The Witch Light of Meeker Mansion, 1901

A violet flame flickered in the attic window of Meeker Mansion one December night in 1901, even though no one had been inside for weeks. Neighbors swore they saw shadows passing behind glass, gliding from room to room in the unheated dark. The mansion, locked and sealed after Eliza Meeker’s funeral, was said to creak and wail as if desperate to be let out. On the third night, four men from Puyallup gathered the courage to break in, carrying lanterns and expecting squatters. Every floor was empty and undisturbed except for a thick layer of frost over the master bedroom-the only room colder inside than out. That violet flame never appeared again after the men’s visit. The local paper quietly recorded one detail: on the bedroom wall, frozen into the frost, was a message in perfect cursive, spelling just two words-'forgiven, Eliza.'