Campbell House
This house was once owned and inhabited by a wealthy family who eventually died. Today, the house has been converted to Cheney Cowle’s Museum. Hauntings include sightings of children playing in the bedrooms, mysterious noises, and some even claim that eyes in the portraits move.
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Bob Jean says: |
January 6, 2006, 1:15 pm |
I think that this is totally cool, me and my friends went to the campbell house once and we saw Jenny, a phantom girl in one of the bedrooms, Jenny’s story is told that she was killed in a murder where a masked muderer came and killed three of the Daugters and kinaped one of the sons, tom, and later it was discovered that tom had been taken to an orpahage, there is a whole long story and i just know a bit but go to the house and check it out!!!
Jezika says: |
January 8, 2006, 7:49 pm |
I can help out jess and andrew and i have a story!right off of trenton is a cemetary it’s old local legend that the graveyard is haunted by a masked murderer!My story is that i was staying at my friends house one night and we heard a noise we figured it was just her brother trying to scare us.(keep in mind it’s about 3:00 in the morning) so we found ourselves platci weapon and went to go check and see if we could scare them.We quietly walked out into the hall because we heard them walking down the stairs into the living room.
In rachels room is a vent that you can see down into the living room with!She told me to quietly go into the living room and turn on the light while she waited with her face up to the vent.As soon as i turned on the light i said “gott cha” And racehl was still staring into the went i didn’t see anyone but when i flipped on the light rachel screamed so i looked at her and on the ceiling was a girl head on the fireplace mantle(right below the vent)and her blood was splattered everywhere all the lights in the house turned on and everybody woke up when they got down to the living room and saw me sitting in the corner crying they took us all to a hotel for the night.The next morning they moved out of the house leaving almost everything for fear of running into the ghost again.
jasmin says: |
January 14, 2006, 6:15 pm |
I think that none of this is true because it’s not convincing
me.If people do want to convince me they have to add more
details to the stories that they say.
alina says: |
February 12, 2006, 5:11 pm |
i dont think that the story was true because i could barely understand what it was about when i was reading it. Here’s what i think that story was about according to what u wrote: you and rachel went to go sneak up on her brother at 3 in the morning and she was upstairs looking into a vent that let her look in the living room and u were in the living room and u turned on the lights and she screamed because she saw a girls head on the mantel with blood all over and u saw it too and then they moved out? tell me if this is right or wrong.
amber says: |
February 16, 2006, 2:27 am |
the eyes… they really watch you. Not in a bad way, just kinda erie.
Shaunna Keasler says: |
February 26, 2006, 6:38 pm |
This is totally crazy ane personally i can’t believe im doing this, but I was born and raised in Spokane, WA. and recently i heard about a place the locals call “A Thousand Steps” I can’t find anything thing about it on-line but before i tell my story of my experience, i have heard many stories about it and I am asking anyone who reads this to please e-mail me any info in regards to this place. My friend and i went to what we think might be the place but i know someone out there knows ALOT if not ALL of this place. it’s located in Spokane, Washington. It’s known for many hauntings, sightings, and long time ago cult rituals. But, my story was this. My best friend, my brother, and myself went to what we think to be “A Thousand Steps.” we climbed up many concrete steps, some very broken. it was late and VERY dark, so we had to be carefull. we got to the top of these steps, and walked around the mosoleum,(a special building for the resting.) we then followed a roadway toward all the graves located up there. It was SSOOOOOO cold, a huge gust of wind nearly knocked us over then we heard wispering, and alot of it, like there were thousands of people there, but wispering. then it grew SILENT. no cars, no birds, NOTHING. through the trees we saw just a small light, then someone started walking toward us, then made a deep groaning sound. Of, course, we ran. but, since then, my curiosity is beyond bad. so im doing research on this place, but getting NOWHERE. please help. If you are in the spokane area and KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THIS PLACE IS, YOU CAN E-MAIL ME OR CALL ME AT 509-362-4680. NO WEIRDOS, PLEASE. CALL ME OF YOU ARE SERIOUS. THANKS SO MUCH.
J says: |
March 9, 2006, 4:16 am |
This is the spokane falls cemetary you are talking about and it is called 1000 steps…most people i have heard do not make it to the top. Check out Prospokane on google. you find a ghost research team in spokane. they say it is a place where they do satanic rituals so be careful going there…honestly i would not go without a gun…not that that would help with a ghost…but if there was a satanic tripper up there…i would safer then sorry. If you want to talk about this more post again..i am not from spokane, but i know the cemetary..i think it is by the new lifecenter church and i have heard this story as well.
Laurie says: |
March 17, 2006, 8:06 pm |
Hi!
I am planning to come back home to Spokane for a visit this summer. I am older than most of you here I think. I’m 39 (caught…choke…40 in April) Anyway I do paranormal investigating in Houston Texas! So I thought I’d see what is happening in my home town and I found this page! Anyway…Thousand Steps has been around for YEARS. When I was in highschool it was where teens would go and drink beer. The story was that there was a ghost or shadowy figure that would chase you back down the steps IF you made it to the top. A lot of my friends told stories of sitting in the car and seeing lights and feeling the car shake.
It’s located on the road near Spokane Falls community college. I haven’t lived in Spokane for fifteen years so I can’t remember street names. Anyway…there is a large cemetary on both sides of the road. A newer one on the right side and older on the left. Thousand steps in on the left. There is a huge set of stairs going up the side of a hill and when you get to the top and look over it there is a big white cross in the distance. I hope this helps!
Laurie
Janie says: |
March 24, 2006, 9:09 pm |
my family and i moved from couer’dalene,idaho to this house in port orchard,wa. we were having our uncle, aunt, and their son stay with us. (these were my step dad’s relatives)my mom always had a bad feeling about my step dad’s brother.this was mainly because he was always chasing her around the house saying he was the messiah-haha kinda funny-but he did drugs i guess so..anyway,a little later on,i started having a horrible freaky feeling about the house-it scared me to death! i told my self it was just my head going crazy and i needed to sooooo get overmyself-it never worked. well my step dad’s brother was driving my mom nuts because he obviously had an issue with him and my mom being together-bla bla bla…he ,his wife and 8-year old son moved out. soon after that -weird things started to happen…the fist thing that happened i guess was sort of mellow,but it was a weekend and i was trying to sleep in. my dog usually slept by me but she was FAST asleep-lucky dog-well i was trying to fall back asleep,but all of a sudden something started tapping on the foot my bed-taptap tap tap tap-like how someone would tap on your bed if theyREALLY wanted you to GET UP. ya like that. i gently peered to see if it was my dog or someone else-not the dog-although i wanted it to be her-noone was there-oh i got up! i practically ran out of my room!i never liked the thought of going into my room again. it was like someone was ALWAYS watching you. my sister-soon after told me one day that she was sitting in her room and she swore up and down something went through her arm-like a whitish thing-but it wasn’t like how a person would be-reular sized-it was about the size of a tennis ball-freaky(shiver shiver)one night i was also trying to go to sleep,but i just had a stonger feeling that something wasn’t just in my room-in the living room and kitchen too.God it was scary-first my mom was sleeping out in the living room with my dad because i guess their room was cold?. sooo right her dog was growling at something and wouldn’t stop. no one was awake but me so i HAD to check it out-but then it sounded like cupboard doors were banging over and over-sometimes they’d stop for a few seconds,then do it again. i finally got the urge to go out there-every thing stopped,but her dog was still growling.i woke my mom and dad up we found out that our hedgehog had gotten out of it’s cage but the cage was up high and if the hedgehog were to get out it probabaly would’ve near to deathed itself. i went back to my creepy bedroom and lie down again afew minutes later it started again! i went out again,woke my parents and that was the last of it for that night-my room still felt creepy….after that night,every time i went downstairs now i felt like something was coming after me and that i was constantly being watched. my sis also said it felt like that for her too.my mom and dad started to get into big fights in which property was being damaged. the one before last i KNEW they were going to break up-there was one more-like a day later and they broke up. we found out that he had taken LARGE amounts of money out from the bank for drugs and things that weren’t good-he left my mom and us with nothing.we think that my da’s brother-beleive it or not brought a curse onto the house. every thing kept going bad so we moved.i beleive someone else lives there now-and i feel sorry for them.that house breaks families up to almost nothing. i’m now living in an apartment and i rarely ever feel a presence or anything anymore.
MARry says: |
April 10, 2006, 1:50 pm |
i belive in ghosts because i am 1.
andi says: |
April 20, 2006, 11:20 pm |
Okay, I have a real haunted place. It is where I work and everyone there swears up and down that it’s haunted. I used to not believe in ghosts but since I started working there, now I do. My aunt owns a daycare on the corner of Maple and Rockwell its now called Love and Laughter but a long time ago people called it The Old Shoehouse because there was a pool in the back that was in the shape of a boot. So anyway, here are the stories. In the basement, there is a hallway that leads into a classroom that is isolated compared to the rest of the daycare along the halway there are two bathrooms and a boiler room. Everybody who goes into the isolated backroom swears that they see a small child out of the corner of their eye but when they look, no one is there. Just recently we had a couple of new kids enrolled there (one a boy and one a girl) the little boy was in the back class for the first time and he and the other children were playing playdough at the table. All of the sudden, the boy was like, “Teacher, who is that little boy over there?” He kept pointing over to the corner where there was nothing to be seen. That’s not all though. Remember I said that there were two bathrooms in the hall leading into that classroom? Okay, well one of my coworkers was in the boy’s bathroom changing a child’s diapers when a couple of the children started to fight with eachother. She stepped out of the bathroom for about five seconds to calm them down and left two toddlers in the bathroom. The door closed in her face as she tried to walk back in and the toddlers were by the wall so they couldn’t have closed the door because she saw them. But that’s not all, she tried to open the door and couldn’t. She told me that she was using full force to push the door open but it would’t budge. Just when she was about to go get help, the door opened. Tell me how two 2 1/2 yearold children could hold a door closed so tight that an adult cant open it. I have also been with the same kids that she has been with and every time I or anyone else takes them into that bathroom, they all point to the same corner on the celing and say “what’s that?” There is also an outside building to the daycare that I swear is haunted. Many times I have had the kids sitting in a circle and saw a childlike figure run past me. Once, I saw the figure run by me and hide behind a table. I thought it was one of the children and I kept saying “come on out of there, it’s time to read a story” The kid (so I thought) wouldnt come out so finally I looked under the table to look at it’s face and nothing was there. I was so shocked at the fact that I had just been talking to nothing for the past two minutes that I walked over to the other side of the table just to prove to myself that there was nothing there and sure enough, there wasnt. I asked the kids who were all sitting on the carpet as asked if they had seen someone run over there, and they all shook their head “no.” There are more stories but I have wrote enough to prove my point. If anyone has any information on this daycare’s history please e-mail me at shadle06@yahoo.com remeber it used to be called The Old Shoehouse.
Shade says: |
April 21, 2006, 12:03 pm |
First of all, you are all full of crapola.
I live right in front of the campbell house, visit it often and there is no such horror stories– however…
During the third grade, my whole class got a visit to the campbell house. Whenever the tour guide wasn’t talking there was an eerie silence and the photos really creeped us out. You know, of Amasa and Grace and all his family– well, you know Helen, or whatever– anyway, when we got down to the basement where the workers were supposed to do the laundry, there was a huge hand print across the window in the back. It totally creeped all of us out and we thought there was something suspiciou about that house ever since. Anyway, I just wanted to say that history shows us that the campbells were not murdered so there’s no way that some girl could have seen all the brothers or whatever slaughtered or whatever **** you guys are saying. There maybe haunting, however spooky, but not harmful. And the pictures are freaky.
Travis says: |
May 11, 2006, 7:41 pm |
I spent over half a year working on restoring the campbell house and NEVER saw, heard, smelled, or felt anything that would lead me to believe that the house was haunted. I have been over every inch of that building. The eyes moving on the paintings is actually an artist trick. it looks that way, but it isnt really occuring. I have even spent time in the basements and attics, all over the entire ground and even the tunnel that was blocked off leading to the MAC. Nada. No ghosts not even a rat.
Ashes says: |
May 16, 2006, 6:34 pm |
Hey Shaunna Keasler. I would suggest going to google and typing in “A thousand steps spokane,” for when I did, I got tons of results. Now, I’ve scratched your back, you scratch mine (figure of speech learned from grandparents.) I am a very stubborn freshman in Sunnyside high school, which is located in the Yakima valley. I swear I have had ‘ghost’ encounters, but I always believe my head is messing with me. I don’t spook easily, I am just pretty much curious. There is known encounters with my ancestors and my parents and I have even had some ‘psychic’ family members. I supposably have the ‘gift’ as well. Anywho, I was wondering if everybody could try to look up things on hauntings on sunnyside, wa and nearby towns. And I want proof. Sorry if I seem pushy, but hey, i am determined. Now, i g2g. Email me at daredevilsprtslvr@yahoo.com. Thanx
Big Bill says: |
June 7, 2006, 1:44 am |
Ashes,
Hey, I’ll scratch your back … with a rake.
jodi says: |
June 15, 2006, 5:35 am |
this is blatently some boed people seraching desperately 4 attention this is a test to see if i am right go and look at a picture in your house and move and see if you still think its looking at you it scared me when i was 5 haha and tlel me what you think on my site http://www.xno-promises.piczo.com
jodi says: |
June 15, 2006, 5:35 am |
this is blatently some boed people seraching desperately 4 attention this is a test to see if i am right go and look at a picture in your house and move and see if you still think its looking at you it scared me when i was 5 haha and tlel me what you think on my site http://www.xno-promises.piczo.com
Nick says: |
July 17, 2006, 11:51 am |
Ashes,
I’ll scratch your bakc but in a different way. First of all i would like to point out that i do beleive in ghosts and i have had encounters in the old claypool house where i live…unfortunalty. anyways haveing psychic powers is not something you are born with it is something to be gained by mental practice and training if you do not beleive me go to this site and at least read the intro before you dismiss is as bull. http://www.psipog.net this should help you with actually being able to see the ghosts if you focus on detecting psi.
nick
Ashes says: |
July 22, 2006, 12:08 am |
I really think this is a bunch of bull, so you can go to hell, “big bill.” Besides the fact that you are probably not even big and you’re only saying that for your name because you’re self conscience about it. If you know what I mean. Just go to hell.


Andrew says:
November 22, 2005, 3:38 am
My buddy and I have decided that we are going to prove that there is no such things as ghosts. So in order to do this we feel we need to go to all haunted places of Washington and see for ourselves. If you could help us get going with some advice that would be more than helpful.
Thank you for your time,
Andrew & Jesse