----- Original Message ----- From: Carroll Clark To: [email protected] ; [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 8:20 AM Subject: SNOHOMISH'S Ghost-to-Ghost Network: Sequel to "Snohomish's Ghost-to-Ghost ESP": Ref. The HERALD, Everett, WA. Date: Tuesday Oct. 26, 2004 Section: Health Section Site: http://www.heraldnet.com/about Article: GHOST ALLEY Snohomish residents report spooky doings By Debra Smith, Herald Writer. PIX: 8.5" x 6"Stairway pic. captioned "Rex Ford Ryman, 11, lives in a Victorian home in historic Snohomish that he and his family claim is haunted. The Ryman family says Rex has the most experience with the ghost who they think is a little boy. He has pushed Rex out of bed and shaken him awake when he was late for school." PIX: 2.75" x 4" captioned: "The Ryman family's 1880's home is complete with a secret passageway and an unfinished third floor." PIX: 4.75" x 3" captioned: "An old portrait of Wynn Ryman's grandfather hangs in the hallway of the Ryman's Victorian house. The unexplained turning off and on of lights and an occasional floating haze leads the family to believe their home is inhabited by ghosts." AN ASIDE: This addition to the article shows the cover of a book byh Leslie Rule author of a book titled "Ghosts Among Us" said to be "True Stories of Spirit Encounters". Leslie Rule is the dau. of true crime writer Ann Rule. Refs. to Pike Place Market and Geeorgetwon Castle in Seattle are sited. COMMENT: What surprised me was the name Windsor Vest who has been quite active in the Snohomish Historical Society, and was recent President of the Society when she had to give up that office. Her husband, Keith, and Windsor continue to be very active in the Society. What surprised me is that I have known the Vests for quite some time, but I never heard that their house was a ghostly house at the corner of 3rd and I in Snohomish. The Victorian House next to Soap Suds Row on Avenue A was well known to me back into the mid '30s when I used to play with a group of friends who lived on Ave. A (also my Herald paper route 1938-39-40 era). The Whyte Family lived in that Victorian House then and we knew the family well. The 3rd story of that house was not used but a ladder was used to get up into it. I never got up there, but there was never stories about that house being haunted, though we used to kid about it with each other at times. That Victorian house needed paint badly, but so did a lot of the old homes in Snohomish at the time, who had known the Depression Years in which people were lucky to have a place to live, and food to eat as those were "hard times" for such frivolities as paint, even though there were painters, and paint stores. The underpinning of that Victorian House was very open and exposed so as to be able to see under the southern portion of that large house. The Whyte had Whyte's Funeral Parlor at the SW corner of First Street and Maple downtown Snohomish. We knew the family well, and we would have known if that House was haunted. One of the members of the Whyte family is still living and I can imagine the look on her face when she saw this article about her place being haunted after all these years. I know that her eyes rolled and her knowledge of the area came to fore with me many times when the fiasco of the Carnegie Library, Snohomish being haunted by the ghost of Catharine McMurchey by newspapers, TV, and staff when the pictures that were captioned as Catharine's but were actually of her sister Ann. Then the Oxford Tavern was another site for sore eyes when it became ghost inhabited by ladies of the night. These all came conveniently around Hallowe'en time, but even dragged on for some time. I haven't heard anything about the new 8 Million $ Library being "inhabited" nor anything about the old Carnegie Library that is up for grabs. The Oxford has been awfully quiet. Surely these ghosts must be ready for the Season and there are a lot of other places for them to play. The one we used to think was haunted was the big old house with turret between Maple and Union on 4th Street Snohomish. We used to sled past it and always remarked that it "must be haunted". Someone came along and updated that old house so that it looks much less Spooky than it did when we were kids in those Depression Years. I recall visiting the Myrick Family and went to the very top of the turret room where there was a working crystal radio that one of the Myricks had made. That house was also on my Herald paper route in the late 30s. It was fun to rumor but we never did hear of anyone with a genuine haunted home or site, other than what we concocted for the fun of it. Where will these ghostly apparitions take place next in Snohomish's Alley! Carroll in Snohomish * * * 30 * * *