With Halloween coming up and all of the haunted attractions starting to open for business, a lot of those attractions have a long and questionable history that have yet to be proven, but can still scare the daylights out of you. 

Georgetown Morgue

The Georgetown Morgue is one of the many Halloween attractions in Seattle. The morgue has an alleged 43 years of spooky history, including break-ins, mysterious deaths, and stolen bodies. One alleged instance of body snatching involves the body of jazz trumpeter ‘Figgy,’ stolen from the balming table.  

The following day, Figgy’s wife found his dismembered body on her front lawn; she had his body brought back to the morgue to be put back together for the public viewing at his funeral.  

The Georgetown Morgue was originally Kolling Mortuary Services of Seattle, built in 1928 and sold to the Broughton Brothers in 1939. It was owned by brothers Charles and Henry, who created the Boughton Brothers Funeral Services. 

Allegedly, both brothers each met unusual deaths. A 6.7m earthquake  in 1965 caused the building’s entire third floor, taking Charles with it. Henry met his end three years later, in 1968, during a raid on the morgue. Allegedly, a few armed assailants infiltrated the building and gathered up the eight staff members, including Henry. They were tied up and forced into the furnace of the crematorium. 

The massacre was what led to the Broughton Brothers Funeral Service to close down as they had no living staff. 

While the earthquake that is claimed to have taken out Charles is well documented, records of the attack on the morgue cannot be confirmed. The ThunderWord was unable to locate an obituary for the brothers other than the Georgetown Morgue website.  

In 1969, the city of Seattle took ownership of the building after the Broughton brothers’ family failed to pay for the loan. The building underwent reconstruction and was turned into the infamous Georgetown Morgue.

Nightfall Orphanage

Another infamous haunt Nightfall Orphanage is a charity that is based on the west side of Seattle in a high end neighborhood. They have different attractions for young kids and anyone who doesn’t like jumpscares. Little frights start earlier in the day when it isn’t too dark, they have the spooky sound effects going on and with the Bastion Wands for younger guests who want to channel courage and even convince the nightcrawlers to be their friends,

The Nightfall Orphanage encourages the guests to bring up to six cans of edible food to add to their donations, all of the money they get from the tickets gets donated as well. Last year they had donated $12,000 to Washington’s national park fund and 750lb of food to West Seattle food bank. 

Their website states, “Nightlore revolves around an ancient, shadowy world where light and darkness wage an eternal struggle. At the heart of this mythos is The Bastion, a realm of dreams and hope, safeguarded from the encroaching Starless Sky, a domain ruled by the malevolent Elder God, The Awoken One, Bathuzel. Holding the barriers of these two realms apart is an in-between place, a remnant of creation called The Radiant Twilight. 

“From secret orders like The Circle of Dusk and The Order of the Eastern Sky to haunted places like Nightfall Manor and the cursed Grand Monarch Hotel, dark forces plot the unraveling of reality. Legendary figures like Fredrick Nightfall, his strange heirs, and other influential occultists seek to fulfill The Great Work—an apocalyptic endgame where time will be undone. As malevolent beings like The Drid and Horrors from the Starless Sky seek to conquer the Radiant Twilight, only the Bastion and the last flickers of light stand in their way.”

Fright House Station

Further south, the Fright House Station in Tacoma was created by the Valour Designs team and was founded in 1998 The building is mostly underground and at some point was used to store corpses during World War II.

Similar to Nightfall Orphanage, the Fright House Station has a wand of courage to help you if a monster scares you, to activate it you have to shout “Back, evil thing!” and they will leave you alone.

They also have a family friendly night where they have a version of the show without the jumpscares. During this night and only this night they have multiple lights on and low music playing, you can dress up and go trick or treating and get candy from the scare actors.

Stalkers Farm

Stalkers Farm, in Snohomish, has multiple sections that you can adventure through. They have rental campfires where you can sit around and tell spooky stories, roasting marshmallows – as long as you bring them yourselves. 

One of the many sections at Stalkers Farm haunted attraction is something called “The Midway.” It’s a section where you can walk around and play carnival games, watch live entertainment, and try unique food vendors. They have a corn maze where you can go through when it’s bright out or when you’re ready for a break of jumpscares. There’s no actors ready to jump at you, but it is a maze, so you can actually get lost.