Seattle is not unique in it's many stories of ghosts, every city shares stories. Seattle is unique however in that it went through major Urban renewal for 30 years beginning after the Great fire in 1889. Some believe that it is the movement of earth, structures, and graves that create Seattle's many stories. This could be true, with the disruption of organic material comes the presence of ghosts. If ghosts are attached to the earth, the wood, the stones of early Seattle then we are certainly surrounded in Downtown.

A man has been seen throughout the theater, at times sitting and watching the shows. Supposedly he died in a horrific accident that either involved a system of lights falling on him or an elevator car falling down a shaft on top of him.

Years ago, a group of staff members held a seance in the Moore Theater trying to contact the spirits of the building. They were all fired for the attempt. Supposedly the Moore has several ghosts. Most common is a young boy that haunts the first floor.

On the Northwest side of Greenlake, close to 99, there is the ghost of a young girl who drowned there, murdered by her father.

A woman is heard and occasionally seen in the InterUrban Building at 2nd and Yesler. This building was once home to the Yokohama Medical Clinic, a bogus clinic in the early 1900's run by Violet McNeil and her boyfriend. They would stand on the corner of 2nd and Yesler and offer free medical examinations to passerbys. They dressed in Japanese attire and offered Eastern medicine at their clinic. Their cures were salves and tinctures that masked true illnesses. At that time it was thought that medicine had to taste bad or cause discomfort when used, so their ingredients included strong astringents like cayenne pepper.