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Market Ghost Tours
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Categories: Tours, Performing Arts
Neighborhood: DowntownMarket Theater
1410 Post Alley
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 322-1218
- Hours:
Fri. 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Fri. 9:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Sat. 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Sat. 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
18 reviews for Market Ghost Tours
GREAT tour! I bought tickets as a surprise for my husband and we loved it. Take the 9pm version--the market is practically empty at that time and adds to the eeriness of the subject matter. Penny was our guide and she was fantastic. She knows everything about the market and it's obvious that she truly loves doing the tour.
As others have said, this tour details the history of the market as well as the people who may haunt it today. I especially liked the creepy story of Linda Hazard and was touched by the experience of Princess Angeline. On this tour, you will learn a lot and have a great time as you do!
The Pike Place Market Ghost Tour is a blast. Founded a woman who spent her childhood in the Pike Place Market, it is a guided walking tour through the history of the Market.
Some of the stories are pretty tragic. For example, did you know that Kell's used to be a mortuary and is said to be haunted by a girl who died in the Flu Pandemic of 1918? All this time I thought I just was seeing double from the Whisky.
The Ghost Tour is a great way to spend an evening: learning about the Market from a true Market local.
LOVED this tour! Very well done and put together. I am a believer but my hubby is not but he still found it interesting. Our guide was passionate about the subject and had great presentation skills. I bought the book at the end so I could learn more!
A group of 8 of us joined others for a tour with Tige on Saturday, 10/24 at 9:00...Tige had a lot of history and ghost stories. It was a fun learning and spooky experience with loads of by-passers already decked out in their Halloween splendor.
We aren't really tourists, being from Tacoma, but learned loads about the Market. Now I know why we really did not care for the end 'square' bridge-to-no-where part of the market...and who knew Heaven's Gate was tied to Pike Place...or the dark past of Kell's...and Linda Hazard - she was just plain creepy. Oh, and the sign did swing, right on time. Very cool.
Loved it! Penny was our guide and really made our first night in town a fun one. It was creepy without being too cheesy. She told great anecdotes and history factoids about the market and Seattle. She talked nonstop for over an hour and was hilarious and entertaining. Recommend it!! (cool at night, it adds to the effect...we went at 9pm)
Comment from Mercedes Y. of
Market Ghost Tours
10/26/2009
Penny says often " My family thanks you for giving me people…
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Totally cheesy and totally cute! My husband and I had a great time being tourist on this tour. I love that you can get a verbal history about the down and dirty of Seattle. It's fun and only $15 a person. Nothing really scary about this "ghost" tour.
Add Market Ghost Tours to your "Things To Do In Seattle" and your "Things To Do at Pike Place Market" list. This is not just about ghost stories, but about the people and foundation that makes up Pike Place Market today.
If you are a tourist with only several hours to spend and want the full Pike Place Market history and tour, I highly recommend Market Ghost Tours. If you have lived in Seattle and visit Pike Place once a season or once a every two weeks, I highly recommend Market Ghost Tours. Even if you "Don't believe in no ghost," this tour is informative and entertaining.
We were visiting from Portland with only a couple hours to spare in Seattle and knew our focus was Pike Place Market. We were going to roam from store-to-store, but wanted to leave Pike's with a more memorable experience. Mercedes Yaeger, our tour guide, grown up at Pike's and her storytelling made the tour even more invaluable. I don't want to give too much of it away, but the tour is worth it.
I really enjoyed going on the Market Ghost tour with Tieg (sp?). He gave a great tour and even shielded us from several downtown "characters." I have been to the market so many times and never knew any of these stories! I highly recommend it.
Must do if you are a tourist in Seattle.
You meet at the improve comedy theater right down the step from where the bronze big is at the gum wall.
Our guide for Saturday's tour was Michelle. We started off with the first ghost story about the comedy theater and walked through Pikes Place, First Street, down the back side of Pikes Place, through the market and right back to the starting point. It wasn't as scary as I thought it would be. But you learn a lot of Seattle's history, corruption, scandal, murder, and magnetic lines that run under Pike's Market.
The bad news first: We were told that we were going inside of the Butterworth Mortuary. When we got there, Michelle told us we couldn't because it's being built as another restaurant. If they had a tour before us, wouldn't they just come out and tell us that we would be outside the mortuary? Also, in front of the mortuary, there is a sign that tells where Kells restaurant is. It was pretty windy outside and the sign is next to the door. Your going to get air flowing from the bottom space of the door or even the vibration from the first avenue traffic (it was pretty blusterery: friday, october 23th, 2009) so several people were passing this off as a "Ghost". Now, I'm not a non-believer because there is alot of truths about Pike Place Market being haunted - that's the good news, but I'm going to rate this 3 stars, because of the mortuary as stated above. Also, this is pretty much geared for tourist. Please don't hate me because of my opinion, because I'm sure there is a lot of folks wanting to go on this. It's pretty interesting, if you keep an open mind.
Comment from Mercedes Y. of
Market Ghost Tours
10/26/2009
Hi Kathy, I like your review. We can't ever get into the…
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What fun we had! I love a good ghost story, and boy howdy did they have a bunch. I shant give any away of course, but if you love: History, spooky stories, the macabre, you will really enjoy this tour.
Plus the tour guides are quite fun!
Terrific fun. Whether you're a local who wants something entertaining to do at night, or if you have an out-of-town guest visiting, it's a fun and educational tour. I learned a lot about Pike Place and areas of downtown & Pioneer Square. And it's not boring history, it's all very entertaining (brothels, murderers, etc). I would do this tour multiple times. I definitely would like to do it as the sun goes down earlier in the fall, so that it's night time during the tour.
The ghost stories are a lot of fun, and really gets you into the tour. We went a lot of places in the Market that I never knew existed!
We had Mercedes as a tour guide, and she was very good. Very knowledegable and very entertaining. A good time to be had, and you can finish it off in the haunted Alibi Room with a beer and a ghost hunt of your own.
Comment from Mercedes Y. of
Market Ghost Tours
10/26/2009
Thank you for this review. I love sharing this Market place…
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Now I understand why I get creeped out when I'm walking down 1st Ave from Virginia towards Stewart on the west side of the street.
I understand why the Pike Place Market gives me an odd "you're not alone" feeling when I cut through there late at night.
Why Post Alley, and the Alibi Room, has always freaked me out a little bit, for no good reason.
Ghosts.
There were several moments where our hair was standing up on the back of our neck, just listening to the stories. The Seattle Ghost tour guide, Mercedes, has done really great research on the consistently reported ghosts in the Pike Place Market area -- yes, key word here being consistent. Multiple sightings over the years of the same apparitions. She also had really great, fun (and in some cases creepy) historical facts about Seattle. Like the madam who's body was so weird when she was exhumed that P. T. Barnum tried to buy her corpse. Or the many uses over the years of the hotel that sits just south of the Pike Place Market sign.
Or why that particular stretch of 1st ave between Steward and Virginia is so ... creepy.
I also now have a new bit of entertainment to take my out of town guests to. You can buy a combo ticket that will get you on both the tour and into the Unexpected Productions Improv show after. You'll notice that the improv show staff leaves a few seats in back open and clear of corporeal visitors.
Those are for the ghosts.
Yep, the elusive five stars.
The Ghost Tour was everything I wanted and more, mostly because while I figured it would titillate the kitschy side of me that reads Stephen King avidly, it also managed to not be at all corny. Mercedes, the guide, was well-informed, entertaining, and recounted stories of ghosts who have been seen and experienced enough and by enough individual people to make the stories believable.
Furthermore, I've loved learning the history of this fabulous city we live in, and the more I learn about it, the more interesting it gets! I think the part of the tour that left me feeling most ill-at-ease (in that enjoyable way of course!) was learning that the cult Heaven's Gate bought one of the tiles to re-floor the Market Place back in the eighties. I stood right on it. Gave me the willies.
Learn about the doctor who starved her patients, money-hungry early Seattle-ites that drowned people in order to sell their bodies for scientific research, and the rich history of prostitution Seattle boasts! :)
We are always front runners here on the upper left coast, aren't we, now?
I went on a ghost tour the other night and it was AMAZING. I took a group of friends that were in town and every one of them were astounded by the stories and history involved. The tour guide, Monica, did a spectacular job - she had a perky demeanor, was playful and sweet. Plus she answered every question we threw her way without fail.
When you are in Seattle - you gotta do this. It's creepy, fun, full of fun history and an all around MUST.
Excellent tour. Our guide was great, the tour was equally spooky and historical and just the right length of time. I would definitely recommend this over underground tour, in fact, I might make it a yearly tradition!
We just returned from our trip to Seattle and out of all the tours we took during our 5 day trip, the Ghost Tour was numero uno! We were very lucky to get Mercedes as our guide and our walking tour was filled with history, mystery, and scandal. We were all ears and eyes (looking for ghosts, orbs, etc..) as Mercedes captivated us with the many stories that make up the Ghost Tour. This is definitely a tour all visitors should add to their itinerary.
I went on the Market Ghost Tour last night with a group and Mercedes was our tour guide. It was wicked. Mercedes did a great job with the tour, not being too dramatic and thespian-like, but talking like a real person telling some really interesting stories. I was mostly struck by how much I learned about Pike Place Market even though I've been there tons of times. Kell's was the basement of a funeral home and it still says it on the side of building, did you ever notice? I didn't. I don't want to give away all the stories, but know that it culiminates with one of the most haunted places in Seattle that'll scare you forevermore.
