Mercedes Yeager has been a tour guide in Seattle for over ten years. The Market Ghost Tours were started by her father (the Mayor of Pike Place Market) and Sheila Lyon (Market Magic Shop). Since the age of 7, her family has worked in the Market. She has researched each ghost story, relying heavily on Municipal Archives, photographs and newspaper accounts of past events.
Along with Mercedes, there are several tour guides who each offer a unique way of looking at the Market. The tour is not scripted and each guide lends their own insights independently to the events described in the Market. A ghost hunter, a medium, two lawyers, an actress, and two ministers - all are tour guides with the ghost tour. So we can tell you ghost stories, perform a marriage and draw up a contract. It makes for a very interesting evening, whomever you end up with.
Our tour guides are standing at the Gum Wall for every tour, whether or not we have reservations, so if you walk up you will find us there. (Please arrive 10 minutes early).
Each ghost tour company in Seattle offers very different tours, so if you are ghost tour fan, you can take all three. Michele and I learned, while traveling in the South this March, that Seattle actually has far less ghost tour companies than other cities. Savannah blew our minds with how many tours offer ghost stories - and we went on as many as possible. We went on tours in Savannah, St Augustine and New Orleans - all high on the list of haunted places in the US. Yes, we learned a lot, especially how to run a great tour company.
Expect us, every tour, at the Gum Wall.
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