Haunted things to do in Seattle

Looking for haunted places & dark-history spots in Seattle? These 8 are the genuinely strange ones — Bill Speidel's Underground Tour, Lake View Cemetery, Northern State Recreation Area (Northern State Hospital ruins) and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Seattle they'd never find on their own.

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Bill Speidel's Underground Tour After the Great Fire of 1889 leveled downtown, Seattle rebuilt one to two stories higher, leaving the origina… Pioneer Square, Seattle
Lake View Cemetery Founded in 1872 as the Seattle Masonic Cemetery, Lake View crowns Capitol Hill just north of Volunteer Park a… Capitol Hill, Seattle
Northern State Recreation Area (Northern State Hospital ruins) Northern State Hospital opened in 1912 as a mental institution on grounds landscaped by the Olmsted Brothers,… Sedro-Woolley, Washington
Manresa Castle Built in 1892 by Port Townsend's first mayor, Charles Eisenbeis, this 30-room brick mansion later served as a… Port Townsend, Washington
Hat 'n' Boots at Oxbow Park A 44-foot-wide cowboy hat and two 22-foot cowboy boots, once billed as the largest of their kind in America,… Georgetown, Seattle
The Fremont Rocket A 53-foot Cold War-era rocket juts out from the corner of a Fremont building as if mid-launch, bearing the ne… Fremont, Seattle
Iron Goat Trail / Wellington Ghost Town This gentle railroad-grade trail follows the abandoned Great Northern route over Stevens Pass to the ghost-to… Stevens Pass (near Skykomish), WA
Northern State Recreation Area (former asylum grounds) This sprawling recreation area sits on the grounds of the old Northern State Hospital, a mental institution t… Sedro-Woolley, WA