Seattle Haunts

Who best perceives the foggy boundary between the living city from the city of spirits and ghosts?  Those who seek out the haunts, that's who!  In a week of metropolitan exploration and adventure, we seek out the best that the living and the dead have to offer us in greater Seattle: From graveyards, haunted ruins, and mortuaries to coffee house coolness, a bocce ball lunch, UW liveliness, and even a meeting with gag gift purveyors.  We seek out the human precipices where life is lived most sweetly and the inward and outward views are the clearest.

We will respectfully explore our beloved city’s past and present through active/interactive visits to notoriously haunted places and through visits to notorious/famous/(more likely, infamous) haunts" (hangouts).  Haunted destinations may include Lakeview Cemetery, Kell’s Public House, a local mortuary, Spooked in Seattle Tour (Pioneer Square area), the Hugo House, the Moore Theater, The Baltic Room, Harvard Exit Theater, Port Blakely and the Port Blakely Cemetery, the Madison Diner (Bainbridge), etc.  The “haunts” may include the main Caffe Vita (Pike), Elliott Bay Books, the library (main and branch locations), a performance space, The Rhein Haus (bocce and German food), Pike Place (variety), UW area (variety), Arch McFee, the Seattle Center, downtown Kirkland, Victor’s Celtic Coffee, and more.  Visits to most sites will be guided and official with the exception of all cemetery visits.  We will actively log lots of miles on our shoes and actively blog our experiences, posting and updating on the fly and in the moment.  Planning transportation via Sound Transit and walking routes through the city will be part of the experience.