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Campbell House

Spokane, Washington

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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Corey says:

March 31, 2007, 9:54 pm

Going to Thousand Steps some time soon. Been there a LOT of times before. I always find the 30 or so steps that go to the mausoleum, but I have never found the supposed steps in the back. I heard THAT is the real haunted area.

Are there really steps in the back? Like, that someone has BEEN on? Or have you just HEARD of them?

PLEASE email me back at threecollegenerds@yahoo.com and let me know.

Mace says:

June 14, 2007, 2:15 pm

No one was “murdered” in the campbell house. The daughter helen grew up and moved away. She donated the house to spokane musuems. i have no idea where anyone got the idea that people were mudered in the campbell house, but i am pretty sure it was pulled out of someones ***. before you go off telling these ghost storys, get the history right first.
I do believe the campbell house may be haunted, but not by jenny and her brothers or whatvever.

S says:

July 8, 2007, 11:44 am

The only reason that these ******* Spokanites see ghosts is that you have been up for 30 days on a meth bender. Go take a ******* nap, you losers, and get off the dirty! In fact, just go ******* dig up one of the graves and crawl into it, and move the **** out of Spokane ’cause Spokane is for *****.

Michele says:

July 19, 2007, 2:56 pm

Hey, I have a new one for you guys…Wilbur Hahn, a doctor that liced on the south hill in the early 1900’s. He was known for performing illegal abortions in his home. His home contains many secret doors and passage ways. It is said that after his wife found out about the abortions, he became paranoid and pulled a gun on her. She ran to her bedroom and locked the door. He shot the lock off and killed her. He was trid for the murder, but convinced the jury she committed suicide and he shot the lock off to try to help her. He was found guilty for the abortions, however.
It is also said that during his paranoia, he took his abortion money, and buried it somwhere on his lot.
There is much more to the story. I read it in a book at hastings in the regional section titled “Hauntings of Washington” I have also googled it to verify, and every word of it is true. For those of you who want to check it out, the address is 2525 E 19th on the south hill. No trespassing though, you need the owners permission to view the home, but it’s worth it!

Karla Renee says:

July 20, 2007, 4:01 am

I love the comment S made, because unfortunately it’s SO true…Spokane is full of the craziest people you will ever meet…this whole town qualifies as a loony bin and the Meth Capital of the world…I would know from living here for 17 years…

However, there are a lot of strange things that go on here, I don’t believe much in the Campbell house (besides the pictures, they really do stare you down) or the 1000 steps but in other places, Manito Park for one.

Casey says:

July 22, 2007, 8:38 pm

I live in Spokane and have been to the Campbell House for a 7th grade field trip. No, I never saw anything weird. Though I wish I did. Woulda been neat.

Spokane_Paranormal_Association says:

August 3, 2007, 3:40 am

The team went to the “1000 steps” There is nothing there. It’s all hear say. It’s just the old entry into the cemetery. We made it to the top no problems at all. No shadow man. No whispers, Nothing. So i suggest that you stay away inless you want to be arrested. We had permision to be there and to debunk it and let it be knowend that it’s no haunted. There are many other places that are actully haunted in spokane. So please don’t waste your time with this one.

Googleplex says:

August 23, 2007, 2:07 am

There are four names that will be added to the list of people who have made it to the top of 1000 steps.
Dan F.
Nicole W.
Amanda A.
Curtis H.

And no i wont give out the location ever. It took me way too long to find and i believe that the journey is what made it so fun.

At least you know its out there

toodles.

KED says:

August 23, 2007, 7:12 pm

This is in response to Shaunna Keasler or anyone else interested in the 1000 steps cemetery. I am 51 years old and have been there many times back in the early 70’s. Shaunna, it sounds like you went to the right place, it used to be know as the 1000 steps cemetery and there used to be steps that went from the highway all the way up to the top, but over the years they have deteiated and fallen apart, but some still exist. I just went by there yesterday, I live about 10 minutes away from it now. Back then we would walk up and scare our girlfriends. However, we did have a couple odd experiences. One time when we went up to the top of the steps into the upper part of what is really the Greenwood Cemetery, there is what we thought is a moussolieum right there as soon as you get to the top, we were looking around the cemetery and back in the distance we seen someone walking through the headstones, it was a very tall dark figure, as he came closer we realized he had a dark suit on, like a tuxedo. We just watched and about 50 feet before he got to us, he veered off back into the cemetery headstones. On another occasion when we reached the top, we heard this noise, we couldn’t figure out what it was, then we looked down the road in the top portion of the cemetery and there was a Doberman Pincher running toward us, we scrambled back down the stairs, but the dog did not follow us down.
Now, this is something not to many people know. If you are driving south away from Spokane Falls College and as soon as you pass the cemetery on the right, there is a road going west, uphill, take a right onto this road from the cemetery road, abut 1/8 of a mile there is a wide place to pull over, there is a bank to the right going up to the cemetery. I’m sure it is not legal, but if you go up the bank and get over the fence, there is an old Train Tunnel about a 1/4 of a mile long that goes underneath the upper portion of the cemetery. The opening to this tunnel has been fenced off, but there used to be an area on one side that was bent out that you could slip through. We could never make it through this tunnel all the way, because of fear. It is very creepy, there are some very strange noises, including what we thought sounded like moans, also there is water dripping from the ceiling portion. We had gone hear many times and thought is was more creepy than going up the thousand steps. While in this tunnel, you are right under graves from the upper portion of the cemetery. Shaunna, I know you posted in 2006 and I just seen it, but if you would like more information on this, post another reply with your e-mail address and I will contact you. Good luck and be careful. Remember, back in the early 70’s, it was a lot easier to go there at night than now. You can go all over the cemetery during the day, but I’m sure would need permission to go in at night time.
KED

Hailey says:

August 27, 2007, 1:55 pm

hi i live on an airforce base and my house is haunted i’v seen 16 ghosts in my whole life. i have some advice for andrew and jess, carry holy water wit u there is a such thing as demons and they will attack no matter wat. i can look @ a picture of a house or touch it and know if its haunted and see wats haunting it. its a gift that i have and i know the cambell house and the auburn high school auditorium and Fairchild air force base and a ton of other places are haunted. i was @ my aunts house once and my cousin and i were watching tv and the tv went to static and we could see someone in the static and i turned around and no one was there the the smoke alarm went off and the fire department came and no fire or even any sign of smoke was there. that night i saw a man smoking in the garage then he hung himself i look up my aunts house on google and its haunted by 5 different ghosts and there all owners of that house i just hope my aunt or uncle wont be one of them. it was one of the scariest nights of my life.

DK says:

August 27, 2007, 5:41 pm

When I was a teenager we went to 1001 steps on Halloween night at midnight. This was in the 80’s. Anyway when we were there we went all the way up the steps and nothing happened no noise or anything. On our way back down though we were chased out by the caretaker. We came in on the back side of the cemetary. A word of advise, do not wear white pants if you have to go up and down an embankment. LOL. Anyway, I believe that the steps have been removed for safety purposes. They were so broken that people were getting hurt on them, both day and night. I would have loved to have seen something. I am totally into the paranormal. Happy hunting.

Trisha says:

September 7, 2007, 7:56 pm

The house is right behind me. I’m a native spokanite and I’ve lived there for 3 years. I see the house every time I do my dishes on the 3 floor of my apartment. I’m in my 20’s, am an avid watcher of “ghost hunters” and I have NEVER seen anything. I look at everything with a subjective mind and I never knock anything down. The onle “wierd” experience I’ve ever had was when I was visiting a friend who lived in the old carriage house behind the Patsy Clark mansion. We went down to the basement and found a full on cell with chains in the ceiling and floor. We didn’t know what it was used for, we assumed it was a garrison of some kind back in the day, but we heard a scraping noise and hi-tailed it out. And about the 1000 steps, i ran up and down those and the “satanic rituals” are supposidly held in the mosoleum there on the top, but what it really is now is a storage shed full of tools and groundskeeping equipment. The only “hauntings” up there are the ones by goofy teenagers. Ugh.

Kaili says:

October 15, 2007, 8:19 pm

For all the none believers just cause you can’t see, smell,or feel anything doesn’t mean they’re not around.Maybe your instinks are bad,thoughout time people loose that ability because we are way too civilized.Most people don’t have those natural abilitys expecialy if your not spiritual,and im not talking about being christain,but believing in the unknown….anything is possible try to be more open minded and alot of you suck at spelling.

Tanya says:

October 18, 2007, 7:02 pm

Hello, this is to all of you that think 1000 steps is even remotely scary. I have been up there god knows how many times and every time I have been up there nothing has happened. Stop listening to crazy rumors and go up there you will see for yourself that there is nothing to be scared of. When I seen that 1000 steps was even on the list for a scary haunted place i about peed my pants laughing so hard. Wow.

Cat says:

October 24, 2007, 4:13 am

You guys I have a new place for all of you check out. It’s up on South Hill on 13 Ave sorry can’t think of other street that crosses. That house right on the corner and it looks like it’s 100 or more years old. We drove there and stoped to check it out because it was very creepy looking house an I took a picture of that House. later on whe we got home i placed my memory card into computer to enlarge the picture and i saw on the left corner of the picture 2 meters away from where i was standing when I took a picture there was a green looking thing (might sound like acasper shadow to you but it was shape of someone’s head and uper torso i still donno what it is to this day.

ryan says:

October 25, 2007, 4:39 am

i know that there is a house in deer park close to spokane washington. there is a haunted house out there. my mother used to live there. im not for sure exactly.. my mother has called the police when she lived there hoping to get help to find out the police where even scared to go into the house. the chemeny has been said to look like it was on fire to find out it was not. the bathroom has over flode with water and to find out it was all cleaned up. there was towls folded weird looking. if you talk on a phone while your there it is told that you can hear voices over it. what happened was people were doing witch craft into the home they died in that home and is haunted still today.

Maria says:

November 2, 2007, 12:17 pm

I went to the Cambell house for a field trip and me and a couple of other girls were looking into a room, thinking that we had heard the sound of kids playing, but nobody was in there. As we were walking away the sounds came again and we decided to take another look and some of the display toys had been moved. FREAKY!

The Inland Pacific Parinormal Society says:

November 4, 2007, 5:47 pm

I am the founder of The Inland Pacific Parinormal Society, or TIPPS for short. We have done several investigations in the Spokane Area, and are looking forward to checking out Cambell House. Spokane is very active. we are always open to new places to investigate, other people we can help.

Janelle says:

November 8, 2007, 11:39 pm

I am writing a story on the Campbell house for my school newspaper. I need more information about hauntings…Please let me know if you are willing to help

Janelle says:

November 12, 2007, 10:27 pm

ah come on you guys…i need witnesses here!

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