The Podcast: Halloween Special (2020 Re-release)

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The Podcast: Halloween Special

It’s a re-release of our 2020 BAD TOWN Halloween special…

Summary

This one features some spooky seasonal favorites from our Fairhaven Gore and Lore Tours! We discuss why Fairhaven is called Bellingham’s “Haunted Hot-Spot” - hint, maybe it’s the disturbed burial grounds known as Dead Man’s Point? Also we’ll pop into Sycamore Square and discuss the famous Green Lady Ghost and listen to some Electronic Voice Phenomenon recordings believed to be from the spirit realm.

PLUS we’ve got some new ephemera related to this episode below….

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We are taking a break to focus on some research and development for the next season, meanwhile we are going to offer up for your listening enjoyment, re-released episodes from the City of Subdued Podcast Season 2 - BAD TOWN - featuring yours truly.

Some of you will have heard these before and if so feel free to revisit or not. For those who haven’t these were recorded back in 2020 during peak pandemic. We were the guest hosts of Annika and Maria on the City of Subdued Podcast, along with Marissa McGrath, founder of the Good Time Girls Tours. We discussed a lot of Bad Bellinghistory - some of our darkest tales, lots of true crime.

Please do give us a shout and tell us what you’d like to hear from us meanwhile. Keep following us on social media and the rest as we have some fun events both in person and virtual planned for the dark months ahead.

We would love to hear from local businesses looking to advertise. We love to support local businesses and we also love support for our labors of love! Win win!

Meanwhile, enjoy this little trip down the recent memory hole.

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Ephemera

Stereograph View from Dead Man's Point

Photograph taken from the top of the hill known as “Dead Man’s Point” looking up Harris Avenue in Fairhaven. Darius Kinsey photograph.

Similar view - drone photo

This photograph was taken looking up from a similar vantage point, achievable only with a drone today, since the hill is no longer there. Photo by Judd Greenwood.

Interpretive Sign at Marine Park

With photo showing side-view of Dead Man’s Point, which covered the area the park sits on today.

View of Marine Park

Side view of the area formerly the site of Dead Man’s Point. The hill was removed and the area flattened and filled in for industrial purposes.

View of Marine Park

Marine Park at the foot of Harris Avenue, the former site of “Dead Man’s Point”

Fairhaven Shipyard

At the foot of Harris Avenue. This area was formerly a hill called “Dead Man’s Point.” Now “Commercial Point" and no longer a hill.

Cutting through Deadman's Hill

Beginning in the 1890s Dead Man’s Hill was gradually removed over the next several decades.

Headline from 1904

Bodies Found at Dead Man’s Point.

Dead Man's Point is Shoveled Away

Headline from 1912 discussing the progress on the removal of the hill.

Headline from 1919

Deadman’s Point now nothing but a memory… This article indicates indigenous remains had also been found at the site.

Spanish Chalice Found Here, 1908

Historic marker on Interurban Trail near the location where a Spanish chalice was supposedly dug up in a man’s garden.

The Mason Building

Named for one of the investors, Tacoma capitalist Allen C Mason. Today called “Sycamore Square.”

The Mason Building ca 1980s

Gordon Tweit photo of the Mason building prior to renovation.

"Sycamore Square"

The Mason Building as it appears today at 12th and Harris in Fairhaven.

Sycamore Square Entry Art

This interesting art depiction of the Blakelys has been removed from the entryway.

Sycamore Square Interior

The interior lends to feelings of vertigo, due to the design and the slightly slanted floors!

Flora Blakely's "Death Return"

Cause of death = “Disease of the Brain”

Flora's Obituary, Joseph Blakely

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