RMS Queen Mary (Long Beach)

The RMS Queen Mary is a British-built Cunard ocean liner constructed by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland, which served primarily on the North Atlantic from 1936 to 1967. After retirement from transatlantic service the vessel was purchased by the City of Long Beach and permanently berthed on the Long Beach waterfront, where it operates as a hotel, museum, and convention space and is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The ship has been the subject of redevelopment proposals, managed by various operators, and returned to city control in 2021 per reporting on municipal stewardship and recent profitability. In popular culture and tourist literature the Queen Mary has long been framed as a 'haunted' or 'ghost ship.' This reputation appears in secondary compilations of haunted vessels and was adapted into a 2023 British horror film titled "Haunting of the Queen Mary." Popular summaries and travel/interest articles attribute localized folkloric claims to the ship — for example, references in secondary sources to an alleged infant death and to the pool area as a locus of haunting claims — but the provided source material does not include first-person contemporary eyewitness accounts, named spirits, or formal paranormal investigations. Thus the haunted reputation is best characterized in the supplied material as folkloric and mediated through entertainment and popular compilations rather than established investigatory documentation.