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The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer is a rare document, a record of the mysterious events at Rose Red that scandalized Seattle society at the time—events that can only be fully understood now that the diary has come to light.
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Department of Paranormal Phenomena
In the summer of 1998, at an estate sale in Everett, Washington, I purchased a locked diary covered in dust, writings I believed to be those of Ellen Rimbauer. Beaumont University’s Public Archive Department examined the paper, the ink and the binding and determined the diary to be authentic. It was then photocopied at my request.
Ellen Rimbauer’s diary became the subject of my master’s thesis and has haunted me ever since. (Excuse the pun!) John and Ellen Rimbauer were among the elite of Seattle’s turn-of-the-century high society. They built an enormous private residence at the top of Spring Street that became known as Rose Red, a structure that has been the source of much controversy. In a forty-one-year period at least twenty-six individuals either lost their lives or disappeared within its walls.
