Spooked in Seattle: A Haunted Handbook

by Ross Allison

Overview

Seattle may not be as old as some would expect from a haunted city. But it has a large number of haunted sites and stories. Spooked in Seattle will lead readers on a journey through Seattle's neighborhoods and reveal the city's public locations, history, and tales of strange encounters. For those who love to venture off into corners in search of ghosts and the unknown, this book will set readers forth in the right direction.

Spooked in Seattle features more than 150 haunted locations, historic and contemporary photos, top ten questions about ghosts, Seattle's top ten most haunted places, location maps and addresses, Seattle history and haunted facts, Seattle cemeteries and tombstone symbols, and more.

Spooked in Seattle presents many locations throughout the city that are believed to be haunted, claim to have ghosts, or have undergone investigation. All of these stories are broken down into sections based on the city's neighborhoods with corresponding addresses to make finding them easier for the ghost enthusiasts. Maps and photos help bring to life the locations, making the Seattle ghosthunting experience easy and enjoyable.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781578606245
Publisher:	Clerisy Press
Publication date:	07/01/2018
Series:	America's Haunted Road Trip
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ross Allison is the president and founder of AGHOST (Advanced Ghost Hunters of Seattle-Tacoma) with twenty years of experience investigating the paranormal and ten years of experience running a ghosthunting group. He travels internationally to investigate paranormal activity, collect ghost stories, and research cemeteries. He lectures to thousands of students at more than one hundred colleges and universities throughout the U.S. on ghosthunting adventures and teaches a class based on his book, Ghostology 101: Becoming a Ghost Hunter, at the University of Washington. He’s appeared on a number of radio programs, in magazines, books, news coverage, and television shows, including The Learning Channel’s America’s Ghost Hunters, The Tonight Show, MTV, CMT, CNN, ABC’s Scariest Places on Earth, SyFy’s Ghost Hunters, Nightline, and two episodes of Travel Channel’s Most Terrifying Places in America. Ross also is the owner of Spooked in Seattle Tours, which last year drew more than 2,500 people and continues to grow every year. The tours are given by bus, by horse-drawn carriage, or on foot. Very popular with tourists, the tours also are attracting locals who want to find out more about the hauntings in the Emerald City. He lives in Tacoma, Washington.

Read an Excerpt

Great Seattle Fire

On June 6, 1889, John E. Back, a worker in Victor Clairmont’s cabinetmaking shop near the old Front Street and Madison Avenue, was making glue in a hot glue pot. The glue boiled over starting a fire on the shop’s wooden floor. The fire soon spread to the wood chips and turpentine covering the floor. But, the small shop fire combined with many other elements to create the tragedy of the Great Seattle Fire.

The tragedy of the great fire might not have happened if . . .

If the neighboring building wasn’t a supply shop storing ammo, gun powder, and dynamite.

If the fire hadn’t spread to a warehouse that had received fifty barrels of whiskey just an hour earlier.

If the fire chief had not been out of town at a firefighters’ convention in San Francisco.

If the fire trucks had not gotten stuck in the mud flats.

If a poor water-pump system hadn’t failed to maintain water pressure for the firefighters’ hoses.

If (unbelievably true) the city officials hadn’t asked young men to use dynamite to blow up the buildings surrounding the fire. Granted, they hoped to contain the fire by removing some of these structures, but these young men were blowing up buildings already on fire, spreading burning rubble.

All of these possibilities contributed to the city’s destruction as Seattle burned to the ground in just twelve hours! John Back snuck out of Seattle the next day unaware the hero he had become. This was a chance for the pioneers to fix all their city problems. So the citizens were back at work rebuilding their city the very next day. The fire leveled the city, giving the settlers a chance to rebuild and correct many of the mistakes they had made when building the first city. They could raise the city above sea level, correcting the drainage problems they had been living with for too long.

But starting over doesn’t mean people will do things correctly the second time around. With the conflict of how to rebuild, business owners and city officials could not agree on the new outline or direction for the city. So, Seattle’s complicated redesign was the consequence of two separate groups building the city at the same time, which resulted in raised streets and steep sidewalks.

Table of Contents

About This Book

Ghosts Today

Top 10 Questions about Ghosts

Seattle’s Top 10 Most Haunted

1. Seattle History

• Battle of Seattle
• Chief Seattle

2. Pioneer Square

• Great Seattle Fire
• Death and Hangings
• Doc Maynard’s Pub
• The Underground Tour
• Arctic Club
• Mother Damnable
• Merchants Café
• OK Hotel
• Star Bar
• The Smith Tower
• Pioneer Square Hotel
• Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory
• Mutual Life Building
• DeNunzio’s Restaurant
• Mystery Bookshop
• United Way Building
• Frye’s Hotel
• Temple Billiards
• Joseph and the Chuckhole
• Pioneer Building
• Interurban Building
• Mary Megan Olander Florists
• The Central
• J&M Café
• Marcus Martini Heaven
• Dutch Ned
• The Double Header
• 88 Keys
• Broderick Building
• The Seattle Hotel

3. Waterfront and Downtown

• Gold Rush
• Indian Burial Grounds
• Oldest Ghost Story
• Ye Olde Curiosity Shop
• Ivar and the Doctor
• The Sea King
• The Haunted Ferry
• Pier 70
• Mayflower Park Hotel
• The Crystal Pool
• Hotel Commodore
• Carousel
• Jensonia Hotel
• Paramount Theatre
• Fairmount Olympic Hotel

4. Pike Place Market

• Princess Angeline
• A Point
• Heritage House
• Victor Steinbrueck Park
• Cutters Bayhouse Restaurant
• Kell’s Pub
• Butterworth’s
• Bead Zone
• Mr. D’s
• Market Theater
• Claremont Hotel

5. International District

• The Hungry Ghosts Festival
• Wah Mee Club
• Mary Pang Warehouse
• Hong Kong Bistro
• The Wing Luke Museum
• Amazon.com Building
• I-90

6. Belltown

• The Moore
• The Josephinum
• Rivoli Apartments
• The Crocodile Café
• Lava Lounge
• The Rendezvous
• Sophie Apartments
• Denny Park

7. Capitol Hill

• Charlie’s Restaurant
• Photographic Center Northwest
• Richard Hugo House
• Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery
• Harvard Exit Theatre
• Lake View Cemetery
• Methodist Church
• The Burnley School of Professional Arts
• Sorrento Hotel
• Fifteenth Avenue Video
• The Baltic Room
• QFC Broadway Market
• Volunteer Park
• Cornish College of Arts
• D.A.R. Building
• The Chapel Bar
• The Egyptian Theater
• Canterbury Ale & Eats
• Leary Mansion
• Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
• Kerry Hall
• Seattle Preparatory School
• Odd Fellows Temple
• Annex Theatre
• Loveless Building
• Bonney-Watson Funeral Home

8. UniversityDistrict

• YMCA
• College Inn Pub
• University of Washington
• The Neptune Theatre
• Gargoyles Statuary
• Seven Gables Theatre
• UniversityHeights Building
• Wells Fargo Bank

9. Georgetown

• Central Baptist Church
• Georgetown Castle
• Plane Crashes
• Comet Lodge Cemetery
• Jules Mae’s Saloon
• Georgetown Liquor Company
• Coliman Restaurant
• Steam Plant
• Old Country Inn Roadhouse
• Georgetown Playfield
• Museum of Flight

10. Fremont

• Deluxe Junk
• The Good Shepherd Center
• Hamilton Middle School
• The Fremont Troll
• Aurora Bridge

11. West Seattle

• Luna Park
• West Seattle High School
• Rite-Aid
• Homestead Restaurant
• Hiawatha Playfield
• Camp Long

12. Seattle Parks

• Kurt Cobain’s Bench
• Green Lake
• Gas Works Park
• St. Edwards State Park
• Martha Washington School and Park
• Des Moines Marina Park
• Kubota Garden
• Glen Acres Golf Course and Country Club
• Kinnear Park
• Me-Kwa-Mooks Park
• Schmitz Park
• Woodland Park

13. Seattle Cemeteries

• Evergreen-Washelli
• Mount Pleasant
• Calvary
• Forest Lawn
• Crown Hill
• Fort Lawton

Spooked in Seattle Tours

AGHOST

Glossary

Other Resources

Acknowledgments

About the Author