Haunted Places in Bellingham, Washington



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    Old Town Cafe

    Bellingham, Washington

    This delightfully quaint urban café is housed in a building dating back to the 1890's, and is rumoured to be haunted. Staff have reported the sound of piano music, dishes that float around the kitchen and a female apparition in a white dress on the second floor. (Submitted by Callum Swift)


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    Spark Museum

    Bellingham, Washington

    This haunted electrical pioneering museum features disembodied footsteps and a spook that plays musical instruments. (Submitted by Callum Swift)


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    Mount Baker Theatre

    Bellingham, Washington

    Witnesses describe voices, noises, apparitions, orbs, and cold spots in the corridors in this historic theater, which originally opened in 1927 and was renovated in 1996. Legend has it that where the theater was originally built, the home of a young woman named Judy had to be bulldozed to make ...


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    The Bellingham Herald Building

    Bellingham, Washington

    This historic heritage-listed building serves as the headquarters for the town newspaper, and dates back to 1926. The building is rumoured to be haunted, and features an elevator that moves around from floor to floor of its own accord. It is believed to be haunted by a former elevator ...


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    Bayview Cemetery

    Bellingham, Washington

    Among the legends connected with this cemetery are a floating apparition, hot spots and haunted monuments. One is called the Death Bed and rumor has it that anyone who lies on it will move their death closer. Another haunted monument, Angel Eyes, is believed to be home to a spirit ...


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    CJ's Beach House

    Blaine, Washington

    16.5 miles from Bellingham, WA

    When I was doing an internship at CJs Beach House in 2013, I was getting the chef jackets and I was walking back down the stairs 3 or 4 steps away from the door I heard footsteps of someone behind me so I stopped and looked behind me and nothing ...


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    Anacortes Museum

    Anacortes, Washington

    17.9 miles from Bellingham, WA

    This historic museum houses maritime artefacts from the past of this fishing town, and is rumoured to be haunted. Some of the phenomena reported here includes disembodied footsteps, cold spots and the apparition of a former librarian, probably searching for an overdue book. (Submitted by Callum Swift)


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    Rosario Resort

    Eastsound, Washington

    19.3 miles from Bellingham, WA

    It's an unusual ghost who haunts this resort. Employees say the wife of a former owner of the building, before it became a resort, has been spotted on the second floor wearing a 1930s red dress and riding her motorcycle. She has also been seen on the third floor.


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    Cascades Job Corp

    Sedro-Woolley, Washington

    20.2 miles from Bellingham, WA

    This site has just about every type of haunt imaginable, from a poltergeist named Frank who throws things, to spooky lights, to apparitions of a little girl playing ball and a man who searches for her. There are unexplained voices and cold chills, a haunted underground tunnel system, and much ...


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    Northern State Hospital

    Sedro-Woolley, Washington

    20.4 miles from Bellingham, WA

    Northern State Mental Hospital opened in 1912, and was said to be the site of many deaths, at least partially due to experimental trans-orbital lobotomies. It operated as a hospital until 1976, and today the site holds a job corps and a drug rehab center...and some ghosts. A prankster ghost ...


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    Trethewey House Heritage Site Museum

    Abbotsford, British Columbia

    21.3 miles from Bellingham, WA


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    Washington Avenue Grill

    White Rock, British Columbia

    22.3 miles from Bellingham, WA

    Two ghosts are said to visit Washington Avenue Grill: one, a young woman who died in a car accident in front of the establishment, and two, her beau, who committed suicide out of grief upon losing her. It is said that the woman's ghost comes out of the cemetery next ...


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    Orcas Hotel

    Bellingham, Washington

    23.6 miles from Bellingham, WA

    This delightful landmark hotel has been in operation for over a century, and has numerous ghost stories attached to its long and colourful past. The most significant is of former innkeeper Octavia Van Moorhem, who still keeps an eye on the establishment despite the fact that she passed away ...


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    Hotel de Haro

    Friday Harbor, Washington

    31.8 miles from Bellingham, WA

    This 1886 hotel build by John McMillin was a famous stopping place for many, including the likes of Theodore Roosevelt. It is also home to a ghost woman who is said to walk the hotel halls. Another point of interest here is the McMillin mausoleum in the nearby woods, which ...


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    Roche Harbor Resort

    Roche Harbor, Washington

    32.1 miles from Bellingham, WA

    The ghost in residence here is Mrs. Beanning, a one-time governess for former owner John S. MacMillan. Mrs. Beanning's ashes were in an urn on the mantle, but when the new owners moved her urn to the family crypt, Mrs. Beanning's spirit was not amused. Since then, she plays pranks ...


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    The Keg Restaurant

    New Westminster, British Columbia

    36 miles from Bellingham, WA

    The Keg Restaurant serves up steaks, prime rib, and maybe a ghost or two. Once a railroad station, the historic building is said to have a ghost girl upstairs, a spectral lady walking through the front area, and a lady's face that appears in a mirror.


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    Stanwood Hotel and Saloon

    Stanwood, Washington

    36.2 miles from Bellingham, WA

    I lived there for a few years just a few houses down the road from it and worked directly across the street at my fathers restaurant which people also said was "haunted" we even had kids from the local school come ask us questions because it was apparently ...


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    Irving House

    New Westminster, British Columbia

    36.3 miles from Bellingham, WA

    The historic Irving house, built in 1865, was the home of Captain Irving and his family. Witnesses have felt a sensation of being watched and have reported strange noises, shivering walls, voices, and a strange indentation that appears in the master bedroom bed. The ghost of Captain Irving himself is ...


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    Riverview Hospital

    Coquitlam, British Columbia

    36.5 miles from Bellingham, WA

    Although it closed in 2012, Riverview Hospital, a mental health facility, was said to be haunted by former patients and staff members. Witnesses noticed voices, shadow figures, footsteps, strange lights and objects that move by themselves. Some witnesses were poked, touched, or felt they were being observed by something unseen. ...


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    Bernie Legge Theater

    New Westminster, British Columbia

    36.6 miles from Bellingham, WA

    Bernie Legge Theater is said to have a ghostly Lady in White in the main theater, and some folks have heard disembodied footsteps on the stage. Other witnesses have felt an unexplained and extreme need to get out of the building.


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    Mount Baker Hotel

    Concrete, Washington

    37.2 miles from Bellingham, WA

    Witnesses describe the haunt at this hotel as 4-year-old little girl, who was said to be beaten to death by her mother. The apparition has red hair, a pink shirt and denim shorts, and she is said to (unsuccessfully) try to push guests down the stairs. At times, folks have ...


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    Captain Whidbey Inn

    Coupeville, Washington

    38.7 miles from Bellingham, WA

    At this early 1900s inn, folks say the apparition of an older woman roams the halls. Witnesses also have heard the ghostly sound of girls laughing in one room, and in another, a ghost makes an impression in a bed. There is also said to be a haunted cabin on ...


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    James Cowan Theatre

    Burnaby, British Columbia

    39.8 miles from Bellingham, WA

    The James Cowan Theatre and adjacent mansion the Ceperley House lie atop the former site of an orphanage run by cult leader William Frank Wolsey, a convicted bigamist who fraudulently called himself Archbishop John I. The man abused the boys at the orphanage in every way, and their spirits are ...


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    Fairacres Mansion

    Burnaby, British Columbia

    39.8 miles from Bellingham, WA

    Fairacres Mansion, aka the Ceperley Home or Burnaby Art Gallery, was built around 1910 and is said to be haunted by the ghost of Mrs. Ceperley.


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    Central Park

    Burnaby, British Columbia

    40.6 miles from Bellingham, WA

    Ghostly activity in Central Park in Burnaby includes that of a little boy near the lake and a young lady near Swangard Stadium who searches for her lost children. The boy disappears upon being noticed, and the 1930s-era lady may speak garbled words. Other spirits have been seen in the ...


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    Mirkwood Cafe

    Arlington, Washington

    42.1 miles from Bellingham, WA

    This former church now houses an upbeat café and tattoo parlour, and is rumoured to be haunted. (Submitted by Callum Swift)


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    Tod House

    Victoria, British Columbia

    43.5 miles from Bellingham, WA

    The home of Hudson's Bay Company's John Tod, built in 1850, was once said to be haunted by a native woman in chains. The ghost, according to reports, no longer haunts the site.


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    Victoria Golf Club

    Victoria, British Columbia

    44 miles from Bellingham, WA

    Victoria Golf Club has a spooky story. Locals say that in 1936, nurse Doris Gravlin, age 30, was strangled on the fairway. The murderer? Her estranged husband, who left her body on a shore near the seventh green. Doris was found five days later, and her husband's body was ...


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    Hycroft Manor

    Vancouver, British Columbia

    45.2 miles from Bellingham, WA

    Hycroft Manor is a 30-room, 20,000 sq. ft. mansion haunted by prankish spirits who flicker lights and close doors. Ghosts have been seen and heard here, including a World War I soldier, a nurse, a well-dressed woman, and a crying man.


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    Craigdarroch Castle

    Victoria, British Columbia

    45.5 miles from Bellingham, WA

    The late-1800s Craigdarroch Castle is large and haunted, just as a castle should be. It has 39 rooms in over 25,000 square feet, and was built for the family of coal magnate Robert Dunsmuir, although both he and architect Warren Heywood Williams died before it was finished. Its ghost is ...


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    Old Spaghetti Warehouse

    Vancouver, British Columbia

    45.8 miles from Bellingham, WA

    The ghost of a train conductor visits the Old Spaghetti Factory Italian restaurant, according to local legend. He is said to have perished in an underground railway accident decades ago involving the very trolley car that's on display in the restaurant.


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    Ross Bay Cemetery

    Victoria, British Columbia

    45.8 miles from Bellingham, WA

    The Victorian Ross Bay Cemetery has some well-known ghosts, like David Fee, killed on the St. Andrews Cathedral steps Christmas Eve 1890, and Isabella Ross, the first female BC landowner, who owned this land before the cemetery was here. An unknown elderly Victorian couple are seen on the cemetery's west ...


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    Water Street

    Vancouver, British Columbia

    45.8 miles from Bellingham, WA

    Water Street is said to be visited by a ghostly Asian mine worker--who has no head. The decapitated ghost, some tales say, came about when the man was walking along the tracks one night and got his foot caught in the rails. When the train came by he, quite literally, ...


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    Langham Court Theatre

    Victoria, British Columbia

    45.8 miles from Bellingham, WA

    Langham Court Theatre, a playhouse since 1929, is haunted by a ghost known as the Lady in the Loft, seen by both theater staff and patrons.


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    Orpheum Theatre

    Vancouver, British Columbia

    46 miles from Bellingham, WA

    The 1927 Orpheum Theatre is rumored to have an acrobat ghost. The vaudeville performer died in an accident and has been seen here in spirit.


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    Vogue Theatre

    Vancouver, British Columbia

    46 miles from Bellingham, WA

    The 1940s-era Vogue Theatre closed in 1987, but rumor has it that the ghosts don't mind. It's said to be haunted by a pregnant woman who committed suicide and a man who sits in the theater seats, and sometimes brings friends along. Shadow figures have been noticed in the projection ...


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    Waterfront Station

    Vancouver, British Columbia

    46 miles from Bellingham, WA

    Waterfront Station is a major transit hub said to be haunted by many ghosts. One is a 1920s lady who was seen dancing alone by a security guard. Another apparition was a group of three elderly ladies seen sitting on a bench. Furniture has been known to move by itself ...


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    Ann Starrett Mansion Bed and Breakfast

    Port Townsend, Washington

    46 miles from Bellingham, WA

    This glorious 1899 mansion, now a hotel, is home to several resident spirits. The first is that of a red haired woman in a white gown, who has been seen floating through the hotel and on the stairs. She is believed to be the apparition of Ann Starrett, the namesake ...


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    Pioneer Square Park - Quadra St Cemetery

    Victoria, British Columbia

    46.1 miles from Bellingham, WA

    Pioneer Square, aka the Old Burying Ground, is where, between 1855 and 1873, thousands of bodies were buried with tiny tombstones. The ghost of a woman has been seen here, along with one of a prominent man, R.B. Johnson, a founding father of Victoria. His ghost re-enacts his death: He ...


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    Hotel Rialto

    Victoria, British Columbia

    46.1 miles from Bellingham, WA

    The 1911 Hotel Rialto was originally Hotel Douglas up until December 2007. A mysterious knocking sound comes from the door to the basement, set in an area where only employees can reach it. According to reports, the ghostly knocking has come about because the basement was once used as a ...


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  • Haunted Schools
    Allan S. Mott
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    Rothschild House Museum

    Port Townsend, Washington

    46.2 miles from Bellingham, WA

    From its construction in 1868 to 1959, the manor house has been home to various members of the Rothschild family, some of whom are still believed to haunt what is now a museum. Visitors to the house have heard slamming doors and felt cold spots, A sad entity has been ...


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    Water Street Hotel

    Port Townsend, Washington

    46.2 miles from Bellingham, WA

    Located in the historic H.D. Hill building in downtown Port Townsend, this hotel has had it's fair share of haunted activity. There have been many cases of people taking pictures of orbs as well as several sightings of men in top hats walking the halls at night only to ...


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    Holly Hill House

    Port Townsend, Washington

    46.2 miles from Bellingham, WA

    Although the bed and breakfast is no longer in operation and now a private residence, the spirits who haunt the historic manor house have not moved on. The apparition of a gentleman in old-fashioned clothing has been seen on the staircase, and in a bedroom on the uppers floor, the ...


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    McPherson Playhouse

    Victoria, British Columbia

    46.2 miles from Bellingham, WA

    Ghosts at McPherson Playhouse, according to witnesses, include a Frenchman and a lady in gray. The Frenchman is seen outside on the corner in October. Voices and objects that have been moved also have been reported.


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    Hotel Vancouver

    Vancouver, British Columbia

    46.2 miles from Bellingham, WA

    Hotel Vancouver is haunted by a regular patron of the hotel's ballroom back in the 1930s and '40s. Jennie Pearl Cox died in a car accident in front of the building in 1944, and some say her spirit still visits. Guests have been assigned a room only to go back ...


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    Royal Theatre

    Victoria, British Columbia

    46.2 miles from Bellingham, WA

    A ghostly man has been seen at the Royal Theatre, a 1913 opera house and concert hall. Some witnesses also have felt as if they were being stabbed.


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    St. Paul's Hospital

    Vancouver, British Columbia

    46.2 miles from Bellingham, WA

    St. Paul's Hospital was founded in 1894 and was named after French bishop Paul Durieu of New Westminster. Both former patients and staff are said to haunt the place, seen as apparitions or strange lights or heard as disembodied voices. Witnesses have seen objects move by themselves and lights turn ...


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    Fan Tan Alley

    Victoria, British Columbia

    46.2 miles from Bellingham, WA

    Theh ghost at Fan Tan Alley, Chung, is said to have killed a sing-song girl who spurned his advances. Chung has been known to push people asie as he comes through.


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    The Palace Hotel

    Port Townsend, Washington

    46.3 miles from Bellingham, WA

    The Palace Hotel was formerly a brothel that closed down during the war, when it was refurbished and opened as a historic hotel. The Palace Hotel is believed to be haunted by at least ten spirits, including the former sea captain who constructed the hotel. The most well known apparition ...


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    Market Square

    Victoria, British Columbia

    46.3 miles from Bellingham, WA

    Market Square includes several buildings from the late 1800s and is visited by spirits who were patrons of the long-gone saloons and brothels here. Two of the ghosts are Charlie Kincaid, whose throat was slit, and his girlfriend Belle Adams, who committed the crime.


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  • Picture Yourself Ghost Hunting
    Christopher Balzano


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