S2 – 8: The Grey Ghost

Haunted Road

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The Queen Mary is a stunning former cruise ship built in the 1930s. Now permanently moored in Long Beach, CA and serving as a hotel and tourist attraction, many don’t realize her true past. With a very important assignment during WW2 and a number of documented deaths onboard, the ship is one of the most haunted locations in the world. We sort fact from fiction, and learn all about her ghosts. Special guest: Aiden Sinclair Visit www.strange-escapes.com if you'd like to vacation at haunted locations around the world, and catch season 6 of Kindred Spirits airing now on Travel Channel or streaming on Discovery+

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0:00.0	Welcome to Haunted Road, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Erin
0:06.1	Manky.
0:07.1	Whistler discretion is advised.
0:12.8	It was 1942 and I was 22 years old and a seaman in the merchant navy on the Queen Mary.
0:28.8	We were returning to Glasgow from New York, which was a 4-5-day journey.
0:33.6	The Queen Mary was carrying thousands of American troops to join the Allied forces.
0:38.2	She was known as a Hornets Nest in the War as there were lots of nationalities on the
0:42.5	ship.
0:43.6	There were two of us on the deck on the half of the ship and we were manning the 6-inch
0:47.6	gun in case we came under attack.
0:50.2	What good we could have done with one gun?
0:52.3	I have no idea.
0:54.0	A cruiser called the HMS Curusso met us 200 miles off the coast to escort us into Grinock.
1:00.2	I could see her clearly as I was on the half.
1:03.1	We could see our escort zigzagging in front of us.
1:06.2	It was common for the ships and cruisers to zigzag to confuse the U-boats.
1:11.2	In this particular case, however, the escort was very, very close to us.
1:16.3	I said to my mate, you know she's zig-zigging all over the place in front of us, I'm sure
1:21.5	we're going to hit her.
1:23.4	As sure enough, the Queen Mary sliced the cruiser into like a piece of butter straight through
1:29.2	the 6-inch armored plating.
1:31.4	The Queen Mary just carried on going.
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