Big Book of Washington Ghost Stories

Washington gained statehood on November 11, 1889, making it one of the newer states and yet, the land that comprises the Evergreen State has been inhabited for centuries. Long before Europeans came to North America, indigenous people were living here in present day Washington's dense rich forests and coastal regions for at least 4,000 years. That in itself gives rise to a lot of ghostly tales; from the headless ghost of Col. Isaac Ebey, the ghosts of the Andelana, which mysteriously sank at Tacoma while anchored in Commencement Bay, the spectral little boy in blue, who inhabits the governor's mansion in Olympia, the old Greenwood Cemetery, to the ghostly victims of the wicked Linda Burfield Hazzard, Washington has its share of ghosts