Walk Seattle's most haunted locations. 22 stops, self-guided. 3 stops free. No guide, no schedule — just you and the dark.
Seattle buried its dead beneath its landmarks — literally. The Great Fire of 1889 destroyed the city, and engineers rebuilt the streets one story higher, entombing the original storefronts underground. The Moore Theatre opened in 1907 on top of a pioneer cemetery where bodies were never fully relocated. At Kells Irish Pub, patrons drink where the Butterworth mortuary embalmed corpses starting in 1903. Bruce Lee and his son Brandon — dead 20 years apart under eerie circumstances — lie side by side at Lake View Cemetery. This self-guided tour covers 13 free stops from Pike Place Market to Maltby Cemetery, where paranormal investigators have recorded more unexplained activity than anywhere else in the Pacific Northwest.
Smith Tower was the tallest building west of the Mississippi when it opened in 1914, built by L.C. Smith of typewriter and gun fame. The 38-story neoc...
Perched on a hill overlooking Georgetown, this peculiar Victorian mansion has terrified neighbors since the early 1900s. Built around 1902, the struct...
You descend the stairs beneath Pioneer Square, where Seattle's original street level waits in perpetual twilight. After the Great Fire of 1889 razed t...
The Harvard Exit Theatre on Capitol Hill was built in 1925 as the home of the Woman's Century Club, one of Seattle's earliest feminist organizations. ...
You stand before the brick facade of the Harvard Exit, once the Women's Century Club building erected in 1925. In the 1940s, a woman was murdered here...
Beneath the streets of Pioneer Square lies the original ground floor of 1880s Seattle—a subterranean labyrinth sealed away after the Great Fire of 188...
You approach the turreted Victorian mansion on the hill, built in 1902 by German immigrant Peter Gessner. Its respectable facade conceals a blood-soak...
Comet Lodge Cemetery in Georgetown is one of Seattle's oldest and most neglected burial grounds, established in 1895 by the Independent Order of Odd F...
You enter the grand lobby of the Moore, Seattle's oldest theater, opened in 1907. What you don't see is what came before: a cemetery. From 1853 to 186...
You walk through what remains of Comet Lodge Cemetery on Beacon Hill, established in the 1870s as a Duwamish burial ground before becoming a pauper's ...
The Hotel Andra in Belltown opened in 1926 as the Claremont Hotel, a fashionable establishment that secretly operated one of Seattle's most popular sp...
You stand at the graves of Bruce Lee and his son Brandon Lee, side by side in Lake View Cemetery. Bruce died mysteriously in 1973 at age 32. Brandon w...
Merchant's Cafe has operated continuously at 109 Yesler Way since 1890, making it the oldest restaurant in Seattle. It survived the Great Fire by virt...
The Cadillac Hotel at 317 First Avenue South was built in 1889, one of the first brick buildings erected after the Great Fire. For over a century it s...
You descend into Kells Irish Pub, occupying the basement of the Butterworth Building—Seattle's first mortuary, opened in 1903. This basement was the e...
You walk among the weathered headstones of Civil War veterans, buried here starting in 1895. The Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery is small, overgro...
The Arctic Club was founded in 1908 as an exclusive social club for men who had struck it rich during the Klondike Gold Rush. The building at 700 Thir...
Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub occupies a space at 1916 Post Alley that served as the Butterworth & Sons mortuary from 1903 to the 1920s. Thousands of S...
You drive twenty miles north of Seattle to Maltby Cemetery, a small pioneer graveyard dating to the 1880s, surrounded by forest on a lonely road. This...
The Seattle ghost tour includes 22 documented haunted locations.
The first 3 stops are completely free — no account required. To unlock all 22 stops, a History Nearby premium subscription is $4.99/month or $49.99/year.
No. This is a self-guided walking tour. Each stop includes the address, a map pin, and the full haunting story. Walk at your own pace, start anytime, and take any route you like.
Plan for approximately 4.5 hours. This accounts for walking between stops and reading each haunting story. You can also split it across multiple evenings.
The most visited stop on our Seattle tour is Smith Tower at Smith Tower, 506, 2nd Avenue.
3 stops free in Seattle. No guide, no schedule — walk at your own pace after dark.
Last updated February 22, 2026. Researched by the History Nearby editorial team.