The Jefferson County Historical Society Museum is located in the original City Hall building. Construction began in 1891 and was completed in February 1892. Made of local brick, three stories and a basement, the building housed municipal offices, the fire department, police court and the jail. The cost was $30,000.

Then in 1951, the Jefferson County Historical Society Museum opened in the old court room and fire hall areas. Council meetings are still held in the original second floor City Council Chamber. The building designated in 1971 as a Landmark on the National Historic Register.

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On behalf of the volunteer paranormal investigators of PIHA, I invite you to experience Washington State’s amazing historical sites and museums like never before. PIHA has created a program unlike any other in Washington State. Through our process of networking with local historical societies, museums and registered historical sites, PIHA hopes to help educate the public of our state’s exciting history and the process and technology utilized in today’s paranormal investigations. PIHA was created with two goals in mind:

1. PIHA hopes to bring our history to life by attempting to obtain significant evidence of these strange occurrences. Utilizing the latest in today’s electronic technology and dedicated paranormal investigators, we are accomplishing this objective.

2. PIHA wants to stimulate additional interest in our residents and visitors to Washington State’s fascinating history. We want to encourage individuals, families, schools and community organizations to visit these (and other) historical locations for a better understanding of our state’s history and the people who made it.

PIHA is not out to prove or disprove the existence of possible paranormal activity, but to publish any significant evidence collected at an investigation and let each individual decided for himself what to believe or not to believe. Wherever your travels in Washington take you, best wishes for a “Trip to the Extraordinary”. For additional information about PIHA, visit our website at www.pihausa.com

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Welcome to PIHA’s Historic Haunting of Washington State Magazine…..2 Washington State History………….……..……….5 The Olympic Peninsula History…………………..7 Port Townsend History.….………………….…….9 Jefferson County City Hall Building History….…11

Paranormal Investigation Report………………...13 Paranormal History Report…………………...…..16 About PIHA’s Historic Haunting of Washington State Program………….17

Contact PIH A :Contact PIH A :Contact PIH A :Contact PIH A :

PIHA (Paranormal Investigations of Historic America) Address: 16755 Wales Street SE

City, State, Zip: Monroe, WA 98272

Phone: 360.799.4138

Email: Info@pihausa.com

Website: WWW.PIHAUSA.COM

Vaughn Hubbard: Case Manager/Historian

Debbie Knapp: Lead Investigator/Historian

Kathy Gavin: Lead Investigator

Christian Wells: Investigator

PIH A M agazine Publisher:PIH A M agazine Publisher:PIH A M agazine Publisher:PIH A M agazine Publisher:

Publisher………………...…..….Historic Haunting

Chief Publisher…………..……..Vaughn Hubbard

Program Manager:………….…..Debbie Knapp

Marketing Manager:………….....Kathy Gavin

Graphic Designer:…………...…..Christian Wells

R eference M aterialR eference M aterialR eference M aterialR eference M aterial:::: We wish to acknowledge the HistoryLink for allowing PIHA to use their published historical research information as reference material.

To read about the history of Washington State visit the HistoryLink website at: WWW.HISTORYLINK.ORG

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Washington State History

The State of Washington occupies the far northwest corner of the contiguous 48 United States. It occupies 66,582 square miles (176,600 square kilometers) between the Pacific Ocean on the west and the Idaho

border at 117 degrees longitude. Washington borders Canada on the north along the 49th parallel and Oregon on the south along the Columbia River and 46th parallel. Great Britain and the United States jointly occupied the region between 1818 and 1846, when Britain ceded the Pacific Northwest below the 49th parallel to the U.S. In 1848 the U.S. created Oregon Territory, including the future states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho and a portion of Montana. Washington Territory

(including Idaho and western Montana until 1863) was separated from Oregon on March 2, 1853, and gained statehood on November 11, 1889.

The federal government created Oregon Territory on August 14, 1848. The area of the new jurisdiction included the present-day states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and western Montana. The discovery of gold in California in 1848 triggered a large westward migration, and settlement of Oregon Territory was promoted by passage of the Donation Land Claims Act of 1850, which granted 160 acres to any U.S. citizen who agreed to occupy his or her land for five years.

On August 29, 1851, 27 male settlers met at Cowlitz Landing (south of present-day Olympia) to petition Congress for a separate “Columbia Territory” covering the area between the Columbia River and 49th parallel. The petition was reaffirmed by 44 delegates who met in Monticello on November 25, 1852. Congress approved the new territory on February 10, 1853, but changed its name to “Washington.”

President Millard Fillmore signed the bill on March 2, 1853, and Olympia was named the Territorial Capital and has remained the capital of both Washington Territory and State since 1853. President Franklyn Pierce named Isaac I. Stevens as the first governor of an area that included northern Idaho and western Montana until President Abraham Lincoln established Idaho Territory on March 4, 1863.

Washington’s non-Indian population grew steadily to more than 300,000 over the following decades. Its residents began petitioning for statehood in 1881, and Washington was admitted to the Union on November 11, 1889, with the signature of President Benjamin Harrison.

Thirty federally recognized sovereign Indian tribes and reservations occupy substantial areas in Washington, and there are an additional seven unrecognized but culturally distinct tribes. Native American Indian tribes have occupied this area; now know as Washington State

for over 10,000 years and have a rich history in culture and survival. By the 1850s, when the first Euro American settlers arrived at Alki Point and along the Duwamish River, diseases had already taken a devastating toll on native peoples and their cultures. During the 80 year period from the

1770s to 1850, smallpox, measles, influenza, and other diseases had killed an estimated 28,000 Native Americans in Western Washington, leaving about 9,000 survivors. Historian Robert Boyd conducted extensive research on the effect of European diseases on Northwest coast Indians. In his book, The

Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence, he states that the 1775 Spanish expedition led by Bruno Hezeta, commander of the Santiago and Juan Fracisco de la Bodega & Quadra, commander of the Sonora was the most likely carrier.

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The History of the Olympic Peninsula

Captain George Vancouver’s expedition left England in 1791 in the ships Discovery and Chatham to explore the Northwest Coast of North America. Vancouver sailed around the Cape of Good Hope, explored the South Pacific, and wintered in the Hawaiian Islands, before reaching the Northwest Coast in April 1792. Captain Robert Gray, born in Tiverton, Rhode Island, in 1755, was on his second fur trading voyage to the Northwest. Two days before encountering Gray, Vancouver sailed past the mouth of the Columbia. Like Gray, he

noted signs indicating a river f lowing into the ocean. However, Vancouver relied on the reports of an English captain named John Meares, who investigated the purported river mouth in 1788 and concluded decisively (though wrongly) that no such river existed. By April 1792, Vancouver’s expedition had entered the Strait of Juan de Fuca and commenced his exploration of Puget Sound and making maps of

the regions he explored. Vancouver named the features he encountered for his friends, patrons, crewmembers, and even his ships. He named every island, mountain, waterway, and point of land in sight -- 75 in all. After leaving the river, Gray continued trading north up the coast. In late June, his ship,

Columbia, was damaged in a storm, and he spent a month at Nootka on Vancouver Island, repairing it. Vancouver also visited Nootka, saw Gray's chart, and recognized his error. In October 1792, Vancouver sent William Broughton in the Chatham, with a copy of Gray's chart, to explore the Columbia River. Broughton sailed farther up the river than Gray had, charting and naming many features along the way. Broughton named a point Vancouver located on the north shore of the lower Columbia in honor of his commander.

The Olympic Peninsula is one of the most beautiful and diverse regions in the country. With its tall timber, abundant wildlife and vast water resources it’s no wonder that the early settlers chose this location to start a new life. The communities of the Olympic Peninsula are as diverse as its weather. Some depend on the lumber industry and others on the fishing industry while still other communities have become national Historic Sites depending on tourism. The Olympic Rainforest can get 12 feet of rain a year where as Sequim, only 100 miles away receives less than 15” of rainfall annually. But they all have one thing in common; most of these communities have a history of paranormal activity and lots of ghost stories to tell.

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The History of Port Townsend Washington

On May 2, 1792, Discovery and Chatham entered a well-protected natural harbor toward the east end of the Strait, which Vancouver named Port Discovery for his ship Leaving much of the crew with the anchored ships, Vancouver set out on May 7, 1792, with a party in three small boats to explore the surrounding area. They rounded the Quimper Peninsula, the neck of land jutting off the Olympic Peninsula that separates Port Discovery from the harbor of Port Townsend, and camped that night on a swampy spit of land, which Vancouver named Point Hudson, at the entrance to Port Townsend harbor. May 8, 1792, Vancouver wrote in his log "To this port I gave the name of Port Townshend, in honor of the noble Marquis" George Townsend, the marquis Vancouver honored, was a British general. The United States Exploring Expedition of 1841, led by Lt. Charles Wilkes, charted the bay as Port Townsend. The first Americans settled on the bay in 1851. In October of that year, Alfred A. Plummer, Charles Bachelder, Loren B. Hastings, and Francis W. Pettygrove met in the cabin Plummer and Bachelder had erected on the beach below Point Hudson and agreed to establish a town on the site. They named the proposed town "after the bay on which it was situated, Port Townsend". Port Townsend soon became the site of the U.S. Customs port of entry, the county seat of newly formed Jefferson County, and one of the leading settlements in Washington Territory.

First cabin built at Port Townsend in 1851 by Charles Bachelder, Loren Hastings, Francis Pettygrove, and Alfred Plummer

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The History of the Jefferson County Historical Museum

1887: Mr. and Mrs. Henry Landes, who owned the property, deeded it over to the City of Port Townsend when an $85,000 bond was approved. 1888-1891: A one-story wooden building housed the Justice Court, Fire Hall and the “Calaboose.” 1891: Port Townsend citizens voted to construct a new city hall at this location. Construction was completed in February 1892: Made of local brick, three stories and a basement, the building housed municipal offices, the fire department, police court and the jail. The cost was $30,000. 1934: With federal funding, the building had its first refinishing work, primarily internal maintenance except painting of the brick on the outside. The roof was repaired in 1933. 1945: Third floor was significantly damaged in a storm. The unused third floor was removed and replaced with a flat built-up roof. The Fire Department moved to its present location at Lawrence and Harrison Streets in the uptown district. 1951: The Jefferson County Historical Society Museum opened in the old court room and fire hall areas. Council meetings are still held in the original second floor City Council Chamber. 1971: Building designated as a Landmark on the National Historic Register. 2006: Extensive restoration of building was completed. A new, compatible addition was built to house city offices.

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The PIHA Grey Team’s Paranormal Investigation

On Saturday, June 19th 2010 the PIHA Grey Team accomplished a paranormal investigation of the historic Point Wilson Lighthouse and came away with some interesting results indicating that possible paranormal activity does exist in this historic site. These are the results of that investigation. The Grey Team began their investigation at the Jefferson County Historical Museum at 8:00 PM. The PIHA Grey Team and Lead Investigator, Debbie Knapp, was assisted The Executive Director, Bill Tennent of the Jefferson County Historical Society and Museum, As is the usual practice, the team first completes a scan of the area to be investigated. They use their EMF (Electromagnetic Field) detectors to locate any abnormal electronic energy that may exist. A team member also scans for any significant changes in the ambient (room) temperature. Next, the Grey Team sets up their IR (Infrared) camcorders to video tape any shadows or strange movement that may take place during their EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) session. Finally they position the parabolic dish that they use to record any noises or voices that may or may not be heard by ear. The parabolic dish also has a headset attached allowing an investigator to hear any voices or noises that cannot be heard naturally by the other investigators during the EVP session. This has proven to be a valuable tool to validate anything recorded during the EVP session that would otherwise go unnoticed. Note: Vaughn was testing his theory at this investigation that there was really no reason to do a paranormal investigation in the dark. About half of the time throughout the investigation, Vaughn left all of the lights on in the area being investigated. After reviewing all of the evidence obtained, Vaughn concluded the there was no discernable difference in the amount of or type of evidence obtained whether the lights were on or off. On another unrelated investigation at another location in Seattle, Vaughn scheduled that investigation to take place on a Sunday morning starting at 8:00 AM and ending at noon. Again, evidence was obtained of possible paranormal activity. Vaughn has concluded that if ghost actually exist, they can be seen, heard and felt anytime, day or night with the lights on or off. The main reason that most paranormal organizations investigate late at night is that there are fewer people in and around the area or building being investigated and the same is true for vehicle traffic. All of these factors can contaminate recordings being made during the actual investigation. Basically, the quieter it is, the better chance we have of recording possible evidence of paranormal activity.

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Results of the PIHA Paranormal Investigation: 8:30 PM - During the Client Walk-thru (prior to the investigation starting) the client Executive Director Bill Tennent was telling Debbie, the PIHA Lead Investigator about the history of the museum while Vaughn was video taping the walk-thru. The camcorder recorded the name "Rachel" during this period. We are now trying to determine who Rachel is and how she is associated to the museum. 9:23 PM – In the Hayloft area a whisper was recorded during the EVP session 9:40 PM - A clicking noise was heard by all present during an EVP session in the Hayloft 9:41 PM - A very faint voice was recorded during an EVP session in the Hayloft 9:43 PM – During an EVP session in the Hayloft area a loud bang was heard by all 10:00 PM - During an EVP session a strange sound is recorded sounding like Shhhhh 11:00 PM – At the Horace Tucker exhibit a strange sound is recorded during the beginning of the EVP session. 11:10 PM - During the EVP session with Debbie and Dave, Debbie was getting a lot of activity on her K-II meter while it was sitting on the Judges Bench. This happened on numerous occasions at the Judges bench. Debbie and Dave tried to determine if something was explainable was causing this activity, but were unable to identify any natural source of energy that would cause the K-II meter to activate. The team concluded that the energy source was possibly caused by a paranormal energy field. The source was believed to possibly belong to Judge James Swan. 11:11 PM - During an EVP session, Dave asked the question where Horace Tucker was born and an answer was recorded saying "Canada". 11:13 PM - A faint whisper was recorded during an EVP session at the Horace Tucker exhibit. 11:20 PM - Debbie (Lead Investigator and client, Director Bill Tennent were using their EMF meters to determine if there was an unknown energy source at the Horace Tucker exhibit. Both Debbie and Bill were getting a substantial amount of activity with their EMF units at this location indicating the possible presence of Horace Tucker. Debbie determined that the entity was about 6'4" tall. 11:30 PM - During Dave's EVP session with Debbie, an unidentified voice is recorded saying "Debbie"

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11:30 PM - While the Grey Team was taking a break from the investigation, Debbie left her K-II meter turned on that was placed on the Judge's Bench. Vaughn had also left the static I.R. camcorder running. During this time when no one was in the area, the camcorder recorded the K-II meter flashing, indicating that possible paranormal activity was present, possibly inspecting this strange electronic device. 11:55 PM - While the Grey Team was in the process of moving the equipment from the Main Museum area by the Horace Tucker Exhibit to the Jail Cell area, the parabolic dish was still recording and picked up a faint whisper from an unknown source. 12:10 AM - Dave and Debbie saw a flash of light go across the ceiling, described as blue by Dave and the size of a pea according to Debbie. This happened once and the light could have not come from outside and none of the investigators has a flashlight with a beam of light that small. 12:33 AM - During an EVP session in the jail cell area, Debbie's digital recorder is somehow turned off. 12:41 AM - During an EVP session in the Jail Cell area the sound of a squeaking cell door opening is recorded. Earlier that evening, Vaughn opened the Solitary Confinement cell door and it made that same sound.

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The History of Paranormal Activity The Jefferson County Historical Museum has a long and documented history of paranormal activity. This historic site has been the talk of many visitors and employees of the Jefferson County City Hall building with stories of events that cannot be explained. Maybe it’s because of the location, the many tragedies that have occurred, or the past residents that once occupied the facility just don’t want to leave. No one really knows for sure why these phenomena exist; all they know is that it does! Visitors and employees report a variety of phenomena from feelings of dread to seeing full bodied apparitions. There are also stories of being touched by an unseen source, hearing voices coming from no where, shadows and mist that can’t be explained. And the reports just keep coming and the stories are still being told.

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