Ghosts in Washington

The Pike Place Market in located in downtown Seattle by the waterfront. It is the center piece of Seattle’s 17 acre historic section. The Pike Place Market is an extremely popular place for both residents and tourists. Here one can find practically anything from fresh food, to souvenirs of Seattle and much, much more.

The Pike Place Market was opened in 1907 by the Seattle City Council. It is located on land that was considered sacred by the local Duwamish Indians. At that time a dozen farmers sold their produce to people at fair prices. During 1907 the first building was also built by a Pike Place landowner Frank Goodwin who had made a fortune in Klondike gold. In the first 10 years a number of multi-level buildings were built. During the Great Depression because of the reasonable prices found here the market expanded. Afterwards in the late 1930s other businesses including hotels, restaurants and theaters were build in the Pike Place Market area. During the 1940s and through the 1950s suburban supermarkets took away some of the business from the Pike Place Market. Finally in the 1970s a 17-acre historic district was authorized and the Pike Place Market was renovated and revamped.

Ghostly Apparition of Indian Woman

There is the apparition of an Indian woman. The entity is described as being bent and wrinkled wearing a red handkerchief as a head covering and a shawl around the shoulders. When she was still alive, a photographer being interested in the woman took pictures of her which help identify her now.

Chief Seattle’s eldest daughter was named Kickisomlo and was called by her white friends Princess Angeline. In 1855 when the Duwamish Indians were told to leave Seattle and go to a reservation, she refused to go and made her home in a waterfront cabin, between Pike and Pine Streets. She made a living by doing laundry for people and selling hand-woven baskets. She died in 1896 at 85 years of age on May 31 and the people of Seattle gave her a funeral at Our Lady of Good Help and buried her in a coffin shaped like a canoe at the Lake View Cemetery on Capitol Hill. Her father predicted that even if the Indians disappeared from Seattle the Duwamish Indian spirits would come back.

Princess Angeline has been seen walking through the underground ramps of the shopping plaza. She carries baskets to sell and does some window shopping. Every three months since 1982 she has startled employees at the Craft Emporium, the old Goodwill Store building, the Sound View Café and the book store formerly known as Shakespeare & Company Bookstore appearing in solid form looking like a real person and then gliding into the air or simply gliding through a wall.

Apparition of Young Man

Another entity is a tall, black, handsome young man who has been seen peering out of a window of the Vitium Capitale Restaurant and has also been observed in other places throughout the market buildings.

Other Ghostly Spirits

Strange footfalls have been heard in both the Left Bank Book Store and coming from empty selling spaces. The entity of a 300 pound lady haunts the spot where she fell to her death through the floor of the balcony which was above this spot. An apparition of a child haunts the Bead Emporium store and a well-dressed male entity, who loves to dance is seen in the area where Boeing dances were held on the upper floor of the market. Finally there is the entity of a former Pikes Place Market Director, Arthur Goodwin who continues his job to this day. A very interesting place indeed to do your shopping.

The Hotel Andra is located in the heart of downtown Seattle. It is an elegant 10 story hotel of the 1926 era with 119 rooms. The hotel was remodeled in 2004. In the lobby living room there are floor to ceiling maple bookcases which surround a granite fireplace topped by a “floating” plasma screen. This high tech canvas continually projects images of electronic fine-art collections. Suspended above the living room is an exposed reading loft.

The Hotel Andra was built in 1925 where before it stood Art Louie’s Chinese Restaurant. When the hotel first opened it was known as the Claremont Hotel. Throughout the years it withstood various renovations. In late 2002 Craig Schafer bought the hotel and by 2004 he had added an in-house restaurant which also provides room service.

Ghostly Jazz Parties

The 1920s and 1930s were experienced by the Claremont Hotel. A time of prohibition and loud jazz parties on the 9th floor. In the 1960s a hotel worker fell to her death from the hotel’s upper floors.

An apparition of a woman appeared to a couple in their hotel room. A paper weight rose up by itself above a glass top table and crashed down on it making a loud noise. On the 9th floor the jazz parties continue complete with jazz music and sounds of crashing glass as if a fight was going on. Some entities never have enough.

The Seattle Central Community College Building is located atop Capitol Hill in Seattle. This 3 story building was built in 1907 to house the Broadway High School with the school’s gymnasium located on the 3rd floor. In 1946 the Burnley School of Professional Art moved in and stayed until 1986 when the building became the South Annex of the Seattle Community College.

The Ghost of Burnley

During the Burnley School years the owners invited 3 mediums to the building who made contact with the entity of an 18 year old boy. The boy was killed in 1913 after a basketball game in the 3rd floor gym. During a fight he was thrown down the back stairs. Students named the entity Burnley. Many have had experiences with Burnley.

Art School Experiences

Students who have been alone in the building have heard unexplained noised coming from various rooms. One student working alone during the afternoon heard someone doing paperwork and walking about the room next door however it wasn’t a living presence. Foot steps can be heard all over the building. The living have heard loud determined footsteps coming toward them. A janitor entered a dark classroom and dropped off his stuff then went to turn on the lights in the building. In the hallway he heard a tremendous crash coming from the dark classroom. Going back into the room he saw that 4 desks and chairs had been overturned. Trash cans have been overturned, desk drawers opened, doors opening and shutting by themselves, lights turning on and off and paper left in neat stacks has been found waded up into little balls.

On the 2nd floor is a five foot platform on which models would stand to pose for students sketching them. One evening after a student had repainted the platform he was going to go down to get something to eat when he heard a noise coming from the room he had been in. Rushing back upstairs he found that the five foot platform had been moved to the opposite corner of the room. A female art student sitting at her desk saw her x-acto knife and markers rolling by themselves across the desk. Another art student standing in front of a window on the top floor felt some unseen presence push her from behind. Visitors here have felt sudden coldness and have felt uneasy. When the owners of the art school put in an alarm system a field day was had by the entity who sounded the alarm a lot during the night.

Seattle Central Community College Experiences

The college’s microcomputer lab is found in the 2nd floor. While the manager was in the storage room, conducting inventory, a pile of computer disks fell on her head. The disks were normally kept in a corner which was far from where she was working. When the disks fell again she told Burnley to please stop it because she had a lot of work to do. Burnley did as she asked.