From the archive
Status: Researched
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.
Monte Cristo
A Cascade mining town the road gave up on. Hikers say they still hear picks. The ruins are what is left of a boom that could not beat the weather.
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.
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.
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.