From haunted houses and ghost tours to horror exhibits, historic cemeteries, oddities, and macabre shopping, these are some of the best spooky things to do in and around Seattle (with plenty of extra scares during Halloween season)! Whether you want ...
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One of Seattle’s quintessential Halloween attractions. Georgetown Morgue is a dark, intense walk-through haunted house with elaborate sets, scare actors, and plenty of jump scares. For an extra challenge, you can do the pitch-black Dark Maze. It’s de...
Georgetown Morgue Haunted House
Basically a farmers market for people who wish every day were Halloween. More than 150 vendors bring everything from horror art and taxidermy to crystals, tarot, flash tattoos, macabre fashion, candles, and oddities. Even better: admission is free, a...
Haunted Farmers Market
A year-round Seattle stop for anyone whose home decor leans a little spooky or gothic. This wonderfully atmospheric U-District shop has been around since 1992 and is packed with gargoyles, monsters, winged guardians, pagan and Celtic pieces, statues,...
Gargoyles Statuary
A must for horror movie lovers. MOPOP’s permanent horror exhibition features more than 50 costumes and props spanning a century of horror cinema, displayed in appropriately creepy galleries. This is less “Halloween attraction” and more pilgrimage for...
Museum of Pop Culture (MOPOP)
A massive traveling marketplace devoted to the strange, macabre, and beautifully bizarre. Expect taxidermy, preserved specimens, bones, funeral collectibles, horror art, antiques, creepy jewelry, metaphysical finds, and plenty of things you definitel...
Oddities & Curiosities Expo
Haunted cornfields are one of my favorite kinds of Halloween attraction, and Stalker Farms goes all out on the concept. Instead of a traditional indoor haunt, you’re dropped into elaborate horror storylines among dark corn trails, scare actors, creep...
Stalker Farms
This one combines basically everything I want from an October night: a farm, towering corn, darkness, woods, and people trying to scare me. The roughly 35-minute haunt uses more than 70 actors and takes you through elaborate sets, cornfields, a vorte...
Maris Farms Haunted Woods
For the person who thinks Halloween should be genuinely terrifying rather than merely cute. Fright Factory is an old-school, mostly indoor walk-through haunt known for dark corridors, detailed horror scenes, jump scares, and a much more intense atmos...
The Fright Factory Haunted House
More disturbing true crime than traditional Halloween haunt, but definitely one for the macabre-minded. This immersive Seattle exhibition explores the psychology and investigations surrounding 16+ notorious serial killers through case files, recreate...
Mind of a Serial Killer - The Experience
A peaceful, atmospheric stop for a quieter afternoon outing. This historic Capitol Hill cemetery dates to the 1800s and is filled with old monuments, towering trees, and beautiful views, making it especially atmospheric on a grey autumn day. Bruce Le...
Lake View Cemetery
Explore the darker side of Seattle history on a nighttime walking tour through Pioneer Square. Spooked in Seattle mixes local history, ghost stories, and accounts from paranormal investigations while visiting some of the neighborhood's reportedly hau...
Spooked In Seattle Ghost Tours
Part souvenir shop, part museum, and part wonderfully bizarre Seattle institution. Open since 1899, Ye Olde Curiosity Shop is packed with oddities, taxidermy, strange artifacts, curiosities, and decades of Pacific Northwest weirdness. It's an easy sp...
Ye Olde Curiosity Shop
One of Seattle's best hidden gems for lovers of the strange and macabre. This tiny curiosity shop is packed with taxidermy, bones, specimens, antiques, occult finds, art, and all kinds of bizarre objects. It feels a little like wandering into someone...
Mudlark Oddities
For the ultimate Twin Peaks autumn atmosphere, take a drive out to Snoqualmie Falls, the iconic waterfall featured in the show's opening credits. Between the falls, mist, evergreens, and looming Salish Lodge (aka the Great Northern), it feels especia...
Snoqualmie Falls
Live out your early-2000s horror nostalgia at one of the most recognizable Seattle locations from The Ring. Harbor Steps served as the exterior of Rachel and Aidan's apartment building, and you can still walk through the area today. Bonus points for ...