A Haunted Shipwalk On The Queen Mary Turns Personal

A haunted tour should leave you with photos and goosebumps, not a mystery object in your pocket. After a night on the Queen Mary in Southern California, Cassandra and I join the Haunted Shipwalk tour and something genuinely strange happens during a short break: I reach into my Spirit Tales and Magic hoodie for a Kleenex and pull out a large bobby pin I do not own. Not “maybe I forgot” strange, but “there’s no access and no reason” strange.

We walk through what makes this kind of paranormal experience so unsettling. My pockets are basically a checklist: phone and tissues on one side, business cards on the other, nothing else. Cassandra is handling photos, we’re not packed in with strangers, and when we work private gigs my jacket is kept out of public reach. So how does a bobby pin from a haunted place end up exactly where it should not be? I share how our guide reacts, why I gain nothing from inventing it, and why small physical details often hit harder than big ghost lore.

If you’re into the Queen Mary haunted tour scene, ghost tours with real history, or the slow-burn questions behind superstitions and haunted objects, you’ll get plenty to think about. I also offer a tip for the engine room moment on the shipwalk: look behind you and a little to the left, then notice what you feel. Subscribe, share the show with a friend who loves the paranormal, and leave a review, then tell me this: what’s the strangest object that ever appeared in your life with no explanation?

Transcript

Welcome And Listener Shoutouts

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Hey everybody, it's Dr. G, Spirit Tales and Magic. Hope this finds you well. I'd like to say hello to some new listeners in Blaine, Minnesota, Satchy, Texas. We have Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Frederickburg, Virginia checking in. And we've got some new folks in Pakistan, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand. So we appreciate you and thanks for listening. We're going to do an episode tonight on the superstitions, but we're going to change that up a little bit. Two pieces of mail. One was about superstitions. And of course, if you're a frequent flyer of the podcast, you know that we have a lot of things like that on the podcast. But the other one is, hey Doc, thought I saw you last night on the Queen Mary. Tried to get to you, but then I found out that the thing that you and Cassandra were doing is not open to the public. Are you guys going to do any public shows on the Queen Mary? And I saw you later taking a tour. Was that the haunted tour? Well, so it's kind of like this, Rob. We would love to do some public stuff on the Queen. We get a lot of private gigs right now. So currently we're in SoCal, Southern California. You can also say we're in the inland empire because we are. But we're branching out to do a whole lot more public things. So that's in the works. But let's talk about the Queen last night just for fun. So Cassandra and I did a little thing, and then we took this ghost tour. Now, this is a haunted shipwalk. And there is a great deal of walking involved in this particular tour. And Cassandra's in the studio. Who's our guide? Our guide was Matthew. Matthew. So Matthew starts the tour. We introduce ourselves. We give him a card, you know, things we usually do. And we walk from where we met, way down in the belly of the ship where the propellers are. And I'm not going to ruin the tour for anybody. It's it's worth taking. Um, but here's where the strange thing comes in. And of course, it's spare tales and magic. So you knew there would be a strange thing. Halfway through the tour, we take a 10-minute break. Now I'm wearing my Spirit Tales and Magic hoodie. And while I would not consider myself to be OCD in the left pocket of that hoodie when we're taking a tour, there are Kleenexes and a cell phone. In the right pocket, 50-ish business cards. That's it. Nothing else goes in those pockets. Excuse me. So we're taking the break. I'm sitting down contemplating the things that we had seen and figuring out which ones are going on the podcast. And when you first make the transition from Phoenix to Cali, you're gonna have some nasal issues and some throat issues. So I'm gonna have to use one of the Kleenexes, and I reach into the pocket. Now I know what's in the pocket, we've discussed that. And in the pocket is a very large bobby pin. That's a hair pin. It's all dented on one side, straight on the other side. It's a little clippy for those of you who don't know what it is. But here's the thing: I don't own a bobby pin. Cassandra doesn't own a bobby pin. I don't think I've seen a bobby pin since I left Ohio about 30 years ago. So there's no access for us for this item. It's just there, it's in my pocket, and I didn't put it there. Cassandra handles the photos when we're doing a ghost walk. So both of her ends are occupied, and we didn't get close enough to each other for her to slip it in there. And certainly no strangers got close to us. When we're doing the show, the jacket hangs behind us, and the public does not have access to it, and I'm in control of the space. So the short and long of it is there's no way to get this thing into that pocket without me catching you. So the break's over, and I walk over to our tour guide, and I've got this thing in my hand. I said, Do you see this? Yes. Do you know what that is? Well, yes, it's a bobby pin. Yes, it is a bobby pin. Where did it come from? I wouldn't know where it came from. I said, Yes, neither would I. And I tell him the entire story. Now I don't know if he believes this or not, but I have no interest in making that up. I don't yet work for those folks. I get nothing out of it if a million people go on that tour or nobody goes on it. It's fine, you should do it, I'll say that. Excuse me. But here's an object from a haunted place that worked its way into my pocket. Truly unexplainable. Now, some people will say I put it in there and forgot. But again, no bobby pins in our life. So that kind of made me wonder what's your haunted object story? Do you have one? You can give us a like, give us a share. You can definitely follow us, and we would definitely appreciate it if you did that. But we really like hearing your stories. And once you go out to the website, you can find many, many ways to send those to us. We are currently in 42 countries in 311 cities. And I just want to say that we appreciate everybody who listens. So give us a like, give us a share, tell all your friends about us. Let's get those numbers to go up even higher than that. Follow us if you can and send us your stories. This is a paranormal podcast, so anything outside of the normal. It doesn't have to be some crazy ghost story about your Uncle John and the demons and whatever. You know, we we kind of shy away from that stuff anyway. But if you have a story that you've passed down, or maybe one you just heard, or a paranormal experience that you can't explain. Did you get scratched? Did somebody put something in your pocket? That sort of thing. And if you're a frequent flyer of the podcast, you know sometimes we go in all directions. But that's kind of what we do. So in the next few days, we'll be talking about superstitions. We're gonna put that up, unless something really cool comes in and changes our mind, which, as you know, sometimes that happens. So for now, thanks to everybody on the Queen for a wonderful night. And if you're in that area and you're looking for something out of the ordinary, let's say, to do, there are several tours, it's great, a lot of history. Uh, I will say if you, and again, I'm not gonna ruin any of the tour, but if you take the tour we took last night, that's the shipwalk, the haunted shipwalk tour, there's going to be something that you're going to encounter that's way out of place. Ship's 91 years old and has an incredible history, but at some point you're gonna be like, what is that doing here? Now, whatever that is, if you look up that, I'd be interested in knowing if you thought you saw anything. Being that Cassandra and I are fairly intuitive sometimes, but not all the time. Maybe in an episode or two, I'll tell you what I saw, or we'll put it in the liner notes. But I'd be interested if you if you take that tour, drop us a line and let us know what you have, or what you've seen, or what you felt. And I will say that there's a place where you're gonna walk through the engine room and you're gonna gather at one end and look toward that end as the story that the guide is telling you goes. Look behind you when you do that. Behind you and a little to the left. Be interested in knowing what kind of feeling you get from that space as well. So go out, check it out, have some fun, and hey, tell a paranormal story. It's good for you. You know, we always say there is indeed a world unseen. It's a world that exists all around us all the time. And every now and then, for whatever the reason, we catch a glimpse of it. And the dead get in. Good night from SoCal