"Kate" in Room 302 Our creepiness rating 💀💀💀💀💀
Legend claims a woman named Kate leaped to her death from Room 302 after being jilted by her fiancé. General manager Roger O'Connor said bartender Nick Gale invented the story more than a decade earlier. Source: The Seattle Times, May 10, 2004 (Jonathan Martin), as quoted by Mysterious Britain & Ireland.
Facts below are drawn from the linked sources.
Real history
Manresa Castle was completed in 1892 as the home of Charles and Kate Eisenbeis. Charles Eisenbeis ran a bakery, brick works, lumber mill, brewery, bank and hotel, and was elected Port Townsend's first mayor in 1878. The 30-room house was the largest private residence ever built in the town, with 12-inch brick walls made at his own brickworks (Manresa Castle, About; PCAD, University of Washington).
Charles died in 1902. Kate remarried a few years later, and the house sat mostly empty with only a caretaker for almost 20 years. A Seattle attorney bought it in 1925 as a vacation home for nuns, and in 1927 Jesuit priests bought it as a training college. In 1928 they added a wing with a chapel, rooms and an Otis elevator, stuccoed over the original brick, and named it Manresa Hall, after the town in Spain where Ignatius of Loyola spent time in 1522 that contributed to his Spiritual Exercises (Wikipedia, Manresa; Manresa Castle; PCAD).
The Jesuits left in 1968 and the building became a hotel; is now Manresa Castle; it had 3 bathrooms then and has 43 today (Manresa Castle; PCAD).
Ghost stories
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The Jesuit in the rafters Our creepiness rating 💀💀💀💀💀
A second legend claims a Jesuit priest hanged himself in Room 306. O'Connor said Gale invented this story too, and the article notes it cannot be historically corroborated. Source: The Seattle Times, May 10, 2004 (Jonathan Martin), as quoted by Mysterious Britain & Ireland.
A second legend claims a Jesuit priest hanged himself in Room 306. O'Connor said Gale invented this story too, and the article notes it cannot be historically corroborated. Source: The Seattle Times, May 10, 2004 (Jonathan Martin), as quoted by Mysterious Britain & Ireland.
Moving objects and footsteps Our creepiness rating 💀💀💀💀💀
Guests have reported footsteps on the roof, televisions turning on, light bulbs going off and pictures falling; O'Connor said he had found closed doors open. Source: The Seattle Times, May 10, 2004 (Jonathan Martin), as quoted by Mysterious Britain & Ireland.
Guests have reported footsteps on the roof, televisions turning on, light bulbs going off and pictures falling; O'Connor said he had found closed doors open. Source: The Seattle Times, May 10, 2004 (Jonathan Martin), as quoted by Mysterious Britain & Ireland.
Then and now
Public access
Open to the public Manresa Castle operates as a hotel, according to its official website. Stay within guest and public areas. Last checked: Oct 31, 2026.
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