Haunted West Seattle

[Anonymous]

Still curious to hear more stories people have about hauntings and or crimes in the recent and not so recent past in West Seattle. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

I talked with a guy who works at Rite Aid on California. He said it IS haunted (noted on my last thread) and he has experienced weird things like water running full blast in a bathroom he just checked, random loud thuds, and one woman who was closing had her SO in the car outside waiting. He/she saw more than one person in the store at closing but just thought they were co workers.

[AReader]

That’s not haunting; that’s delusion -and there’s medication available.

[Anonymous]

LOL, anyone else gotta comment, story, or three?

[Jerald]

I know there was an incident when the building was still a Safeway. Maybe in the 70’s. A female employee was brutally attacked in the back, but survived.

[Shibaguyz]

Check out a book called “Weird Washington.” I heard an interview on NPR yesterday with the author and found it to be fascinating! I’ve read about or heard most of the usual PNW heebie jeebie stories but he seemed to have a few I’d never heard of.

Also, I did an internet search of the book title and found the website for his co-author that has a lot of cool stuff on it.

Isn’t there a haunted Seattle tour?? Now THAT would be fun!!

[Anonymous]

Thanks. I have been on 2 of the tours run by a private detective agency. Queen Anne and Capital Hill. Creepy to discover I had been in a house Ted Bundy lived in and that some major crimes happened close to my old apt on Queen Anne.

[ToddinWestwood]

Hey Jen V, tell them about the building that used to be the West Seattle Bike Shop, across from AMA AMA, on the same side, used to be a hospital/old folks home and they had a morgue downstairs.

[Shibaguyz]

OH OH OH!! TELL TELL!! Wait… gotta get my popcorn and light a camp fire… LOL I LOVE these stories!

[JenV]

I don’t know what the exact history of the building is – All I know is I always got the creepiest feeling down in the boiler room…like there was someone there….I always took my laundry to the laundromat because I hated going down there. It was like Freddy Krueger’s boiler room! Anyone out there know the real history of 4215 SW Edmunds St?

[Anonymous]

When we were house hunting several years ago, our realtor was full of local stories. One house she drove us by, a husband had murdered his wife and buried her in the compost pile. We decided to pass. Anyone remember more to the story? I want to say it was somewhere between high point and westwood neighborhoods.

[keleeso]

JenV, I think your brother was setting us up for something like: ‘It was a dark and stormy night. As I crept down the damp and musty stairway to the seldom-used laundry facility I felt the hard, cold stare of………

[Gina]

Hey kids!

http://shelftalk.spl.org/2008/06/16/bringing-the-ghosts-to-life-doing-a-house-history/

http://shelftalk.spl.org/2008/06/21/bringing-the-ghosts-to-life-doing-house-history-part-2/

On the 9th floor of the downtown library you can find a pretty durn complete set of Seattle City Directories. Fun, fun, fun to find out what stories have a ring of truth, and what turns out to be a load of horse hooey!

[Anonymous]

These are great comments. I know a lot of stories but they are not west seattle related. I know there must be more folks out there with stories to tell, right?

[changingtimes]

tell about the queen ann stories! i grew up near the old queen ann high school, now condos, i remember my childhood bff’s mom hung herself in the backyard of her house kitty corner to mine and The Wales family also lived down the block, he was the prosecutor who was murdered in his basement a few years ago. I used to play soccer with his daughter.

[Bayou]

The Seattle Museum of Mysteries is a fun find for those interested in the paranormal. The underground tour (which starts in Pioneer Square) is pretty cool too. I know the hair on the back of my neck was on end in a few places down there.

The only haunted tour that I know of is the one at the Market: http://www.seattleghost.com/

[Anonymous]

I remeber the Wales Case. I hope it is solved one day. All I can rememeber from the tour of QA was up near 5th and Boston a guy broke into a womans house in the day and killed her with a hatchet. Perhaps most interestingly a guy living in those pink apartments near 5th and Prospect used to watch prostitues years ago, on near by 99 south. He took one to his apt one day and killed her. He dismembered the body and was stopped enroute by police. He had blood on him but said he butchered an animal. A few months later when the prostitue was reported missing, the cop remembered this guy and they went to his apt where they found her head under his bed.

[Bayou]

Eeek! That’s creepy stuff, wsblover! I used to live in an apartment building in Leschi that was once home to Mia Zapata’s murderer. It had the freakiest boiler room I’ve ever been in and just an eerie vibe. There were also tales of a woman that was killed at a party there, removed in a rug by boat. I don’t recall any details from that one other than the guy supposedly fled the country.

[keleeso]

Years ago our office manager’s father owned a business in the Underground Seattle area. As a child, she used to ride her big wheel around. She said that, as a small child, she saw Mr. Yesler on more than one occasion.

[inactive]

Hey –

I lived on QA 1/2 block away from where the federal prosecutor was murdered in his study. I was also there when the hatchet murder happened on the other side of the Hill.

Other than that, not too much happened up there. Very quiet in those days.

[Bayou]

This is a good list of other Washington Hauntings, listed by city/town:

http://www.evergreenparanormal.com/HauntedWashington.html

[Bayou]

Oh, I almost forgot one that IS in West Seattle- Andrew’s Rainbow House.

Background: The story goes that Andrew told his father he was gay and that his father couldn’t handle it and killed Andrew and himself. The next morning the house was found painted in rainbow colors in the front, and the back in swirls and colors. There are also colored tiles on the roof and the letter “A” in gray tiles on the roof. Apparently the house has been repainted, but the following day it is always back to rainbow colors. The house was supposedly featured on “Unsolved Mysteries”. There also has been a report of Andrew’s ghost being seen in digital pictures.

[changingtimes]

thanks for jogging my memory! how can i forget about the queen ann ax murderer! didnt he get some poor little old lady too! i remember because my mom bought her first house alarm during this time and at the time it was extremely high tech!

[ToddinWestwood]

I lived in Los Angeles from 2000 to ’04. For afew months I worked at The Standard Hotel down in the basement, stocking the bar and doing inventory.

THAT place really was an old folks home for many years. The garage and storage was down in the basement. You could only get down there on the elevator with a special key card. Staff only. Many times I would be walking thru the garage past the elevators and one would just come down and open with no one getting off.

One night I saw a little girl get off the elevator from about 20 yards away, then I was thinking who would put a kid on an elevator and send down or how did she end up down here, until i relized that I had not heard the elevator come down or go back up!

[MrJT]

Shibaguyz – I think there is a Haunted Seattle Tour that is done by Argosy Tours down on the waterfront, Ill check it out and let you know, as long as I get to tag along !

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