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Title: The Haunted Queen Mary, Long Beach, California by Robert James Wlodarski, Anne Powell Wlodarski ISBN: 0964908859 Publisher: G-HOST PUBLISHING Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $13.95

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Summary: Ghosts take a holiday
Comment: A GUIDE TO THE HAUNTED QUEEN MARY has a wealth of information on a single haunted site. Authors Robert Wlodarski, Anne Nathan-Wlodarski, and Richard Senate are active psychic researchers who have heavily studied this aspect of the ship and relay a lot of intriguing information; however, produced by small publishing house, this book's presentation is rather crude.

This 1995 edition provides a brief history of the QUEEN MARY, including incidents that occurred aboard many believe led to some of its hauntings; primary accounts by people who witnessed its phenomena; the transcript of a séance; photos; and diagrams and sketches to illustrate some of its accounts. This book also has appendixes listing references, selected ghost movies, and "what to do if you see a ghost."

At the ship's pool side, "a young, attractive woman in a miniskirt, is sometimes viewed walking down the stairs leading to the pool, and then vanishing behind a pillar." One employee claims to feel cold spots in the kitchen where there are no drafts or ventilation and another sees a plate fly across the cafeteria. While stopping in the captain's cabin, one tour guest starts feeling seasick--as if the ship is at sea--a sensation that passes as soon as she leaves the room.

Hauntings of major traveling vessels are fairly common. Long voyages and major journeys are frequently stressful to travelers and strong emotions are usually what brings the dead back. Another ship, also permanently docked (but in the docks of the San Francisco Bay Area), where ghosts have been sighted is the USS HORNET. When Flight 401 crashed killing 101 people, Eastern Airlines salvaged undamaged parts of the plane as is the custom in the industry. Apparently, some of the crew's spirits embedded on those parts later reused and have alerted their living counterparts to dangers that helped them save lives.

The number of uncanny encounters on the QUEEN MARY are almost expected when one considers its long years of passenger service were also interrupted for military use during World War II. It transported many enemy POWs during the conflict. Water also affects psychic energy. Learning of the cases in detail is compelling for anyone intrigued by the subject.

The worst criticism this reviewer can make against this book is its poor graphic design and the way it organizes its text. While some publishing traditions become obsolete with modern technology, there are some conventions that confuse the conveying of information when violated. For instance, serif typefaces are more comfortable for long-term reading and recto pages should have odd page numbers. Author biographies and selling info for other books the house sells are usually found at the back of the volume so they don't break the flow of content in the front.

Although this volume is slim, a table of contents would be helpful. It also tends to awkwardly parcel its data. Instead of reporting a fatal incident and all the phenomena that related to it in one place, it separates and classifies the tidbits by on-board deaths and "identified" spirits, verbatim primary accounts from visitors on the ship, then the employee accounts. Although this collection of facts come from different primary sources, sometimes it's a bit repetitive and disorientating bouncing back and forth between the different cases.

For anyone interested in a intensive study on the hauntings aboard the QUEEN MARY, overlook this book's clumsy presentation. A GUIDE TO THE HAUNTED QUEEN MARY is otherwise a fine, in-depth study of a magnificent historical monument's paranormal activity.