Today on the Grave Talks, the restless spirits of St. Ignatius Hospital, a conversation with Val Gregory.

In the heart of Colfax, Washington, a towering relic of the past looms over the city, St. Ignatius Hospital. Built in 1893 is

the first hospital in Whitman County. Its halls once echoed with a bustle of patients seeking care.

Over time, it transformed from a place of healing to a hotbed of paranormal activity.

There is no shortage of eerie encounters and unexplained phenomena behind its crumbling brick facade.

Doors slam shut on their own, footsteps charged down vacant corridors,

and visitors have reported the unsettling sensation of brushing past invisible figures in the half-lit hallways. Today on the grave talks, we explore the tumultuous history and chilling hauntings of

St. Ignatius Hospital with Ghost Tour Director Val Gregory. So Val Gregory, thank you so much for joining me.

I'm really excited to talk about, it's really got two names, the St. Ignatius Hospital or

the Colfax Hospital, kind of depending on its time and history.

Yeah, yeah.

So it started, it was built in 1893 by the Sisters of Providence, and it was called St. Ignatius Hospital and stayed a hospital until about, I would say, 1969. So like I was born there. Anybody from Whitman County would have been born in this hospital

because our closest hospital would have been about an hour and a half away from us in Spokane,

Washington, which was a long ways back then because they didn't have cars and it was like not good

roads. So state of hospital till then, then it was cars and it was like not good roads. So stayed a hospital till then.

Then it was sold and it became called St. Ignatius Manor.

And a lot of people at that time called it either Colfax Hospital or just the Manor.

So it's had some different names along the way.

But we usually call it St. Ignatius when we do all of our, all of our interviews and everything.

When I was getting ready to talk to you, I googled Colfax, Washington. And this has nothing to do with the hospital. I just thought it was an interesting

side note. And I wonder if it's actually true. But they said the city was initially the founder

named it after his, I don't know if it was his girlfriend or his wife. His girlfriend.

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