Monday, January 6, 2025
7pm ET (NYC Time)
$8 ticket

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All of America is a haunted place, but the ghosts of the Pacific Northwest have a special resonance — one that draws on the moody climate and rugged history of the region. Whether told around the bar or the campfire, the ghost stories of Washington state and Oregon reflect an economy built around rough, resource extraction industries such as mining and logging, not to mention the sex work that often accompanied it. Some stories go back even farther, reflecting the Indigenous history of the land or encounters between Native Americans and settlers. But the truth is that many of our ghost stories are actually love stories, capturing the devotion expressed by people who built businesses, families, and communities in the region—and who apparently never wanted to leave.

This illustrated talk with bestselling author Bess Lovejoy will cover some of the most notable ghost stories from around the Northwest. Expect ghost ships glimmering on the Oregon Coast, phantom horses glowing in pioneer cemeteries, cryptids in Cannon Beach, monks in Port Townsend, and an uncomfortable number of ghost children causing mayhem. We’ll have time for an audience Q&A at the end, in case anyone wants to share a Pacific Northwest ghost story of their own!

Bess Lovejoy is the author of Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses and Northwest Know-How: Haunts. Her non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times, Atlas Obscura, Lapham’s Quarterly, the Public Domain Review, and elsewhere; her fiction has appeared in The Ghastling and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. She lives in Seattle with one cat and (as far as she knows) no ghosts, at least not in her apartment.