Haunted Coast http://haunted-coast.com Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:21:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Waikiki Beach http://haunted-coast.com/waikiki-beach/ http://haunted-coast.com/waikiki-beach/#comments Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:38:28 +0000 wendy http://haunted-coast.com/?p=4 SDC14103Waikiki Beach at the southern tip of the Long Beach Peninsula, just outside of Ilwaco, Washington, USA was named for the Hawaiian sailors who lost there lives in a ship wreck near here.

Boasting gorgeous views as well as the only place safe enough to swim in an historically extremely dangerous stretch of coastline.

Is there more here then just beautiful views and a very popular state park?

]]> http://haunted-coast.com/waikiki-beach/feed/ 0 Knapton Cove Pest House http://haunted-coast.com/knapton-cove-pest-house/ http://haunted-coast.com/knapton-cove-pest-house/#comments Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:28:45 +0000 wendy http://haunted-coast.com/?p=7 One of the little known places with a rich and dark history would be Knapton Cove Pest House. The Ellis Island of the Columbia River. ——–immigrants came through the pest house for medical examination. One of the more grimm practices of the day would have been to take a button hook one maigh use on tight shoe buttons and stretch back the corner of the eye for a closer look.SDC14389

 

Think of how many people would be packed on a ship?  Imagine living through the sea voyage to the western United States.   If the disease and conditions didn’t kill you then there were all the other things that happened to you once you arrived.  And if some place was bound to be haunted would the spirits stay with the ship, or would they go ashore with their fellow ship mates when they came into port?

 

Which do you think would be more haunted the ship, the port or some place like the pest house?

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