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Well, that was scary.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
Seattle has a lot of scary things and haunted places.
Perhaps the most famous is Seattle's pike place market.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, take a look.
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>> Welcome to the pike place market ghost tour.
My name's David.
I'll be your tour guide this afternoon.
How many of you believe in ghosts?
I'm sorry, it's just, thank you very much, thank you.
How many of you do not believe in ghosts?
Thank you very much for being honest, ma'am.
I'm here to tell you the stories of the singers of Seattle, the murderers, the serial killers, the gluttons, the thieves, the doctors, the worst of the worst!
If you look close enough, you can actually see a group of ghosts staring right back at you.
>> Yeah, I see them.
>> Yeah.
>> Wow, they've got a camera.
>> Whoa.
21st century ghosts.
>> Now, there's a woman who works in this barber shop.
She had a very special name.
And a very special message.
They called her the fat woman barber.
As the sailors were stumbling back onto the ship singing la Cucaracha, they would stop.
And they would stumble into her barber shop.
And they would plop into her one and only barber's chair.
She would steal their wallet.
Take the money out, restore their wallet, and they would be on their way.
We don't know if he was a light sleeper.
But he woke up in the middle of one of our, ah, transactions, and he bludgeoned her to death.
They say that at the time the fat woman barber died.
She sank through the floor.
At least half of her did.
So her legs were kicking from the ceiling below and her torso was flailing from the floor above, until she did us all a favor and she passed on.
They say that when you pass through this hallway or up and down the steps we just passed up and will pass up, you got to keep it cool, keep your hands in your pockets, keep your purses close.
Because now, for all eternity, she is at the perfect height to pick pockets.
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Seattle is also famous for its serial killers.
Can you name serial killers that have passed through these streets so to speak?
Ted Bundy, yes, handsome Ted Bundy.
Fun fact about Ted Bundy.
His two favorite places to pick up his victims are right over there by Rachel the pig, and right over there underneath that first avenue sign outside the Starbucks.
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Welcome to Seattle's first mortuary.
The butterworth and sons undertakers mortuary.
[LAUGHTER]
The Spanish flu killed 13% of Seattle's population in the years 1918 and 1919 alone.
That does not include other things that killed even more people like Cholera or tuberculosis, or serial killers.
Or the Klondike gold rush, where people were not just using their pick axes to mine for gold but to eliminate the competition.
There was so much death, that there was literally death in the streets.
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>> This place is nothing without the souls that have come before us.
I like to end my tours with a quote from the soul of Seattle, chief Seattle himself.
And when the last red man shall have perished and when the memory of my tribe shall become a myth among the white men, these shores shall swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe.
At night, when the streets of your villages and cities are silent, and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled them and still love this beautiful land.
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>> Lucky for you, we put together a whole list of scary haunted places in and around the area. 00:04:51.703, So if you're looking for a little thrill this Halloween, check out our list at KCTS9.org/pie.