There's something undeniably eerie about the American Pacific Northwest.

A simple Google search brings up pages and pages of books filled with ghost stories from the region.

Whether it be the typically gloomy weather, the millions of acres of forest with who knows what lurking within,

or restless spirits from manifest destiny gone wrong.

The Pacific Northwest is fertile ground for the supernatural.

In today's episode, I'm going to be focusing on a beloved and surprisingly haunted institution.

It's located in Seattle, Washington, the Pike Place Market. On August 17, 1907,

about a dozen farmers set up their stalls in the four-block boardwalk that the Seattle City

Council used to set up a new public market, one that would offer cheap goods to Seattleites.

The Pike Place market was an immediate hit.

That November, the first building at the market was built, funded by Frank Goodwin,

who co-owned a real estate business at Pike Place.

This building had space for 76 vendors.

Over the next decade, more buildings were constructed, and in the

Great Depression, the market's commitment to low prices brought even more business. But it started

to go down when supermarkets cropped up in the 40s and 50s. The 60s all seemed lost for the

market. But Seattleites rallied around their public market with a Save the Market campaign.

The campaign succeeded when on November 2, 1971, citizens of Seattle voted to establish a 17-acre historic district, one that included the market.

The city created the public development authority to restore the market to its former glory.

Since then, the market has only grown.

It's now home to nearly 500 vendors.

But of course, there is much more to the history of Pike Place Market.

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