Do you believe in ghosts? If you do, you're not alone.  Those who work at Seattle's famous Pike Place Market swear it's haunted.

A new poll says nearly one in four people say they've seen a ghost or felt its presence.
This is the time of year where things come out of the dark and into the light at Pike Place Market. In fact, lots of people insist it's here where they see ghosts.
SEATTLE - It's said to be one of the most haunted places in Seattle, yet most people only associate it with fresh produce and flowers.

This being the Halloween season, it's time again to feel the presence and talk about several ghosts stories floating around the Pike Place Market.

For decades, it's been one of Seattle's most popular gathering places. "Ghosts go where people go," this phrase leads the market's "Ghost Tour."
"The first ghost is right here by the Pig. It's up in the old Goodwin Library."
It's rumored that Arthur Goodwin, the market's second manager, still haunts his old office space. But when you go downstairs, things get really interesting.
We all know Pike Place Market is the heartbeat of Seattle, bustling with energy, fresh foods, flowers and according to some, ghosts. "It's the time of year people report seeing a lot of ghosts in the market," said a film researcher and self-described storyteller. When the ghosts show up, he goes to work. People often see a man dancing high up in the air inside an atrium. That man is believed to be the ghost of Arthur Goodwin - he designed the Market's interior in 1909. His office was next to a dance hall. "Right up the stairs is the ghost of the 'Snappy Dancer."  He haunts a space that used to be a ballroom.
"When people see him they see him dancing on thin air, they see an aberration of a man dancing with top hat. He's jolly and dancing where there is no floor today." There have been countless sightings of Goodwin. He's very protective of the space, but even more sightings of children are made.
The market's lower levels provide all kinds of tales. "The 'Bead Zone' has a very mischievous little boy that runs around the shop and moves things."
Shopkeeper stands at her wall of necklaces and recalls several times when the necklaces came off one by one, and fell to the floor. She meticulously sorts all the beads at closing every night. "And every morning we come in, and there are like at least three or four beads that belong to a space adjoining," she says. It's believed that a young boy lives in a bead shop in the underbelly of the Market. Store owners have named him "Jacob". They believe he worked in the stables that were adjacent to the building. "For some reason he's attracted to these beads. I've seen with my own eyes these beads go flying across the room.
After hearing repeated ghosts sightings, she dug into history and the historical context of the sightings. Now, Yaeger is not just a believer. Every day she gives ghost tours at the Market. "There's no way to explain it," says owner of Grandma's Attic, a gift and collectibles store who says just two weeks ago two miniature mugs from a glass case mysteriously disappeared. "There is no way those cups could leave here!" she said.

Or is there? When she was dusting a shelf on the other side of her shop she found them. The mugs have names on them: Arney on one, Eileen on the other. Yaeger wonders if it was the work of children ghosts named Arney and Eileen.

There are other ghost stories at the Market. Chief Seattle's daughter is said to roam the market. Margaret believes she saw her.
"I saw kind of a black shadow with long hair and I was so freaked out," she says.

Belief is the most haunted place in the state is the site of Seattle's first mortuary at First and Virginia. "There was so much pain there," she said. 1,500 children died there from the pandemic flu."  It's just off Post Alley, right above Kell's. Restaurants have come and gone, and none of them seem to last too long. Maybe it's because the space used to be said mortuary. "There are 14 ghosts in this one space,"  "Thirteen that are just fine, and one who's very, very angry."

The last tenant, Fire and Ice, has already posted a 'for sale' sign. Maybe they had an experience like the previous tenant. "All the wine bottles behind the bar started going across the room and smashing on the ground, just like bullets out of a gun, boom boom boom."
 Whether you're a non-believer, a ghost hunter or just like a good ghost story, the market is the place to be.