From the archive
Status: Researched
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 Mount Baker Lodge at Heather Meadows
A hundred-room chalet that lasted four summers. It burned at dawn on August 5, 1931. Nobody died. The meadows kept the meadows.
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 Walker-Ames House
Port Gamble’s empty Victorian. Faces in the windows since the mill was still running. Tours, not trespassing.
Koma Kulshan and the two wives
Lummi and Nooksack place-story for Mount Baker, the Nooksack River, and the mountain that walked away to become Rainier.
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.
Moon the Transformer at Snoqualmie Falls
The Snoqualmie Tribe has said in public that Moon the Transformer made the Falls, and that the mist carries prayer. This is a sacred place. It is not a haunt.
The Bellingham curse
People say you cannot leave this town, or that it pulls you back. The 1949 Herald blamed Chinese miners in the Sehome coal mine. The mine was real. The mass grave was the part that would not sit still.