Spooky Seattle Scene
When you visit a premier hotel in Seattle you will get a chance to see the Space Needle, Pike Place Market Pioneer Square and its near by underground tour. It seems there are many places around Seattle that claim to be haunted and the underground of Seattle is not only interesting because you learn about the design of the city but because there is a ghost inside.
Seattle has gone through many changes since the first settlement. One of those early changes was when the original downtown experience the Great Seattle Fire in 1889, burned to the ground and needed to be rebuilt. They had had some trouble with poor drainage because it was built on a tidal plain. The city planners wanted to make some changes and raise the streets so there would be better management of the sewage. The building owners were eager to rebuild and the city was taking to long to get the plans into action so they ended up rebuilding at the same low level as the original site plan.
The city did finally get to the raising of the streets but now you have many sidewalks and building entrances sitting up to 36 feet below the street. People climbed in and out of the buildings from the street for a while but eventually the buildings would have to be modified. When the building entrances were raised through out the city the old sidewalks had to be covered over. This area is now called the Seattle Underground. Visitors can take the Seattle Underground Tour to see some of the old buildings and their original storefronts that are now abandoned under the current city sidewalks.
The underground has some ghosts and has had visitors for many years coming to see if they can see the apparitions. There have been some television and film movies that have used or referenced the underground. It was a feature in the TV movie The Night Strangler which starred Darren McGavin in 1973. Even an episode of Scooby-Doo played in with the underground. The more current third season of Ghost Hunters also featured the underground sidewalks.