rabbit like one half of him has rabies it's evidently clear one half is is covered in dirt it's pooping constantly yeah and and you don't want to have consciousness whenever you're human consciousness when you're a shabbit no you'd rather just be kind of like a mindless uh bunny rabbit um wait is a bunny rabbit one thing were they already a hybrid what's the difference answers on next episode this is bad stand-up what's that what's the difference between a

bunny and a rabbit huh you get bottled in the head carroted from the audience wow tough crowd why don't you hop your bunny asses out of here why did i perform this to only rabbits and thank you to everyone who has pledged to support us on patreon thus far and everyone who just takes the time to listen you make it possible for us to be here um we hope you enjoyed this week's episode we will be back next tuesday with a brand new paranormal tale. Bye-bye! Bye, folks!