Haunted Places in Birch Bay, Washington
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CJ's Beach House
Blaine, WA
0.7 miles from Birch Bay, 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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Washington Avenue Grill
White Rock, BC
7.0 miles from Birch Bay, 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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Old Town Cafe
Bellingham, WA
16.6 miles from Birch Bay, WA
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 …
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Spark Museum
Bellingham, WA
16.6 miles from Birch Bay, WA
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, WA
16.7 miles from Birch Bay, WA
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, WA
16.8 miles from Birch Bay, WA
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 operator …
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Bayview Cemetery
Bellingham, WA
18.1 miles from Birch Bay, WA
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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Rosario Resort
Eastsound, WA
19.8 miles from Birch Bay, 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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The Keg Restaurant
New Westminster, BC
21.0 miles from Birch Bay, 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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Irving House
New Westminster, BC
21.3 miles from Birch Bay, 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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Bernie Legge Theater
New Westminster, BC
21.7 miles from Birch Bay, 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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Riverview Hospital
Coquitlam, BC
22.8 miles from Birch Bay, 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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Orcas Hotel
San Juan County, WA
23.9 miles from Birch Bay, 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 over …
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James Cowan Theatre
Burnaby, BC
24.5 miles from Birch Bay, 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, BC
24.6 miles from Birch Bay, 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, BC
25.0 miles from Birch Bay, 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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Hotel de Haro
Friday Harbor, WA
28.1 miles from Birch Bay, 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, WA
28.3 miles from Birch Bay, 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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Anacortes Museum
Anacortes, WA
28.4 miles from Birch Bay, 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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Hycroft Manor
Vancouver, BC
29.4 miles from Birch Bay, 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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Old Spaghetti Warehouse
Vancouver, BC
30.1 miles from Birch Bay, 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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Water Street
Vancouver, BC
30.2 miles from Birch Bay, 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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Orpheum Theatre
Vancouver, BC
30.3 miles from Birch Bay, 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, BC
30.3 miles from Birch Bay, 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, BC
30.4 miles from Birch Bay, 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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St. Paul's Hospital
Vancouver, BC
30.5 miles from Birch Bay, 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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Hotel Vancouver
Vancouver, BC
30.5 miles from Birch Bay, 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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Harbour House Hotel
Capital, BC
34.6 miles from Birch Bay, WA
At Harbour House Hotel, the ghost of Walter Herzog, murdered here in 1973, is said to walk. Moaning, strange whispers, and faulty electronic devices have been reported here.
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Cascades Job Corp
Sedro-Woolley, WA
36.1 miles from Birch Bay, 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, WA
36.3 miles from Birch Bay, 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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Tod House
Victoria, BC
41.8 miles from Birch Bay, 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, BC
42.8 miles from Birch Bay, 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 found …
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Craigdarroch Castle
Victoria, BC
43.7 miles from Birch Bay, 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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Point Ellice House
Victoria, BC
44.0 miles from Birch Bay, WA
Point Ellice, a 19th-century residence of Peter and Caroline O'Reilly and their four children Frank, Kathleen, Mary Augusta and Jack, is said to be haunted by the family. The house museum has a nice collection of Victoriana and is open for tours and teas in the summer.
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Langham Court Theatre
Victoria, BC
44.0 miles from Birch Bay, 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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Gorge Road Hospital
Victoria, BC
44.0 miles from Birch Bay, WA
Strange white lights and a ghostly lady have been reported at Gorge Road Hospital.
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Hotel Rialto
Victoria, BC
44.0 miles from Birch Bay, 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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McPherson Playhouse
Victoria, BC
44.0 miles from Birch Bay, 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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Fan Tan Alley
Victoria, BC
44.1 miles from Birch Bay, 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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Old Point Ellice Bridge
Victoria, BC
44.1 miles from Birch Bay, WA
The red ghost lights that hover about 18" off the ground at Old Point Ellice Bridge are believed to be remnants from the May 26, 1896 disaster when Point Ellice Bridge collapsed into the Upper Harbour under a laden streetcar. Of the 143 on board, 55 were killed. The cause …
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Pioneer Square Park - Quadra St Cemetery
Victoria, BC
44.1 miles from Birch Bay, 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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Market Square
Victoria, BC
44.2 miles from Birch Bay, 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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Royal Theatre
Victoria, BC
44.2 miles from Birch Bay, 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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Ross Bay Cemetery
Victoria, BC
44.2 miles from Birch Bay, 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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Pounders
Victoria, BC
44.2 miles from Birch Bay, WA
Objects have been moved by unseen hands at Pounders restaurant, perhaps by the ghostly lady who has been seen on the stairway.
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Bedford Regency Hotel
Victoria, BC
44.2 miles from Birch Bay, WA
Lady Churchill and Brady are the names of two ghosts said to appear at the Bedford Regency Hotel. Lady Churchill also has a presence at a restaurant across the street called Camillo's.
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Old Morris Tobacconists
Victoria, BC
44.3 miles from Birch Bay, WA
Old Morris Tobacconists is a historic building with many o fits original fixtures such as a leaded-glass dome and onyx pillars. It's haunted by an employee who died in the upstairs workshop. Witnesses to the ghost's existence have heard footsteps and cupboards opening and closing upstairs when no one is …
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Maritime Museum
Victoria, BC
44.3 miles from Birch Bay, WA
Local lore has it that many ghosts visit the Maritime Museum, housed in a former courthouse building that includes Victoria’s original gallows. Some say the hanged men were buried on the grounds. Add to it that 135 people perished in the steamship Valencia wreck of 1908, and a few years …
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Rogers Chocolates
Victoria, BC
44.3 miles from Birch Bay, WA
Rogers Chocolates in Old Town is a historic old chocolate shop with a couple of ghosts. Founders Charles and Leah Rogers used to sometimes sleep in the shop's kitchen, and some say the couple still visits in spirit.
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St. Ann's Academy
Victoria, BC
44.4 miles from Birch Bay, WA
St. Ann’s Academy's oldest building, the chapel, was constructed in 1858. It was moved to its present spot and the rest of the school was built around it in 1871. Witnesses here report such ghostly activity as dark figures in doorways and unexplained singing in the middle of the night.
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