Manresa Castle

Washington · United States · Execution site

Room 306 at Port Townsend, where a young woman called Kate is said to have gone out of the third floor window after hearing her fiance was lost at sea.

Manresa Castle at Port Townsend, Washington had already become a hotel by the early 1900s when a young woman named Kate stayed there. Word reached her that her fiance had been lost at sea. She went out of the window of her third floor room.

The room is 306, and the hotel has never pretended otherwise.

What guests report is oddly domestic. Singing from the bathroom at night. The heating cycling through changes as though someone were adjusting it. A clock that is broken and chimes anyway.

A book was once left in the room so that guests could write down what happened to them. It was removed, which is a decision hotels tend to make once such a book fills up.

Suicide legends attached to hotel rooms are common and rarely documented, and this one should be read as tradition. What is unusual is that the establishment has kept the room in service, kept the number, and let its guests keep talking.

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Where is Manresa Castle located?

Manresa Castle is in Washington, United States.