| Tacoma - McChord AFB: A C-141 transport aircraft that was assigned to this base was used to transport bodies back from Jonestown, Guyana, South America after Jim Jones had ordered their suicides. Maintenance personal experience hearing voices and footsteps. The auxiliary power goes on and off when no one is around. | |
| Tacoma - Puyallup Tribal Administration Office: The building is an old hospital. It is said that many people died of tuberculosis there. In the basement there is an incinerator where they used to incinerate the bodies. Noises of someone walking can be heard throughout the building. On the 5th floor, a woman cries for her child and/or husband. The elevators move from floor to floor on their own. Children's voices can be heard. In the basement, which used to be the morgue, a woman complains of being cold. The fifth floor is known to be the most spiritually active. | |
| Tacoma - University of Puget Sound: It is widely believed that Ted Bundy killed his first victim and dumped her in the foundation of a building being built at the University of Puget Sound. Although her body was never found, people have reported seeing a girl - believed to be her - walking the halls of the building and making strange noises. | |
| Tacoma/Lakewood - Thornewood Castle: Chester Thorne was the builder of Thornewood Castle, and he has made several appearances over the years. Lightbulbs will be unscrewed in his room, after the lights were turned off and no one else was present. Some guests have seen Anna, Chester's wife, sitting in the window seat of her room overlooking the garden. Some have claimed to see her reflection in her original mirror in the room she occupied, which is now the bridal suite. The Thornes son in law shot himself in the gun closet, and his ghost has been seen. Another ghost is of the grandchild of a former owner who drowned in the lake. Occasionally guests will rush down from our Grandview Suite concerned because there's a small child alone by the lake, and then find no child there. A Stephen King miniseries titled "Rose Red" was recently filmed in Thornewood Castle. The six-hour, made-for-television ABC/Disney miniseries is scheduled to air in February 2002. The miniseries is from a pre-accident script. Extensive investigations have been done by Washington States own Evergreen Paranormal Group. | |
| Tacoma - Gog-li-hi-ti Wetlands - Just to the South of the Wetlands Park was one of the places that the Puyallup Indian tribe buried their dead, along the banks of the Puyallup River. Many persons fishing there have seen a canoe paddled by a Native American pull up to the bank, then disappear. There have been reports of singing and voices near the river. The Army Corp of Engineers now fences off the area. Late at night workers and fisherman report an old man with a yellow dog walking the banks of the North Levee Rd. People report seeing the man because of an angry expression on his face. Sometimes a dog can be heard wailing from the site. | |
| Tacoma/Lakewood - The old Western State Sanitarium: On some rainy foggy nights when the moon is full, you can hear moans and footsteps in the late night to early morning hours. This is believed to be patients that were once institutionalized there. The place is in ruins now, but there remains an underground boiler room where most the sounds are heard. The fence around the place also shakes for no reason, when no one else is around. | |
| Tacoma - Hollywood on the Flats - immediately adjacent to the Wetlands, also known as "Hooverville". The last transient was evicted in 1952. The old transient, wearing a batter tan shirt and pants held the Pierce County Sheriff Deputies and Tacoma Police at bay with a shotgun, refusing to leave his "home". The standoff ended with a single gunshot, when the man took his life rather than be evicted. His old yellow mixed breed Lab dog was heard wailing. Tacoma - Lakewood - Pierce Lake - There is a lake in the woods that is located behind pierce college on the way to the old Western state sanitarium. At night early morning hours you feel a presence, see hazy apparitions and hear voices around the lake. They belonged to a woman that drowned there many years ago. | |
| Tacoma - Point Defiance Park - 5 Mile Drive - In the late 1980's a 14 year old girl named Jennifer B disappeared while riding her bike in the park. Her body was later discovered and her killer was never caught. Late at night the sound of a bicycle can be heard around the 5 Mile Drive. Several years later a couple flagged down a Park Police officer and admitted she had been driving on the drive after the park was closed. She said as she was rounding the turn by the Narrows viewpoint, she observed a young girl standing next to the side of the road with a light colored bicycle. She pulled over and her boyfriend got out to ask the girl if she was okay, since it was late and the park was closed. The boyfriend screamed and jumped back in the car and kept screaming at her to go. As she was leaving, in the red tail lamp glow, she saw the girl vanish. The boyfriend was shaking and later told her the girl had no eyes but was smiling at him. Several other people have said that they have seen a girl riding alone near dusk and whenever they stop or look back at her, she vanishes. | |
| Tacoma - Point Defiance Park - The Pagoda - The Pagoda used to be the trolley terminus at Point Defiance in the early part of the 20th century. The building was remodeled and is now rented out for weddings/parties. Visitors, workers, and the Police have reported hearing footsteps made with hard soled shoes walking around the building after dark. The footsteps seem to be walking down the stairs on the east side of the building, then abruptly stop. Sighing can be heard at other times and there are cold spots in the storage area below the building. A tale has been told about a young newlywed couple during the 1920's. The husband and wife would catch the trolley to Point Defiance and the husband would see his wife off for the day to visit her parents on Vashon Island. Small groups of boats would shuttle people to the island for a fee. The husband would return in the evening to meet his wife. As the small launch she was riding in approached the Boathouse area, it took on water. Many people were thrown overboard in the confusion and the husband observed with his pocket spyglass his wife flailing in the water in her heavy period clothes as she went under. Overcome with grief, he walked down the stairs to the marbled restroom, pulled out a small pocket pistol and shot himself in the head. It is said it is his ghost that haunts the Pagoda. | |
| Tacoma - Puget Sound Mental Hospital - the Puget Sound Mental Hospital, is an enormous facility for the mentally disturbed (is also a drug and alcohol rehab). Parts of this 8-story complex are no longer in use. Half of the facility lies in darkness and is used for storage or is closed off because it is "unsafe". All of the buildings of this facility are highly haunted. Most of the staff there are willing to tell you the tales of the many ghostly personalities that reside there. The most famous is that of an old woman and her walker that can be seen and heard going up and down the hallways of the 4th floor. As you walk down the hallways and through the stairwells, you can feel that the place is very much alive with activity. This place is a real facility so you will need permission to run equipment, and or just tour the campus. | |
| Tacoma - University of Puget Sound - Inside Theatre - The Inside Theatre (the name may have changed in the past few years)is haunted by an unseen, but essentially benign presence. The ghost does not appear physically, but manifests itself by shifting scenery, turning on and off lights, slamming doors, rattling paint cans, etc. There is one case in which a student was leaning over the catwalk to change a light and lost her balance. She felt an unseen force jerk her backwards onto the catwalk, ostensibly preventing her from falling. | |
| Tacoma - Western State Lunatic Asylum - Reports of cold spats, sounds of people and the cold sense of a presence. The blood on the wall reading JOE... a hand print, and the long dried blood that almost seemed to be dripping.-Update: For a brief summary and directions visit Western State Sanitarium Thorp - Thorp cemetery - People have reported sightings of the ghost of an Indian woman by the name of Suzy who was lynched by persons unknown in the thorp area around 1890. She has been seen riding a white horse and crying among the tombstones on moonlit nights | |
| Tokeland - Tokeland Inn - Reports of apparitions (dog, cat, and a Chinese man) and strange sounds. | |
| Toppenish - Public Library / museum - There is a weird woman and man on the top floor. you can see them looking out the window and you get a weird chill down your bones and at night when you walk pass the window fly Open. the curtains wave in an eerie motion while you see the shining of the blade since there is a museum on the top floor. | |
| Vancouver - Fort Vancouver - At Fort Vancouver, the ghost of Dr. John McGloughlin still haunts his old house, they say you can hear his heavy foot steps walk up and down the halls. Some say there are people in the look out tower that can be seen from the ground. | |
| Vancouver - The Grant House - The Grant House is a part of Officer's Row. The row is a strip of colonial style houses that was housing for officers of the Vancouver Barracks, which have stood since the mid 1800's. The Grant House was the first built and was once home to President Ulysses S. Grant during his tenure before his presidency. Anyways, a former officer named Sully haunts the house. The ghost is even mentioned in the pamphlet at the front door. (The house is now a folk art museum and restaurant). I used to work in the kitchen and my boss claimed to have heard and felt Sully's presence, as have many others. | |
| Vancouver - Hazel Dell - Dark Park - It is said that two little boys haunt the park late at night in the wooded area. No one will go down there alone night or day. Even during the day there is the feeling of not being alone and wanting to leave. | |
| Vancouver - Fort Vancouver Barracks - The old army barracks, which are still occupied, were built a stone's throw from the old Fort Vancouver, which was a trading post of the Hudson's Bay Co. and was the first settlement in the Pacific Northwest. It is believed that the barracks were constructed over several old colonial graves. Many stories have been told of ghosts haunting the auditorium, the officer's housing, etc. | |
| Vancouver - Former site of Fort Vancouver High School - When the school was built in the 1930's a maintenance man died while putting up a basketball hoop 40 feet in the air his ladder broke and he fell to his death...Some people say that late at night when you are in the gym you can hear the sound of a ladder falling and a loud crash along with a man falling from what looks like thin air and when he hits the ground you hear a loud crack...one of the past teachers that worked there said to a couple of the new teachers that they saw the same thing, plus when the went to look at the man they saw his bones poking out of his neck then he disappeared into thin air. | |
| Vancouver - Officer's Row - Nelson Residence - Reported in the local paper - There is a house two spaces left of The Grant House on Officer's Row and the house is home to Admiral Paul Nelson a great grandson of the former president William Howard Taft. when you enter the house on a Saturday, Sunday, Monday or Tuesday then you will see that the grass in front of the house is dead and brown and when you go inside there is a substance that looks like blood dripping from the walls...in the paper it said that Admiral Nelson's wife has spent hours among hours scrubbing the walls and the blood keeps appearing, no one knows for sure why blood drips from the walls or why the grass keeps dying and coming back to normal. - WARNING if you don't look up Admiral Nelson's phone number and ask him if you may come check the house out then he will consider you trespassing and you will be arrested and if he does let you in he frisks you for cameras and audio recording....no joke so be careful. | |
| Vancouver - Officers Row - Veterans Hospital- On the third floor of the building is where all the mentally disturbed patients were put. It is said that you can still hear their hysterical screams, and any paper that enters the room floats to the ceiling and sticks there. You pull them off and they float back up. | |
| Waitsburg - The Haunted Tunnel - It is said that a ghost walks the tunnel with it's severed head with the machinery that killed him following behind. | |
| Waterville - Old Brick School House - There is an old school house a couple miles out of town where you can see candle light emanating from the shattered and boarded up windows. if you go in to the building with a flashlight or candle they will go out when you enter the main schoolroom. this building was built in 1864, and the nearest house owner says he can hear children playing and the squeaking of a swing set that is no longer there. | |
| Wenatchee - Cherub Bed & Breakfast Inn: This place has an interesting history. A husband came back from vacation to find his wife cheating on him. The husband killed the other man on the stairs, and it is reported that you can hear someone walking up and down the stairs when no one is there. There are also bloodstains on the stairs that, when washed, disappear for a few moments and then reappear. | |
| West Seattle - Kabuta Garden - The place is a big Japanese garden and at night you can supposedly hear ghosts whispering at night. Strange howls of winds could also be heard as you go down the path nearing the house. | |
| Whidbey Island - Fort Casey - Weird noises and figures and a woman screaming there is also weird drawings on the walls. Something scratches on the wall like claws. | |
| Woodinville - Chateau Ste Michelle Winery Manor House - This beautiful winery is set up on 150 acres previously owned by Seattle lumber and dairy baron Fredrick Stimson. Although the winery itself was constructed in the mid-1970s, Mr. Stimson's old (early 1900s) mansion still occupies the land (manor house). Legend has it that Mr. Stimson had a love affair with one of his servants (supposedly named Elizabeth) and got her pregnant. When Mrs. Stimson found out about this, the servant had an "accident" and fell down a back stairwell, which leads to the kitchen. Kept in its original state, the house is still used constantly for meetings and dinners. Staff at the winery for years has had paranormal experiences here. There have been many reports of cold spots that follow you, strange shadows, and noises. Elizabeth seems to be particular to one of the upstairs restrooms by opening the window, closing the door, and turning the light on. Late night cleaning staff has reported hearing footsteps upstairs when no one is there. Other occurrences include lights turning on, toilets flushing by themselves, and security systems going on the fritz. There always seems to be something behind you and you get the chills right down to your bones when walking through the house alone at night. There have been reports of janitor crews leaving after being scared by something and never cleaning the manor house again. *disclaimer* - these are just stories and reports from people who have been to or worked in this place. No one knows for sure if the Elizabeth "accident" really occurred or if it is just a myth. This portion of the story cannot be considered fact but merely a tale until someone does some historical investigating. | |
| White Swan - Old Fort Simco State park - Witnesses have reported a woman looking out of one of the back windows of the commanders house. she is thought to be the wife of the commander who died of fever in the 1800s. The fort may be the source of the Toppenish ghost lights seen in the area in 1973. | |
| Whitman - Lacrosse - School house - Sometimes when you walk in the house you will get a feeling someone is watching you& feelings of being bumped or pushed when alone. | |
| Whitman - LaCrosse School - inside the school you can see a shadow of a person walking down the hallways hitting the lockers. | |
| Yakima - Cherry Park - It has been reported more than 100 times at night in cherry park you can see, children running around in circles screaming at the top of there lungs. This goes on for a good half an hour, while you smell a strong scent of sulfur in the air. | |
| Yakima - St. Paul's School - About 20 years ago a lady named Sister Sabiena who taught at St. Paul?s died and people say that she jumped out the window or died in the elevator but no one really knows. When you go to the 4th floor you always hear a little scream of see a little shadow of her very short body even when you?re not on the 4th floor you hear noises from above and even in the girls bathroom you hear flushing and water turning on and then you look and no one or nothing is there. | |
| Yakima - West Valley - Yakima Memorial Hospital - Most of the occurrences happen on the elevator and around the morgue, the elevator opens and closes, goes up and down with no one in it. Cold Drafts inside the elevator. Near the morgue it always seems like someone is watching you, but that?s only by the morgue, you also catch some thing in the corner of your eye someone walking or running or sitting down, but when you turn to see them fully they disappear. | |
| Yakima - Yakima canyon - Reported to be haunted recently by a young Hispanic male who was murdered there and an elderly man with gray hair and beard that committed suicide in the same area (area is about two miles north of the roza recreation area on the left) |