A corner of the map
Haunted building
Pantages Theater
Tacoma’s 1918 vaudeville house in the theater district. If a Pantages is going to keep someone, it will keep them in the fly space.
Rucker Mansion
Everett’s hill house over Port Gardner. Tour copy says Jane Rucker jumped in 1907. The family in the house says that story is a fabrication.
Smilin’ Al
The Historic Everett Theatre needed a ghost and got a grin, named for Al Jolson, who actually played the house.
The Butterworth Building
Seattle’s first purpose-built mortuary, 1903, now Kells Irish Pub under Pike Place. The hearses used the alley. The stories never left First Avenue.
Hotel Leo
A downtown hotel that will not quite commit to being haunted, and a voice on the stairs that will not quite stay polite.
Old City Hall’s basement jail
The Whatcom Museum’s red brick pile used to lock people under the floor. The names are still in the plaster. The tours bring the murders up for air.
The Quinby Building
Fairhaven offices that print, type, and cry when the desks are empty.
Village Books
A Fairhaven bookstore where a night janitor in the eighties heard shelves dump themselves and found every spine still standing.
Claire at CJ’s Beach House
A Blaine restaurant intern hears footsteps on the stairs and turns around to an empty landing.
Anacortes Museum
The old Carnegie library. Luella Howard still looks stern in the mural. Staff talk about a librarian who has not clocked out.