Apparition on Video - Pike Place Market Investigation (Seattle, WA) - The Market

This capture inspired us to create Washington State Paranormal Group (W.A.P.S.), and we consider this to be our very first investigation.

We were visiting Pike Place Market and we were up by the stairs next to the guys who toss the fish (at the bottom of these stairs is The Alibi Room Restaurant & Bar, the area across from the Market Theater enterance), when suddenly you can see, below the stairs, a ghostly figure walking across the screen.

This unknown apparition walks right into the wall located at the bottom of the stairs, which we can't explain. If this is a real person, why is it all cloudy and you cant see their legs, then disappear? And if it was a person, there is no way they could disappear out of frame like that due to the wall at the bottom of the stairs. It is interesting to see this figure "form" before your very eyes...

We didn't see anything at all down the stairs when we were filming; no one walked by, as this was filmed when Pike Place Market was closed. We didn't notice this figure until we watched the video for the first time waiting for the Seattle Bremerton ferry.

We apologize for the horrible editing as this was our very first video.

We have shared this video with Mercedes Yaeger, who hosts the Pike Place Market ghost tours, and she also can't explain it. (http://www.seattleghost.com)

Ben Hansen and Larry Caughlan from Syfy's tv show "Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files" have also viewed the video. Thank you Ben and Larry for viewing this and messaging us back via Twitter and fan chats! (http://www.syfy.com/factorfaked/)

We have gone back to this location numerous times to try and re-create the strange figure we caught. These are the re-creations we have tried, and none of them duplicated this:

- Flashlight
- Car light
- Video light from video recorder
- Walked by with a bright white t-shirt

We hope to create a video showing you, the viewer, our re-creations, to document and show that we can't re-create this strange apparition.

Our Website: http://www.w-a-p-s.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/waghosthunters

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[misagapi18]

Not for one minute do I think this is a flashlight (given the time of day) We went down there and tested the lights. One, the light that appears travels slowly at above waist level. My first thought was a scooter. (I do believe in ghosts, I also like to debunk things) The height of the light and that of a scooter's head beam don't match up. The other weird thing is that there is metal at the doorframe in several locations that should provide for an intensity of light as it passes by.

[natedowgd]

@misagapi18 Thank you for trying to re-create this as well! Any help we receive is greatly appreciated. We're not sure what other experiments to run...

[mjbj90]

Um, I worked security at PPM for 5 years. There's a opening to an alley and a bar at the bottom of those stairs. At approx 6pm when the market closes I'm sure there were spirits involved, just no ghosts.

[natedowgd]

@mjbj90 Correct, the bar (The Alibi room) is located directly straight in front of the stairs. What's weird is this unknown figure walks right into the wall at the bottom of these stairs. The Alibi room enterance isn't on this wall; it is simply only a wall.

[sundeana]

i see two body figures. the mom and daughter

[natedowgd]

@sundeana 2 body figures? Interesting...

[docwimz]

Looks to me like a guy in a teeshirt, probably coming out of the bar

[DKHellsing]

Idk... That could have easily been a car driving by, reflecting light or something... Do what TAPS does and try to re-create it.

[harpertasche]

Very interesting!  See Neil McNeill's YouTube video about his paranormal courses at Edmonds Community College -- this is exactly the kind of anomalous evidence discussed in class.

[vansgirl187]

that was strange..

[ctchampagne]

Yes, the white, moving dot in the blurry video must be a ghost. I can't imagine what else it could possibly be except a ghost. No other possible explanation. ;D

[JenniferSmithinWA]

I have just started a show for youtube called, Washington's Most Haunted. You can check out my youtube stuff. I haven't done much for the show yet. Maybe we could get together, and do some paranormal investigations?

[crazyforcakee]

maybe its some person down there whos far away from the entrance from the alley carrying some sort of light ....who knos

[crazyforcakee]

im scared 2 go in the pike place market now O_O also i read thi article saying pike place was built on top of an ancient Native American burial so

[iwuvcarpets]

the next time i go there im going to bring a camera...

[Lajuun]

The woman of the bead store there told me there was a little girl who died there way before she put her shop up. I don't remember the whole story, but people should ask her about the ghost.

[irrmua]

i took a photo down them same stairs and got somthing on the right side at the bottom of the stairs there

[1958boomergirl]

I didn't see a thing!