October 28, 2010 at 5:10pm
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McMenamin's Olympic Club in Centralia is perhaps the best-known haunted building in The Pacific Northwest. This past March, PIHA (Paranormal Investigations of Historical America) deemed The Olympic Club indeed haunted. Based on countless testimonials and evidence from EVP machines and infrared cameras, it seems The Olympic Club is the place to go get spooked. Plus, it's in Centralia - only adding to the fright factor.
The historic club offers overnight stays, movie showings in the couch-filled theater and delicious eats. Just be prepared to share any of these activities with the hotels' resident ghost, Louis Galba, the spirit of a man badly burned in a fatal fire on June 26, 1908.
Beautifully preserved with a mahogany bar, period fixtures and antiqued billiard tables, the hotel and restaurant are a history buff's dream. Throw a ghost in the mix and groups such as PIHA are in ghost-hunter's heaven. As seen in a video on king5.com, the findings of PIHA's investigations show chilling voices, mysterious knockings and paranormal presence through tangible evidence, like cold brushes and hair pulling.
Others that have been visited by Louis Galba describe spontaneous opening and closing of oven doors, extinguishing and igniting of candles and brushes of cold against their skin.
Now, I don't know about sound and camera doohickeys or the difference between ghost orbs and light reflections, but I do know that my husband and I stayed at the Olympic Club a few years ago and at one point, as we rounded down the back staircase, we were scared shitless as a door slammed behind us when no one else was around.
Plus, did I mention we were in Centralia?
Boo!
Olympic Club Theater and Hotel
112 N. Tower Ave., Centralia
360.736.5164
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