Ghost Towns in WA

I was born in Seattle in 1973, where I grew up. Japanese-American. The first ghost town in Washington I knew about is Monte Cristo. I looked on a list of ghost towns about 10 years ago, and Index was listed as a ghost town! That's in Snohomish County, just one county away from King County, where Seattle is in.

So I grew up in Colville (pronounced CALLville) and the old Fort Colville is located about 50-70 miles east of Molson. It is located just outside of the town of Colville. Perhaps there was another old Fort located in Okanagan county but Ft. Colville wasn't it. As to the fort Colville graveyard I have spent a good amount of time out there and have experienced a couple strange encounters. The most common phenomenon is bright colored orbs. I have seen numerous orbs floating around the graveyard on a couple different occasions. The scariest encounter I experienced, I was parked in my car out there once with a buddy and someone or something walked by my car. I caught the outline of a person out of my peripheral and when I looked there was nothing there. I not only saw something but actually could feel whatever it was disturb the air and felt a slight breeze as it walked past. But yea there was nobody there and it definitely freaked my buddy and I out enough to hightail it out of there quickly!

At the 20:33 mark, what you identify as Bodie at its peak, is actually a picture of the main street of Loomis, Washington around 1908. I grew up in northern Okanogan County and loved exploring the area's ghost towns and mines. You could easily do a whole program on the ghost towns of Okanogan County.

As a teen in the sixties I spent a wonderful summer in Lester, Wa. My brother-in-law was the stationmaster for the railroad station there. One lane dirt track up, which was the same road that you could at anytime ,come face to face with a fully loaded logging truck that has no brakes. I came across this video, It's made this old man remember a world gone by and take a step back...Thank you. I'll do everything but turn on notification.

This is so amazing, I moved here from California and had no idea Washington had so much to offer. Thank you for sharing!

This was pretty awesome. Pretty Gritty Tours should do a Part II, and feature Fairfax, Wellington/Tye, Lester, Taylor, Night Hawk, Sherman, Sheridan, & Copper City.

Thank you and others for filming or still pictures of the ghost towns of WA and other western states that still. Many of us cannot get out there, but thanks to you, we get to see real life history.

I live in Almira, WA. Your historical facts are amazing. Ty for all your hard work.

I can confirm that there's something out in Clay City. Me and my friends are camping up there one night and in the middle of the night we heard a woman screaming and woke us all up. Nobody else was up there. That was back before they tore down the brick factory. Every time we went up there something weird happened. The tunnels were really scary to go down we had a flashlight go out on us one time down there we had to come out with just our lighters.

I have good memories of Bordeaux. Back in the late 50s we lived next door to the Bordeaux family on Budd Inlet just north of Olympia. One weekend they gave my dad the keys to the old mills in Bordeaux. I remember walking up the overgrown railroad right of way to the town and spending the afternoon exploring the town and the lumber mill. It was all very well preserved then.

I live right outside of kapowison and fish kapowison lake all the time. Love ghost towns and never knew I lived right down the street from one!

Wife and I live in Chesaw, Pontiac Ridge, Love this area.

This was fun! Makes me want to plan a road trip

Agreed, thanks Chris for your hard work and putting this together...we'll done!

My wife showed me a short you did that my friend sent to her about 2 weeks ago about Franklin. Now, I have been to Melmont, Fairfax, Wilkeson(Skookum Slope), Bayne, and many more I including the "Navy Mine" . I did extensive research on Franklin and have been there on numerous occasions in the past(yes, the cemetery was sad to see). As a matter of fact, I actually assisted with the clean ups done there at Franklin and have worked with the museum. I have also, over the past 10 years, put a 3D model of Franklin together, which is far from done but hoping to bring that town back to life virtually for the museum eventually. Keep up the great work you do!

I love this!!! Definitely going to go check these places out this spring! Thank you!

This is my first virtual tour and it was awesome! You did a great job! I can't wait for the next one!

This was really cool. Thanks for posting and sharing!

Great video, thanks for sharing with us!

This is a very good history walk through and filmed .. My country for sure NE WA .. You covered the town very well along with the history .. I love doing that kind of history .. I mostly capture the sites using a film camera which i have done for over 50 years now .. well done ..