Month: October 2024
Haunting Reminders of the Night: Titanic Artifacts and the Paranormal
Earlier this week, my wife and I were in Las Vegas for a quick little vacation. We decided to visit Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition at the Luxor Hotel and Casino. We first went in September 2022, and I’ve been wanting to go back ever since. I’ll write about this recent visit in a future blog…
Movie Review: Phantom Ship (1935)
Here we are…the final Horror Movie Monday of 2024! Today we’re looking at a 1935 film called Phantom Ship (released as The Mystery of the Mary Celeste in the UK). Starring the great Bela Lugosi, this was one of Hammer Film Productions’ earliest offerings. It puts a murderous spin on the real life mystery of…
Movie Review: Torture Ship (1939)
Welcome back to Horror Movie Monday! Today’s film is 1939’s Torture Ship starring Lyle Talbot, Julie Bishop, and Irving Pichel. Directed by Victor Halperin, the film is rather short at just 64 minutes (and there are other cuts that are even shorter). The screenplay is “suggested” by the 1899 Jack London story “A Thousand Deaths.”…
The Haunting of the QE2
The Queen Mary isn’t the only Cunard ship that’s said to be haunted. It’s said that Queen Elizabeth 2 also has a very healthy amount of ghostly activity. After the ship arrived in Dubai in November 2008, reports of weird activity began emerging. One of the workers aboard QE2 was interviewed by the Daily Mail…
Movie Review: Death Ship (1980)
It’s October, which means that spooky season is here! I figured it might be fun to review a few ship-based horror movies this month. I’m calling it Horror Movie Monday. First up is a somewhat obscure film starring George Kennedy and Richard Crenna: 1980’s Death Ship. Directed by Alvin Rakoff, the movie was based on…
Contingent Contract: The Pending Sale of the SS United States
Florida’s Okaloosa County approved a contingent contract to purchase the SS United States on October 1, 2024. The famed ship would be “converted into the world’s largest artificial reef,” which is a really fancy way of saying that the ship will be taken out and sunk (yes, I know there’s more to it than that…
A Royal Night Out: The Queen Mary’s 90th Anniversary Party
Last Thursday, September 26, I had the great pleasure of attending some special events aboard the Queen Mary for the 90th anniversary of her launching…namely, the unveiling of a replica of Her Majesty Queen Mary’s personal standard in Main Hall. I learned about the event when my wife and I stayed aboard in August, and…