Have you ever driven down a dark and deserted road in Washington and felt a little spooked? It could be your imagination… but there’s a slight chance that you’ve got something to be spooked about. And if you’ve ever driven down Highway 203, the road that connects Carnation to Fall City, you probably had every reason to feel spooky. According to local legend, the road is haunted.
Carnation was originally incorporated in 1912 as Tolt, Washington.
Benjamin Hollis / Flickr The name changed to Carnation, then back again, and was finally settled as Carnation in 1951.
Fall City is a census designated place in King County with local history that dates back to 1856.
Gary Paulson / Flickr A six-mile stretch of Highway 203 connects these two places.
The ghost on this road is not the spirit of a man, but of his best friend.
Justin Maier / Flickr That’s right… it’s a ghostly dog that haunts the Carnation Back Road.
It’s difficult to say when the first sighting of the ghost dog happened, but there have been quite a few witnesses.
flashingfuchur / Flickr One report is especially chilling. The passengers in a car witnessed the ghostly looking white dog while they were driving. Feeling a little creeped out, they sped way up for awhile so there was no way the dog could have kept up. But three miles down the road, there he (or she) was… the same dog, sitting and watching them.
Is this stretch of highway really haunted by a ghost dog?
flashingfuchur / Flickr Is this a pup who is waiting eternally for his human to join him? Is it a figment of everyone’s imagination? We may never know.
The ghostly dog is even immortalized in a campfire song, “Blue Walkin.”
kooikkari / Flickr The song is about a dog who lived at a camp in the area and disappeared suddenly after his human, the camp owner, died suddenly. The chorus says, “Blue walkin’, Blue walkin’, Are you walkin’ these hills tonight, Blue?”
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Benjamin Hollis / Flickr
The name changed to Carnation, then back again, and was finally settled as Carnation in 1951.
Gary Paulson / Flickr
A six-mile stretch of Highway 203 connects these two places.
Justin Maier / Flickr
That’s right… it’s a ghostly dog that haunts the Carnation Back Road.
flashingfuchur / Flickr
One report is especially chilling. The passengers in a car witnessed the ghostly looking white dog while they were driving. Feeling a little creeped out, they sped way up for awhile so there was no way the dog could have kept up. But three miles down the road, there he (or she) was… the same dog, sitting and watching them.
Is this a pup who is waiting eternally for his human to join him? Is it a figment of everyone’s imagination? We may never know.
kooikkari / Flickr
The song is about a dog who lived at a camp in the area and disappeared suddenly after his human, the camp owner, died suddenly. The chorus says, “Blue walkin’, Blue walkin’, Are you walkin’ these hills tonight, Blue?”
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