A corner of the map
Skagit County
The woods at Deception Pass
Old growth, a 1935 bridge, CCC rustic, and a park everyone wants to be haunted. The Samish story of the place is not a forest ghost. The internet invented the rest.
The Maiden of Deception Pass
Samish story of Ko-kwal-alwoot, raised in cedar at Rosario Head in 1983. The sea asked for a marriage. The people still feed her there.
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.
Anacortes Museum
The old Carnegie library. Luella Howard still looks stern in the mural. Staff talk about a librarian who has not clocked out.
Lincoln Theatre
Mount Vernon’s 1926 movie palace, a ghost light, and the leftover air of the jail that used to share the block.
Concrete after dark
A mill town that sells tickets to its own ghosts. The Mount Baker Hotel’s little girl is the name that comes up first.