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Heavily Investigated

Ten people died inside the Oxford Saloon — and some, the regulars swear, never left. Henry, a policeman who moonlighted as a bouncer, was knifed on the stairs and bled out on the way down; people still report a cold presence near that staircase, and the feeling of being firmly grabbed when no one is beside them. Upstairs, where a brothel once operated, Madame Kathleen is said to have met an end in a claw-foot bathtub that's still up there — still in the room, still unsettling. Linger in the basement long enough and you might hear what investigators swear is a child laughing, just out of sight.

Built in 1900 as the A.M. Blackman Dry Goods Store — the largest grocery in Snohomish County at the time — the building became the Oxford Saloon around 1910, and promptly became one of the most notorious joints in the Pacific Northwest. It ran as a speakeasy during Prohibition, complete with a tunnel entrance to the basement. The record counts at least ten deaths on the premises, including two confirmed murders. Ghost Adventures filmed here in 2015, which is, one supposes, the kind of landmark the county assessor doesn't put on the deed.