COEUR d'ALENE - I can't wait to hear from you. Yeah, you.

I've been waiting all year to write some more Halloween stories. Please email me or call me if you've got a haunted - or just downright spooky - place you'd like to share with us here at The Press.

Last year, I ventured out with Spokane Paranormal Team investigator Brad Lane as he searched for ghosts at the historic and famously haunted Pleasantview School in Post Falls. I'll never forget how cold it was inside, while the sun shone so warmly outside that day.

Lane deployed high-tech equipment to locate "conductive energy sources," light and temperature fluctuations and sounds unregistered by the human ear.

He also called out to the spirits, wanting them to reveal themselves. He actually wanted a door to slam shut suddenly, on its own. I really didn't.

I wasn't super spooked there until I met Pleasantview Community Association member Judy Cowan, who revealed how a beast-like man's image was captured by a surveillance camera on the grounds of the school.

The "entity" was roaming the grounds two weeks before I showed up. Comforting thought, as I peeked into the trees where the trail camera was hiding.

Last year I also visited the haunted 80-year-old Slab Inn bar in Post Falls.

Owner Deborah Berlin apologized to me right off the bat as I stepped inside from the bright October sunshine to the cave-like darkness of the joint for the very first time, and ventured into the bowels of ... an otherwise nice place.

The place is haunted by so many people, however, I just don't have space here to mention them. A couple of the ghosts are nice, one a little girl, another an old doorman, and a former regular, a guy named Bud, who still likes to pinch a nice tush or two on busy nights.

It's the kind of place where things fly off the walls occasionally, where TVs turn on by themselves and piano music can be heard tinkling away in the background - even though there's no piano in the place and there hasn't been one in a long, long time.

Not to be outdone, the kind folks at Kmart in Coeur d'Alene let me in on a creepy little secret. Cash register No. 2 at the store is occupied by a poltergeist.

I had to check it out, of course. I dropped by one day to buy some candy, and went through the line for checkout.

I survived to tell the tale. I'll admit, though, I paid with cash for my gummies, afraid to slide my credit card and tempt the beast inside to ooze a little creepy into my Visa.

So, if you have something similar or completely different, don't hesitate to give me a call.

A photographer and I will be happy to meet up for all the [fill-in-the-blank] details. (Halloween is the only time my editors will let me do this kind of stuff, so don't delay.)

As I said last year: No place is too small, and no ghost, demon or spirit is too scary.

The haunted-place hotline (me, David Cole) is (208) 664-8176, extension 2015, or email me at dcole@cdapress.com.

• Haunted place hotline

The haunted-place hotline (me, David Cole) is (208) 664-8176, extension 2015, or email me at dcole@cdapress.com.