museum of the north beach, moclips, wa
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The Moclips-by-the-Sea Historical Society was formed in 2001 to insure the preservation of the fascinating history of the North Beach for today and generations to come. Displays at our museum include: Quinault Indian basket weavers from Taholah, the M.R. Smith Lumber Mill and the NPRY depot in Moclips, the Aloha Lumber Company in Aloha, the Naval Facility at Pacific Beach, the cabins of Dorothy Anderson and Norah & Sarge Berg of Ocean City, the railroad house at Copalis Crossing, the Finnish settlers of Oyehut, the beginnings of Ocean Shores including Ginny Simms and Pat Boone, and the transportation methods used along the beach from Pt. Brown to Taholah.TRANSCRIPT
The Moclips-by-the-Sea Historical Society was formed in 2001 to insure the preservation of
the fascinating history of the North Beach for today and generations to come.
Displays at our museum include: Quinault Indian basket weavers from Taholah, the M.R.
Smith Lumber Mill and the NPRY depot in Moclips, the Aloha Lumber Company in Aloha,
the Naval Facility at Pacific Beach, the cabins of Dorothy Anderson and Norah & Sarge
Berg of Ocean City, the railroad house at Copalis Crossing, the Finnish settlers of Oyehut,
the beginnings of Ocean Shores including Ginny Simms and Pat Boone, and the
transportation methods used along the beach from Pt. Brown to Taholah.
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Welcome to PIHA’s Historic Haunting of Washington State Magazine
On behalf of the volunteer paranormal investigators of PIHA, I invite you to experience
Washington State’s amazing historical sites and museums like never before. PIHA has
created a program unlike any other in Washington State. Through our process of
networking with local historical societies, museums and registered historical sites, PIHA
hopes to help educate the public of our state’s exciting history and the process and
technology utilized in today’s paranormal investigations.
PIHA was created with two goals in mind:
1. PIHA hopes to bring our history to life by attempting to obtain significant evidence
of these strange occurrences. Utilizing the latest in today’s electronic technology
and dedicated paranormal investigators, we are accomplishing this objective.
2. PIHA wants to stimulate additional interest in our residents and visitors to
Washington State’s fascinating history. We want to encourage individuals, families,
schools and community organizations to visit these (and other) historical locations
for a better understanding of our state’s history and the people who made it.
PIHA is not out to prove or disprove the existence of possible paranormal activity, but to
publish any significant evidence collected at an investigation and let each individual decided
for himself what to believe or not to believe.
Wherever your travels in Washington take you, best wishes for a “Trip to the
Extraordinary”.
For additional information about PIHA, visit our website at www.pihausa.com
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In thIn thIn thIn th is Issue:is Issue:is Issue:is Issue:
Welcome to PIHA’s Historic Haunting of Washington State Magazine…..2
Washington State History………………..…….5
Moclips, WA History.…….………....………….7
The History of the Moclips Museum …....….…9
Paranormal Investigation Report………….…...11
Paranormal History Report……………….… ...12
About PIHA’s Historic Haunting of Washington State Program………….13
Contact PIH A :Contact PIH A :Contact PIH A :Contact PIH A :
PIHA (Paranormal Investigations of Historic America)
Address: 16755 Wales Street SE
City, State, Zip: Monroe, WA 98272
Phone: 360.799.4138
Email: [email protected]
Website: WWW.PIHAUSA.COM
Vaughn Hubbard: Case Manager/Historian
Debbie Knapp: Lead Investigator/Historian
Kathy Gavin: Lead Investigator
Christian Wells: Investigator
PIH A M agazine Publisher:PIH A M agazine Publisher:PIH A M agazine Publisher:PIH A M agazine Publisher:
Publisher………………...…..….Historic Haunting
Chief Publisher…………..……..Vaughn Hubbard
Program Manager:………….…..Debbie Knapp
Marketing Manager:………….....Kathy Gavin
Graphic Designer:…………...…..Christian Wells
R eference M atR eference M atR eference M atR eference M aterialerialerialerial:::: We wish to acknowledge the HistoryLink for allowing PIHA to use their published historical research information as reference material.
To read about the history of Washington State visit the HistoryLink website at: WWW.HISTORYLINK.ORG
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Washington State History
The State of Washington occupies the far northwest corner of the contiguous 48 United States. It occupies
66,582 square miles (176,600 square kilometers) between the Pacific Ocean on the west and the Idaho
border at 117 degrees longitude. Washington borders Canada on the north along
the 49th parallel and Oregon on the south along the Columbia River and 46th
parallel. Great Britain and the United States jointly occupied the region between
1818 and 1846, when Britain ceded the Pacific Northwest below the 49th parallel to
the U.S. In 1848 the U.S. created Oregon Territory, including the future states of
Oregon, Washington, and Idaho and a portion of Montana. Washington Territory
(including Idaho and western Montana until 1863) was separated from Oregon on March 2, 1853, and
gained statehood on November 11, 1889.
The federal government created Oregon Territory on August 14, 1848. The area of the new jurisdiction
included the present-day states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and western Montana. The discovery of gold
in California in 1848 triggered a large westward migration, and settlement of Oregon Territory was
promoted by passage of the Donation Land Claims Act of 1850, which granted 160 acres to any U.S. citizen
who agreed to occupy his or her land for five years.
On August 29, 1851, 27 male settlers met at Cowlitz Landing (south of present-day Olympia) to petition
Congress for a separate “Columbia Territory” covering the area between the Columbia River and 49th
parallel. The petition was reaffirmed by 44 delegates who met in Monticello on November 25, 1852.
Congress approved the new territory on February 10, 1853, but changed its name to “Washington.”
President Millard Fillmore signed the bill on March 2, 1853, and Olympia was named the Territorial
Capital and has remained the capital of both Washington Territory and State since 1853. President
Franklyn Pierce named Isaac I. Stevens as the first governor of an area that included northern Idaho and
western Montana until President Abraham Lincoln established Idaho Territory on March 4, 1863.
Washington’s non-Indian population grew steadily to more than 300,000 over the following
decades. Its residents began petitioning for statehood in 1881, and Washington was admitted
to the Union on November 11, 1889, with the signature of President Benjamin Harrison.
Thirty federally recognized sovereign Indian tribes and reservations occupy substantial
areas in Washington, and there are an additional seven unrecognized but culturally distinct
tribes. Native American Indian tribes have occupied this area; now know as Washington State
for over 10,000 years and have a rich history in culture and survival. By the 1850s, when the first Euro
American settlers arrived at Alki Point and along the Duwamish
River, diseases had already taken a devastating toll on native
peoples and their cultures. During the 80 year period from the
1770s to 1850, smallpox, measles, influenza, and other diseases had killed an
estimated 28,000 Native Americans in Western Washington, leaving about
9,000 survivors. Historian Robert Boyd conducted extensive research on the
effect of European diseases on Northwest coast Indians. In his book, The
Coming of the Spirit of Pestilence, he states that the 1775 Spanish expedition
led by Bruno Hezeta, commander of the Santiago and Juan Fracisco de la Bodega &
Quadra, commander of the Sonora was the most likely carrier.
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The History of Moclips Washington
In 1792, Captain Robert Gray discovered Grays Harbor and entered the Columbia River,
the first non-indigenous people to have done so. In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson sent
the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore the vast interior between the Missouri River and
the Pacific Ocean.
The first American settlers came to the North Beach area in the mid-1800s. Many
homesteaded with 160 acres of fine timber. Steve Grover homesteaded Moclips in 1862. In
1902 Dr. Edward Lycan, Robert Chabot and their wives purchased the property and filed a
plat map with the early Chehalis County (now Grays Harbor County). Historical records
indicate that much of the property was actually purchased by Robert Chabot and then
parceled out and sold through his real estate business. It wasn't until 1905 that the new town
became official. This was when the western most terminus of the Northern Pacific Railway
was completed at Moclips and the first Moclips Beach Hotel was completed. The town soon
became populated with restaurants, hotels, confectioners, canneries, a butcher, a jeweler, a
theatre, mercantile and the M.R. Smith Lumber and Shingle Mill. On July 2, 1905 the first
Moclips Beach Hotel held its grand opening. Moclips became the mecca for vacationers who
came to the beach by the thousands on the Northern Pacific.
Before the Northern Pacific completed the line to Moclips, the only way to reach Moclips (as
well as Pacific Beach) was by wagon via the beach; so, the final completion of the railway
was a real boom to the economy. Both in terms of the tourists that it brought and because it
transported the shingles from the local mills, and canned razor clams and salmon from the
local canneries. Initially the track was extended from Copalis Crossing to the beach to bring
tourists to the Hotel.
In addition to the depot at Moclips, there was a whistle stop along the beach at Sunset Beach
and still another was located near the center of Pacific Beach. The depot was run by a
woman who lived upstairs. In the 1950's, the depot was torn down. The area where it was
located is what is now state park land near 4th and Railroad Avenues. The tracks from
Moclips to Hoquiam were torn up in the early 1980's.
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Future Home for the Museum of the North Beach
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Existing home for the Museum of the North Beach
The Moclips-by-the-Sea Historical Society was formed in 2001 to insure the preservation of
the fascinating history of the North Beach for today and generations to come.
The 2-story building was formerly Hewitt's Frozen Foods built in 1944 with a small grocery
store, were located on the main floor for their customers. Two gas pumps were located in
front of the building. Cars were worked on in the attached garage next door. The family ran
the store on the main floor and lived in their home located on the upper floor of the building.
In 1964 it was sold to the Musicks who continued to run it as a grocery store until the Ocean
Crest Resort family purchased it in the late 1970's or early 1980's and used the ground floor
as a work shop. One of their sons moved in upstairs and continues to live there.
In October 2002, the historical society rounded up several volunteers to fix up and remodel
the downstairs; adding walls and sheetrock throughout including new windows. Three
months later, January 19, 2003 the museum held its grand opening and in its short 7 years
has become a MAJOR draw for visitors and locals alike.
The Moclips Historical Society plans to rebuild the former Northern Pacific Depot near the
beach in Moclips as their permanent new museum. The current space is much too small to
continue adding artifacts so for now it's a stepping stone to their new facility.
Future Home for the Museum of the North Beach
The Northern Pacific Railway Depot Rebuilding Project is the Museum of the North Beach
& Washington State Parks in partnership to create a one of a kind historic park in Moclips,
Washington. They plan to rebuild the Northern Pacific Depot exactly as it was, in the same
location it formerly occupied at the corner of 4th and Railroad Avenues in Moclips,
Washington. This replica will be the new home of the Museum of the North Beach.
To volunteer or to make a tax deductable contribution to this project, please contact the
Museum at the North Beach museum or historical society.
There are other historical points of interest going back as far as 100 years along the North
Beach that is of interest. Although the majority of the buildings are no longer there, the sites
are for the most part accessible.
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The PIHA Grey Team’s Paranormal Investigation
On March 20th
, 2010 the PIHA Grey Team accomplished a paranormal investigation of the
Museum of the North Beach and came away with some interesting results indicating that
possible paranormal activity does exist in this building. These are the results of that
investigation.
The Grey Team began their investigation at 9:00 PM at the Museum of the North Beach. As
is the usual practice, the team first did a scan of the area to be investigated. The used their
EMF (Electromagnetic Field) detectors to locate any abnormal electronic energy that may
exist. A team member also scans for any significant changes in the ambient (room)
temperature. Nothing of any significance was discovered.
Next, the Grey Team set up their IR (Infrared) camcorders to video tape any shadows or
strange movement that may take place during their EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena)
session.
Finally they position the parabolic dish that they use to record any noises or voices that may
or may not be heard by ear. The parabolic dish also has a headset attached allowing an
investigator to hear and voices or noises that cannot be heard naturally by the other
investigators during the EVP session. This has proven to be a valuable tool to validate
anything recorded during the EVP session that would otherwise go unnoticed.
The side room Area:
9:20 PM - 13-14 minutes into the EVP session the investigator knocks and ask for a response
"there is a knock twice" asked a second time and no response
9:37 PM - During Debbie’s EVP session the Guest Client states that he heard a faint voice
during the EVP session. Sounds like a female voice but cannot understand what is actually
said.
9:37 PM - During Debbie’s EVP session (Guest Client) Kelly asked if Nora or Sarge Byrd
are present and gets the response "No"
10:00 PM - While the group is moving from the Side Room to the Back Locker Room, a
female voice is recorded.
Later that night, the EMF (Electromagnetic Field) detectors were indicating a lot of activity
for no apparent reason.
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The back locker room:
10:30 PM - Kathy is talking about the bathroom when a voice is recorded saying “Yea”
10:33 PM - Debbie asked if someone could move the light fixture next to the piñata and a
voice is recorded saying "Piñata"
While the piñata was reacting to the questions by Kathy, one of the guest had
her EMF Detector and got a reading of 2.1-2.6
Everyone witnessed the movement of the hanging piñata. Several questions were asked by
Debbie with no response, then while shinning the flashlight on the piñata, every time Debbie
asked a question it moved to its left for yes and right for no, when the questions were
stopped the piñata stopped moving.
Kelly said he thinks there may be a couple of connections to Dr. (doctor) Edward Lycan.
One is that he came to Grays Harbor from Mexico in the late 1800's. Besides his former
residency in Mexico, the second and most obvious was the piñata is hanging above the large
scale model of Dr. Lycan’s Moclips Beach Hotel.
The front room
11:00 PM - During and EVP session a voice is recorded says "Yes" twice. Just before and
just after Kathy speaks.
11:12 PM – Debbie asked to speak into the mic and you can hear a "ah ah” meaning "NO"
11:32 PM – Kathy did not get any readings with my K-2 all night until she set it down in
front of the Display for the Moclips Beach grand opening in 1905, her meter went crazy off
and on the whole time she stood there, it flashed from green to red at least 10-11 times.
The History of Paranormal Activity
The Moclips Museum of North Beach has had a history of paranormal activity reported by
employees and visitors. These include shadows, voices, objects being moved around and cold
spots.
Some believe that it could be the spirit of Dr. Edward Lycan, as he lived in Mexico and the
piñata came from Mexico.
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