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The Friends of Georgetown History is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the history a G
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10/01/2024

Our guides will bring the ghostly stories of the Haunted History Tour to life, leading you through the spooky streets of Georgetown, regaling you with historic stories as you wander. Hope you got your tickets already - we’re sold out!

09/28/2024

🔦Performer spotlight roundup part 2!🔦 Marisa Figueroa is the roadhouse proprietor, Si Daniels is betting it all, and Allan Phillips will remind us the importance of voting in this year’s Haunted History Tour! 👻🎲💀🥪🍺

When not serving as a tour guide or player in the tour, Si splits his time haunting Seattle’s Hillman City neighborhood and summoning spirits in the taverns of old town San Antonio. His day job is topmost font wrangler for a local tech company.

Allan moved to Georgetown in the late 1990s and was very instrumental in the creation of the tour. He has been a tour guide, and has appeared as several ghosts over the years. This year he will be reminding us all to vote in the local election as a savvy politician.

Marisa, owner of Bloom Bistro, will join us this year to hand out a drink and a sandwich during the chaos of the Roadhouse Ramblers.

09/26/2024

🔦Performer spotlight roundup! 🔦 Brian Dougherty as Mayor Gill, Leese Cathey as the Castle ghost, and Andy Bookwalter as George Tucker return to the Haunted History Tour! Don’t miss this classic crew from previous Haunted history Tours!

Brian Dougherty, 20-year resident of Georgetown, is an avid lover of history. His engaging smile and warm personal approach have audiences gathering closer to listen to his character’s musings. He has been a part of the tour since 2006 in multiple facets from tour guide, ghostly greeter, production crew, and beloved bar owner, Jules Maes.

Leese Cathey has participated with us as a ghostly greeter, tarot reader, ghost whisperer and last year she portrayed Max the bartender. She has the uncanny ability to commune with the spirits and will let us meet from Mary who hears and sees all that goes on at the Gessner Manson.

Andy Bookwalter and sons have been involved in the Haunted History Tour since 2019 where they created an ensemble skit focused on the Tuberculosis Sanitorium located at the Poor Farm and Hospital. That was followed by the Potter’s Field disinterment in 2021, and in 2022 they reenacted the accident that caused George Tucker’s death in 1908.

09/25/2024

🔦 Performer spotlight!🔦 Toby Joseph, Sr. brings Storytelling to this year's Haunted History Tour. Join us! Tickets here: https://ghht.bpt.me/

Toby Joseph, Sr. is a two spirited Native American of Jicarilla Apache and Tabeguache Ute decent from Manitou Springs, Colorado. Toby has over 25 years of working in Coast Salish Tribal communities supporting indigenous sustainability through social-economic development, and spiritual growth through indigenous pathways. Believing in a Cultural system Toby strongly believes that storytelling is essential because it creates identity from an internalized place, highlighting who people are rather than what society expects them to be. Toby believes that Storytelling is the framework for wellness that can provide people the opportunity to better understand and express their own personal narratives.

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09/23/2024

🔦Performer spotlight🔦 Orion returns to the Haunted History Tour, 🎸 reverberating every piece of metal in the Steam Plant with sound (and that’s a lot of metal!)

Several tours are sold out -- grab your tickets now! https://ghht.bpt.me/

Orion combines live instruments, walls of sound, vocal samples, and modular synthesis to create sonic landscapes with a side of dance metal. Since 2021, their sonic seance has infused the Steam Plant segment of Georgetown Haunted History Tour with the melodies of the machines.

More info: instagram.com/orion_noiro_orion

09/20/2024

🔦Performer Spotlight! 🔦 Get to the Georgetown Haunted History Tour early to let the flickering images capture you and set the mood before you embark on the tour.

Tickets 🎟🎟 https://ghht.bpt.me/

PJ Edwards has been projecting to the celluloid screen for audiences all over Puget Sound. He has been part of the haunted tour after party since 2009, when he showed Nosferatu to a delighted audience. He has returned year after year and curated a mixed media project which was featured on the tour the past two years. Brian has been instrumental in networking with other creatives and bringing them into the spooky world of the Haunted History Tour.

09/18/2024

Get your spooky season started with the Georgetown Haunted History Tour! Oct 3, 4, and 5. 👻🎃💀

Tickets are selling fast!
Sold out shows! Thursday 7:30 pm and Friday 6:30 pm.
Saturday tours are nearly full!

Tickets: 🎟 https://ghht.bpt.me/
More info: www.foghi.org

09/18/2024

🔦Performer Spotlight🔦 Oroki Productions, LLC will captivate again with aerials and acrobatics on the Haunted History Tour! Experience their incredible performances, embodying stories through movement throughout the Georgetown Steam Plant.

Don’t miss out on this energy and excitement! Get your tickets to the Haunted History Tour today! 🎟 https://ghht.bpt.me/ ✨💥

Having performed circus arts in San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle, Michael Dang is a masterful Creative Director and collaborator. His work includes Alice in Shadowland, a collaboration between circus and the q***r visual arts duo, Shadow Girls Cult. Aside from these creative ventures, he provides classes and private instruction at Georgetown’s School of Acrobatic and New Circus Arts and SODO’s Emerald City Trapeze Arts. Ever dreamed of flying? Work with Michael and take a class! www.Orokiproductions.com

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Georgetown Steam Plant

09/17/2024

🔦Performer Spotlight!!🔦 What was a roadhouse like in the early 1900s?? 🍺🪕👯‍♀️🎲 Find out as Brian brings to life stories of the raucous and historic roadhouse on the Georgetown Haunted History Tour.

Tickets: https://ghht.bpt.me/

Brian Kennon, Georgetown Heights Duo, has been a part of the tour since 2010. He is a charismatic artist who has a talent for crowd engagement and storytelling through song. He has played Mayor John Anton Mueller, banker Julius Horton as well as undertaker, Mr. Herbert Noice.

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09/15/2024

🔦Performer Spotlight!!🔦 We’re thrilled that the Shadow Girls Cult is joining the Georgetown Haunted History tour again this year! They are bringing their projection artistry to the industrial backdrop of the Georgetown Steam Plant. 🎟🎟Get your ticket for the tour today! https://ghht.bpt.me/

Shadow Girls Cult is a q***r shadow puppetry and projections duo based in Seattle. Their practice involves a unique blend of shadow puppetry and live animation techniques. Using overhead projectors, human silhouettes, and other analog technology, they create an engaging and cinematic viewing experience for the audience.

Check out their work and upcoming performances! linktr.ee/shadowgirlscult

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Shadow Girls Cult
Georgetown Steam Plant

09/13/2024

👋👋 Lend a hand and volunteer with us! We love bringing you tales of history and hauntings as part of the Georgetown Haunted History tour. It takes a lot of work and we’d love your help. Please join us! Sign up here: https://signup.com/go/BFOmDLg

🎟🎟 Reminder that tickets for the tour are on sale now! Oct. 3, 4, and 5. https://ghht.bpt.me

09/02/2024

Tickets!
https://m.bpt.me/event/6378390

08/26/2024

Join us for creepy stories at the Gessner Mansion, performances in the Steam Plant, Indigenous storytelling, a visit to the funeral home, all brought to you by the Georgetown community during spooky season’s premier tradition - the Georgetown Haunted History Tour.

Tours: Oct. 3, 4, and 5
Tickets on sale: Sept. 1

More info https://www.foghi.org

08/19/2024

Best part of late summer…Getting excited for the 21st Annual Georgetown Haunted History Tour! 🌞👻

🗓 Mark your calendars! Oct. 3, 4, and 5. Tickets on sale Sept. 1 at midnight. More info: https://www.foghi.org.

08/04/2024

8pm Sun Aug 4th meet us at Oxbow Hat n Boots for a free 16mm film showing. Bring your own snacks, drink chair or blanket. See you there!

08/03/2024

Bring your own chair, blanket snacks and drinks!

08/02/2024

Join us at Oxbow Hat n Boots Sunday Aug 4 at 5pm for music, cupcakes and to learn about our organization. Plus there will be live music!

03/28/2024

Have you heard about "ghost corner stores"? Georgetown once had 6 local stores dotted around the neighborhood. Today, we can point to two on Carleton Avenue. The Buhl Grocery in the 6200 block was home to Emily Buhl who invited residents to register to vote in the 1920 Seattle elections, all the while selling bread, eggs and penny candy. This example has been a private home for a very long time. The Carleton Avenue Grocery has gone through multiple owners since opening in 1911, it was the oldest corner store in Seattle until 2016, and will reopen as Bloom Bistro & Grocery this spring.

Seattle’s goal is to reduce driving so much that we can one day run most of our errands in our own neighborhoods. And corner stores – could play a significant role in that. Turns out – there are ‘Ghost Corner Stores’ hidden all over the city – that could come back to life under the city....

12/06/2023

Meet us at the Oxbow

12/02/2023

It's the most magical time of the year --- for cozy 👻 stories around the 🔥🎄🔮
We welcome you to get involved in the 2024 Georgetown Haunted History Tour - connect at our 🔗 in bio or visit Foghi.org

11/13/2023

Washington State History Museum is sharing recently digitized photos from the Asahel Curtis collection

You can learn more about the Asahel Curtis project at https://bit.ly/3zGjli1

Hopefully we will find a lost Asahel photo of the Potter's Field cemetery in Georgetown in the collection!

11/13/2023

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98108

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Be part of the spookiest show in Georgetown! Seeking some local talent: October 5-6-7 and 13-14 1. "Airplane crash simulator" involving brief use of flashlights and sounds - non speaking behind the scenes role 2. Dazed inhabitants of the destroyed Lester Apartments looking for lost pets and wedding ring, tragic 1950s ghostly attire 3. The ghost of a local poet, loudly reading iconique poem out a window 4. Random ghosts wandering S Warsaw St and Carleton Ave, any era or style 5. Many other fun volunteer jobs from box office to parking to tarot/palm readers: Bring this one-of-a-kind event to life! Help with set-up, box office, parking, break-down, etc. Volunteers get to see the show & a 2023 GHHT T-shirt! Pick your day(s) and role(s) https://signup.com/mobileweb/2.0/vspot.html?activitykey=602005436075#choose_event_page Stipends available 🔮 we love to pay local talent! Contact [email protected] for more info!

We are getting closer to figuring out where the old Potter's Field and Crematorium were located on today's landscape. Join us for public events this summer to learn more! Research and more details available at www foghi.org

Find out what happened to the 3,260 souls, exhumed from the Duwamish Cemetery in 1912 to make way for the Duwamish River straightening and dredging. Video clip from the 2022 Georgetown Haunted History Tour, inside the Georgetown Steam Plant. Register for the live Zoom presentation here: https://tinyurl.com/2p8cp8km

Feeling gloom in your tomb? Have you missed us? Join Friends of Georgetown History #taphophiles next week for a lively "Lunch and Learn" with FOGHI researchers about Georgetown's "lost" Duwamish Cemetery, also known as the "Potter's Field." On February 6th at Noon we will share a live presentation on Zoom that includes the cemetery location, who was buried there, and the additional research we hope to do this year. The event will be recorded to share later. Join us - learn more at the Link in Bio! Thanks to the King County Archives for the chance to view these original disinterment and cremation records from 1912. And to Elke for making this clip! Stay tuned for more events and activities in 2023 coming soon!

Join a festive night of ghost whispering in the Georgetown Steam Plant. Tickets: https://m.bpt.me/event/5630801 Reviving holiday traditions of telling spooky stories on the longest nights of the year. With Ross Allison from Spooked in Seattle. Explore the historic Georgetown Steam Plant, built in 1906, on a guided tour. Try PNTA's Ghost Hunting kits (the Classic and the Estes Method kit). Talk with local Spooked in Seattle author Ross Allison about what spirits may still linger in the historic building and grounds. More information at www.foghi.org Tickets are still available at the link: