The Bothell Hell House, Ghost Adventures and Poltergeists: A Chat with Keith Linder

It started with a burning bible, which led to Ghost Adventures coming to investigate. But did the GA crew did a thorough enough investigation? There’s always two sides to a story. I had a chance to talk with Keith Linder about his experiences with the Bothell Hell House and the Washington State Poltergeist. Here’s a recap of it, but if you want to hear the whole conversation, I’ve embedded the podcast episode below.

Demons in Seattle

Ghost Adventures fans may know the house that Keith Linder once lived in, the Bothell Hell Hell House, from the “Demons in Seattle” episode. They may even recognize Keith’s name from the episode. He was on the show, as he was living in the house at the time the episode was filmed with his then girlfriend, Tina.

Did Ghost Adventures do a thorough investigation of his house, though? According to Keith, no.

Worse, Zak and crew didn’t catch any paranormal activity in the five hours they spent investigating the house. This caused GA fans to ridicule Keith and Tina as frauds, fakes and worse.

However, as Keith put it during our chat, “Absence of evidence doesn’t mean evidence is absent.”

Other Investigators

Keith had other teams who came in and did much more extensive investigations. One team even stayed up to three and a half weeks with Keith in the home.

What did they find? For one thing, an impressive amount of class A EVPs. Over 424.

But that’s not all.

Redefining Poltergeists

Poltergeists are generally thought to target a specific type of person, namely women of a certain age or adolescent girls.

Or maybe it’s not so much that they’re “targets” as it is that they somehow create or help activity manifest based on biological changes.

Then there’s Keith. As he put it, “a 40 year old black man who previously didn’t really even believe in the paranormal.”

He quickly found out you don’t need to believe in it for it to believe in you.

Haunted in Washington

Keith has written two books about his experiences. The first about his experiences while living in the home. His second answers three questions his first book did not:

1. Why is the home haunted?
2. What was the black oily substance on his walls?
3. Was Keith followed when he moved out of the home?

Both books are available on Amazon.

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Bothell Hell House: Poltergeist of Washington State

Attachments: Poltergeist of Washington State Part 2

The Chat

In this episode we discuss all of it. The findings from the other paranormal investigators who’ve spent time researching Keith’s house, his book, and what’s happening now. Is he still being haunted even though he’s no longer living in the Bothell Hell House? (I’ll save you the suspense: Yes! But not as severely as before.)

It was a very interesting conversation. I was briefly aware of some controversy concerning the Ghost Adventures episode. It sounds like neither Keith nor Tina got a fair shake. I hope others listening find Keith as rational, logical and sympathetic as I did.

Another thing that was clear after my conversation with Keith, and he put it best: We are not at the top of the spiritual food chain.

We might like to run around with our equipment, stones and other talismans thinking we can impact the other side, but in reality they have the upper hand. After all, they’re already dwelling in another realm.