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The Irish pub that serves spirits along with the beer: Ghosts haunt 1900s mortuary-turned-bar
By Michael Zennie
25 March 2012
Before Kells Irish Pub in Seattle became a charming family-run bar, it served as a waiting room for the afterlife -- a mortuary purpose-built to handle flood of dead bodies produced by plague, mining accidents and violence in the early 1900s.
The owners of the bar say a piece of that dark history has clung to their humble establishment, meaning the haunted pub serves up a host of spirits, along with pints of beer.
Bartenders, patrons and ghost hunters all claim to have seen specters of ghosts at the pub late at night.
Dark past: Kells Irish Pub is a simple, unassuming bar today, but it stands in the place where a mortuary once handled thousands of Seattle's dead
Inexplicable events have occurred that the owners say can only be attributed to other-worldly forces.
Mirrors have shattered, plaster falls off walls as if on cue and glasses have slid mysteriously to the floor.
The pub has been a beacon for ghost hunters in Seattle for years -- thanks to numerous reports of paranormal activity and the building's black past.
Butterworth building 1910
Death's waiting room: the Butterworth building, seen here in 1910, was the first purpose-built mortuary in Seattle, designed to handle the influx of dead of disease and disaster
On All Saints Day in 2005, Karen McAleese says she saw something she still cannot explain walk through the kitchen of Kells pub, which her brother owns.
'He was a tall man who looked like he was part black, with a suit jacket on,' she reported to the Seattle Times.
'He had very thin hands. He walked to the end of the bar and just kind of faded.'
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Ghost Adventures: Adolescent Figure at Kell's Irish Pub
Uploaded by TravelChannelTV on Dec 13, 2010
While investigating Kell's Irish Pub in Seattle, Washington, the crew comes across a creepy adolescent figure at the top of the stairs. Ghost Adventures is all new Friday at 9pm E/P on Travel Channel. Visit: travelchannel.com/ghostadventures?refcd=ga-yt
The Irish pub that serves spirits along with the beer: Ghosts haunt 1900s mortuary-turned-bar
By Michael Zennie
25 March 2012
Before Kells Irish Pub in Seattle became a charming family-run bar, it served as a waiting room for the afterlife -- a mortuary purpose-built to handle flood of dead bodies produced by plague, mining accidents and violence in the early 1900s.
The owners of the bar say a piece of that dark history has clung to their humble establishment, meaning the haunted pub serves up a host of spirits, along with pints of beer.
Bartenders, patrons and ghost hunters all claim to have seen specters of ghosts at the pub late at night.
Dark past: Kells Irish Pub is a simple, unassuming bar today, but it stands in the place where a mortuary once handled thousands of Seattle's dead
Inexplicable events have occurred that the owners say can only be attributed to other-worldly forces.
Mirrors have shattered, plaster falls off walls as if on cue and glasses have slid mysteriously to the floor.
The pub has been a beacon for ghost hunters in Seattle for years -- thanks to numerous reports of paranormal activity and the building's black past.
Butterworth building 1910
Death's waiting room: the Butterworth building, seen here in 1910, was the first purpose-built mortuary in Seattle, designed to handle the influx of dead of disease and disaster
On All Saints Day in 2005, Karen McAleese says she saw something she still cannot explain walk through the kitchen of Kells pub, which her brother owns.
'He was a tall man who looked like he was part black, with a suit jacket on,' she reported to the Seattle Times.
'He had very thin hands. He walked to the end of the bar and just kind of faded.'
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2120147/Haunted-Irish-pub-sits-site-1900s-Seattle-mortuary.html#ixzz1qRp0swNk
Ghost Adventures: Adolescent Figure at Kell's Irish Pub
Uploaded by TravelChannelTV on Dec 13, 2010
While investigating Kell's Irish Pub in Seattle, Washington, the crew comes across a creepy adolescent figure at the top of the stairs. Ghost Adventures is all new Friday at 9pm E/P on Travel Channel. Visit: travelchannel.com/ghostadventures?refcd=ga-yt