Queen Mary’s Most ‘Haunted’ Stateroom Available To Rent For First Time In 30 Years

CBS2 reporter Craig Herrera reports live from the Queen Mary in Long Beach in April 2018, as the ship prepared to reopen Stateroom B340 to overnight guests. The cabin, he explains, had been gutted in the 1980s and closed to the public apart from occasional paranormal tours; it had now been rebuilt by combining two rooms into one suite.

The segment runs through the stories attached to the room: a legend that a man was found dead in the cabin while the ship was still sailing, and hotel-era claims from guests and a housekeeper about sheets pulled off the bed, a bathroom door closing by itself, and taps and lights switching on and off. Herrera shows the suite’s themed extras, including Ouija boards and tarot cards, repeats the believers’ idea that a “vortex” near the first-class swimming pool lets spirits move about, and notes that the suite would open on Friday the 13th of April.

The report is candid about something ghost stories usually skip: B340 is a commercial product. The ship’s operators reopened it as a premium suite and dressed it with occult props, so the haunted reputation is part of what is being sold. None of the stories in the segment is tied to a named person or a dated record, and a death or murder in this stateroom has not been matched to published records.

A moored steel liner also produces plenty of ordinary night noises – a hull flexing with tide and temperature, pipes, plumbing and air handling – which is worth keeping in mind when guests describe doors and taps behaving strangely.