So far, we’ve hooked you up with the best places to trick-or-treat and this year’s coolest Capitol Hill costume. Now we bring you the essence of what Halloween is really about — spooky chills.

Here are Capitol Hill’s spookiest spots.

1) Harvard Exit Theater
“When a second auditorium and screen was constructed on the third floor in the early 1970s, the ghosts of several women dressed in turn-of-the-century clothing began to appear. Most of the sightings were on the third floor and near a fireplace on the first floor.”

2) The Ben Lomond apartments
“Although she saw everything else, trees, the ground, bushes…everything where he was standing was illuminated but she he’d vanished. When she covered the light, there he was again.”

3) Lake View Cemetery
“so while we were hanging there just sitting there not so much in the dark since there was moon light giving us serenity. my girl caught a glimpse of a lady running about from tree to tree and from bush to bush and from grave stone to grave stone. watching us. and peeking over every obstacle in it s way.”

Here’s another account — complete with photographic evidence — of paranormal activity in the Capitol Hill cemetery.

Meanwhile, this page claims there is a small Civil War era cemetery near Lakeview where ghosts have been seen. It also notes reports of apparitions at the Daughters of the American Revolution building near the Harvard Exit.

4) The Burnley ghost
“In the 1960s, students and staff began reporting strange nocturnal events: doors opening by themselves, sounds of disembodied footsteps, phones dialed by unseen fingers, coffee percolating without human assistance (before Mr. Coffee!). People would arrive in the morning to find furniture mysteriously rearranged or stacked during the previous night, when the school was supposedly empty and locked.

Speculation over the cause focused on the story that a high school student had years earlier fallen to his death on the school’s steep rear stairway. There is no documentary evidence of such an incident, but most witnesses believe the apparition to be a young male.”

The page also has tales of spookiness at the Capitol Hill Methodist Church and more details about the haunting of the Harvard Exit.

For another account of the Burnley ghost check out Haunted America By Michael Norman and Beth Scott.

5) The spirits of the Baltic Room
From Ghost Among Us: True Stories of Spirit Encounters By Leslie Rule

Want more? For tales of a real-life Seattle ghost hunter, check out this article from Seattle Woman Magazine.

Want to go investigate the neighborhood’s poltergeists yourself? This weekend you can join a coven of local witches on the Capitol Hill Ghost Tour.

–j