If you are feeling particularly adventurous and brave, why not visit one of Seattle's notoriously haunted sites?
With its gorgeous scenery, historic buildings and music scene, Seattle is not a city to be missed. If you are also a fan of the macabre, Seattle also boasts several haunted sites for your nighttime pleasure. Here are some of Seattle's various spooky sites, including one historic hotel, a chilly middle school and an old movie theater.
The Claremont Hotel will whisk you back to a simpler time...the 1920s. This classic hotel is both elegant and historic. For some, it may be a little too historic. Employees of this hotel have often complained of hearing loud parties going on in parts of the hotel that are otherwise vacant. They have reported hearing loud jazz music of a different era playing as well as the smashing of glass. These spiritual happenings tend to stem from the 9th floor, although when employees and guests of the hotel go there to investigate, the "party" literally stops as if it was never there. Other strange happenings include items that levitate and actual apparitions that appear to the staff.
As a middle school student in Texas, I remember hearing tales of spooky hauntings in our cafeteria and auditorium. Some said the former principal was buried under the stage floor, while others spoke of "the children" who had died in a classroom. Granted, these things never happened, but it was fun to run screaming from the restroom thinking you had heard something. It wasn't until I hit high school that I realized almost every single one of my friends believed their own middle school was haunted, too. One Seattle middle school that has actual reported hauntings, however, is Hamilton Middle School. The second floor seems to be the hot spot for the spookiness. People alone in the bathroom on the second floor often hear footsteps coming into the bathroom and the closing and opening of a stall door, despite the fact that nobody is around. While nobody knows for sure who this ghost(s) is, some attribute it to the rumored young pregnant girl who died on the school grounds years back.
Harvard Exit is one of those hip theaters where you can catch one of the newest independent films or one of the classic foreign films that the larger theaters never get around to showing. In the 1920s, the building originally housed the Women's Century Club and was not converted into a movie theatre until the late 1960s. It is at this time that the hauntings began to occur. The haunted spots seem to be limited to the theater's third floor and on the first floor near an old fireplace, where women dressed in clothes from the 1920s appear to patrons and employees. Others have reported hearing a woman's laugh as well as the sound of footsteps when nobody is around. Some employees are said to have seen the body of a woman hanging from the ceiling.
