Ghost stories from Washington

The Vermilion Stain

I never believed in haunted houses. Not really. I thought ghosts were just stories we tell ourselves to make sense of the dark. But then I moved into the old...

The Cattle Guard’s Vigil

In the autumn of 1977, I found myself at the Redrock Training Center, a sprawling, windswept campus carved into the high desert of New Mexico. It was a place for...

The Clockwork of Half-Awake

I’ve had sleep paralysis since I was twelve. It started in a cramped attic room in a creaking old house in Bellingham, where the walls were the color of dried...

The Portrait at the Bottom of the Stairs

As a child, Elsie was a fountain of words, a tiny river that never ran dry. By the age of two, she could name the constellations from the backyard, her...

The Swaying Ornaments

Elena had always been wary of the old house on Cedar Lane, but she’d lived there her whole life, ever since her parents inherited it from her grandmother. The creaks...

The Weight of the Unborn

I never believed in ghosts, not really. I thought I was a rational person, someone who could explain away the creaks and groans of an old house with drafts and...

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