What was your experience while you were at Chester? I have been there numerous times and haven’t really experienced anything…

I lived in the Chester apartments in 1998-1999. I had lived on the first floor the last apartment all the way to the back, i looked out my peep hole and saw all the way to the end of hallway where the office was. Many nights I heared children laughing and running the halls after a month got use to the sound nothing bad happen at times the “children” would tap on my door and i imagine run off. After about the sixth month of being there I started feeling un easy at times and look back nothing there, i went to my very small bedroom ha ha and i heared knocking at my door it was louder then the tapping of my lil ghost kids so i got up looked out my peep hole saw only darkness so of course i thought it was my ex boyfriend Dan coming to bug me. I open the door and there was nothing but a musky dirt smell. figured someone playing a joke so went back to go to bed. I was dozing off to sleep when i heared faint screams from a woman and a man yelling, I didn’t know what it was of course i figured doestic violence so i called the cops ha ha lets just say they woke a lot of people on my floor for nothing and i’m sure the cops thought i was crazy but i swore I know I heared a couple fighting. Later I heared that a man that haunted there would go into different rooms (when he was alive) and he rapped and killed women there. now I don’t know if that story is true but I do know I heared screams and fighting. I also heared storys bout the 5th floor i only know that i felt i was being followed and i would run down the hall to the stairs and wouldn’t stop till i got to my floor. I also heared of a woman on the stairs i never saw her but felt something i do now personally that, Chester Terrace is and was haunted when i live there with more than enough ghosts to go around. I was never brave enough to go any where near the mortuary

I would be interesting in starting a ghost hunting group here in Bremerton or joining an existing group if one is already established. My email is:

littlefeetbighearts@yahoo.com

if anyone would like to contact me, or you can go to the paranormal resource forum:

http://www.tprconline.com

and contact me there ( user name ‘rodentraiser’) via PM. To do that though, you’d have to register there, so it may be easier to just send an email.

I live right across from the cemetery on Kitsap Way and Hwy 3 and believe it or not, I’ve never been over there on the grounds. Does anyone know if that cemetery is haunted?

Chester Terrace is haunted. My mother lived there for a short time in the 1980’s and I remember her bathroom door opening and closing on it’s own. In the 1980’s Chester Terrace was a haven for the poor, the drug addicted and criminals, which added to the complete feeling of despair, anger and sorrow one felt in that building. My mother’s apartment was one of the old operating rooms near the top of the building and you never felt alone there. The building will never be “right” and should just be torn down completely. The “soul” of that building is filled with angst and should be completely torn down.

I live about a block and a half away from the Chester Apartments. I’ve known a couple of people who lived there, but no ever told me they’d had any spooky experiences there. The house I live in, on 11th St, is pretty old, and I have had some strange experiences here. Though I can’t say I’ve ever “seen” a ghost (and really don’t WANT to!), some “unexplainable” things have happened.

I personally think maybe people’s spirits hang around, when they die with “unresolved issues”, or when they feel they are still needed, for some reason. I think a lot of people have died, in ways that made them feel their death was unfair, avoidable, etc, and they just want someone to know their story, to know what really happened, to understand their tragedy, and relate to it. Even today, we hear a lot of stories of people who died in hospitals, because of neglect, abuse, malpractice, etc. I imagine in past times, (when there was far less legal oversight), these sorts of things happened A LOT MORE. And maybe that’s why a lot of spirits still hover around the Chester Apts., they just want someone to identify with them, and remember and know the TRUE story of what happened to them? (because to this day, maybe no one does know what REALLY happened, and the “official story” may simply be a cover up?) I think often their intention isn’t so much to frighten us, but just to make us aware of them, because they want someone to KNOW what happened to them, that’s all.

I think too, because of Bremerton being a long time military town, there is a lot of “violent karma’ here. Because of association with the military, a lot of people either have been, or are involved in very violent acts of torture/killing, etc… And after having done those sorts of things, while in military service, they become more violent people, in general, and when they return to civil society, they often end up committing other acts of violence, as well. (and the military has a history of often covering up for “their own”) So you’ve got a lot of people who are perhaps lacking in scruples, or who are more inclined to violence, than someone who is not coming from a military environment and background. So there is a lot more violence here, in general. Not meaning to be offensive, but that’s just how it is. Plus, a lot of people who simply died young, due to service in the military. Probably many suicides too, of people who lost someone they loved, as a result of the person being killed, while in military action. (It is pretty darn tragic that 18-19 year old KIDS are being sent off to fight and die. And not always for the right reasons…)

I think the military also brings in a lot of “corruption” in the form of certain “supporting services” that always seem to follow the military around. Such as prostitution, higher levels of alcohol and drug abuse, (sailors coming into port, always want to party it up, get wasted, get laid, get into fights, etc) You’re also going to have a higher incidence of rapes, and women being abandoned. (which probably leads to higher local rates of suicide, amongst women, as well as abortions, and/or murders of “illegitimate” children, and/or deaths of children who were abandoned/neglected) Of course, the local authorities have some motivation to cover a lot of this up, in an attempt to protect the reputation of the military, and the town….

I don’t doubt A LOT of bad things have gone on in this little town, and they still DO go on here, because of this ONE influence. There is a very high rate of murders, and crime, and corruption, here in Bremerton, even today, despite the fact that it is a relatively small town. Even though they try to bring in new buildings, and do things to beautify and clean the place up, they can’t seem to alter the underlying “seedy” and depressing nature of the place!(because they’re not addressing the “root causes”)

Then you also have the the history of all the conflicts that have gone on, in earlier times, between the white settlers, and the local native population… (a lot of “unresolved issues” there, too) Basically, that’s going to be a history of genocide, and murder, and theft, without conscience, in many cases….

When I was living over on Bloomington Ave., I had a strange dream of an “old time woman”, (looked like someone out of the 1800’s) who died in a kind of mysterious way. I’ve always wondered if this dream was about some “historic person” from this area. In the dream, I saw her and a few other people, laying dead in a complex of houses, that seemed to be out in the middle of nowhere, and it was very cold and icy, and one thing that stood out in the dream, is that when I came into the house and saw her, she appeared to have been frozen all winter, and it seemed like I came in, in the spring, when the bodies were just beginning to thaw, and I noticed that while her body was mostly all intact (and didn’t appear to be injured – none of them appeared to be injured), her nose was gone! (my thought was, it had decomposed, as a result of being frozen, and then thawing). She was wearing the very proper clothes, that women of the 1800’s would have worn. (long puffy skirt, tight corset, etc) Had blond hair all done up in an old fashioned bun, and I had a sense that she was possibly a “missionary” of some sort, and she was very young, no older than 30.

The image of that dream stayed with me a long time. I felt maybe I was getting some “message” from her spirit. I think she was someone who was trying to bring some “values” to the region, and maybe she was a first settler, but she died young and tragically somehow, and failed in her mission.

Does anyone know who this person might have been?

G.

G~

There were major epedemics that swept through Kitsap County back in the 1800’s and early 1900’s that claimed entire families. My first impression when I read about your dream is maybe what you were seeing was a make shift, built in haste sanitorium for the sick and dying. I would research this and also check the library out for a book on Washington cemetaries and burial plots. Another interesting fact about Bremerton is that when it was becoming established it was full of saloons and whore house’s down town.I’m sure with that kind of action and past that there are some good ghost stories and I’m sure there had to be missionaries.

I am with Kitsap Paranormal Investigation, a ghost group in Bremerton. I would like to invite interested locals to check us out. We not only investigate, but socialize and have fun.

We would really like to do an investigation at the Frank Chop Apartments. If you live there and would like to host a discrete inobtrusive investigation please contact us through our website.

Happy Haunting!

I’ve never had a intercounter but i am very interested to study or investigate ghosts. i like learning about this and want to learn more… So if you want to have a little “Group” thing to look into ghosts, you can e-mail me @ katelynn.elisabethbarfield28@yahoo.com Iam very young but would like or even love to do this so please let me know.

-Katie

HARRISON HOSPITAL

On Feb. 13, 1965, the $3.1 million, 150-bed Harrison Memorial Hospital opened in East Bremerton. The improvements over previous facilities had an immediate impact, recording 40,885 days of patient care — 3,123 more than at the old Harrison Hospital the previous year — and treating an average of 112 patients a day, an increase of nine over 1964.

The new hospital, which remains Kitsap County’s only full-service emergency and long-term care facility, was actually the third hospital named after the county’s most munificent medical benefactors, Benjamin F. and Angie Harrison.

The first Harrison Hospital at Seventh and Chester streets in Bremerton served as the county’s only general hospital from 1912 to 1916 and from 1918 to World War II. The hospital, originally the shipyard’s first hospital and called “Building 89,” was purchased by G.B. Poindexter and moved in two sections into Bremerton.

On Sept. 12, 1912, as it was preparing to open, Bremerton City Hospital was heralded by The Bremerton News as “a modern hospital building possessed by few cities the size of Bremerton.” Four years later, on April 25, 1916, the hospital, “contaminated with the pox” and mired in $4,000 debt, closed.

Over the next two years, a hospital board was founded and residents were invited to become stockholders at $1 a share. By 1918, the board had generated enough money to reopen the hospital Oct. 16, this time as a public, nonprofit entity called City General Hospital. The Spanish Flu epidemic prompted the hospital to open eight days earlier than planned.

During the 1918-20 Spanish Flu outbreak here, Angie Harrison served as a volunteer in an emergency hospital operated in October and November 1918 at the Methodist Church. From this point, the Harrisons were the chief boosters and benefactors of the area’s medical community.

City Hospital was renamed Olympic Hospital in 1931 and, in the late 1940s, the name was changed to Harrison Memorial Hospital.

During World War II, the Federal Public Works agency built Franklin D. Roosevelt Hospital for $5 million in West Bremerton to provide additional medical care for the county’s booming population.

In 1947, FDR Hospital was purchased for $185,000 by the Kitsap County Hospital Foundation Inc., which was founded in November 1946. The foundation outbid a rival group, the Kitsap Cooperative Hospital Association.

In 1948, FDR Hospital was renamed Puget Sound Hospital and, in August 1956, it merged operations with Harrison Hospital.

The older facility operated as Harrison Nursing Home for 20 years. In 1976, the former hospital was purchased by Joseph Mentor, who renovated the building and reopened it as the Chester Manor Apartments, which remain occupied in that capacity to this day.

On Jan. 9, 1957, The Sun reported that the Kitsap County Hospital Foundation had agreed to rename Puget Sound Hospital to Harrison Memorial Hospital, after Angie Harrison made the hospital the principal beneficiary of her estate.

When the third Harrison Hospital opened in February 1965 in East Bremerton, the second Harrison Hospital in West Bremerton was sold to the state. On Aug. 3, 1965, it reopened as the Olympic Center for Mental Health and Mental Retardation. It is now called the Frances Haddon Center.

Published in The Sun: 12/31/1999

My wife and I are trying to convince the manager to let us do a formal investigation, under supervision of course, of Frank Chop Place Apartments. We left a voicemail a couple of days ago but have yet to hear back from the manager. If she does not allow an investigation, we at least hope we can have a guided tour visiting the attic and basement. It would be interesting to see if original hospital remains still stand. The morgue would be an interesting place to roam as well…we will post back if we do end up getting permission. Stay tuned…

Please feel free to visit our website as well, it is:

http://www.w-a-p-s.weebly.com

Thanks

Hey, I’ve been around those appartments. That place has an eerie feel about it. I will check your website out, by the way, I’m studying audio and sometime I want to conduct an investigation of my own.

I live in port orchard if anyone wants to go to the Frank Chop place let me know.are be there.

Ms or Mr Duvo?
I know the very neihborhood that you are speaking of.
Is it the one with the ball feild across the road?
When I was about 7, my family was ran out of there.
From what the newspapers and my parents and the police said, that it is a highly active area, due to the satanic rituals that were performed there.
There were 8 people that died on that block, and three were suicidal that “donated” themselves to human sacrifice.
When I was little , I saw these things.
I do not know what house that you are living in, but you need to grab whomever you are living with, and get the hell out of there.
I recall stepping down those stairs and feeling dread and fear, so I moved out at 17.
After seeing and hearing that thing, I had enough.
I remember seeing people in my bedroom upstairs, and how they laughed at me when I was scared.

Listen, if you see or hear any of this, get out! There are also unmarked graves of two dead teens, and a 4 mos old.
If you have children, keep them away.
The oldest ghost is of a hound from hell.
Good luck!

(Bare with me. I’m running on lack of sleep here)

I can’t say I have had an experience at the Chester apartments or even know of them to be honest. I know of the area around them though.

This is more about my adventures regarding a long night of web surfing. I had come across two of the people on this board from looking around on various places. It’s really interesting to get such a tight-knit feel to a place I’ve lived all my life, yet not even know people. Actually, maybe that’s borderline creepy. I’m thinking about someday actually joining one of these paranormal groups just to get a better feel for what it’s all about.

Anyway, those are my thoughtful but totally irrelevant ramblings on some matter that was off topic.

(Bare with me. I’m running on lack of sleep here. Let’s hope this doesn’t double post on me.)

I can’t say I have had an experience at the Chester apartments or even know of them to be honest. I know of the area around them though.

This is more about my adventures regarding a long night of web surfing. I had come across two of the people on this board from looking around on various places. It’s really interesting to get such a tight-knit feel to a place I’ve lived all my life, yet not even know people. Actually, maybe that’s borderline creepy. I’m thinking about someday actually joining one of these paranormal groups just to get a better feel for what it’s all about.

Anyway, those are my thoughtful but totally irrelevant ramblings on some matter that was off topic.

I will start by saying ive never lived at the old or new “chester terrace apts” but ive known a few who have and they have stated to me that in fact the basement “morge” is indead a place of interest.I have been told some scary tales about the place and with all the drugs and alcohol involved in many of the cases of people who have lived there (im saying this because i know for a fact this is a major problem with many of these people, as i grew up with alcoholism in my family too) anyway…ghosts are attracted to the vulnerable and when someone is under the influence of substance they are vulnerable also younger people are more aware of spirits they arent told they arent real yet i bet alot of the people who testify theyve seen somthing are either children or addicts just wanted to to let you know ive seen things in my life also and heres a place to look up…big house on veneta st next to church between high school and 11th st “bad place of murder in the old days” thats it.

Another thing i forgot to write earlier was that my dad was born at the chester terrace hospital in 1950, my family has been around here “kitsap county, Bremerton area” for generations we have alot of family history here, including police chief, mortition, funeral directer, lots of different historys in my family, so im pretty familiar with this town and some of its notorious “stories” , thankyou for listening…

My father told me (not too long ago)that someone who was re-doing something in the apartments got into a wall and found some bones. He said it was someone for the city/county or something doing something with the building (he works for the city). Who knows!

Who knows if it’s true.

Hi, Ive lived in bremerton for 26 years born and raised on 8th st. and though Ive been to chester terrace many times Ive never personally experienced anything it was always a very spooky place to be I dont know if it was from any paranormal vibes or the fact that it was seriously delapidated i mean if its not haunted from ghosts it was definately haunt with roaches and silverfish (not kidding!) But it was just odd when you’d enter the building it has a lobby then long stretches of narrow hallways dimmly lit with a scungey orange glow very unsettling but even since a child everyone Ive ever had conversations with all agree that it is haunted Ive heard so many personal experiences and second hand incounters its hard to disbelieve everyone and Im a hard pressed skeptic but the evidence is just to overwhelming.