A corner of the map
Haunted building
Pike Place Market
A working public market since 1907, a mortuary next door, and a cabin site that predates the stalls. The ghost tours came later. They still sell well.
The Seattle Underground
After the 1889 fire, Pioneer Square raised the streets and left the old sidewalks in the dark. Bill Speidel sold tickets. The ghosts arrived later, because a buried city is already a ghost.
Hovander Homestead
Ferndale’s Swedish farmhouse on the Nooksack, 1903, second floor never finished. The county kept the gingerbread. The internet invented a dead child. The house did not need the help.
The Walker-Ames House
Port Gamble’s empty Victorian. Faces in the windows since the mill was still running. Tours, not trespassing.
Northern State
A closed hospital campus outside Sedro-Woolley. The buildings look like a haunting. The cemetery is real. The ghost stories are mostly what people brought later.
Thornewood Castle
English brick on American Lawn, Lakewood. Chester Thorne’s house. The haunting got louder after Stephen King filmed here. The current owners say it is not haunted.
Fort Casey and Admiralty Head
Disappearing guns, a 1903 lighthouse, and the usual bunker folklore: a woman on the hill, soldiers who never got the all-clear.
Manresa Castle
Port Townsend’s 1892 Prussian pile, now a hotel. Rooms 302 and 306 are the ones the desk gets asked about.
Georgetown Castle
The Gessner place on the industrial side of Seattle. Private now. The folklore is a suicide, a brothel, and a tower that will not stay empty.
The Woman in Black at Stadium High
Tacoma’s brown castle was meant to be a hotel, became a school, and looks down on a ravine the city used to call Old Woman’s Gulch.