Very Scary? A Night in the Queen Mary's Haunted Room B340

But with all the talk of ghostly specters and supernatural occurrences, would you dare stay here? Well, I decided to take the dare with my bff Alan.

Both of us love scary stuff. We frequently watch horror movies together and those TV shows about real hauntings. Do we believe it all? Not really, but we like to think it's real. So for us, this was just going to be a big fun scary goof.

We arrived on a sunny and warm September afternoon. As we waited to check in, we heard guests talking of ghost sightings on board and how they wanted to avoid seeing anything otherworldly. When we got our room key, the girl at the Front Desk smiled and said, "I see you're staying in our B suite." Wink wink. Nudge nudge.

What's interesting is that when you make your way down the narrow, carpeted, dark-wood paneled corridors of the guest suites, the place does feel haunted. There were hardly any passengers and it felt suffocating and quiet. Even more fascinating is that room B340 isn't marked, which is good so you don't have passengers playing tricks on whoever is staying in there. (I only knew the room was unmarked because I had watched some YouTube videos about the suite so we finally were able to find it.)

Camera out and filming, we took a deep breath and entered. While the door emitted a laughably loud creak, the room itself was the opposite: sunny and warm.

Listen, I've been to some places that I immediately had a feeling of dread once inside. A friend of mine bought a house about fifteen years ago in Connecticut and I remember her showing me the guest bedroom. It was all I could do not to run out of it. It felt off. I felt watched. I felt unwanted. I couldn't shake the feeling, but I kept it to myself so as not to frighten her.

But here, in infamous room B340, I felt at peace. And sadly alone. I didn't sense any presences there. It felt quite calming. My friend agreed. We figured maybe nighttime would be the key so we planned the rest of our night after relaxing for a bit.

The one area of the room that I felt was a little off was the walk-in closet. I found myself not wanting to go too deep inside for fear some angry spirit would slam the door on me. Next to that closet was a door that didn't open. That, too, felt off and while that's the corner I put my suitcase, it did feel slightly strange.

Or maybe I was just looking for something to freak me out.

That night, after a cocktail in the lounge, we took the hour-long "Haunted Experiences" tour where we were taken around the ship to see and experience the most haunted places on board. From the "Staircase of Death" to the deepest parts of the ship (where ghosts of the dead have been known to throw things and scare the workers), this was a fun and spooky journey through the bowels of the iconic ocean liner. Part of the thrill is just being so deep in the ship and able to experience the pure majesty and massive scale of the thing. But the stories they tell, whether you believe them or not, are fun to imagine.

After spending some time exploring the ship on our own (the ship felt empty so we had the run of the place), we made it back to the room. Again, it felt fine and I wasn't getting a nauseous feeling in my stomach for what might happen during the night. After watching a movie, we decided it was time. At about 12:45am we set up the Ouija Board that came with the room and Facebook Live Streamed our attempt to contact the spirits of the ship.

We asked if anyone was there. We asked them to move the pointer on the board. We asked them to knock on the walls. We waited patiently, hoping to have some sort of frightening supernatural occurrence that we could brag to our friends about. (My roommate and Alan's husband warned us not to bring any spirits or demons back with us.)

They were in luck! Nothing happened. Oh, we had moments where we thought we heard a knock or that the creepy walk-in closet door was closing. Alas, none of that was occurring. So after a good half hour of trying, we gave up, went to bed, and I'm not gonna' lie, we had the best sleep we've had in months. (The bed is super-comfy.) I woke up refreshed and still had the calm, peaceful feeling I had when we arrived.

That's not to say the room isn't haunted. Apparently some third class passenger ripped his face off and killed himself in that room back in the day. But maybe Alan and I are just too sweet. Our goal was to befriend the ghosts and maybe give them a good laugh. So perhaps they left us alone because they had no beef with us.

So if you decide to go, maybe try pissing them off. They didn't bother us, but maybe if you're obnoxious enough you'll rile them up. For us, it makes a spooky good story and I'm glad to have gotten to experience it, but the punchline was that it was less then petrifying.

For more information on The Queen Mary, visit the Queen Mary website>. B340 is available for reservations all year round, because of the high-demand for the haunted stateroom often times it is completely booked out.

To reserve stateroom B340, follow this link, select the dates you wish to reserve and select Stateroom B340 as the 'Room Type' and continue with the hotel reservation process.