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Here are some more "ghost" stories I journaled from the Ghost Market Tour album I am making that my Mom & I went on last summer. The color photos are of present time, the old abandoned building and the old B&W photos were taken about 1911 during the time period when Dr. Hazzard was... well you know, or have to read the stories.
If you're interested, the journaling reads...
After our trek out of the back alley leaving Kell's Irish Pub, around the corner, up the hill, and around the corner again we arrived at the front stoop of the old Butterworth's Mortuary. This was the building had the best and creepiest ghost stories we heard all night!
We were told that the owner's of Kell's owned the entire building and have had problems leasing out the upper part on the main street. No business has lasted a complete year since the 1980's and it hasn't been leased out almost a decade.
One story was that it was once leased out as a bar and the owners and workers would come in each morning to find beer bottles smashed all over the floors as if someone had thrown them across the room.
Another story was that a new renter had opened a restaurant in this space, and late one night the chef was working alone. Allegedly he was standing on a latter replacing some burnt out light bulbs. He claimed to have watched a legion of ghosts come down the stairs and headed towards him, and that the ghosts marched right under & through the ladder he was standing on.
The chef freaked out, and ran out of the building. He quit his job right then and there as he never came back to work again.
Then we were informed that the last occupant's signed a 7 year lease agreement with the owner of Kell's to open a Chinese restaurant. One day about 7 months into the 7 year lease the new tenants were gone. They just packed up and left town. No notice, no word… no one knows why, but they were just gone. They were never to be heard from again.
Was it the spirits that spooked them so bad as to run them off? Nobody knows, but it makes one wonder after all the hauntings that have been claimed over the years.
Aside from the “ghost stories” out tour guide Greg brings up the story of Linda Hazzard again. Though she lived in Olalla and her offices were in Seattle we were told how her story ties into the “Market” tour. Her story is affiliated with the Butterworth Mortuary. She had brought so many of her victims (a.k.a. patients) to the Butterworth Mortuary that she received a 15% discount for each body.
These old photo's of the Butterworth Mortuary were taken around the time period of Linda Hazzard's scandalous era.
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