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The Philanthropic Ghost of Centralia Washington

The Philanthropic Ghost of Centralia Washington

From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: The random news for this installment was discovered in The Daily Hub (Centralia, Wash.), February 26, 1916. The following ghost story was top of the fold front page news:               CENTRALIA HAS VERY GENUINE HA’NTED HOUSE Ghostly Manifestations Defy Solution In Spite of Family’s Best Efforts– Spirit Is Apparently Friendly  Centralia has a haunted house.  This piece of news…

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Spooky Spokane Falls Enjoys the Luxury of a Haunted House

Spooky Spokane Falls Enjoys the Luxury of a Haunted House

From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library: Three mysteries emerge from an episode back when Spokane was known as Spokane Falls, one of them concerns a ghost, another is geographic, and the last is bibliographic. No, I’m not talking about a spirit scouring the online catalog– that is called BOOlean searching (heh-heh, get it?). This series of questions emerge from the following article in the Spokane Falls Review, March 21, 1885: SPOOKS…

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