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Experience Seattle’s Most Haunted Ghost Tour

Join us to peer deep into Seattle’s ominous past. Our unique assembly of captivating hidden history and consistent accounts of hauntings from guests and locals reveals what makes Seattle one of the most compelling haunted locations in the country, only on the Seattle Terrors Ghost Tour.

From the old Suquamish Burial Grounds to the Northwest’s first elevator for corpses, join us to experience why- and how- the dead persist in haunting our beloved Cloud City.

Ghost Tour Meeting Location : Outside the Four Seasons Hotel, 99 Union Street, Seattle WA, 98101.

Tour Duration : 1hr. across 1 mile

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Ghost tours are held nightly, rain or shine!

The Experiences You've Heard About

Seattle Terrors Ghost Tour

Discover why Seattle is a hotspot for paranormal activity amidst ancient burial grounds and the ghosts of greedy undertakers and gold rush prospectors still hunting for their fortune.

Seattle Terrors Boos and Booze Haunted Pub Crawl

Come join us on this amazing tour that combines fascinating stories with liquid courage, all while in the company of like-minded people and an expert guide who will shepherd you through Seattle's haunted streets.

Heart of Seattle Savory Food Tour (JUNKET)

Join professional guides to experience the signature flavors that put Seattle on the map as a true foodie destination.

Painting the Rainbow LGBTQ History Walking Tour (JUNKET)

Meet larger-than-life LGBTQ+ business owners and learn the stories of the groundbreaking activists and leaders who paved the way for gay rights– long before Seattle’s streets were being painted with rainbows.

Seattle Ultimate Coffee Tour (JUNKET)

On this tour, you'll visit the original Starbucks, along with some other, more local cafes that serve up some of the best coffee in the Pacific Northwest.

Hoppin' Seattle Brew Tour (JUNKET)

The premier location for breweries and distilleries. Come see, smell and taste how Seattle became the American Brewery Capitol. Tasting are included in this tour!

Seattle's Historical Cannabis Tour (JUNKET)

Whether you are "highly" experienced in the world of cannabis, or you're a weed newbie, this tour is sure to provide enlightenment of the history behind one of Seattle's up and coming industries.

Ready to Unlock Seattle’s Haunted Secrets?

Seattle has ghost stories aplenty, from the original owners of the land to the many prospectors killed for their nuggets of Yukon Gold, Seattle has been a restless place for the living and the dead.

Seattle was started as a religious settlement by a group of teetotal devout Christians , before that the Suquamish and Duwamish Native Americans had happily looked after the place for 10,000 years or so.

Seattle Ghosts tour starts from the Four Seasons Hotel and winds up back there after a mile and 8 spooky tales for the standard tour. The extended tour adds another 30 mins and around a half-mile of walking to 4 extra scares! We’ll cover the modern-day cult that started in Seattle, and left a tell-tale sign there, but ended with the largest mass suicide in US history, 39 people drunk applesauce and barbiturates believing it would allow them to hitch a ride aboard a comet to the promised land.

This insightful, 60-minute or 90-minute exploration of Seattle’s wildest haunts will keep you hooked from the very first moment. Each ghost story is based on extensive historical research and authentic, verified ghost sightings.

Want a Truly History-Based Experience?

Curious about the underlying stories behind Seattle’s ghosts? Finally, you’ll uncover the fascinating layers of Seattle’s history. You’ll meet Chief Seattle’s daughter, Kiksoblu, who still haunts Pike Place Market, daring undertakers who gambled on Seattle’s high death tolls, and the 100 Victorian women imported to Seattle from Boston to balance the male-female population. This fact-based ghost tour educates, captivates, and keeps you wanting more.

Seattle has a remarkable history with serial killers, starting with ‘Dr.’ Linda Hazzard, not really a doctor, she offered a fasting cure that was rumored to cure all manner of ailments, from general malaise to several kinds of Dropsy. Hazzard’s often lethal treatments targeted desperate people who had run out of options in Western medicine. She also convinced several of her delirious clients to sign over their estates to her and her partner!

Later on, in Seattle’s sordid history, more modern serial killers like Ted Bundy lived here. Gary Ridgway, the Green River Killer, prowled Seattle’s streets searching for his 49 confirmed victims from the edges of society; he was a hideous and deranged monster, evil to his core.

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Each Seattle Ghost Tour fills quickly, especially during peak season. Click the button below to get in on the fun, and so you can get tickets at a time that’s most convenient for you. We look forward to having you with us!

Your ghost tour is a fast-paced look at some of Seattle’s most haunted places. Your guide is an expert in the field, and will keep you hooked from the very first moment.

An unforgettable experience:.

60 minutes of engaging, captivating exploration that you’ll remember for years to come

1-Mile Loop

An easily walkable mile that takes you right back where you started

Professionals at Your Side

World-class guides committed to your satisfaction

History Based

Step back in time with a fact-based adventure

Surprises, Ghasps, and Laughs

On a fast-paced journey that keeps you hooked from the first moment

In the Heart of the City

Set in and around Seattle’s Pike Place, Post Alley, & Downtown Districts

No Pesky Segways

A tour that’s on foot so you can fully experience the magic

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With so many tours and activities to choose from Seattle, how do you choose which ones to book?

7 reasons guests should go on the seattle ghosts tour.

An Authentic Ghost Tour Based on Facts from history

Even if we didn’t mention a single ghost Seattle is a fascinating place, with a religious start, a rough and ready early history, and a collaborative and progressive recent history. This rich tapestry of history gives these ghost stories a secure standing in time, and the ghost stories bring the historical eras to life in a grim and fascinating way.

Like the cobblestones on the haunted Post Alley, they were ballast in ships from San Francisco, where the rubble from the earthquake was loaded into ships to be taken away. The stones arrived with their tragic energy just after the 1904 Earthquake that flattened much of the city.

We guarantee you will be entertained, informed and just a little bit scared by the stories of horror and haunting that leap out of the pages of the history books.

Entertaining, with a historical twist

Your guides are down to earth local experts, specially trained and deeply involved in the tour. Each adds their personal touch, their favorite stories, and their unique sense of humor. When you have to explain why outside the Market Theatre there is a wall caked in inches of used gum , you can only wonder at the thoughts that go through people’s minds. The City of Seattle at one time removed over a metric ton of gum from the famous gum wall.

Even in the depths of human tragedy and the eternal suffering of ghosts, your tour guides have to keep their sense of humor, and we look forward to seeing smiles on your face as we enlighten and entertain.

Entertainment for everyone

We don’t want to cause any sleepless (In Seattle) nights, especially for any younger tour members, but we do want to give you spooky stories to remember for years to come. A perfect souvenir of your time in Seattle. They say an experience is better than an object, and this experience will stay with your whole group, whenever you think of Seattle, you will think Ghosts!

While standing at Pike Place Market, you’ll hear about the hundreds of empty stalls that were left after 110,000 Japanese Americans were interred in camps for the duration of the Second World War, and the huge influence they had on the culture of Seattle.

Learn New Stories about the Rain capital of the northwest

Perhaps as a young person in the countryside, one might be paid for collecting Varmint. Farmers, landowners, or even the State would reward you for taking away unwanted visitors for helping rid the fields and skies of pests, collecting a nickel for a rat, or a dollar for a Racoon say.

In Seattle, at the turn of the last century, the same system was employed by the City of Seattle, except the unwanted pest was human corpses. The rough and dirty town had a very high mortality rate, form disease, violence, and too much of everything. Undertakers would be paid $50 to remove corpses from the streets, something the residents understandably did not take kindly to. We will question whether, like Varmint hunters, the undertakers might have been a little too enterprising in their pursuit of the bounties?

Even if you are a Non-Believer – fun is guaranteed.

Ghosts appear and respond more to the young, and animals, who don’t have the barriers of disbelief and denial that most adults do. Both ends of the spectrum of believers in the supernatural are welcome on the Seattle Terrors tours. Your guides won’t try and change your mind either way, but we do guarantee that whatever your attitude to ghosts, you will have a good and memorable tour through the spooky streets of Seattle.

It is hard not to believe that the ghost of Kikisoblu , daughter of the Duwamish people’s Chief when Seattle was just getting going, still haunts the Pike Place Market. In her trademark red cape, selling her trinkets and posing for photographs, just like she did after the rest of her tribe was forced to move to reservations away from their ancestral lands. She has been outfoxing police officers and tourists ever since.

In Town and Not Sure of What to Do.

Seattle has many ways to occupy your days. Lots of them are food-related Seattle dogs, Oysters, or Chowder fries , perhaps? Or the SAM, Seattle art Museum , but that closes at 5 pm… To really get the most out of your time in Seattle, you should really consider the Seattle Terrors walking tour, just after dinner, and before the night really kicks off.

Your tour will take you to the places you really should know about in Seattle, but instead of just going there and seeing the nice buildings, we’ll give you the historical scoop and make those facts stick with stories of the resident ghosts and ghouls.

A Memorable Experience.

It’s the ghosts that make Seattle memorable, but as well as hearing the scary ghost tales you also get the history of this fascinating city. For example, the Butterworth & Sons Mortuary on busy First Avenue was a state of the art shop and factory for disposing of the dead. Including the first corpse elevator on the West Coast. The mortuary backs onto Post Alley, where corpses would be piled up after a particularly violent night in Seattle.  The Alley also has its own ghost story. Join the tour to find out her story.

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Jake was a great tour guide. She answered all of our questions and gave a nice rundown of each site and the story behind it, along with information relating to how she gathered the stories.

A must do for any true crime enthusiast. The owner Jake was an awesome guide full of juicy stories and little tidbits of information, for anyone interested in the sometimes not so pretty end to a humans life. We definitely got our monies worth, it was not a short skimpy tour. She filled it with lots of details and sites. She had an awesome personality and was very kind to our son. We will definitely take the tour again. When we come back to Seattle we will look into taking her other tours.

This trip is the second time we have taken tours from this company. Jake is a very good guide and is very friendly. Always a good time on her tours. We have taken two true crime tours and the Capitol Hill ghost tour. I recommend all their tours.

Thank you to Jake for a great tour! I enjoyed the true crime tour. What a great opportunity to see Seattle in a different context. The tour takes you past the Kurt Cobain house among other places where true crime happened.

First, I would like to commend Jake, the owner, on her willingness to accommodate out-of-state guests. Her knowledge of the city and its history was phenomenal, she's a native to Seattle. It's a 3-hour tour without a dull moment, and with a potty break mid-way. Our bus included Seattle residents as well as an out-of-stater, and we all walked away dually impressed by the knowledge imparted. We even went by the house Ted Bundy lived in and stored four human heads at prior to his capture and execution. We recommend this tour for those who believe in ghosts! Boo!

We took a visiting guest on this tour after I bought a coupon for my husband and I. It was highly entertaining. Jake has a theatrical and fun way of presenting information and she's got good information on some real Seattle crime history. My one complaint would be that she sticks to the stories from her past as an actual private eye (which is not the complaint) and has not added any contemporary information. So, while the information is fun for out of towners, the lack of current events for locals makes it slightly less interesting. Because it's all driving, though, it's a great tour for older visitors. Highly recommended.

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“Fascinating Tours” Will Tell Our Unique Seattle Southside Stories

D.B Cooper, the Green River Killer, Ted Bundy, Jimmy Hendrix & More! We are thrilled to announce our support for the Highline Heritage Museum in launching its first-ever public tour of the Seattle Southside area--“Fascinating Tours”--to increase tourism and spread awareness of Highline history.

SEATTLE (May 18, 2023) – Explore Seattle Southside (Seattle Southside Regional Tourism Authority) is thrilled to announce its support of the Highline Heritage Museum in launching “Fascinating Tours” to increase tourism and spread awareness of Highline history. With the Highline area being home to many well-known happenings that have been made famous on a global scale, the museum plans to turn the history of these occurrences into storytelling experiences for out-of-town guests and locals.

River Killer, Ted Bundy, Jimi Hendrix, a 12,000-year-old giant sloth discovered under the SeaTac airport, Des Moines Memorial Drive, and much more. From chilling murders infamously covered on Netflix and other streaming platforms to historically significant events that have been lost at bay, the Highline Museum will reveal it all. Guided by a seasoned storyteller, the experience will last two hours. Tours will also include the following:

• Shuttle service to and from the meeting location
• Snacks and Non-Alcoholic Beverages included
• Free admission to Highline Museum’s Glow Experience
• Discounted admission to the National Nordic Museum

"The Highline Heritage Museum is thrilled to be launching these tours to shed light on some interesting happenings that have taken place in our community. Despite how well-known they might be, we have a dedicated team of researchers curating stories and uncovering untold facts to provide a one-of-a-kind experience" shares Executive Director, Nancy Salguero McKay. Tours will be offered on Saturdays and Sundays beginning June 3, 2023. The public can purchase tickets for $55.00 per person. To learn more and purchase tickets, visit seattlesouthside.com/events/fascinating-tours/ . About Highline Heritage Museum This award-winning museum features exhibits, public programs, and educational programs that enrich our cultural connections. The Highline Heritage Museum capture the stories of the Highline region, and bridges the years from the earliest of times, to the newest immigrant stories. History and heritage are personal matters to everyone. They believe that exploring everyone’s heritage allows us to experience a personal journey that enriches us as a community. The Museum is passionate that its visitors have access to a broad spectrum of information sources and cultural perspectives. They envision themselves sitting at a round table where no one is the leader and stories are heard respectfully, regardless of gender, age, sexual orientation, disabilities, or ethnicity. About Explore Seattle Southside Explore Seattle Southside (The Seattle Southside Regional Tourism Authority) is the official destination marketing organization for Seattle Southside, including the cities of SeaTac, Tukwila and Des Moines. The organization is responsible for competitively marketing the area as an ideal travel destination for leisure and business travelers who wish to explore Western Washington and an idyllic place for meeting and event planners to hold their events. The Seattle Southside RTA is funded by a self-assessed hotel fund. ### MUSEUM CONTACT Nancy Salguero McKay Executive Director Highline Heritage Museum P: (206)402-4029 E: [email protected] MEDIA CONTACT: Jeff Powell Communications Manager Explore Seattle Southside P: 206-677-0160 E: [email protected] www.seattlesouthside.com

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The Stranger's Guide to the Best and Most Unique Tours in Seattle

Food, weed, music, history, and seattle's creepy underground.

From Savor Seattle to the Seattle Obscura Society, these are the most fascinating, delicious, heady, spooky and downright cool tours of the city. Check out a breakdown of Seattle’s best tourist attractions here .

HISTORICAL & CREEPY TOURS

Bill Speidel's Underground Tour

Learn about how Seattle's original streets were once literal rivers of human waste, how a benevolent prostitute created the public education system, and how a lazy immigrant started the fire that burned it all down in 1889 during Bill Speidel's Underground Tour. More importantly: As you lament the ongoing nightmare of your new hometown's transit imbroglios, it may come as some relief to understand that this city, like so many other pre- and postindustrial American conurbations, was founded and framed by thieves and idiots. The tour was created in 1965 by an ambitious publicist who both understood and typified the maxim of the entrepreneurial huckster: If you've got a giant pile of garbage that you can't dispose of, put a sign on it that says "Private Property. Admission $18." (PRO TIP: The tours are guided by genial and talented performers. Slip yours an extra $10, and they may take you down to the sub-sub-basement. I obviously can't disclose what they keep down there, but it lends a whole new historical context to the term "beast mode.")

This company also offers the adults-only " Underworld Tour " and the " Underground Paranormal Experience ." (SEAN NELSON)

Tours start on the hour daily, 9 am-7 pm April-September, 10 am-6 pm October-March; $22

Private Eye on Seattle

Started in 1997, these true-crime van tours have been featured on TV shows including the BBC's The Last 48 Hours of Kurt Cobain . The company offers 2.5-to-3-hour true crime and historical tours of Queen Anne Hill and surrounding areas (which covers the 1995 warehouse arson fire and Seattle's worst mass murder in Chinatown), and of Capitol Hill and surrounding areas (which covers Kurt Cobain and Ted Bundy). They also offer ghost tours and a "Booze, Broads & Jazz Tour," where you'll end at a cocktail bar after visiting the sites of Prohibition-era clubs, brothels, and gambling houses.

Monday-Saturday, $30/$35

Spooked in Seattle

"Real ghost hunters" guide these 90-minute tours of what they claim to be the city's most haunted sites, focusing on "actual paranormal investigations." Their offerings include the Pioneer Square Ghost Tour, a "Haunted Pub" tour, a "How to Murder" tour (where you'll see crime scene photos), and actual underground ghost hunts. Your tour ticket also gets you into the Seattle Death Museum, featuring coffins, embalming tools, and vintage mourning jewelry.

Hours vary by tour; regular tours are $13-$18, special events run $25-$50

FOOD & DRINK TOURS

Savor Seattle

Choose from tours of Pike Place Market during regular hours or early in the morning before it opens; a "Chocolate Indulgence" tour (stops include Dahlia Bakery for local mogul Tom Douglas's famous coconut cream pie and Fran's Chocolates, a reported favorite of the Obamas); a "Gourmet Seattle" tour that includes cuisine from an Iron Chef winner and James Beard Award honorees; a seafood-focused progressive dinner, “Seattle Dinner Soiree,” featuring four renown local restaurants; a “Hip on the Hill Tour” of noteworthy Capitol Hill eateries; or the "Booze 'N Bites" tour, during which you'll get five cocktails. Tours range from two to three hours and include anywhere from 12 to 18 food and/or drink samples.

Daily, $42-$140

Seattle by Foot

Learn about the city's most important beverage on Seattle by Foot's signature tour, the Seattle Coffee Crawl. During the 2.5-hour walking tour, you'll stop at cafes for at least six different samples, and you'll learn about different brewing techniques, types of roasts, and the philosophies that make each coffeehouse unique. There's also the private (six-person max) Caffeinated City Tour, and Seattle Kids Tour, a morning stroll to downtown's most children-friendly haunts.

Thursday-Monday, $30/$35

NEIGHBORHOOD TOURS

Chinatown Discovery Tours

The Wing Luke Museum offers two regular tours of its neighborhood—the busy International District, known for its complicated history and incredible restaurants—both of which include admission to the museum itself. On the three-hour Bruce Lee's Chinatown tour, you'll learn about the famous martial artist who lived and was buried in Seattle, see highlights including his first martial arts studio and first practice space, and eat a meal at a local restaurant featuring some of his favorite dishes. Take the comprehensive 90-minute Touch of Chinatown option and you'll learn about the neighborhood's history, sights, and smells from a local guide. On Friday afternoons, carefully curated neighborhood food tours are also available, with different themes throughout the year: "The Rice Stuff" (through June), "Grilled Things and Chicken Wings" (July through September), and the "Twilight Noodle Slurp" (October through December). And finally, there's the INS Building Tour around the old U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service Building, where new immigrants started their new American lives (available select Saturdays in July and September).

Tuesday-Saturday, $20-$45

Seattle Architecture Foundation

Learn about windows, building materials, public parks, urban history, and other parts of Seattle you might not have noticed otherwise. SAF's schedule changes often, but their unique two-hour tour options include several downtown offerings, like "Diamonds & Gold: The Art Deco Skyscraper Northwest Style," "Greatest Hits: Chart Toppers and Heart-Stoppers" (which includes the impressive Central Library), and "Design Details: Lions, Griffins & Walruses, Oh My!" They also offer neighborhood tours of places including Capitol Hill and Queen Anne.

Friday-Saturday, $18

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The Kush Tour: Glass, Garden, Extraction & More

Former Stranger pot writer Tobias Coughlin-Bogue called this one of the best ways to see behind the scenes of the legal weed industry, as it grants you access to facilities that would otherwise be closed to the public. On the 3.5-hour tour, you'll start at swanky Diego Pellicer, watch a glassblowing demonstration, learn how cannabis oil is produced, visit a grow operation, and end at more recreational stores.

Monday-Saturday, $150

Seattle Obscura Society

The Seattle Obscura Society (a local chapter of Atlas Obscura, an online magazine devoted to the weird, wondrous, and underappreciated) hosts one-off events around the city that celebrate unique, offbeat locations and experiences. Past events have explored the artwork at a former Naval Air Station and current park, a distillery focused on producing unique liquors, and the cemetery where many of Seattle's pioneers are buried. Check their website for future opportunities to explore unique parts of Seattle.

Various dates, $25/$30/$40

Stalking Seattle

These "rock & roll sightseeing tours" play up the nostalgia for Seattle's early 1990s grunge and rock scene. Stops on the 2.5-hour van tour include the space where Pearl Jam and Soundgarden used to rehearse, the bar where Nirvana played, the home where Kurt Cobain died, and more.

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Remembering Washington victims of Ted Bundy, the serial killer spotlighted in new movie and docuseries

A new movie and docuseries about Ted Bundy have both gotten backlash for what critics say are sympathetic portrayals of Bundy and a lack of attention to his victims. Here, we’ve compiled remembrances of women from Washington state whom Bundy confessed to killing.

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Forty-five years ago today, a University of Washington student named Lynda Ann Healy disappeared from her University District home. It would have been a “typical” missing-person case, but detectives noticed worrisome details:

Someone had neatly made her bed, which the 21-year-old never did. A small amount of blood was on the bedding and pillow. Her pink satin pillowcase was missing.

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The initial story about her disappearance was buried on the 35th page in The Seattle Times’ Feb. 4, 1974, edition. But her death, and her killer, would eventually become front-page news in Seattle and across the country.

Healy was the first known victim of Ted Bundy. Her remains were found a year later on Taylor Mountain, east of Issaquah. Bundy eventually confessed to more than two dozen murders and was executed in 1989 at age 42.

The serial killer is back in the public’s attention as Netflix released the docuseries “ Conversations With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes ” in January, and the movie “ Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, ” starring Zac Efron as Bundy, premiered this week at the Sundance Film Festival.

Both projects have received a backlash for what critics say are sympathetic portrayals of Bundy and a lack of attention to his victims , of which there may be dozens more across several states.

While Seattle Times journalists covered the disappearances, arrests and trials, they also told the stories of the victims: who they were, and who they left behind. Each woman would have been in her 60s if alive today.

Here, we’ve compiled pieces of those stories about the women Bundy confessed to killing in Washington state, based on what was reported in Seattle Times stories at the time. There are several other killings in Washington and other states that authorities believed Bundy committed, as well as several women who Bundy attempted to kill but who survived.

Lynda Ann Healy, 21: Healy was a UW senior majoring in psychology. She worked part-time for Western Ski Promotions and broadcast ski condition reports to 20 radio stations in Washington and Oregon. She concluded each 60-second spot with “This has been Lynda with your Cascade ski report …”

Donna Gail Manson, 19: Manson was an Evergreen State College freshman from Auburn. She was last seen waving goodbye to her roommates before heading to a jazz concert. She was a “better-than-average” student who played the flute and always had her camera with her.

Susan Elaine Rancourt, 18: Rancourt was a straight-A student at Central Washington University, where she studied biology. From the start, her parents believed she had been abducted. “She always knew what she wanted and always was a very logical person, very predictable,” her father said.

Brenda Carol Ball, 22: Ball graduated from Mount Rainier High School in Des Moines and had recently taken classes at Highline Community College. Her sister told reporters that her family hadn’t given up hope after she went missing: “We thought we were prepared for it, but we weren’t,” she said.

Georgann Hawkins, 18: Hawkins disappeared from Seattle’s University District after she left a party to return to Kappa Alpha Theta. She told her friends that she needed to study for a Spanish final. She graduated from Lakes High School in Lakewood and was a Puyallup Daffodil Festival princess. In Lakewood, her parents waited by the telephone for word of their daughter’s fate. “It doesn’t look very good,” her father said.

Janice Ann Ott, 23: Ott was one of two women who disappeared from Lake Sammamish State Park on the same day. She lived in Issaquah and worked as a caseworker at the Youth Services Center. Before she left on her yellow bicycle, she put a note on the door for her roommate to say she was going sunbathing, and drew a sun on the note. Her husband, James, was attending medical school in California. Two witnesses reported seeing her with a young man whose arm was in a cast.

Denise Marie Naslund, 18: Naslund also disappeared from Lake Sammamish State Park. She was with her boyfriend and another couple, and went missing after she went to the restroom. She lived in Seattle and was studying to become a computer programmer. Her mother said she had the kind of helpful nature that would place her in danger. Witnesses said they saw a young man in a cast later in the afternoon, when Naslund went missing.

Correction: The story has been updated to reflect that Janice Ott went missing in July 1974.

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Learn about Ted Bundy, Jimi Hendrix, DB Cooper & other local history at Highline Heritage Museum’s new ‘Fascinating Tours’ program

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Highline Heritage Museum this week launched their new ‘SeaTac Fascinating Tours’ program to contribute to Highline’s tourist attractions and help spread awareness of our area’s fascinating history.

With Highline being home to many well-known events and happenings, the museum plans to turn the history of these occurrences into storytelling experiences for travelers passing by, as well as beloved locals. 

With some already made famous by Netflix and other streaming platforms, ‘SeaTac Fascinating Tours’ will cover stories about D.B. Cooper, the Green River Killer, Ted Bundy, Jimi Hendrix, a 12,000-year-old giant sloth discovered under the Sea-Tac airport, Des Moines Memorial Drive, and many more.

“From chilling murders to historically significant events unique to the Highline community, we will uncover all our interesting findings,” organizers said.

Guided by a seasoned tour guide, tours will last two hours and will include the following:

• Shuttle service to and from the meeting location 
• Snacks and beverages 
• Free admission to Highline’s Glow Museum
• Discounted admission to National Nordic Museum 

“The Highline Heritage Museum is thrilled to be launching these tours to shed light on some interesting happenings that have taken place in our community,” said Executive Director Nancy Salguero McKay. “Despite how well-known they might be, we have a dedicated team of researchers curating stories and uncovering untold facts to provide a one-of-a-kind experience.”

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“Fear is the path to the dark side.”

Where to take a killer tour…a serial killer tour, that is.

Here at Haunt Jaunts we have a fondness for tours. (The more macabre the better.) That’s why a certain tour caught my eye recently on Twitter.

I re-Tweeted this post from iHorror:

A Jeffrey Dahmer tour? https://t.co/8xI0pUCJdG #TravelTuesday #travel #tourism #WI #MacabreMonday — Haunt Jaunts (@HauntJaunts) March 14, 2017

Then I shared the link on HJ’s Facebook page, and asked: “Interesting concept for a tour? Or too much?”

My friend Jessica left this comment in response:

An H.H. Holmes tour? Had to check that out.

Because last summer I read a phenomenal book about H.H. Holmes called The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America .

It was kind of long, and very involved. It simultaneously related how Chicago put on the World’s Columbian Exposition  in 1893 and how H.H. Holmes committed his atrocities.

Holmes’s “Murder Castle” was destroyed so it doesn’t stand today, but I can’t help but wonder if whatever resides there now has any activity from the ghosts of his victims.

Well guess what? Jessica was right. There is a tour that might tell me if there’s any activity reported in the vicinity of where the Holmes Murder Castle once stood.

And that’s how we arrived at this point in the post.

So without further ado, here’s seven places you can take a tour of the serial killer variety:

1. Chicago, Illinois: H.H. Holmes Tours (a.k.a. America’s First Serial Killer)

There are a couple of companies who offer a Devil in the White City tour:

• Chicago Hauntings – https://www.chicagohauntings.com/
• Weird Chicago Tours – https://www.weirdchicago.com/

They both claim to be the original tour. Which is about par for the course for Chicago. (In his book, Erik Larson did a fabulous job explaining the psyche of Chicago and her citizens. I think it might be disappointing not to have two tour companies vying for “original” creator of such a tour.)

Also like the book, both tours “delve into the history, mystery, murder and mayhem” of America’s first serial killer, H.H. Holmes, and the World’s Columbia Exposition that Chicago hosted in 1893.

But unlike the book, they physically take you to the places written about. Nice. You get a better idea of what it all looked like, in addition to the layout of the land.

Tours are offered on a limited basis by both companies. (Meaning not every night, and not even every weekend.) So plan ahead accordingly if you’re interested in taking it.

Note: If you’re familiar with Troy Taylor and his American Hauntings, Weird Chicago Tours is him too. In fact, we’ve got his Haunted America Conference listed on our Paracons & Horror Fests page. (Look under “Illinois.”)

You could go to the con and do his Devil in the White City tour potentially! (If there’s a tour offered then, that is.)

2. Hollywood, California & New Orleans, Louisiana – The Museum of Death

I included the Museum of Death in the Vile Vacations guest post I wrote for HorrorAddicts.net. I decided to include it here, because it’s a self-guided tour of the museum’s artifacts, which include “the world’s largest collection of serial murderer artwork, photos of the Charles Manson crime scenes,” as well as videos of serial killers. (I’m presuming videos of interviews with them.)

They have two locations for your jaunting pleasure. For info on their exact locations in each city, vist their website http://www.museumofdeath.net/ .

3. London, England – Jack the Ripper Tour

Jack the Ripper is probably one of the most well known, yet also unknown, serial killers in history. There are many theories about his identity, but he took that information with him to his grave. Which left behind one of the most notorious unsolved crimes, and no justice for his five victims: Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly.

There are all sorts of Jack the Ripper tours in London. We did a daytime one that was included with our Original London Sightseeing Tour: Hop-on Hop-off . It was phenomenal.

However, there are also just Jack the Ripper tours that aren’t part of other packages. Some are at night. Some are a combined ghost tour/Jack the Ripper tour. There’s a new Jack the Ripper Tour with ‘Ripper-Vision’ that uses “…innovative hand-held projectors help to recreate the atmosphere of Victorian London using spooky images, film clips and moving images.” There’s even a Jack The Ripper Happy Hour Tasting Tour that’s a sort of a pub crawl.

There are so many to mention and I’m lazy. It’s easier for me to recommend that you visit our affiliate, Viator, to see them all. That way you can decide which would work best for you if you ever jaunt to London and want to take a Jack the Ripper tour.

4. Los Angeles, California – The Helter Skelter Tour

Scott Michaels has a documentary on Amazon.com called The Six Degrees of Helter Skelter. (It should also be available on Netflix.)

Advanced purchase is required for this tour, and it sells out fast. To book it or get more info, visit Dearly Departed Tours http://dearlydepartedtours.com/ .

Note: If you’re fascinated by this, you’ll for sure want to check out our radio show on May 2, 2017. David Oman from the Oman House is going to be our guest. The Oman House was built less than 200 feet from what was 10050 Cielo Drive. a.k.a. The address where Sharon Tate, Wojciech Frykowski, Abigail Folger, Jay Sebring, and Steven Parent were murdered by the Manson Family on August 9, 1969. David has experienced activity from the time he built his house to the present. He even hosts ghost hunt nights where he allows small groups to come investigate.

5. Milwaukee, Wisconsin – The Cream City Cannibal Tour (a.k.a. Jeffrey Dahmer tour)

So come to find out that the Tweet I referenced at the start of this post about this tour? It’s not even for a new tour. It’s been around since like 2012.

Their copy was just too perfect so I have to share it: “This tour is so gruesome, it was banned on Groupon – twice. Walk in the exact footsteps of cannibalistic serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, where he poached 7 of his 17 victims.”

If you’re ever in Milwaukee and want to take it, look up Hangman Tours https://www.hangmantours.com/ .

6. Salt Lake City, Utah – Outer Reaches Tour

Spring through Fall, Grimm Ghost Tours offers a tour that isn’t solely about serial killer Ted Bundy, but does include a portion that’s about him.

The neat thing about the tour is you board a bus to go to the locations and are allowed to investigate too, not just hear ghost stories. Other stops on the Outer Reaches include: The Old Fort Douglas, The Premiere Gentile Gentlemen’s Club in the early history of Salt Lake City, The Old Haunted Library, The Hancock Mansion .

So who knows? Maybe you’ll chance upon Ted Bundy’s ghost on this tour?

For more info, check out Grimm Ghost Tours http://www.grimmghosttours.com/ .

7. Seattle, Washington : Capitol Hill True Crime Tour

On this tour you’ll “investigate cases,” both solved and unsolved, of some of Seattle’s most notorious crimes as your travel through Seattle’s Capitol Hill, Madrona  and Madison Park neighborhoods.

This is another tour that jaunts to serial killer Ted Bundy’s stomping grounds. There’s also cases with names like the “Christmas Eve Massacre” and “Devil’s Dip” to explore. You’ll also get to see Kurt Cobain’s former home and where Jimi Hendrix grew up.

Interested? Check out Private Eye on Seattle Ghost & True Crime Tours http://www.privateeyetours.com/ .

Courtney Mroch is a globe-trotting restless spirit who’s both possessed by wanderlust and the spirit of adventure, as well as obsessed with true crime, horror, the paranormal, and weird days. Perhaps it has something to do with her genes? She is related to occult royalty, after all. Marie Laveau, the famous Voodoo practitioner of New Orleans, is one of her ancestors. That could also explain her infatuation with skeletons.

Speaking of healing, to learn how she channeled her battle with cancer to conjure up this site, check out HJ’s Origin Story .

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Ted Bundy's dump site at Taylor Mountain

Crime Scene Location in King County, Washington

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This is the Taylor Mountain site where serial killer Ted Bundy dumped the remains of at least four of his victims.

It is situated on Washington State Route 18, near the southern entrance to Tiger Mountain. The exact coordinates are available in the "Address" section below.

On Sunday, March 1st, 1975, two forestry students from a local community college were doing a project in these woods when they spotted a human skull lying among the damp, moss-covered trees.

After calling the police, the pair agreed to return to the site the following day and lead them to the exact location where they had made the discovery.

When King County detective Robert Keppel arrived at the scene, he soon realized that the silver filings on the upper teeth matched the dental records of Brenda Ball , a 22-year-old college dropout who had vanished nine months earlier after leaving a dive bar in Burien.

Although the authorities were aware that a killer who called himself "Ted" was targeting young women in the Seattle area, they did not believe that Ball's case was related to the other missing girls. In their opinion, the M.O. and the victim profile didn't match.

However, the gruesome discovery at Taylor Mountain quickly proved them wrong.

Another skull is found

During the second day of the investigation, Keppel was searching the wooded area for more of Ball's remains when he tripped over a branch and stumbled across an unexpected sight.

On the ground before him was a second skull.

The victim was Susan Elaine Rancourt , an 18-year-old college student who had been abducted from Ellensburg in April 1974.

Once the initial shock wore off, it immediately dawned on Keppel that they were dealing with another one of Ted's dump sites. Six months earlier, a pair of grouse hunters had uncovered the killer's other "burial site" in a wooded area near Issaquah .

The two locations were only 12 miles apart.

ESAR operation

Following the discovery, a large-scale operation was launched, and the police called in a team of search volunteers to comb the area for evidence. During the operation, ESAR volunteers found another skull and mandible. These remains proved to be a match against the dental records of missing women Roberta Kathleen Parks and Lynda Ann Healy .

The find was so significant that it forced Keppel and the other detectives to reevaluate many of their original theories about the elusive Ted. Up until that point, they believed that he was solely focusing on university campuses in and around the Seattle area.

However, Ball's murder made it clear that the killer was willing to switch up his M.O. by abducting hitchhikers. Furthermore, he had also strayed far outside of his comfort zone by kidnapping Parks from Corvallis, which was more than 250 miles south of Seattle.

Consequently, the authorities were now starting to realize that the man they were looking for was prepared to branch out and vary his crimes.

Ted Bundy's Taylor Mountain site location

The address and the GPS coordinates for this location are as follows:

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Taylor Mountain, King County, Washington, 98065, USA

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To view directions on how to get there, you can use the Google Maps shortcut below:

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The latitude and longitude coordinates for the Taylor Mountain site are:

47.465586, -121.927695

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The coordinates above will lead you to a gate that is roughly 0.2 miles east of the West Tiger Mountain parking lot. The site sits on the foothills of Taylor Mountain, on the southern side of Interstate 18.

Private Property Warning

This is a private property. It is not a public place. Therefore, you should be respectful and not step foot on the property without permission.

This land is owned by a private company called Sirios Timber Partners. Please do not trespass.

Photos of the Taylor Mountain site and other related images.

Taylor Mountain: Then and now

The photograph on the left was taken in March 1975. The cars at the entrance belonged to members of the search team.

The Google Street View image on the right was taken in September 2021, more than 46 years later.

If you look at the red circles, you will see that these two roads have the exact same curvature. Furthermore, the pylon is visible on the right.

Aerial view comparison

The aerial photo on the left is from Robert Keppel's book Terrible Secrets: Ted Bundy on Serial Murder. The satellite image on the right is from Google Maps.

If you compare these two images, you will see that all of the landmarks match up.

Note that the photographer was facing west when he snapped the aerial picture on the left. As a result, we had to rotate the satellite image 90 degrees clockwise.

Four missing women were discovered at Bundy's dump site on Taylor Mountain.

All of the skulls showed signs of blunt-force trauma. It is likely that Bundy inflicted these injuries using a crowbar, as he often incapacitated his targets by striking them over the head.

Lynda Ann Healy's skull was never found, as the search team only managed to locate her jaw bone.

Bundy's dump site

This satellite map of Taylor Mountain highlights the exact locations where the search team discovered the remains of Bundy's victims.

Keppel said that Ball's skull was roughly 1,000 feet away from Powerline Road. However, to be precise, it was actually 505 feet.

Because of the victims involved, it became immediately clear that this was his first "burial" site.

The authorities wrongly believed that the victims' bodies were buried elsewhere

During an extensive search of the area, investigators discovered skulls, jaw bones, and clumps of human hair.

Although Bundy claimed that he dumped all of his victims' remains at the Taylor Mountain site, Keppel found this difficult to believe.

It is approximately 500–800 feet from the powerline road to the dump site. Carrying a dead body across that kind of distance would be tiring and demanding, especially on such uneven and wooded terrain.

This, coupled with the apparent absence of other body bones, led Keppel to suspect that the rest of the remains were buried elsewhere.

However, DNA testing in 2008 proved that Bundy was telling the truth. Other bones were discovered at the site. Unfortunately, it seems as though the medical examiner at the time incorrectly determined that they belonged to animals.

During prison interviews, Bundy told investigators that he severed the heads of twelve of his victims.

For example, shortly before his execution, Bundy admitted to severing the head of Georgann Hawkins and burying it at a separate location in Issaquah . Bundy said that he did this to hinder her identification and impede any future investigation into the crime.

In Keppel's book The Riverman, he claims that FBI profiler Bill Hagmaier told him that Bundy admitted to keeping "as many as four heads" at his rooming house in Seattle .

If this apartment story is true, then it raises many questions about the timeline of events.

Did Bundy keep the heads of Ball, Rancourt, Healy, and Parks from the start? Or did he retrieve them from Taylor Mountain at a later date, after they had become skeletonized? Or was this just another example of him lying?

It is the author's opinion that he may have been toying with the "hot shot" from Quantico and possibly trying to inflate his own notoriety.

Bundy claimed that he also buried Donna Manson at Taylor Mountain

Bundy claimed that he also buried Donna Gail Manson at Taylor Mountain. However, he said that he buried her body in a different area that was further along the powerline road.

Manson was Bundy's second murder victim. His decision to bury her remains in a different location suggests that his original plan was to vary his dump sites and keep his victims apart.

However, following Manson's murder, it seems as though he scrapped that plan and reverted back to using the original location.

The most likely explanation for this is that Bundy was beginning to feel less cautious. By the time he abducted his third victim, his confidence had grown, and the first signs of complacency were beginning to creep in. As a result, he no longer felt the need to make such an effort.

Typically, serial killers become more and more careless as time goes on. Interestingly, Bundy actually touched on this topic during one of his prison interviews:

"You learn what you need to kill and take care of the details. The first time you're careful. By the 30th time, you can't remember where you left the lug wrench."

Bundy was often drunk during his crimes. Therefore, his slip into overconfidence may have occurred much earlier than one might expect.

No trace of Manson has ever been found. Following Bundy's confession, two searches of the suspected site failed to turn up anything of note.

Animal predation

It is likely that animal predation led to the victims' remains being consumed and scattered across the mountainside.

The area in question is home to a number of carnivores and omnivores. These include black bears, cougars, coyotes, foxes, bobcats, and raccoons.

The last victim to be dumped at this location was Brenda Ball, who went missing on June 1st, 1974. This means that local wildlife had at least 274 days to interfere with the remains.

During his confession with Keppel, Bundy stated the following:

"If the bodies aren't there, it's because... I think... it's because the animals took everything. And where they took them, God only knows. They must have just chewed them up."

He also postulated that the skulls may have been left behind because the animals found it too difficult to break them down.

DNA testing proves the animal predation theory

In 2005, the King County Medical Examiner's Office discovered a bin full of bones pertaining to the Taylor Mountain case. Although most of these bones clearly belonged to animals, at least twelve of them were determined to be human. The bin contained at least one fibula and two tibias (lower leg bones).

Following the discovery, the authorities proceeded to contact the families of Bundy's Washington victims and ask them to provide DNA samples.

All of the families cooperated, except for the family of Lynda Ann Healy.

Healy's brother, Robert Healy, refused to cooperate on the basis that his family had closed that chapter in their lives.

In 2006, the DNA samples and bones were sent to the University of North Texas for testing.

More than two years later, the results finally came back. Four of the bones belonged to Ball, two belonged to Parks, and one belonged to Rancourt. The other five bones belonged to an unidentified individual, whom the police believe is Healy.

These DNA results support Bundy's claim that he dumped the four women's remains at Taylor Mountain.

Ted Bundy used to hike on Taylor Mountain

This police report points out that Bundy did a lot of hiking on Taylor Mountain.

Bundy clearly selected this site because he was familiar with the area. This is unsurprising, as serial killers typically operate in places where they know the lay of the land.

Google Earth

This is a Google Earth image of the site. As you can see, the entrance is very close to the West Tiger Mountain parking lot.

Robert Keppel

Keppel spoke to reporters at the site while the search was taking place:

"We keep finding more and more every day. You go into those woods and you just don't know what's in there. It's so thick, so overgrown with bushes that you could find anything... a couple of minutes from now... a couple of hours from now. It doesn't matter."

Judging by various reports, the wooded area was dark, damp, and carpeted with wet leaves. The vegetation was so thick that volunteers struggled to see more than 15 feet ahead.

Search team

This image shows the search team gathering at Taylor Mountain.

The site itself was described as being nightmarish. It was gloomy, dark, cold, and wet. One ESAR volunteer likened it to something out of a Gothic movie. It was so dark inside the woods that the team needed flashlights to examine possible remains.

This aerial photograph of the site is from 1972.

It was taken roughly two years before Bundy started using it as a killing ground.

The aerial image above was taken in March 2012, at a time when the trees had recently been logged.

Among the skeletal remains, the police found a green military-style jacket and an old lean-to shelter—a sign that someone had slept there in the past.

They also found a large clump of blonde hair, which belonged to Rancourt.

This crime scene photograph of one of the victims' skulls shows how dark and overgrown the woods were.

This location belongs to the following categories:

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Ted Bundy's Issaquah dump site

Roughly 8 miles away.

Crime Location in Issaquah, Washington

Janice Ott's house

Place of Interest in Issaquah, Washington

The park where Ted Bundy abducted Janice Ott and Denise Naslund

Roughly 11 miles away.

The street where cop killer Maurice Clemmons was shot dead

Roughly 21 miles away.

Place of Interest in Seattle, Washington

The bridge where Wendy Lee Coffield was found

Crime Location in Kent, Washington

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New Ted Bundy biopic casts lead serial killer role

Chad Michael Murray Visits The IMDb Show STUDIO CITY, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 19: Actor Chad Michael Murray visits 'The IMDb Show' on February 19, 2019 in Studio City, California. This episode of 'The IMDb Show' airs on March 28, 2019. (Photo by Rich Polk/Getty Images for IMDb) (Rich Polk/Getty Images for IMDb)

The star of “One Tree Hill” and “Riverdale,” Chad Michael Murray, has been cast as serial killer Ted Bundy in a new biopic in American Boogeyman, according to Yahoo! News.

Set for release in theaters on Aug. 16, the movie will focus on the story of Seattle homicide detective Kathleen McChesney, played by Teen Wolf’s Holland Roden, who investigated the case of the notorious serial killer.

Writer and director Daniel Farrands, a notable horror filmmaker, has made several films including “Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers” and “The Haunting of Sharon Tate.”

Ted Bundy was a serial killer who kidnapped, raped and murdered several young women during the 1970s, confessing to 30 killings in seven states.

Photos: Ted Bundy evidence photos [Warning: graphic content]

He was thought of handsome and charismatic, and would use those traits to lure women before knocking them unconscious to take them to a secluded area to rape and strangle them.

Bundy was arrested in 1975 and jailed in Utah for aggravated kidnapping and attempted criminal assault.

In 1977, Bundy was extradited to Colorado after he charged with a murder there, where he jumped out of a second story window and escaped from custody before he was caught again six days later.

In late 1977, after sawing a hole in the ceiling of his cell, Bundy piled books and clothes on his bed to simulate a sleeping body, he escaped again.

Bundy hitchhiked, caught a bus and boarded a flight to Chicago while his escape wasn’t noticed for more than 17 hours.

A month later, Bundy was in Florida where he committed three more murders before he was ultimately recaptured on February 12, 1978.

Bundy was tried and convicted of the Florida murders and sentenced to the electric chair, where he died on February 10, 1980.

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