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September 19, 2008 at 11:50 pm #639293
GinaParticipantThe curious thing about George Jugum? He has a twin sister who is a teacher, and has won the Golden Apple award. Same family, two different directions.
September 20, 2008 at 4:34 am #639294
TrukMamaMemberI went to school with Penny and her murder was in one of Anne Rule’s books. I think her murder was around 1971, we were in 8th grade I think. She was supposedly walking home from Hancock Fabric around 9pm. whatever happened, she was found raped and hanged by what was Bethlehem Steal on Avalon. that’s the best I remember. She was such a sweet and kind young girl.
September 20, 2008 at 4:39 am #639295
mellaw6565MemberYou would think that there would be some Native Duwamish old legends from around the Alki area?
September 23, 2008 at 10:25 pm #639296
WSratsinacageMemberDoes anyone else have a story or two to share? Thanks.
September 23, 2008 at 11:06 pm #639297
marianneParticipantI have heard that the Bar-S playfield area at the Alki end of Admiral Way was once a Duwamish burial site.
September 24, 2008 at 4:58 pm #639298
WSratsinacageMemberInteresting, I wonder if any of those little league teams/families know?
September 24, 2008 at 5:19 pm #639299
guidosmomMemberI used to jog this big loop down Admiral, along Alki, then up Fairmount and back around towards Hiawatha park. I always felt really creeped out running up (or down) Fairmount Ave. Does anyone know if anything bad has happened there? My dogs would always act odd too. No matter how tired I was, I’d run so fast up or down it. I haven’t gone down that road in years because it was so creepy.
September 25, 2008 at 9:08 pm #639300
WSratsinacageMemberHaven’t heard about that area Guidosmom but you should listen to that sixth sense. Gavin DeBecker wrote a great book about ten years ago called “The Gift of Fear”
September 25, 2008 at 9:34 pm #639301
guidosmomMemberWSratsinacage.. Yes, I do listen to it for sure! In July 2006 I was hiking up north, on the Pinacle Lake trail with my dog, alone. I no longer hike alone… but was pretty stupid at that time. I took a smaller trail to go a bit further. I was about 4 miles down the trail when I passed two men who appeared to be hunting. I suddenly felt very uncomfortable, and got out of there ASAP. The entire drive home I had the chills. Two days later that mother and daughter were murdered on that trail. :(
September 25, 2008 at 10:25 pm #639302
WSratsinacageMemberdamn!
September 25, 2008 at 10:26 pm #639303
WSratsinacageMemberI remember when that happened, wow!
September 27, 2008 at 3:46 pm #639304
grrParticipantMay 6, 2009 at 8:22 pm #639305
WSratsinacageMemberbump
May 6, 2009 at 9:12 pm #639306
AdamOnAlkiParticipantAHH! I forgot about how awesome this thread is.
I never have had proof, but I have always felt that the old gas station at the bottom of Glenn Way was pretty creepy. My friends and I used to play in it as kids and always found ourselves with a reason to run away quickly.
May 6, 2009 at 10:06 pm #639307
WSratsinacageMemberI love this sort of stuff too. Just thought I’d throw it out there again to see if there is anyone with new info.
March 9, 2010 at 7:42 pm #639308
typhoid_andreaMemberI am a close and immediate family member of Stacey Sparks. To put my mind at ease, please let me begin by saying that Stacey never went to Madison Middle School, or West Seattle High School. Not even for a little while. She was in attendance at Denny Middle School, and then she went onto high school at Chief Sealth where she graduated. NEVER did she go to those schools. Next, it was not the early 80’s that she disappeared, it was 1979. Next, it was not Bellevue that she was at before her disappearance, she was in Lynnwood. Please get your facts straight. Everyone did know and love her, she was very well known. Thanks.
March 9, 2010 at 8:26 pm #639309
GinaParticipantStacey did attend 6th grade at Lafayette Elementary School, Mrs.Barney was her teacher.
March 10, 2010 at 1:12 am #639310
zerodacusMemberWow, I remember a lot of these, where to begin. Eric Bachman was the 17 year old George Jugum beat to death in the Herfy’s parking lot, he went to Sealth and I believe would have graduated in 1974, he made the mistake of flipping Jugum off where Calif. Ave. merges into one lane south bound in the junction. The Rite Aid was a Safeway store for many years and a Pay n Save after that, never heard of any mine references. There was a womans body dumped in the gully road (Fairmount Ave.)about thirty years ago. And I remember the burnt car at WSHS, where the victim had been killed elsewhere and the fire set to make it look like an accident, (there’s a smell I’ll never forget). The Charleston house where the music teacher was killed by his girlfriends son and a friend is the same one featuring the great Christmas light display. In 1971 a boy named Chris Wells disappeared in the Admiral district walking home from a friends house, and has never been seen since. And even further back, there was an old mansion that was the picture of a haunted house where the Firestone store is today. And I have to say I have never heard of the rainbow house.
March 10, 2010 at 1:21 am #639311
zerodacusMemberOh, and the Rocksport, I do remember it, and it was a man chasing his ex wife/girlfriend into it during construction of something (Seattle Bank) and shooting her and killing himself, I’m pretty sure she worked in the junction. And of course, the dentist office next to the Post Office was a funeral home, as was the large white home (now a lawyer) south of Charleston
March 12, 2010 at 12:29 am #639312
FrogBaseballMemberwhat’s the andrews rainbow house?
March 12, 2010 at 3:29 am #639313
LeroniusmonkfishMemberI had heard that the Yen Wor Chinese restaurant was once a funeral home but could never find anything to verify that. Supposedly it’s haunted by the ghost of Stumbler…
March 12, 2010 at 5:37 am #639314
EmmyJaneParticipantAdam- where was the old gas station at the bottom of Glenn? Glenn and Genessee where that empty triangle lot is now? I’m assuming its gone now…
March 12, 2010 at 4:03 pm #639315
GinaParticipantAndrew’s Rainbow house is the G
z family home. A member of the family has lived in the house for over 40 years.The father did roofs, painting, gutters and such. To advertise he shingled the roof with a variety of shingles, and painted the house in multi-colors.
A series of tragedies involving the family has given rise to crazy rumors, such as whenever someone new buys the home and paints it, the rainbow colors shine through.
Since nobody new has purchased the home, kind of puts the kibosh on that rumor.
Art teacher Dee Dee Rainbow has never painted the outside of the house. She may have painted a picture of it.
The initials on the roof did not magically arrange themselves out of the multicolored shingles.
March 13, 2010 at 2:41 am #639316
zerodacusMemberHere’s a link to Andrews Rainbow House, still have never seen it.
March 13, 2010 at 6:11 am #639317
JanSParticipantGina, thank you for that. The urban myth about the Rainbow House just won’t go away. I feel bad for the occupant, as it must be a pain in the arse for them when people come a-looking.
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