A few years ago my friend and I were walking by the Maynard Alley and she asked me if I had written any stories based on the Wah Mee Club Massacre.
What she really wanted to know was, had I written any ghost stories based on the Club.
I told her I had not.
She told me that was a good idea.
This is the reason why I haven’t done it:
Whenever I walk by the Alley I think of these lines by Shirley Jackson:
Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
I think that something walks alone in the darkness of the Wah Mee now
and it will walk alone there forever.
KCPQ Channel 13 toured recently with Jake of Private Eye Tours . They visited one of Seattle’s most infamous haunted spots featured on Haunted Happenings: A Seattle Ghost Tour