There are THREE ghost tours in Seattle. Market Ghost Tours began informally over 20 years ago on Halloween night. Now it is offered every weekend of the year. Seattle is not unique in its many stories of ghosts, every city shares stories. Seattle is unique however in that it went through major urban renewal for 30 years after the Great fire in 1889. Some believe that it is the movement of earth, structures and graves that create Seattle’s many stories.  

The Market Ghost Tours were started by Michael Yaeger (the Mayor of Pike Place Market) and Sheila Lyon (Market Magic Shop). Michael's daughter, Mercedes has researched each ghost story, relying heavily on Municipal Archives, photographs and newspaper accounts of past events. 

Each ghost tour company in Seattle offers very different tours. Michele and Mercedes learned, while traveling in the South this March, that Seattle actually has far less ghost tour companies than other cities. Savannah blew our minds with how many tours offer ghost stories - and we went on as many as possible. We went on tours in Savannah, St Augustine and New Orleans - all high on the list of haunted places in the US. Yes, we learned a lot, especially how to run a great tour company.

The other ghost tours in Seattle are:

Spooked in Seattle

Private Eye Tours