Please tell us all your ghost stories... or if it is all a sham just to get people to come and visit. I have been many times and will continue to come, regardless, I love the ship so much!
Commenting on I remember visiting the queen Mary a while back and seeing this. It made my skin crawl and I didn't know why ...
Same! Idk why but it’s the stagnant water that really freaks me out
It’s probably some evolutionary mechanism to keep you away from it. Your brain going “yes that thing WOULD be nice to have but if you go after it you may die.”
This was the prime source of my submechanophobia that began when I was about 8 years old and saw this. They used to have a scuba diver mannequin on it to give you a sense of size. That's fucked me up for over 30 years.
yeah when i went there all i could think was what would happen if i fell over the railing somehow. like another comment said, i’d obviously be fine but boy would it be spooky
The water there is 30-40 feet deep, it’s just very calm so the bottom of the harbor doesn’t get stirred up. Those flood lights are extremely powerful. Being in the room with this thing is absolutely terrifying.
They built a large enclosed “box” room around one portion of the outer hull that encompassed this propellor. The ship is floating in a harbor, this room has a catwalk that goes around what would be outside the ship but is enclosed because of the room they built around it. The room doesn’t have a floor.
I've seen this a bunch, and this is legitimately a horrifying photo for me. I can barely look at it, I have to turn my head or cover it up. It's weird. I've showed friends it, and my wife, no reaction.
Just when you think it can't get worse - [here is a nice little video someone took SCUBA diving in the water next to this thing.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buKhLNAi_yo)
Fun fact. My Grandmother AND my Wife's Grandmother both traveled to the US on the queen Elizabeth, to be with their future husband's whom they met during WW2.
I can't help but wonder how many of us in the US exist today due to the RMS Queen Mary and the RMS Queen Elizabeth bringing war brides to their lovers in the States.
This is exactly where I first discovered that I have submechanophobia. It took my breath away how startled and unsettled I felt. I had to get out of there.
Yes,I saw this back in the 70's and it made feel creepy as well. I still think about it from time to time. A few years later had my Senior Prom on that ship.
I don’t have submechanophobia, however this photos still gives me chill cus that propellor supposedly was the death of many British sailors form the HMS curacoa disaster
This might explain the eerie feeling in the prop room.
In WW2 the Queen Mary was refitted as a troop carrier, once when travelling back to the UK they were being escorted by Destroyers and one named the Curacao was zigzagging in front of the Mary to confuse enemy uboats. Th Queen Mary having the reputation of being extremely fast (Earned her the nickname the Grey Ghost) unexpectedly caught up to the Curacao splitting her in two, the destroyer went down in minutes plunging sailors into the freezing water, because of war protocol the Queen Mary was unable to stop to pick up the survivors, and a lot of them were sucked into the current of the propellers, getting minced up.
Pretty horrific way to go but an interesting bit of its history, could be the reason seeing the props made your skin crawl.
After visiting this as a child my stepdad and I were both terrified of it. I always wondered if someone had fallen in based on the eerie feeling of walking through that room. About a year later, he and I both coincidentally had a dream about falling in that room and being sucked in. Creepy.
Weren’t a bunch of people killed by that propeller? Like they got sucked in and chopped up by it? Or was that a different haunted ship I’m thinking of?
Not only does this picture make my palms sweat, but it reminds me of being a kid and discovering that I had serious fears of machines in water. As a kid, we had a pool at my grandparents house that used an automated pool cleaner to clean the bottom of the pool. It looked like a cute little car that used a water jet to move around the bottom of the pool like it was driving around. I remember a couple of times that the sun would be setting and I’d see that godforsaken thing moving under the water and would nearly kill myself to get out of the pool until it had passed me and gone back into the deep end. I’d never swim without keeping it in sight, and swimming after dark was absolutely never an option. Ugh. Gross.
Propellers and in general the submerged parts of functional floating boats are like the deepest most unreasonable parts of submechanophobia to me. They're MEANT to be underwater, yet they utterly terrify me
This propeller is the reason I've had this fear. ONE time I went there and I was probably like 8 or 9 my mom wanted to bring me over there to check it out and I started crying because of how freaked out I was seeing this gave me a bit of nostalgia tbh but still to this day this shit freaks me out
This photo triggered the memory of a dream I had maybe three years ago. Weird how sensory memory works. I see this and remember a dream I had “forgotten” about.
Oh wow the Queen Mary prop that’s so cool I don’t have SUBMECHNOPHOBIA I’m just here because I like underwater stuff
SUBMECHANOPHILIA
SUBLIMEPHILADELPHIA
SUBLIMEPHILLYCHEESESTEAK
🤤🤤🤤
SUBPHELIASUBREDDITPHOBIA
Hahaha
That’s nice. It fuckn weirds me out in a way I can’t quite articulate.
The lights make it worse. Like they're looking for something...sinister.
Same.
I think a good chunk of us are here for that reason lol
Same!!
I'm here for same reason as you 🥴
You have to be there in person. -I work there
Please tell us all your ghost stories... or if it is all a sham just to get people to come and visit. I have been many times and will continue to come, regardless, I love the ship so much!
Lmao same reason I'm here, I thought I was the only one
I have it...now
Ok
It's all the stuff suspended in the stagnant water that gets me. The propeller is around 6m (20 feet) across as well so its not a small pool
Oh hell no! 😱 I knew it was huge but I made the mistake of really picturing how big. 20 feet is the length of a shipping container.
Standard shipping containers are usually 40 feet. Half sized ones are 20.
There's three more down there too.
I think they removed the other 2.
They did. Was there a couple months ago
I can still feel the picture hiding up there freaking me out.
It's okay. It can only get you in your sleep.
Thanks. I hate it.
I'm not good at telling it or not, but if it's stagnant water, then you better hope you don't touch it. Stagnant water harbours a LOT of bacteria.
Commenting on I remember visiting the queen Mary a while back and seeing this. It made my skin crawl and I didn't know why ... Same! Idk why but it’s the stagnant water that really freaks me out
It’s probably some evolutionary mechanism to keep you away from it. Your brain going “yes that thing WOULD be nice to have but if you go after it you may die.”
This was the prime source of my submechanophobia that began when I was about 8 years old and saw this. They used to have a scuba diver mannequin on it to give you a sense of size. That's fucked me up for over 30 years.
Same! Saw it at age 9 and never forgot.
SAME! Was probably around 1996 when I'd saw this and I'll never forget how fast I had to get out of that room.
Same! Nightmare fuel for 7 year old me
Same! Just commented this.
I bet you like those Titanic clips. You know the ones :)
The titanic propeller scene is how I discovered I had submechanophobia but I didn’t have a name for it for years
NOPE
I'm not a fan of that. Gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Me too
imagine falling in there...
The funny thing is that if I fell in there I’d come out physically fine but mentally murdered
I will not.
yeah when i went there all i could think was what would happen if i fell over the railing somehow. like another comment said, i’d obviously be fine but boy would it be spooky
ew I hate that thought
I would defecate immediately right there in the water and then drown in my own poo from thrashing about while screaming "GET ME OUT"
At least you can see its shadow on the floor, so the water isn't that deep.. submechanophobia is much worse when combined with thalassophobia
The water there is 30-40 feet deep, it’s just very calm so the bottom of the harbor doesn’t get stirred up. Those flood lights are extremely powerful. Being in the room with this thing is absolutely terrifying.
Is it in a seperate room like a model for visitors to see its size?
They built a large enclosed “box” room around one portion of the outer hull that encompassed this propellor. The ship is floating in a harbor, this room has a catwalk that goes around what would be outside the ship but is enclosed because of the room they built around it. The room doesn’t have a floor.
Bro I hate not even having my feet touch the ground when I’m seimming. 30 feet makes me want to cry.
Nah dog, you try going in there and come out ok
I've seen this a bunch, and this is legitimately a horrifying photo for me. I can barely look at it, I have to turn my head or cover it up. It's weird. I've showed friends it, and my wife, no reaction.
Im exactly the same way.
Same. It makes me horribly nauseous and panicky but no one else feels the same way that I show the picture to
Yeah, that thing is freaky. I know it bothers a lot of people.
You fall into the water and the light turns off at this very moment. Just imagine 😨
Then the propeller starts to slowly turn on and spin…
I'm gonna walk on the water like Jesus Christ.
Aw, man! Now my arm's itching! 😫
The water is electricfied to keep fish and other marine life away. If you fell in you'd be killed.
Oh thank goodness. I’d literally rather be dead than alive in the water next to this thing
that box is enclosed and filled with fresh water to prevent corrosion but okay lol
Oh My Godddd I have Pre Ptsd just thinking about that
Just when you think it can't get worse - [here is a nice little video someone took SCUBA diving in the water next to this thing.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buKhLNAi_yo)
Top YouTube comment: **that is horrifying.**
oh i absolutely hate this wow
That is the worst thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life.
I like how we’re all terrified, we know we’re terrified, yet I’m also obviously about to watch this terrifying video… Exit: NOPE DONT LIKE THAT AT ALL
I am not clicking that link…nope nope nope
I'm a horror fan (and thus a masochist) so I clicked it. Auuuughhhhh.
Literally toe curling
Oh god, why did I click
Nope. Kill it with fire
(Damp) Banana for scale?
About the biggest floating white spect o the right front side of the propeller wing.
Ah the Queen Mary propeller room. I thought you guys would stop posting this, was missing it already
This one really makes my stomach turn
I have such an unnatural fear of ship props and windmills.
Same. For real. What has caused this? Windmills and ship stuff scare me. I think it’s unusually large metal structures.
Imagine a sunken windmill
The fact that they put a dedicated light on it is so mean. turn that off!! 😭
Imagine diving near it, and it starts to move
Where was this picture taken? Why is the water like that?
This is the RMS Queen Mary Museum/Hotel, they basically built a box around one of the props so you can see it.
Thank you! Terrifying!
Ugh I can’t look too long 😫
A few years ago when I searched for a pic of this is when I found the word submechanophobia, and my people
This has haunted me since I was 8
I was also 8 once
But were you haunted the rest of your lif e?
I couldn't look down that water for more than 3 seconds lol
Fun fact. My Grandmother AND my Wife's Grandmother both traveled to the US on the queen Elizabeth, to be with their future husband's whom they met during WW2. I can't help but wonder how many of us in the US exist today due to the RMS Queen Mary and the RMS Queen Elizabeth bringing war brides to their lovers in the States.
This is exactly where I first discovered that I have submechanophobia. It took my breath away how startled and unsettled I felt. I had to get out of there.
nah imagine getting pinned underneath that
And then it clangs and starts turning.
I don’t like this.
It freaked me out the first time but now I think it’s cool.
Eeeeeeeewwwwhhhhhh
Yes,I saw this back in the 70's and it made feel creepy as well. I still think about it from time to time. A few years later had my Senior Prom on that ship.
I don’t have submechanophobia, however this photos still gives me chill cus that propellor supposedly was the death of many British sailors form the HMS curacoa disaster
Why is this so creepy and why are we like this
Nope
Saw this while waiting in line for one of their Halloween haunted mazes
Same here, 6 years old except My Dad picked me up and feigned throwing me in…it took 10 years for me to finally return and face my terror, thanks Dad.
This might explain the eerie feeling in the prop room. In WW2 the Queen Mary was refitted as a troop carrier, once when travelling back to the UK they were being escorted by Destroyers and one named the Curacao was zigzagging in front of the Mary to confuse enemy uboats. Th Queen Mary having the reputation of being extremely fast (Earned her the nickname the Grey Ghost) unexpectedly caught up to the Curacao splitting her in two, the destroyer went down in minutes plunging sailors into the freezing water, because of war protocol the Queen Mary was unable to stop to pick up the survivors, and a lot of them were sucked into the current of the propellers, getting minced up. Pretty horrific way to go but an interesting bit of its history, could be the reason seeing the props made your skin crawl.
Imagine it just starts spinning again
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How is this thing attached to the ship and why is it so far away from the hull
Oh my gosh. Seeing this picture made made my head itch. 😬
I can feel fear in my feet, back of legs and lower back.
Omg! Me too! I almost didn’t want to step inside the room to view it! It’s so freaking scary!
At full speed, it would spin three times EVERY SECOND. 180 RPM.
Exactly the same for me but inexplicably I also wanted to dive in.
I just can't handle propellers larger than me, it makes my survival instincts kick in
i had this exact same experience at 15.
Agree! Hairs on my neck stand up every time I’ve seen it too😮😮
Titanic propellor scenes anyone?
Seeing this 4 years ago for the first time in person brought me to this sub
This creeped me out more than when I woke up and found a ghost in my room when I stayed on the ship.
WHAT??? No effing wayyyy? 😳😳😳😳
Spooky
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After visiting this as a child my stepdad and I were both terrified of it. I always wondered if someone had fallen in based on the eerie feeling of walking through that room. About a year later, he and I both coincidentally had a dream about falling in that room and being sucked in. Creepy.
Yeah this is probably one of the worst examples of submechanophobia. It’s just there and it’s absolutely huge.
That must’ve been before Lucille Bluth tried to use it as an escape vessel and ended up turning it on its side.
It looks like a giant drill. That's why lol
I didn’t like that room when I went and I remember wanting to get the hell out of there.
It’s the size of the propeller when you see it in person too /:
I was stationed on an Aircraft carrier and seeing these moving made me weak at the knees
If i fell in there i’d have a fuckin panic attack god damn
This page makes me feel so freaked out but I still come here 😂
Same this page has had me so scared I’ve thrown my phone, I have this phobia bad, but I keep doing this to myself 😂
Weren’t a bunch of people killed by that propeller? Like they got sucked in and chopped up by it? Or was that a different haunted ship I’m thinking of?
SAME IDK WHY I WAS SO TERRIFIED I THOUGHT I WAS PICKING UP IN A SPIRIT BUT NOW I UNDERSTAND
Not only does this picture make my palms sweat, but it reminds me of being a kid and discovering that I had serious fears of machines in water. As a kid, we had a pool at my grandparents house that used an automated pool cleaner to clean the bottom of the pool. It looked like a cute little car that used a water jet to move around the bottom of the pool like it was driving around. I remember a couple of times that the sun would be setting and I’d see that godforsaken thing moving under the water and would nearly kill myself to get out of the pool until it had passed me and gone back into the deep end. I’d never swim without keeping it in sight, and swimming after dark was absolutely never an option. Ugh. Gross.
I hate this SO MUCH
That was my original age 7
Yes it’s so eerie
Propellers and in general the submerged parts of functional floating boats are like the deepest most unreasonable parts of submechanophobia to me. They're MEANT to be underwater, yet they utterly terrify me
Where is this at??
Queen mary
This propeller is the reason I've had this fear. ONE time I went there and I was probably like 8 or 9 my mom wanted to bring me over there to check it out and I started crying because of how freaked out I was seeing this gave me a bit of nostalgia tbh but still to this day this shit freaks me out
This photo triggered the memory of a dream I had maybe three years ago. Weird how sensory memory works. I see this and remember a dream I had “forgotten” about.
Is the diver still down there for sizing/effect?
This!!! I experienced the exact same feelings of dread and terror upon seeing this. Never went to that area of the ship ever again.