From the archive
Status: Researched
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.
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.
The Oxford Saloon
Snohomish’s brick saloon on First Street. Bordello lore, a man in a bowler, and a bathtub story that the bar tells louder than the courthouse does.
Room 9 at the Bush House Inn
Index, 1898, granite walls and a railroad. Annabelle is the name the room got. The inn’s own timeline does not confirm her.
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.