The old broken down Ball Farm House that sat along highway 20 her entire life always intrigued Charlene Janz. She first noticed it as a young child driving with her family and it soon became the landmark she would look for over the years to know that they were almost home.

As a teenager in Anacortes Washington (West of Mount Vernon and north of Oak Harbor), Charlene worked in the local fields picking strawberries and cucumbers. On one particular day that summer she became very excited as the berry bus rolled up to the fields surrounding the Old Ball Homestead. She had heard so many stories about the house and now she was right there up close and all she could do was stare at it. Through out the day, she found herself continually mesmerized by it and had to keep reminding herself that she was there to pick berries.

Charlene had heard many stories about The Ball House being haunted, she also heard about transients that may be living there and that it could literally fall over at any moment. While working, she watched and waited to see anything, any ghosts, any movement, any piece of wood that may fall off of the old farmhouse. But nothing happened. There was nothing to watch... nothing to see. But it still intrigued her, it was part of her childhood, part of the where she lived growing up with Anacortes real estate.

As an adult Charlene still looked at that old house each time she went over the bridges, and then one day it was gone…. There wasn’t anything left of it, not a stick of wood. It was like it just disappeared over night. They say it went down in a wind storm in the middle of the night, but who knows. She still does not know what really happened to the old farmhouse, that is still such a big memory for Charlene now a realtor growing up with Anacortes properties.

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