Dozens of men disappeared in Grays Harbor over a two year period, both strangers and local residents. All of them could be traced back to one terrifying man… the Ghoul of Grays Harbor.
More than a century ago, Aberdeen, Washington was growing into a busy seaport. Situated at the spot where the Chehalis and Wishkah Rivers empty into Grays Harbor, Aberdeen was the perfect spot for the logging industry to harvest timber by the boatload, from virgin forests of monstrous evergreens that blotted out the sun and dwarfed any man who dared have his photo taken next to one. Aberdeen had been home to a sawmill for six years by 1900, and took its name from a local cannery named after the Scottish fishing port of the same name.
The shipping industry was booming along the Pacific Coast fueled by a very busy timber industry and ships loaded with sailors from all walks of life came and went multiple times every day.
The life of a merchant seaman was…
