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Giant Tentacles in a Haunted Castle
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In this episode of Beneath the Evergreens, Ana and Jess dive into one of Washington’s strangest legends and uncover the secrets of a hidden PNW haunt.
First, we plunge into the dark, churning waters beneath the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, where whispers of a massive octopus have echoed for decades. Was it a misunderstood sea creature? A sailor’s tale gone wild? Or something far more mysterious rising from the depths to drag ships into the cold black water?
Then we travel north to Port Townsend and step inside the eerie halls of Manresa Castle. From stories of phantom children and coffin rumors to documented ghost hunts and lingering footsteps in the night, we explore the hauntings that have made this historic mansion one of the Pacific Northwest’s best-kept secrets. Legends. Lore. And just enough mystery to make you wonder what’s really lurking Beneath the Evergreens.
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Transcript
Podcast Introduction and Themes
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome to Beneath the Evergreens, where murder, mysteries, and mayhem lurk in the shadows of the Pacific Northwest. I'm Jess. And I'm Anna. From haunted forests and unsolved disappearances, to true crime cases buried deep in the moss and the mist.
00:00:16
Speaker
We're digging into the dark secrets hiding under the evergreens. Each episode will explore real cases, eerie encounters, and the legends that keep the Pacific Northwest up at night.
00:00:28
Speaker
So grab your flashlight. Lock your doors and join us beneath the evergreen.
Listener Engagement and Story Submissions
00:00:55
Speaker
I love it. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Evergreens. I'm actually going to start this out with with a plea to the public. A public outcry. And this is please send your listener stories and please reach out to us via email and and look at our Patreon. Invite your friends and family to listen to the show. Please join our conspiracy theory. We'd very much appreciate it.
00:01:19
Speaker
Absolutely. Yeah. we It is just us googling like crazy over here so we would love more inspiration for things to talk about fun stories i've been really into local legends recently we did that the one episode i'm gonna talk about some other legends right now so if anyone has anything they've heard about or little tidbits of things let us know because i'd love to dive into some more research yes send those stories in already I'm excited for your lore story.
Legend of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Octopus
00:01:48
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So, Jessie, I'm super intrigued if you've heard anything about this. i trying to jump right in Have you heard of anything living underneath the Narrows Bridge in Tacoma? Are you talking about the giant octopus?
00:02:02
Speaker
Yes, I am. Yes, I have heard of this monstrosity. Alrighty. Well, I'm going to set the scene. But just pretend like you have never heard of this before. I will say I only know that there is reports of a giant octopus. I've never investigated this deeper.
00:02:21
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Okay. So, well, picture this. You're walking along the beach in Tacoma. It's a sunny day and the Narrows Bridge is out in front of you. All of a sudden, out of the corner of your eye, you see something come out of the water.
00:02:36
Speaker
It must be a diver, right? Someone popping up for air. It must be some driftwood, something like that, right? yeah You stop and you look again. Then you see it.
00:02:47
Speaker
A tentacle. Not just any tentacle, though. A 15-foot-long tentacle coming up out of the water. Oh, my God. This is the king octopus.
00:02:59
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The King Octopus is rumored to be living in the wreckage of the original Narrows Bridge in the Puget Sound. So for our listeners not from Washington, the Narrows Bridge it was a suspension bridge that connected Tacoma and Gig Harbor across the Puget Sound. In the 1940s, though, it collapsed. This bridge, also called Gallop and Gertie, would just sway with the wind. Highly recommend looking up videos of it because it's sketchy as hell. It is like a roller
Facts about the Giant Pacific Octopus
00:03:31
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you can see the whole thing roll. Yeah, it's it was horrifying. And it rolled so much just collapsed one day. The bridge has since been rebuilt and it's beautiful and it's lovely.
00:03:41
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But that wreckage still sits in the sound. They're able to get some of it out, but some of the really big pieces are just hanging out down there. And that is where our King Octopus has his den.
00:03:54
Speaker
I love it. I'm a fan of it. What are you going to name it? So some people have called him Gertie after Gallop and Gertie. which I think is a great name.
00:04:06
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Also, so my grandma growing up had a dog named Gertie, and she was this really small little Yorkie, so I think it's really funny to think of a giant octopus also named Gertie. how does That is an excellent name for a dog. I applaud that. Gertrude was her full name.
00:04:23
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Okay. She was this lovely little princess Yorkie. She was a delight. I love it. So actually, while this king octopus has his den in the wreckage of the Narrows, there was actually sightings of a giant octopus in Puget Sound prior to the collapse.
00:04:41
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But the sighting that really fueled this legend came in the 1950s when a 15-year-old kid named Douglas allegedly saw this 15-foot tentacle just come out of the sound when he was walking along Titlow Beach near the Narrows Bridge.
00:04:57
Speaker
So this octopus has now become a local legend where beers are named after it. Like you to Narrows Brewing, they have an octopus beer. There's t-shirts, there's murals. references to this octopus are all over the place. And I had lived in Tacoma for a period and I did not know that this was a thing.
00:05:13
Speaker
I feel like, yeah, no, I had no idea. oh But it all makes sense now because i remember seeing a bunch of octopus things being well, that's kind of cool. Yeah. The only reason why I know about it is because we used to have a boat growing up and we docked it in Tacoma. And then my grandpa has a sailboat that's docked in Gig Harbor. That might be triangulating myself, but I'm just going to leave it in there.
00:05:35
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And my dad, when we would go underneath the Narrows Bridge, was like, oh watch out. You might get sucked down by the octopus. And it's stuck with me for my whole life. that's it's scar as kids yeah yeah because i was nine ten that age where you're like something is out there i just don't know what it is yet and i was always a weird kid so that kind of hit my vibe so yes this that's kind of all that i have on this legend right there's just this octopus living underneath the sound
00:06:08
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But on a fun turn of events, it might actually not be that much of a legend. Because the the giant Pacific octopus actually does reside in the Puget Sound near Tacoma. So that kind of passageway between Tacoma and Gig Harbor, it's a very minerally dense. Lots of fish, lots of lots things for the octopus octopi to eat.
00:06:30
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And the giant Pacific octopus is already... big I'm talking a big octopus. They on average weigh between 40 and 100 pounds. Wait, that's that's a normal octopus? That's a normal it's a normal giant Pacific octopus.
00:06:44
Speaker
I had no idea they got that big. That's a big, oh my god, 100 pounds? 100 pounds. And tentacle to tentacle have a wingspan like 12 to 14 feet. Holy cow. Yeah. i didn't realize they're that big. And on the the larger side, it's like not the largest giant Pacific octopus, but on the larger side, they can weigh up 165 pounds and have a wingspan of 25 feet.
00:07:10
Speaker
Think about everything. They could eat a human. well always that yes hypothetically yes they could yeah but that like 15 foot tentacle that's not that far off from what it could actually be like if it's the wingspan is if you you get a really big octopus down there that's just been munching for a while like they could be they could be monstrous in size that is slightly terrifying as it's crazy it's really so smart too
00:07:39
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Well, yeah. Yeah. So they these octopi are extremely food motivated. so like you get them near some food, they're going to like, they're going to just about anything and they're going to figure out how to get more food.
00:07:51
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There is some stories of a giant Pacific octopus that was like in an enclosure kind of thing at the zoo. There, it's not uncommon that they're held for a little bit to like get them like healthy or help them thrive in some capacity. But this octopus was a, a, what's it, a tank, in a tank.
00:08:10
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There was other fish like in nearby tanks. Yeah. and one fish, in but like one cage in particular, kept going missing. Like the fish was in there kept they kept losing this fish. And handlers could not figure out what the heck was going on. Eventually, they found out that the giant Pacific octopus was, like, unlatching its tank, getting out, going over to the other tank, eating, it unlocking it, eating that fish, and then going back into its tank before anyone could find it
00:08:41
Speaker
I adore that. You go. How dare we keep you in captivity? You eat whatever you want to eat. Yeah, it's great. That is so cool. I love it.
00:08:54
Speaker
So the the giant Pacific octopus eats around 2% 4% of their body weight each day. So it's 160 pounds, that's a significant amount of food has got its intake.
00:09:07
Speaker
Yes. Yes. And they can gain roughly one to 2% of their body weight each day. So like, let's say, you know, they weigh a hundred pounds. That means they're gaining like one to two pounds a day, a day. That's a lot of math you just threw at me. That's a lot.
00:09:23
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Yeah. Yeah. No, it's, like they They like to eat. They really like to eat. They grow a lot and they eat a lot. Yeah. So essentially they're teenagers. That's I had no idea that they were that big.
00:09:39
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Yeah. They're they're monsters. And they're I of course when I was doing this digging into an octopus brain, an octopus like anatomy. So an octopus doesn't have just like one central brain. yeah They have like kind of three brains it sounds like with neurons that go out into their tentacles.
00:09:56
Speaker
So I'm not a scientist. I don't totally understand the anatomy but in my mind what that means is like they're able to react like pretty quickly, right? if the neurons are already in the tentacles they can kind of move faster, make decisions faster. So that helps when you're eating a ridiculous amount of food each day.
00:10:15
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yeah oh and it also helps when you are, you know, maybe being attacked, let's say, and you're fighting off prey. Yeah.
King Octopus Myth and Octopus Lifespan
00:10:24
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so that gets me to my, my next interesting tidbit where the divers in the, in the Puget Sound have talked about these giant octopi for a very long time.
00:10:34
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And they've told stories of you know, people are, like they're diving for work. They're doing maintenance on something. And they can find that their tools are go missing. And eventually they figure out there was an octopus near them that been stealing them. They're just like playing pranks. Like grabbing things. That looks cool. I'm going to take this.
00:10:52
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These, the octopus is generally is generally a pretty friendly creature. Like it's going to play those pranks, right? They're going to take things. They're not really going to attack humans. Like they have the capacity to, said, they have the neurons in their tentacles. They're very large.
00:11:03
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But generally, they're kind of like they stick themselves and they're they eat their fish. They are kind fascinated with things, but they don't really attack unless they're provoked. Yeah. So in the 1950s, humans started they called octopus wrestling near Titlow Beach. I hate us. Can I just say I hate us?
00:11:24
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Yeah. Yes. No, it this is. Fucking stupid, in all honesty. Yeah. Like, these people, they were they were a team of people. They were called the Puget Sound Mud Sharks.
00:11:36
Speaker
And they would dive down into, like, the remnants of the Narrows. And they would try to wrestle an octopus out of its den and get it to shore. You're going to you're gonna wrestle an octopus? You're going to wrestle an octopus that has a a wingspan of 12 feet?
00:11:54
Speaker
And what's the point of this? Why? why Right. Just because can't? I see no upside. Like, either you do it and then you got a big-ass octopus on your hands. what are you going to do with that once it's on the shore? Or two, you're going to, like, you're going to die. Like, this thing is going to fight back. It does not want to come to shore with you. And you're, like, going into its home.
00:12:17
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Oh, my God. Yeah. People are, why do we do this? Right? So, our report is that it didn't always end super well for the humans, and I think that's what, like, kind of dug into the the the legend as well, right? This, like, killer giant octopus who killed after you grabbed it aggressively and took it from its home in the middle of its relaxing time.
00:12:39
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If someone came into my home and, like, forcibly removed me, i would also fight back, and I'm not responsible for what happens. So, yeah Good riddance.
00:12:52
Speaker
the legend is that this king octopus, he's been around for, like, 40 60 years something along that right however the giant pacific octopus only has a lifespan of like three to five years so it is improbable that that the king octopus is still around fun fact actually the giant pacific octopus the males really only they live until they mate and then they die And then the females, they usually die, like, after they... So they you're they give birth. They make sure that their their spawn kind of survives through infancy. And then they also die.
00:13:31
Speaker
So, like, they're their lifespan is over pretty quick. Which is also... That's crazy. Right? But then also, like, you have these full-size octopus. If it's full-size octopus, in, under three years, they they go from, like, a tiny... Yeah. Yeah.
00:13:46
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yeah Maybe the king octopus is celibate. That's why he's living forever. That's why he's so angry. That's why he's so angry and that's why he's 40 years old. 40 year old virgin. Yeah, exactly.
00:14:02
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That is a great. so that is I love it. Great. So all this to say, it's highly unlikely that there is actually a king octopus underneath the Narrows Bridge.
00:14:16
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But it is incredibly likely that there's actually smaller and really cool, a little bit smaller octopi hanging all around there. So when next time you are boating along Puget Sound near Tacoma and Gek Harbor, there probably are quite a few octopi underneath you just hanging out. Just maybe not, you know, 600 pounds.
00:14:38
Speaker
That is okay with me. I will respect them and their habitats if they just don't come and try and suction cup my face. me I was looking up, there's some photos of the giant Pacific octopus and their, their, exception cups are huge.
00:14:54
Speaker
I could not imagine that's like, I'm having trouble even like visualizing like how much space it would take up if it was that big. Well, they're so pliable too, right? So you don't really notice it until they like really like spread everything out. And then it's like, shit, this is huge. Big mofo. Wow.
00:15:15
Speaker
Yeah. that's pretty That's really cool. i i now want I'm going to go on a deep dive on that later. The Seattle Aquarium, and I think the Point Defiance Aquarium too, they have giant Pacific octopi that are there. So you can go see it.
00:15:29
Speaker
I've seen it, but I didn't, so I've seen, I've been to point defines and I've seen the the octopus there, but I didn't realize it was that big. Yeah. Yeah. Another thing I love at the Point Defiance Zoo is they now have like a big aquarium with all these jellyfish. There's something about jellyfish, especially, and they've got the room all dark and there's like a packet.
00:15:50
Speaker
There's something about a jellyfish just roaming around in the water that is so relaxing. I just want to put my bed in there. That's so cool. I went to the... Yeah, sorry, go ahead.
00:16:01
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Oh, was saying, I went to this aquarium in in Maui once. Yeah. They had this almost like tunnel. that went through in a like a tank yeah and there was a manta ray that was like swimming on top of it coolest thing i've ever seen that's so cool because then you can see their little mouth yeah like a little smile yes they look like
00:16:24
Speaker
i love aquariums i kind of hate them just because it's like captivity but i feel like it's also i just love seeing seeing all this stuff right that you normally wouldn't Well, that was a lovely story.
00:16:37
Speaker
And thank you for the fodder for my brain later. Cause I am now like maybe octopuses are ghosts of the sea. Not really. Cause they're alive, but same. but Do you want me to we need to cycle back? that
00:16:51
Speaker
A ghost of the sea? How? the see I'm not really sure. My brain. Well, okay. So you know when people wear sheets sheets like ghosts? Yeah. i my guess For some reason in my brain, i feel like an octopus when it's just chilling out looks kind of like that.
00:17:08
Speaker
And then when it does its, like, open-up thing, then it's, like, the bottom of the the sheet. It's got all the folds. Look, my brain is an interesting place. You don't want to be in here. I'm getting, like, 25% of what you're where you're putting down.
00:17:21
Speaker
I don't know why. I just felt like an octopus looks like a person who dresses up as a ghost under a sheet. but slightly Okay. but Maybe if you could put an alien under there, too. with the elong of but They do look pretty alien.
00:17:35
Speaker
They do look super alien. Like, it's... It's such a weird thing to look at, but then they're so fucking cool. They're just so smart. I am fascinated by them. And then that's hilarious that they steal tools of people. Like, great. They're like little tricksters.
00:17:52
Speaker
Got it. This important to you. Not anymore. I wonder if their dens are just like full of little things they've collected. Little trinkets. Yeah. Yeah. I bet they are because they seem like this is those curious like hmm this might be useful later. i think the story of the the like the the tanks like the eating the fish like I'm wondering how long it went on. They're like why does this tank keep emptying like what is what's wrong are we just are is it us how how does this happen. Yeah not even suspecting. yeah but i bet a long time because it would take me a very long time to be like something is escaping its cage to get here right or like it's it's got to be like a raccoon or something from the outside getting in but no it is actually read a book that was called like marvelous creatures or something like that and it was essentially about an octopus that would escape its cage oh and find all these cool trinkets and take it back to its lair that's so cool so cool
Ghost Stories from Monresa Castle
00:18:55
Speaker
Very cool. Well, would you like me to tell you a ghost story? Oh, always. Always. was wife Okay. Hold on your seat because this is a pretty interesting. I had no idea that this place existed until like three days ago. Oh.
00:19:09
Speaker
But did you know that Washington State has a castle that was based, the architecture was based on a Prussia castle? I've heard of some castles in Washington, but I don't know this is after the one you're talking about.
00:19:24
Speaker
Gotcha. So this one is called the Eisenbeis Castle or now known as the Monresa Castle. And it's in Port Townsend, Washington. No, I've never heard of this. i've The only castle I've heard of is, think, Thornwood Castle. Like, that's more of a wedding venue down in Tacoma.
00:19:40
Speaker
Or like, South Tacoma. Is that the that Stephen King based his thing off of? i I don't know. all The only thing I know is that it was a wedding venue that was out of my price range.
00:19:52
Speaker
Gotcha. Okay. Well, I just sent you a picture of the Monterey Castle as it's known now. But like I said, it was in Port Townsend, Washington. And if you love old European castles, tragic love stories, ghost children, and ghost bartenders, you're going to love this place.
00:20:10
Speaker
o Oh, my gosh. Isn't it cool? That looks so beautiful. I feel like I need to go to Port Townsend, like, tomorrow. Something is me there. Yeah. Something is calling me there. Yes.
00:20:22
Speaker
Okay, well, we're going to get a road trip on the calendar then because we we need to go. We really do because this place has... Well, when I was looking at this too, apparently like everything there is haunted.
00:20:33
Speaker
That's sick. There's not a single place that's not haunted. Well, didn't say it was most it was like supposed to be the Seattle of Washington, right? like Yes. yeah So like it's probably pretty old. That makes sense. Yes. And all of the buildings are like super old. So this building in particular... or I'll just give you a little backstory. So...
00:20:50
Speaker
Charles Eisenbeis immigrated from Prussia and settled in Port Townsend in 1858. He became one of the town's most prominent businessmen, owning bakeries, brickwork factories, lumber mills, breweries, you named it.
00:21:05
Speaker
He probably owned it. Ooh. By 1878, when Port Townsend became the first incorporated city, the townspeople elected him as their first mayor.
00:21:15
Speaker
And he didn't serve one term. He didn't serve two terms, but he served three, cementing his influence in the community. so Interesting. Okay. or person yeah So after Charles's first wife died, he married Kate and he decided that he was going to build her a home, but not just any home. He was going to build her a castle.
00:21:40
Speaker
So together, Charles and Kate had four children, in addition to the four children that Charles already had from his previous marriage. So they wanted a lot of space. So Charles enlisted an architect named A.S. Whiteway and the Eisenbeis Castle was born.
00:21:58
Speaker
It's a three-story, 30-room mansion. The largest, yeah, big, big, big, big. It was the largest private residence ever built in Port Townsend. Okay. Okay.
00:22:11
Speaker
local At the time of his building, locals called it the Eisenbach's Castle. Okay. Charles directed Whiteway to build this and and design it in reminiscence of a Prussian castle that he used to visit back home. So it's got European turrets and towers. Apparently, it's got 12-inch thick brick walls.
00:22:31
Speaker
Oh, my gosh. Made with 25,000 bricks made from within one of the... factories that Eisenbice owned. It's got slate roofs, tiled fireplaces, handcrafted German woodwork, oak paneling, and Victoria details from room to room.
00:22:50
Speaker
Wow. There were three main coal-burning fires to heat the entire home. And honestly, this place, when you're looking at the pictures on the inside, it's pretty perfect for a ghost story. Like it's just got that old war world castle charm about it, but it's also got these like spooky corners and like all these like beautiful details, but that are just a little eerie too.
00:23:12
Speaker
oh interesting. Yeah. Yes. So unfortunately, charles Charles passes away in 1902, and he's buried in a crypt next to his first wife in the Port Townsend Cemetery. By the way, his first wife was buried in one of those coffins that has a glass top.
00:23:30
Speaker
Oh. Creepy. That's a choice. Yeah. So he's buried side by side between her, and then the tomb is sealed at that point. No one else is getting buried next to each other. It's sealed.
00:23:41
Speaker
But about, i don't know, six years later, someone is walking across the tomb and they walk across the opening and the door breaks in half.
00:23:54
Speaker
And when the door breaks in half, the family gets called to inspect it. They want to know what's going on here. And they don't discover two coffins. They discover three. What?
00:24:05
Speaker
there was Charles, his wife, and then a baby's coffin, like a child's coffin. And no one knows who this was. What? It's just an unknown child chilling in their coffin with them. And it was on top of Charles's coffin.
00:24:21
Speaker
So no records, no explanation, just the mystery child sealed in the tomb. No one in the family, because the family still lives in this area. No one has an idea of who this could have been.
00:24:31
Speaker
This may become important later. This is why i put this in here. But after Charles died, Kate remarried and moved away, leaving the castle pretty much empty except for a single caretaker for pretty much 20 for the next 20 years. In the early 1920s, a Seattle attorney bought the property with plans to convert it into a retreat for nuns. But the expense and the isolation of the place kind of killed the plan. It just became too expensive and too much of a hassle.
00:25:01
Speaker
But in 1927, the Jesuits bought it to use as a training college. Okay. So priests spent their 16th and final year of formation there studying aesthetic theology. I'm not really sure what that is, but apparently it's pretty serious.
00:25:18
Speaker
In 1928, they added a wing with sleeping quarters and a chapel. They installed an elevator. At the time it cost $3,400, which in 1928 is a lot of money. Yeah.
00:25:29
Speaker
Yeah. So they were pretty serious about this place for sure. They also, which I don't really understand why they did this, but the outside, as you you can see from the picture, it's like all there, you can't really see the lines of the brickwork. They stuccoed over all of the original brickwork.
00:25:45
Speaker
What? To make it more smooth, I guess. Yeah. That's ridiculous. And then they re renamed it Monrisa Hall after the hometown of St. Ignatius Loyola's family. So change it from Eisenbeis Castle to Monrisa Hall.
00:26:02
Speaker
Then unfortunately in the the later part of the Jesuits ownership of this, a rumor circulated that a student ended in his life in a turret. Most likely a room above room 302, which is now used today as room 302.
00:26:18
Speaker
The story goes that he was accused of having illicit meetings with nuns, one nun in particular, The shame and the threat of expulsion and punishment drove him to suicide. There's no official record that this actually happened, but the legend definitely stuck.
00:26:35
Speaker
And yes, to this day, room 302 is considered extremely haunted, but I'll tell you you more about that later. And then room 306, or what is now room 306, between when Kate left and the Jesuits or the lawyer first bought it the caretaker was said to have a daughter who came to live with him.
00:26:54
Speaker
when her husband was sent away to war and this wife was just struck and struck with grief that her husband had left in the first place and was like just torn up with with guilt and wondering where her husband was and apparently one day she got news that his naval ship sunk and apparently she was in so much despair that she jumped from a window the window of now what is room 306 in grief and tragically passed away and then it said that later the ship actually all the passengers did survive and that he returned home and she was just not there oh my god
00:27:33
Speaker
so Super tragic story. The Jesuits left in 1968 and the building became a hotel. It went from having three bedrooms to having 43 bathrooms.
00:27:44
Speaker
But the ghosts, you know, they're still kicking around there. According to Washington's haunt haunted houses, the castle is packed with paranormal activity. There's a ghost bartender.
00:27:56
Speaker
Two guests were waiting for the bar to open, and they were looking through the glass, like, into the bar, and they saw a man washing dishes, and as soon as they made eye contact with the man, he immediately exited left into this room.
00:28:09
Speaker
And after that happened, a woman walked in from the parking lot, unlocked the bar's doors and went in. And they joked with her about how she was like a little late. There was somebody already in there. And she's like, no, i I work here alone. I don't know what you're talking about. And like, we just saw a man washing dishes and like go back there. And so she opens the door to where they saw the man leave. And it's a liquor storage cabinet. And there's no way to exit.
00:28:32
Speaker
Whoa. And later that night, they were woken up by this like choking per rose perfume scent that was like overwhelming and and just like too much. And they couldn't figure out where it was coming from, but then it just kind of dissipated.
00:28:47
Speaker
And this rose perfume comes up a lot. And people say it's either the woman who jumped to her death or Kate's perfume. Oh. But a lot of people report having like a rose smell just like almost like shoved up your nose.
00:29:02
Speaker
yeah Then there was a guest who stayed in room 306 and he was having a video chat with his girlfriend and they were talking on the phone or on a video chat on the computer. And the man hears from but like three feet behind him. Someone said like a woman's voice go, I'm here, like all creepy. And it was so loud that his girlfriend on the phone actually heard it as well. And she was pissed because she she thought he was like cheating on her. Yeah.
00:29:29
Speaker
So he had to take the computer and like show the entire room. And he was really creeped out because there was no one there. He can like his girlfriend confirmed there no there, but they both heard this whole I'm here person like walk up behind him. Oh, my God. That gives me chills.
00:29:44
Speaker
Yes. So room 302 and 306 are both hot spots. And 302, again, is like right below where the hanging is supposed to happen. But probably the most creepy place in the whole building is the breakfast room from or the basement. So staff feel this little girl's spirit run past in the breakfast room and then down in the basement. One housekeeper actually...
00:30:11
Speaker
Felt something like brush her leg. And then when she went home that night, she had a child-sized bruise on her leg. And she went in the next day and said, hey, i don't know who's here in these rooms with me, but like just so you know, it's not okay to leave bruises. Don't leave bruises on me anymore. And then she reports that she got punched so hard in the face that she like was like almost knocked backwards after she said, hey, don't.
00:30:36
Speaker
hit me anymore which is crazy weird one how does that how do you think you have to report that to osha like is that that a workplace injury phantom beat me up i don't know i don't know who it was but it was great yeah i don't Do you get paid extra? Do you get to go home early? Right?
00:30:56
Speaker
I don't know if I could continue working there. I would have to probably go home. Especially a a child. like There's a picture. I'll get into it a little later. But there's a picture that gets shown of like the handprint on her leg.
00:31:07
Speaker
It's kind of crazy. Yeah. Another employee was washing dishes and they had their like hands under the water, like washing dishes and get this sitting there. She feels something come up behind her and like put its hands on the outside of her hands and like is enveloping her behind and then like grabs her hands while they're like almost interlocking fingers while she's washing dishes.
00:31:31
Speaker
no Could you imagine? No, nope. I don't let that at all. She immediately screams, get off me. And it it thankfully goes away. And she never had another like issue with it. But she's, I don't know, I just creepy. Can't do it.
00:31:45
Speaker
Yeah. Then the same employee was filling up orange juice in the breakfast nook. She filled it up. She put it on the counter. And she like steps back to kind of make sure she has everything laid out. And all of a sudden, she sees the orange pitcher lift up. No. And then slam back down. And just the orange juice goes everywhere.
00:32:04
Speaker
What? Isn't that so scary? Yeah. Yes. And then there's also reports of staff just walking walking around and all of a sudden they'll go through this like cold spot and it feels like they almost go through like water and it like they can't breathe and it takes their breath away and then they like take a new few more steps and then they can like breathe again so they think they're just like walking through something.
00:32:30
Speaker
And then an investigation crew gets called out to the Monerosa Castle, which
Ghost Adventures Investigation at Monresa Castle
00:32:34
Speaker
is known now. A little team you may know as Ghost Adventures. Really? oh my gosh. Yeah. with i don't know I don't know how I feel about Mr. Zack, but you know what? He does put on a good show.
00:32:46
Speaker
So while the team were there, they noticed the like tons of banging in like places where there's, there's, there should be no begging, begging, no banging.
00:32:59
Speaker
There's footsteps down empty hallways, attic noises, cold spots, like moving in and around them. And when they went down into the basement, aaron actually saw a child's figure run underneath the stairs and like stare at him underneath the stairs of the basement which is interesting because there's a lot of people say that they see this like little girl running around and people are like is this the little girl that was buried in the basket oh that no one really knows who she is and and that's why she's like stuck here yeah
00:33:34
Speaker
And while they were there, there was orbs flying in and out of tables, particularly one that flew out from where the priest allegedly hung himself.
00:33:44
Speaker
While Zach was in room 306 by himself, he starts hearing this like weird tapping sounds. And then immediately after the tapping stops, Aaron, who's in room 302, his phone just starts ringing in his room.
00:33:58
Speaker
So there's nobody in the hotel. If you call the hotel, you can't connect directly to a room. You have to go through the operator to get connected. So someone had to physically call the room like from downstairs for the phone to ring. And there's nobody there.
00:34:14
Speaker
which is crazy then they caught a chair tipping over by itself like it was underneath a table in the breakfast room and it just gets like per it looks like someone just moved it and tipped it because it stays with underneath the table it's just like tipped up against it it was like heck oh my gosh And then they have spirit box session with where the name Natalie comes out, stay out comes out, trouble happens. There's a mimic at one point, and it's it's actually really creepy. So Aaron is sitting outside this room, 302, and he's trying to talk to it. And then he looks at the room and he's like, should I go in? And the spirit box says enter.
00:34:57
Speaker
And he was like, whoa, that's crazy. And immediately after he says that, you can hear in in the video, like his voice say whoa but his mouth isn't moving what it's creepy yeah so like whatever told him to enter like almost mimicked him outside of the spirit box and it sounded just like him it was crazy Oh my God.
00:35:22
Speaker
Oh my And then there's some EVPs where they had like a little voice recorder. And, uh, while they were doing a session and someone was feeling like super cold, like all these but cold spots were coming in, something whispers and it's so creepy. It goes, something is here.
00:35:39
Speaker
And then the cold spots happen. And then someone said, like, get off the table really fast, like in the EVP session as well. It was kind of an eerie, eerie episode. Oh, my God. That's crazy. Yeah. so between the, you know, child coffin mystery, tragic deaths, and like all these hauntings,
00:35:57
Speaker
Monterey Castle is actually one of the most haunted places in Washington. And you can stay here for pretty cheap, actually. It's like 150 bucks. No shit. It's haunted. during peace Yeah. but During peak season. But now, like if you go right now, I was looking last night. think you can get a room for like 85 bucks a night.
00:36:16
Speaker
Hmm. Would you stay there? Would you stay there? Of course. Oh my gosh. I don't know if I would sleep. Yeah. But I would go. I would love to go hang out there, like go get some food maybe. but I think that I would be way too scared to actually spend the night there.
00:36:34
Speaker
I think so. If you watch the episode, the third floor is like the floor that had most of the craziness and then the basement in the breakfast room, which are both down on the bottom floor. So I feel like second floor is safe.
00:36:49
Speaker
But like how? So I'd say second, probably not a lot, but I'm saying second floor is probably where I'd stay. And then I'd go like walk around the other places, but I don't know. Maybe I'd stay in the room 302.
00:37:02
Speaker
I'm not sure about 306. Cause that's where most of the, when I was looking on the Washington haunted website, 306 seems to be really like people have seen an apparition of a lady just creepy things have happened there. But also in the room 302 reportedly someone was like pouring reset Prosecco out and like put it on the table, turned and then looked back and something threw the Prosecco bottle and crushed like the red Dixie cup that it was in and threw it on the ground. And when he picked it back up, there was like three claw marks in it.
00:37:35
Speaker
So that's aggressive. I don't know if that was needed, but. Really didn't like Prosecco out of a Dixie cup or whatever. i mean it is kind of disrespectful but yes so you could stay at the montresa castle for for a night and see if you can catch anything and if you do tell us all about it yes please do well that is my story pretty interesting had no idea it existed no that's so cool i've never heard of it either yes and it's gorgeous yeah
00:38:08
Speaker
But that's it for today's dive into the dark corners of the Pacific
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00:38:12
Speaker
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00:38:24
Speaker
Until next time, keep your eyes open. And your doors and windows locked.