COLD SIGHTINGSGhosts, cryptids & UFOs · place by place 
Ten Seattle ghost legends, counted down from #10 to #1, from buried streets to a pub in an old mortuary. Start with a sea captain said to still walk a hotel hallway. End where a guard chased what he took for a child up a stairwell and found only an empty doorway.
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Local legend says Captain Murphy, a merchant marine officer who died in Room 312 in 1923 while waiting for his next ship, still walks the halls.
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Legend says 'The Commodore', a founding member who made his fortune in Alaskan gold, still holds his business meetings in the club's old rooms.
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Legend says the spirit of Alice B. Toklas, longtime partner of Gertrude Stein, haunts the hotel, mostly the fourth floor.
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After the Great Seattle Fire of 1889 the city was rebuilt on top of the burned streets, and local legend says a bank teller named Edward still lingers in the buried tunnels.
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The 1914 building became a famous grunge-era music club, and later residents and artists say the old hallways hold lingering energy, possibly the ghosts of the bands that played there.
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In the underground bar, two small children who died in a 1938 fire are said to roam and play tricks on guests.
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Seattle's oldest operating theater is said to be haunted by unseen presences that walk its stage.
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Built in 1902 by gambler Peter Gessner, who died in the house in 1903, the mansion is said to be haunted by a servant named Sarah and other tragic spirits.
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Local legend says the market is haunted by the spirits of orphaned children who once sheltered in the old market theater, which the YMCA used as a refuge in the early 1900s.
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Housed in the old Butterworth & Sons mortuary, where almost everyone who died in early Seattle passed through, it is said to hold Charlie in a derby hat and a playful little girl in a red dress.
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Credits: (CC BY / CC BY-SA) Downtown Seattle from Elliott Bay, photo by Atomic Taco, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Dunbar Restaurant at Sorrento Hotel, circa 1970s, Seattle Municipal Archives, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons House in Georgetown, circa 1980, Seattle Municipal Archives, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Kells, Seattle, photo by Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Merchants Cafe, photo by Visitor7, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Moore Theatre interior, photo by Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Moore Theatre stairs stage left, photo by Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Moore Theatre, photo by Visitor7, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons OK Hotel May 1997, photo by RalfHuels, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons OK Hotel entrance, photo by Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Pike Place Market Down Under, photo by Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Seattle Arctic Building 3rd and Cherry, photo by Mighty206, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Seattle Arctic Building Cherry St entrance, photo by Mighty206, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Seattle Underground, photo by Gareth Wyn Jones, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Also used: Boston Hotel, Pioneer Square, 1930s, King County Assessor, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Other archival photos are public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (MOHAI, DPLA, Seattle Municipal Archives, Newberry Library). Stock footage: Magnific. Some scenes and the host are AI-generated.