Manresa Castle, Port Townsend

Built in 1892 for baker Charles Eisenbeis, this Port Townsend mansion became a Jesuit training house and then a hotel, with tales of a woman who leapt from a window and a monk who hanged himself.

1892 CE · 48.11, -122.78 · status: legend

The account

Port Townsend, a Victorian seaport, has built a ghost-tour trade around such buildings. Guests report footsteps and objects moving in rooms 302 and 306.

The sceptical view

There is no record that either death took place; the stories appear to have been invented or embroidered by later owners.

Sources

1. PCAD (University of Washington): Eisenbeis, Charles and Katherine, House, Port Townsend