Queen Mary & The Haunted Valentine

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2014

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to episode 2 of Astonishing Legends!

This episode is about the floating hotel that the RMS Queen Mary has become and how she treats a couple of guests who've selected her for a romantic Valentine's Day getaway.

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The RMS Queen Mary -

The Wikipedia entry on the Queen Mary..

The award for the fastest Atlantic crossing by a cruise ship, the Blue Riband.

A timeline of her history from the Hotel website.

Some amazing older photos of her.

The Queen Mary during World War II from the Hotel Website.

A great article on rogue waves, including the one that hit the Queen Mary.

A brief page on hauntings aboard her. There are many hundreds of websites on this.

Here's a page detailing WWII troop crossings, aboard her.

More amazing photos of her history.

John Pedder & Watertight Door 13 -

A brief site discussing the death of John Pedder at watertight door #13.

The Munich -

The Munich and the story as it's understood about her sinking.

The HMS Curacoa -

Here's the wikipedia entry on the HMS Curacoa.

Indrid Cold -

A good page on Indrid Culd.

The Poseidon Adventure (original 1972) -

One of the best original disaster movies there is, inspired by the Queen Mary and her brush with capsizing.

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0:00.0	Hey, we're back for episode two.
0:02.4	I want to thank the over 5,000 listeners from 78 countries that downloaded episode one.
0:08.0	Yeah, that's amazing.
0:09.0	And you know what, we're really thankful and truly honored that not only the folks that
0:13.3	know us that took the time to support us and download it and left a great review, we
0:17.6	really appreciate that.
0:18.6	But thanks to all the folks that are just interested in this type of material that just gave us a chance.
0:23.7	And we shut up the charts a little bit.
0:25.8	Yeah, we got enough traffic that Apple saw fit to move us into the new and noteworthy
0:29.9	category and podcast.
0:30.9	And I think that's what really set it to skyrocketing.
0:33.2	Yeah, that's very cool.
0:34.5	And who knows how long that'll stay up there, but it really gives us motivation to keep
0:39.2	going and provide some really cool stories for you.
0:42.0	So that said, with all the traffic we're getting to the website and everything, I decided
0:45.6	that it was probably time to go ahead and set up some points of contact for us because
0:48.8	we didn't have like, I mean, we had an email address, which everyone should know, astonishing
0:52.1	legends at gmail.com.
0:54.4	But we needed to set up a phone and we needed to get sort of a PO box and that sort of thing.
0:58.4	So I took it upon myself today to start going down that road and I went and made a Google
1:02.2	voice account for us.
1:03.8	So we would have a phone number.
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