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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Sam & Colby's First Paranormal Incident on the Queen Mary' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-01-10. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan experience.
- So tell me about the Queen Mary.
That's the beginning for you guys.
- That's the number one origin.
- And you went there to do what?
- So what was really interesting is
we did a lot of the abandoned stuff,
but every once in a while we would do like a haunted thing
because those creepy stories and, you know,
the lore of everything is really interesting,
whether or not you believe it or not.
At that time, we didn't really believe
in any of the ghost stuff.
We're like, all right, this is gonna be a great video
'cause everyone loves telling the stories.
But we just got, I don't know what it was,
but someone forwarded us something saying
that for the first time in 30 years,
the Queen Mary in Long Beach,
which is like one of the most haunted ships,
like New York Times, like top 10
most haunted places in the world.
- We filmed Fear Factor there once.
- Really? - Really?
- Yeah. - That's great.
It's a beautiful ship.
- They do a comedy show there sometimes.
- No way.
- Yeah, for a while they had a regular comedy night there
on the Queen Mary.
- Yeah, I didn't realize how like famous it was,
but they have that, they have like haunted houses,
they have a ton of different attractions there.
But there's this one room, B340,
that hadn't been open for 30 years,
and allegedly they closed it down
because there's multiple unexplained murders
and/or suicides in that room.
And we're like, whoa, like, you know,
this is the first week this is open after 30 years.
This is gonna be an amazing story to tell
you know, video film.
And so we went in there trying to make something,
or like trying to get something.
And we obviously didn't really believe that much.
So we were like, all right, let's just see if it happens.
If there's gonna be a haunted location, it'll be this.
We toured around, did the whole thing,
weren't getting much.
And we were kind of frustrated at that point
'cause we're like, all right,
this is supposed to be the cream of the crop.
This is supposed to be the big wig.
Like, why can't we get something to happen?
And so it was four o'clock in the morning at this time.
We've been trying for hours of just sitting in circles,
like asking out.
- And we didn't have any equipment at this time.
This is like the first place we ever went to.
So we were just like meandering,
like the hallways being like, is anything here?
- Yeah, like just trying to get something to happen
on camera and nothing was happening.
And so we're like, fine, I guess let's do this.
Let's just like leave.
Like it was fun to tell the story, let's just leave.
And so we turn off the camera, start packing up.
We walk, like start walking towards the door.
And as soon as we turn,
like actually we're about to like get out of the room,
the faucet turns on like full blast for four seconds
and then turns back off.
And we all like, actually like, you know,
freeze and freak out.
Two of our roommates that were there at the time,
like just immediately started like crying.
We were like, we ran in, we were like, okay,
how was that actually possible at all?
Maybe that's a sign of like, it doesn't want to be filmed
and it doesn't want us to leave.
So maybe let's just not film this and try one more time,
just for the heck of it.
And so that's what we did.
But this time it worked.
And to like the weirdest extent,
we just like put, put away all of our cameras.
We sat in the most serious tone saying like, okay guys,
like before this didn't really believe.
So like, if this is happening, let's,
let's have something happen.
And so we all sit in the dark together
and we start calling out questions.
And we're like, okay, like, is there anybody here?
And we hear a knock.
And so we're like, okay, maybe that's something very faint though.
It was like a tap, like a tap.
And so we're like, okay, let's just run with that.
Can you tap more than once?
And there was like three taps.
Like, okay, this is really weird.
Like, can we start asking questions?
And how loud are you saying this?
Like, is it possible that someone could have heard you from another room?
That's what we thought.
So going like, we were talking probably like this,
but then there was times where we talk like really quiet and like,
which we tested everything.
But so what we did is we decided, let's ask questions using these taps.
So we, we said tap once for yes, tap anything more than once for no.
We had a yes or no conversation for 35 minutes
with something that we cannot explain.
And we did everything because we were skeptical at this.
Did you film any of this?
We didn't think so, but apparently one of our friends,
he's like super religious was like, hey,
no matter what the entire night he was keeping an audio recording in his pocket.
We had no idea.
We had no idea that he was doing that.
So nobody talked about it.
So if there was something there, no, it didn't know either.
Yeah, we had no idea he had pulled that out.
Like we genuinely were like, okay, no one's filming.
We even say in this audio recording, like no one's filming this.
No bullshit.
Like everyone, please like be serious about this.
And so we had this conversation back and forth and we tried to trick it.
You know, like we would ask questions in different manners.
Like, okay, is there more than one of you?
Yes.
And then we'd say, are you alone?
And it would say, no, back and forth, trying to get this thing.
And this, the story kept straight the entire time.
And we were like, okay, come on, there could be someone like screwing with us.
This is like on, you know, the news of being like haunted place.
Like what's going on?
Well, what was crazy about it too, is all the knocks,
they weren't just coming from one, one section.
That would make sense.
If like maybe something outside was like tapping, these knocks would be like
below us.
And then above us to our sides, some would be louder than other ones.
We went out to the hallway a couple times and we realized that we were like the
last room besides like this like utility room to our left.
And obviously we had like basically that whole like floor to ourselves as well
since it was super late.
Yeah. And then like sometime in the middle, we were like, like, okay, like, let's
like ask a question under our breath.
Yeah.
Like, okay, like this, this thing does not want us to leave.
And at that moment, the entire floor shook, boom.
Like we were all like, oh my God, what was that?
You could feel the vibration in your feet.
Crashing on the ship or something was huge.
And so we're like, okay, so this thing doesn't want us to leave.
And maybe we should just like ask questions under our breath for the rest of
the time, just so we know it's not some employee.
It's not someone like screwing with us the entire time.
So fast, fast, fast forward to the very end.
We were like, okay, we've had a bunch of conversations.
At this point, we really believe if this is truly something, I want to know
something about something deeper than just yes or no questions or, or just like
something silly of like how many people are here.
So I decided let's ask about religion and I ask out, is there a heaven?
And it knocks three times, meaning no.
And at that point, our two religious friends that were there, like immediately
jumped up and said, we have to leave right now.
We had no idea why.
Why?
What's going on?
Like, I'll tell you in the car, like, dude, like, just don't look back.
Let's go.
Let's leave.
And so we walked out.
We left.
We got all the way to the car without anyone saying anything.
And as soon as we got in the car, we're like, what's going on?
Like, why do we have to leave?
He's like, well, in the Christian religion, the, anything like demonic or evil
is supposed to like basically disprove that there is a heaven in order, you
know?
And so what they were saying is like, we don't think this is some like spirit
or something, something paranormal there.
We think it was something that was trying to lead you away from heaven or
Christianity.
Demonic territory type thing.
But that also just depends on what you believe in.
Obviously, like our roommates were very, very Christian, very religious.
And so when they heard the knocks saying no, they thought it was just kind of
like a sign from like a demon to like steer us away from, from God saying like,
this does not exist.
And so they, without question, ran before we could even, like, we kind of were
wanting to stay there to ask more things.
It was really interesting.
Because this is your first experience with anything paranormal.
Well, first very believable one.
There has been plenty of times where we hear things or like, you know, things
are scary.
In like the abandoned places, but they're also decrepit old places that creak
and stuff.
Yeah, old, dark places make you freak out.
Exactly.
This is the first conversation we should say that we've had.
So up until that point, did you believe in ghosts before?
And like, what is the, what is the feeling like when you have to sort of
process the end of that day?
So that was a monumental change in not only like our career, but also like our,
at least my like thought process in life.
Because yes, I had the idea that maybe something else, something else is out
there.
Like I had grown up a Christian.
But at that time, we'd gone to so many scary places.
We'd, you know, tackled a bunch of like life questions, philosophical questions
throughout our time together.
And we're like, okay, like after asking about it, like for me, I was like
losing like faith in something else.
I was like, okay, maybe, maybe we're just the only things out here.
And after that moment, I had like a full on like breakdown the next day.
Like I like, I was like everything that I had thought was not real now becomes
real.
And I had like pretty much lost any, any sort of like faith at that point.
But there is even a video of me online, like sitting on my bedroom floor, like
crying to camera saying,
I truly didn't believe.
And now this instance opens up this whole world.
Like maybe I don't immediately believe a hundred percent, but the question of
if there's something else out there is now back in my brain.
And I want to chase that.
And so after the whole arrest and going to the haunted stuff, that was like, it
wasn't necessarily we were like a thousand percent believers.
The second we like had this experience, but it was so intriguing because it was
one of those things that we couldn't explain.
We told this story so many times and the audio of this actually happening.
The Knox is online.
So many people don't believe it because they weren't there and we wouldn't
believe it if we weren't there.
And so we understand that people don't believe us when we talk about these
things.
However, just the idea that it could be real and the idea that could happen
again is what's so intriguing.
And it was why we got into it.
And we're like, okay, if we can just keep doing this and keep getting more and
more proof like that feeling of hope of like, okay, there is something else out
there.
And it is not just, okay, we're just going to live and die here on the planet.
It's so special.
No matter what you believe in, no matter what religion you have, it's like, we
realized that that experience for us, it taught us that there is something else.
It's more spiritual than anything.
And we wanted to spread that message as well to as many people as possible.
Again, no matter what they believed in.
But your roommates thought it was demonic.
They were, they took like the Christian route.
And that's, again, that's up to whoever is viewing this or experiencing it
themselves.
But, yeah, they took it very religiously.
How did you feel?
Did you feel like it was a demon or did you feel like it was a ghost or dead
people?
What did you think it was?
I don't know.
At the time, I definitely thought it was like a demon because these two guys
are like yelling at me.
They're like, dude, this is 100% without a shadow of a doubt like a demon.
And I'm like, well, I don't know exactly what I believe in.
Like this is already like rattling my brain right now.
But it was scary.
And what was scarier is trying to go back into it and repeating the process.
Because, like, we didn't know what we were messing with.
If it was a demon, like, hell, maybe if it is all real, are we just screwing
ourselves over by, like, going in all these places?
Are you inviting that thing into your life?
How many times did you guys go to the Queen Mary?
Three, four times?
Yeah, three or four times.
So you went back after that?
We did.
Did you leave the roommates at home?
At that point, yeah.
We did, we did.
Like, our final stint, which was actually last year.
We hadn't gone back in three years.
But we wanted to, like, the Queen Mary actually shut down, which was sad.
Oh, really?
When was that?
Last year.
They lost, like, funding and whatever.
They might be opening up now.
They're trying to, like, raise money and, like, get it back up.
But so we thought this was the last time we'd ever see the ship.
So we're like, let's go say goodbye to the thing that literally started this
whole adventure for us.
And so Colby and I went back alone.
Same room?
B340.
Same room, alone, like repeating.
Do they rent that room out to anybody?
They do now.
They do now.
But for 30 years, they didn't.
For 30 years.
We were, like, the first people to get to it.
That's so crazy.
After 30 years.
But again, that's all alleged as well.
Like, who knows if it's, like, a marketing ploy.
And again, we were so skeptical that, like, Sam and I, when those knocks first
started to happen,
like, we were, like, looking under things.
We were like, this room has to be bugged.
See if you can find anything about that room.
Find anything about the Queen Mary.
Outside of what they have.
Room 340.
Yeah, it's B340.
B340.
So they told you that there was multiple murders that took place in that room?
Yeah.
Imagine if you guys were just, like, an hour away from killing your roommates.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, like, if we kept going at it.
Kept asking questions.
He just turns on us.
Bam.
Goodbye.
He just starts talking to you.
That's what the room looks like.
This is the room.
Oh, God, it gives you chills.
What does it say on the wall?
So you can scripture?
Well, they have literally experiences of each, like, different family.
Yeah, there's a ton of.
Oh, my God.
So it's, like, openly haunted.
Yeah.
So anytime someone has, like, a crazy experience that they deem notable, they'll
write it on the wall.
Oh, there's our thumbnail right there.
It's the Bloody Mary wall.
Yeah, and they have instructions to do Bloody Mary.
It's definitely cheesy a little bit.
Like, they have the Bloody Mary, like, challenge on it.
Bloody Mary?
What does that mean?
So Bloody Mary is, like, this challenge that a lot of people used to do, like,
as, like, children or whatever.
You, like, go in front of a mirror, turn the light off, have one candle, spin
around three times while saying Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary.
Oh, so it's Candyman.
Exactly.
Pretty much.
Yeah, yeah.
So it's the evolution of Candyman.
And so that's, like, gimmicky, obviously.
But there's a lot of stories all over the...
That's the one that turned on, yeah.
And so this room, is there any documentation that people actually died in that
room?
Yeah, I was going to say, I'm curious because, like, when we went there, again,
like, we were very different than where we're at now.
Like, we didn't do, like, super extensive research.
What we did is we, like, would, you know, we'd take the article that it says it
is, but obviously we're not going back and fact-checking that.
And then we'd go and talk to the employees.
And so most of our stories were all, like, firsthand encounters with the
employees that were there or things that they would tell us rather than, you
know...
And the employees seemed to believe it.
No, every employee, like, we've met pretty much at all these haunted places are
true believers.
Those are the ones that said, like, they could see stuff following us.
So, yeah, people that work there, like, are super into, like, the paranormal
and stuff.
That's what's fucked, right?
Because there's only a handful of those people that are there day in, day out.
Right, right.
Like, and you can dismiss that.
Or it's like...
Or it might be real.
Right, right.
That's the thing.
It's just the thing that gnaws at me.
It's like, it's so easy to dismiss ghosts.
Oh, ghosts are bullshit.
But the problem is there are so many people that say they've seen it over so
many years.
Literally hundreds and hundreds of years.
It makes you wonder.
Because if there are multiple dimensions and if life is...
If you are a physical body that's carrying around a soul, like, where does that
thing go?
Yeah, if energy doesn't die, where does it all go?
And what happens if something horrible takes place, like, there's some crazy
traumatic moment, gunshots and stab wounds and, like, where does that soul go?
Is that what...
Is it possible that things get trapped in between worlds and that these people
that work in these places or you guys experience them?
Exactly.

Sam & Colby's First Paranormal Incident on the Queen Mary

- The Joe Rogan experience.
- So tell me about the Queen Mary.
That's the beginning for you guys.
- That's the number one origin.
- And you went there to do what?
- So what was really interesting is
we did a lot of the abandoned stuff,
but every once in a while we would do like a haunted thing
because those creepy stories and, you know,
the lore of everything is really interesting,
whether or not you believe it or not.
At that time, we didn't really believe
in any of the ghost stuff.
We're like, all right, this is gonna be a great video
'cause everyone loves telling the stories.
But we just got, I don't know what it was,
but someone forwarded us something saying
that for the first time in 30 years,
the Queen Mary in Long Beach,
which is like one of the most haunted ships,
like New York Times, like top 10
most haunted places in the world.
- We filmed Fear Factor there once.
- Really? - Really?
- Yeah. - That's great.
It's a beautiful ship.
- They do a comedy show there sometimes.
- No way.
- Yeah, for a while they had a regular comedy night there
on the Queen Mary.
- Yeah, I didn't realize how like famous it was,
but they have that, they have like haunted houses,
they have a ton of different attractions there.
But there's this one room, B340,
that hadn't been open for 30 years,
and allegedly they closed it down
because there's multiple unexplained murders
and/or suicides in that room.
And we're like, whoa, like, you know,
this is the first week this is open after 30 years.
This is gonna be an amazing story to tell
you know, video film.
And so we went in there trying to make something,
or like trying to get something.
And we obviously didn't really believe that much.
So we were like, all right, let's just see if it happens.
If there's gonna be a haunted location, it'll be this.
We toured around, did the whole thing,
weren't getting much.
And we were kind of frustrated at that point
'cause we're like, all right,
this is supposed to be the cream of the crop.
This is supposed to be the big wig.
Like, why can't we get something to happen?
And so it was four o'clock in the morning at this time.
We've been trying for hours of just sitting in circles,
like asking out.
- And we didn't have any equipment at this time.
This is like the first place we ever went to.
So we were just like meandering,
like the hallways being like, is anything here?
- Yeah, like just trying to get something to happen
on camera and nothing was happening.
And so we're like, fine, I guess let's do this.
Let's just like leave.
Like it was fun to tell the story, let's just leave.
And so we turn off the camera, start packing up.
We walk, like start walking towards the door.
And as soon as we turn,
like actually we're about to like get out of the room,
the faucet turns on like full blast for four seconds
and then turns back off.
And we all like, actually like, you know,
freeze and freak out.
Two of our roommates that were there at the time,
like just immediately started like crying.
We were like, we ran in, we were like, okay,
how was that actually possible at all?
Maybe that's a sign of like, it doesn't want to be filmed
and it doesn't want us to leave.
So maybe let's just not film this and try one more time,
just for the heck of it.
And so that's what we did.
But this time it worked.
And to like the weirdest extent,
we just like put, put away all of our cameras.
We sat in the most serious tone saying like, okay guys,
like before this didn't really believe.
So like, if this is happening, let's,
let's have something happen.
And so we all sit in the dark together
and we start calling out questions.
And we're like, okay, like, is there anybody here?
And we hear a knock.
And so we're like, okay, maybe that's something very faint though.
It was like a tap, like a tap.
And so we're like, okay, let's just run with that.
Can you tap more than once?
And there was like three taps.
Like, okay, this is really weird.
Like, can we start asking questions?
And how loud are you saying this?
Like, is it possible that someone could have heard you from another room?
That's what we thought.
So going like, we were talking probably like this,
but then there was times where we talk like really quiet and like,
which we tested everything.
But so what we did is we decided, let's ask questions using these taps.
So we, we said tap once for yes, tap anything more than once for no.
We had a yes or no conversation for 35 minutes
with something that we cannot explain.
And we did everything because we were skeptical at this.
Did you film any of this?
We didn't think so, but apparently one of our friends,
he's like super religious was like, hey,
no matter what the entire night he was keeping an audio recording in his pocket.
We had no idea.
We had no idea that he was doing that.
So nobody talked about it.
So if there was something there, no, it didn't know either.
Yeah, we had no idea he had pulled that out.
Like we genuinely were like, okay, no one's filming.
We even say in this audio recording, like no one's filming this.
No bullshit.
Like everyone, please like be serious about this.
And so we had this conversation back and forth and we tried to trick it.
You know, like we would ask questions in different manners.
Like, okay, is there more than one of you?
Yes.
And then we'd say, are you alone?
And it would say, no, back and forth, trying to get this thing.
And this, the story kept straight the entire time.
And we were like, okay, come on, there could be someone like screwing with us.
This is like on, you know, the news of being like haunted place.
Like what's going on?
Well, what was crazy about it too, is all the knocks,
they weren't just coming from one, one section.
That would make sense.
If like maybe something outside was like tapping, these knocks would be like
below us.
And then above us to our sides, some would be louder than other ones.
We went out to the hallway a couple times and we realized that we were like the
last room besides like this like utility room to our left.
And obviously we had like basically that whole like floor to ourselves as well
since it was super late.
Yeah. And then like sometime in the middle, we were like, like, okay, like, let's
like ask a question under our breath.
Yeah.
Like, okay, like this, this thing does not want us to leave.
And at that moment, the entire floor shook, boom.
Like we were all like, oh my God, what was that?
You could feel the vibration in your feet.
Crashing on the ship or something was huge.
And so we're like, okay, so this thing doesn't want us to leave.
And maybe we should just like ask questions under our breath for the rest of
the time, just so we know it's not some employee.
It's not someone like screwing with us the entire time.
So fast, fast, fast forward to the very end.
We were like, okay, we've had a bunch of conversations.
At this point, we really believe if this is truly something, I want to know
something about something deeper than just yes or no questions or, or just like
something silly of like how many people are here.
So I decided let's ask about religion and I ask out, is there a heaven?
And it knocks three times, meaning no.
And at that point, our two religious friends that were there, like immediately
jumped up and said, we have to leave right now.
We had no idea why.
Why?
What's going on?
Like, I'll tell you in the car, like, dude, like, just don't look back.
Let's go.
Let's leave.
And so we walked out.
We left.
We got all the way to the car without anyone saying anything.
And as soon as we got in the car, we're like, what's going on?
Like, why do we have to leave?
He's like, well, in the Christian religion, the, anything like demonic or evil
is supposed to like basically disprove that there is a heaven in order, you
know?
And so what they were saying is like, we don't think this is some like spirit
or something, something paranormal there.
We think it was something that was trying to lead you away from heaven or
Christianity.
Demonic territory type thing.
But that also just depends on what you believe in.
Obviously, like our roommates were very, very Christian, very religious.
And so when they heard the knocks saying no, they thought it was just kind of
like a sign from like a demon to like steer us away from, from God saying like,
this does not exist.
And so they, without question, ran before we could even, like, we kind of were
wanting to stay there to ask more things.
It was really interesting.
Because this is your first experience with anything paranormal.
Well, first very believable one.
There has been plenty of times where we hear things or like, you know, things
are scary.
In like the abandoned places, but they're also decrepit old places that creak
and stuff.
Yeah, old, dark places make you freak out.
Exactly.
This is the first conversation we should say that we've had.
So up until that point, did you believe in ghosts before?
And like, what is the, what is the feeling like when you have to sort of
process the end of that day?
So that was a monumental change in not only like our career, but also like our,
at least my like thought process in life.
Because yes, I had the idea that maybe something else, something else is out
there.
Like I had grown up a Christian.
But at that time, we'd gone to so many scary places.
We'd, you know, tackled a bunch of like life questions, philosophical questions
throughout our time together.
And we're like, okay, like after asking about it, like for me, I was like
losing like faith in something else.
I was like, okay, maybe, maybe we're just the only things out here.
And after that moment, I had like a full on like breakdown the next day.
Like I like, I was like everything that I had thought was not real now becomes
real.
And I had like pretty much lost any, any sort of like faith at that point.
But there is even a video of me online, like sitting on my bedroom floor, like
crying to camera saying,
I truly didn't believe.
And now this instance opens up this whole world.
Like maybe I don't immediately believe a hundred percent, but the question of
if there's something else out there is now back in my brain.
And I want to chase that.
And so after the whole arrest and going to the haunted stuff, that was like, it
wasn't necessarily we were like a thousand percent believers.
The second we like had this experience, but it was so intriguing because it was
one of those things that we couldn't explain.
We told this story so many times and the audio of this actually happening.
The Knox is online.
So many people don't believe it because they weren't there and we wouldn't
believe it if we weren't there.
And so we understand that people don't believe us when we talk about these
things.
However, just the idea that it could be real and the idea that could happen
again is what's so intriguing.
And it was why we got into it.
And we're like, okay, if we can just keep doing this and keep getting more and
more proof like that feeling of hope of like, okay, there is something else out
there.
And it is not just, okay, we're just going to live and die here on the planet.
It's so special.
No matter what you believe in, no matter what religion you have, it's like, we
realized that that experience for us, it taught us that there is something else.
It's more spiritual than anything.
And we wanted to spread that message as well to as many people as possible.
Again, no matter what they believed in.
But your roommates thought it was demonic.
They were, they took like the Christian route.
And that's, again, that's up to whoever is viewing this or experiencing it
themselves.
But, yeah, they took it very religiously.
How did you feel?
Did you feel like it was a demon or did you feel like it was a ghost or dead
people?
What did you think it was?
I don't know.
At the time, I definitely thought it was like a demon because these two guys
are like yelling at me.
They're like, dude, this is 100% without a shadow of a doubt like a demon.
And I'm like, well, I don