22nd Annual Georgetown Haunted History Tour

Seattle’s oldest neighborhood has seen its fair share of rogues, revelry and restless spirits — and for more than two decades, the Georgetown Haunted History Tour has been digging them back up.

Running Oct. 8-10, this 90-minute walking tour isn’t your typical haunted house with jump scares. Instead, it’s a theatrical stroll through Georgetown’s past, where community actors resurrect figures like scandal-soaked Mayor Hiram Gill and Chief of Police Charles Wappenstein, while storytellers share tales that are eerie, irreverent and sometimes unsettlingly true.

This year’s tour leans more deeply into Indigenous history, with stories told by Indigenous voices and a new Native Vendor’s Market at the Seattle Drum School of Music (open to everyone whether or not you snag tour tickets). Expect handmade goods, history and maybe a ghost or two lingering nearby.

Over the years, the Georgetown Haunted History Tour has become one of Seattle’s can’t-miss Halloween traditions — equal parts history lesson, community theater and spectral spectacle. Guided this year by the vision of director Toby Joseph Sr. and the volunteer-run Friends of Georgetown History, the tour is about more than bumps in the night; it’s about learning from the past, living in the present and thinking toward the future (all while wandering through one of Seattle’s quirkiest neighborhoods after dark).