Mediumship & Psychic Demonstration w/ Michael and Marti Parry

Situated in the Butterworth Mortuary, Kells Irish Pub has been the focus of one Ghost Adventures episode and the pub was featured on My Ghost Story. The building itself is beautiful and rich with history. What a great setting for a demonstration of mediumship and psychic ability. On June 10, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Michael and Marti Parry will be hosting a public event, Mediumship and Psychic Art Demonstrations, on the second floor of Kells. 

A dynamic husband and wife team, Michael and Marti work together blending their talents. Michael relates messages directly from friends and relatives that have passed on to the other side. With the extremely detailed information he is able to bring through, such as names, dates, occupations, personal traits and more, it leaves no room for doubt that our departed loved ones are in the room with us. Marti independently draws detailed recognizable portraits of people in spirit to further prove the existence of life after physical death. Between the two of them, you will experience the most dramatic and definitive example of communication with the other side. For more information, go to their website:  http://www.spiritart.com 

Click Here for Tickets are $35/adv & $45/ door. 

In addition to the event, Michael and Marti will be offering private sessions during their visit to Seattle. If you would like to work with them privately send an email through their contact information at www.spiritart.com or call them at 310-539-5646.

Opportunities like this are rare and we are very thankful that these two will be in the Market! This will be an incredible event. After the session, Mercedes will be personally offering a ghost tour of the Market from her unique perspective. 

Mediumship and Psychic Art Demonstrations with Michael & Marti Parry 
Kells Irish Pub, second floor 
June 10, 2012 4:00 PM 
$35.00/adv  $45/door 

Garden of Innocence

At the Market Ghost Tour we learn from researching our stories but we also learn from people taking the tour. Several years ago, Mercedes had a descendant of the Butterworth family on her tour who told her about the cremated remains of children found in the year 1999 at the Mortuary in the Market. That quick comment peaked her interest. Mercedes sensed it was a way to talk about the children that 'haunt' the Market. Stories about children being seen in the Lower Levels are numerous. Security guards hear children's laughter and the running of feet in the Lower Levels afterhours. That little bit of conversation led her to research further, to find film of children working in the Market from the 1920s and to Department of Health records from the early 1900s. The story is much larger than the details she discovered. In the past year she stumbled on a national project, The Garden of Innocence. 

The Garden of Innocence works with the mission of "Providing dignified burials for abandoned and unidentified children" and Seattle is one of the cities that has thousands of unclaimed cremains. They seek to work with local mortuaries to catalogue the cremains and find land to scatter them, to create a Garden of Innocence. It's an incredible task and one that deserves support. Here is some information about Seattle from their site;

"One of our findings is that there are thousands of abandoned cremains in the city mortuaries dating back to the early 1900.  Families that paid to have their loved one cremated but never came back to claim the ashes. There are thousands of adults as well. Our first goal will be to find out how many children there are in the area that have been cremated and never claimed at all the mortuaries." 

The final message at the end of their webpage about Seattle is a simple plea. "Is it possible to get 5 acres of forest donated to Garden of Innocence? Anyone? If we are able to get all the abandoned ashes, then we will scatter them throughout the forest and then let it sit for a few months. The forest will cover the ash by itself and the ash will be good for the soil as it contains minerals that will help the forest grow."

To see this project completed would be wonderful. It is something we as tour guides may not have know about if it wasn't for that chance meeting years ago that Mercedes had. Story telling, tour guiding can lead to great discoveries. 

To learn more go to www.gardenofinnocence.org.

Seattle's Market Ghost Stories

By combining history, journalism, research, and lore, Mercedes introduces the people and the places of the Pike Place Market to the reader in Market Ghost Stories. As one reader wrote "Very well researched and written, and I especially liked that it was not your 'typical' ghost story book. It made the history of the area really come alive."  The book includes historical information about Seattle, archival photos, and paranormal occurrences in the Market. 

Mercedes at the Sub Seattle Tours bus, a tour she helped writeMercedes has grown up in the Pike Place Market. She runs a ghost tour at night through the Market, The Market Ghost Tour. Her father, Michael Yaeger, is the honorary mayor of Pike Place. Her family owns Watercolors Fresh Daily, in the Atrium. Since the age of seven, Mercedes has been a member of the Market community. 

As a tour guide and writer she has written or co-written several tours; Seattle's Public Market Tours, for the Pike Place Market Merchant's Association, The Sub Seattle Tour, for Bill Speidel Industries, The Market Ghost Tour & The Seattle Lust Tour. Her first published work was a coloring book of the Pike Place Market for which she was both the author and illustrator. The Pike Place Market Coloring Book and Market Ghost Stories are available through Amazon.com and at retail outlets, like Watercolors Fresh Daily, Simply Seattle, Elliott Bay Books, and Golden Age Collectibles in Seattle.

If you are interested in purchasing the book directly from the author stop by our office at 1410 Post Alley, Seattle WA 98101 1/2 hour before any scheduled tour. We carry a variety of books by local authors.

Can't make it for the tour? The book, Market Ghost Stories, written by the founder of the tours is in its 4th printing and published by the Market Ghost Tour. Mercedes was named a Literary Lion in 2011 by the Seattle King County Library System. The book is not a typical "ghost" book and reads like a historical narrative about the city and her experience with the ghost tours. $12.95 plus shipping. 161 pages with archival photos and a bibliography for future research.