1924 Concrete Hotel With a Small Red-Haired Presence Upstairs
45951 Main St, Concrete, WA 98237
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$
Hotel room rates approximately $85-120/night based on booking platform listings.
Access
Limited Access
Historic multi-floor building; stairs required to access upper floors
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1924 · Historic Commercial Building · Pacific Northwest History
Concrete, Washington occupies a narrow stretch of the Skagit Valley in Skagit County, roughly 55 miles east of Mount Vernon and at the western approach to the North Cascades. The town takes its name from the Superior Portland Cement plant that operated here from 1905 until 1968, making it for a time one of the most productive cement production sites in the Pacific Northwest.
The Mt. Baker Hotel was built in 1924 on Main Street in downtown Concrete. Over the following century it cycled through multiple identities — rooming house, liquor store, cafe, barber shop, and office building — before settling into its current form as a boutique hotel with suite-style accommodations. The building's exterior and core structure retain their 1924 character.
The property is part of the organized ghost walk circuit in Concrete, and paranormal investigation teams have documented activity there including loud knocking on second-floor walls and disembodied footstep sounds in the basement stairwell. The Wahauntedhouses.com entry notes audio recordings of footsteps in the lobby while investigators were on the upper floors.
Sources
The primary figure associated with the Mt. Baker Hotel is a child. Multiple visitors over the years have described seeing a girl of approximately four years old on the upper floor — specifically, red-haired, wearing a pink shirt and denim shorts. The description is unusually consistent across accounts.
The reported interaction is distinctive: she has been described as attempting to push guests toward the staircase. The attempt never connects in a physically forceful way. Instead, witnesses describe a tingling sensation passing through the body at the moment of contact, as if the push transmits more as a field than as pressure.
Two phrases have been attributed to her, heard rather than seen: "The bad woman's gonna hurt me" and "Turn around, the bad woman will hurt you." Local lore holds that the child's mother beat her to death in the building. No contemporaneous newspaper account or corroborating public record of this death has been located through available sources.
Paranormal investigation teams visiting the property have also recorded unexplained knocking on the second-floor walls and heavy footsteps on the basement staircase — a separate acoustic layer from the child-related reports. A disembodied male voice was captured in the basement during at least one documented investigation.
The hotel is included in the organized Concrete ghost walk, which positions it alongside other historically active sites in the small downtown.
Stay in one of the hotel's 1-bedroom or 2-bedroom suites in the 1924 building at the center of downtown Concrete. Rooms include separate bedrooms, spacious bathrooms with bathtubs, and wet bars. The upper floor is where the apparition of a young red-haired girl is most frequently reported, along with knocking sounds on the second-floor walls and footsteps from the basement stairs.
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