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Daylight Savings Time, Haunted Houses & More Spooky News

The top Seattle news stories you should be reading today

By Lauren Mang October 31, 2014

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Happy Halloween, everyone!

The Capitol Hill Seattle Blog has rounded up its 23 most spookiest posts ever. They include some of the “best tales of mystery and paranormal activity from around Capitol Hill from the CHS archives.” Enjoy…if you dare.

If you feel like listening to some scary tunes on this rainy Halloween afternoon, USA Today put together a Spotify playlist with the top ten most-played Halloween songs. Number one on the list? Michael Jackson’s Thriller, naturally.

Don’t forget that we turn back our clocks one hour this weekend. Like it or hate it, Daylight Savings Time doesn’t seem to be going anywhere anytime soon. (Unless you live in Arizona or parts of Indiana, which don’t observe the clock-changing practice.) MyNorthwest.com takes a closer look at the much-maligned, twice-a-year ritual.

Monday night, two employees reported that they witnessed a man with a rifle in the Everett Boeing plant. After searching the premises and finding no such man, police lifted the lockdown and employees returned to work. Could it have been a ghost?

In haunted house news, this Bothell man claims he and his wife have experienced disturbances of the other-worldly kind. The man, who didn’t want to use his last name, tells Komo News “three bibles burned, group pictures packed away had burn marks but only on his face, chandeliers shook, and paintings, tables, and an armoire was knocked to the ground with no one in sight.” Creepy, indeed.

And if you’re in the mood for more potentially true ghost stories, check these out. I read them last night and had to keep a few more lights on as I went up to bed. Trust.

 

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