For over the last 100 years, the Empress Hotel has been frequented by royalty, celebrities and movie stars…and ghosts.
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The Curse of Dead Man’s Chair
This supposed cursed chair has many names. Dead Man’s Chair. The Chair of Death. Busby’s Stoop Chair. But all names tell the tale of a murderer who cursed his favorite chair: anyone who dared sit upon it would be fated with untimely deaths.
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The Mystery of the Sodder Children
On December 24th of 1945, tragedy struck the Sodder family when a fire killed five of their ten children…or did it?
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Victorian Ghost Histories of Christmas Pasts
Charles Dickens wasn’t the only one who wrote Christmas ghost stories. Where did they come from? Why Christmas ghost stories and not Halloween?
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The Bender Family
Before HH Holmes there was the lesser known Bender family…
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The Fresno Nightcrawler
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…a pair of pants? This isn’t your every day cryptid, but it does seem to resemble your everyday clothing.
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Lizzie Borden Part Two: The Trial & Hauntings
How would you feel if your parents’ skulls were presented to you in a court room as you were tried for their murders? Not exactly the definition of a pleasant afternoon.
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Lizzie Borden Part One: The Murders
One of the most infamous murders in American history, the brutal slaying of Andrew and Abby Borden. But what really happened?
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Eat Your Heart Out, Mercy Brown: America’s First Vampire
Before there was Dracula, there was the real life, well documented vampire of New England, Mercy Brown. Or at least that’s what some liked to call her.
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Interview: Discussing Seattle’s Forgotten Serial Killer
Kim sits down with author and detective Cloyd Steiger to talk about the lesser known serial killer from the PNW, Gary Gene Grant.
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