It was crisp and cool and it did not rain. Shenanigans were mostly peaceful. Lots of neighbors on 16th, 17th, and 18th Aves along E Aloha put on most excellent shows again including the classic Bates Motel and the Spider House. And the candy was copious. CHS’s visit to the Hilloween Trick or Treat Hot Zone(™) is a nearly annual tradition and the 2019 edition of the fully organic, people-run night of great costumes and good times did not disappoint. CHS saw a dinosaur dancing. And skeletons dancing. And a creepy goblin on a swing. We also saw a human-sized Bop It, the trick or treating Eurythmics, and a tribute to The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Were you out and about? Let us know what you saw.
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CHS Pics | Hilloween 2019 weekend pics — Plus, where to trick or treat on Capitol Hill
Unless the actual big day falls on a Friday, Hilloween always begins on a Saturday. You should know that. CHS hit the streets of Pike/Pine over the weekend for a look at what the fashionable costume set was wearing this year. Many of the get-ups we found along E Pike were deep cuts — CHS might need your help sorting out the various pop-culture references. Or you can just let us squirm.
@Seattle has a dope collection of drum corps. This is the Filthy Fermcorps at Sam's on Capitol Hill last night. @jseattle #femcorps pic.twitter.com/drn8LzGMMQ
— Alex Garland (@AGarlandPhoto) October 27, 2019
If you are planning to add some trick or treat action to your Hilloween, we’ve included the famous CHS Trick or Treat Hot Zone map, below. It show the area of Capitol Hill where you’ll find scenes like the above — and buckets and buckets of candy. Here’s a message from the “Red Zone.” They’re waiting for you. Also make plans to stop by the Trick or Treat House of Montlake. Happy Hilloween.
The map — and more pictures from Hilloween weekend — below. Continue reading
The story of the Trick or Treat House of Montlake
What started as a Pumpkin Witch conversing with a scarecrow belonging to two children across the street, has morphed over 18 years into a low key Halloween block party in James Sutherland’s Montlake front yard. This is the story of the Trick or Treat House of Montlake.
Sutherland has lived in his home since 1996 and noticed over the early years how few kids showed up to his house on Halloween.
“I love Halloween” James said, “ever since I was a kid. When I grew up and moved here, it didn’t seem like there was a lot of Halloween happening. I ended up in a cute little house in a sweet neighborhood and it seems like there should be kids knocking at the door.”
18 years of decorating later, Sutherland and his husband Don now expect 800 to 900 kids this year.
“This is the 18th Trick or Treat House Anniversary,” Sutherland tells CHS on a visit to the Montlake Hauntlake neighborhood. “It started with 20, then 50 to 75, then the elementary school found out about it and so, it became a couple hundred and stayed there for a while. I think word got out elsewhere because we see van loads of people parking and coming to trick or treat on our street.” Continue reading
CHS Pics | Hilloween 2019 begins with the Volunteer Park Pet Parade
Hilloween traditions are alive and well in 2019. Sunday, families of Capitol Hill fur babies made their way to Volunteer Park for the green space’s annual pet costume parade. The annual event from the Volunteer Park Trust community group drew an enthusiastic collection of creatively costumed pets. You can maybe paw through the pictures for a costume idea.
Saturday, October 26th will bring another family carnival as the official Hilloween day of celebration and trick or treating returns to Seattle Central’s Mitchell Event Center and Broadway. CHS, meanwhile, will be out and about over the weekend on the hunt for your supernatural costumes. Keep us posted if you see anything especially spooktacular. More pictures from the Volunteer Park Halloween Pet Parade, below. Continue reading
Pikes/Pines | The five creepiest crawlies you’ve never heard of that live with you on Capitol Hill
From: The Habitats Humans Provide: Factors affecting the diversity and composition of arthropods in housesHave you ever been home alone, watching Stranger Things or listening to My Favorite Murder, and started jumping at the sudden hum of the refrigerator, brandishing your ice-cream spoon down the dark hallway to the bathroom? I have good news for you. We are never, ever alone in our homes. We all have other creatures living in our homes, no matter how scrubbed, swept, and sterilized our apartments and houses on the Hill may appear.
From the time that people began living inside dwellings, we’ve had other creatures alongside us. Some are imperceptible, bacteria, viruses, archaea, and fungi. Others, like insects and arachnids, are decidedly more noticeable. In 2016, a press worthy study by North Carolina State University researchers was published, reporting findings from an exhaustive, purportedly first-ever survey of the arthropods (invertebrates of the phylum that includes spiders, insects, and crustaceans) in our homes. Of the 50 houses the authors surveyed in the Raleigh, North Carolina, 100% had arthropods living in them. In fact, they had far more than anyone guessed, and they collected over 10,000 individual specimens representing nearly 600 species of arthropods, with homes hosting an average of 93 species, from 62 families.
Though I doubt this revelation eases your movie induced paranoia, below are five common house guests that you may or may not have even heard of, but may have been living inches from all your life.
Psocoptera (Image: Wikipedia)1) Booklice (Order Psocoptera) — Unlike their blood sucking cousins, booklice like to chew rather than suck. Mostly they like to munch on fungus, food bits, and other detritus but they will also happily chew on the glue of our book bindings and wall paper and can in some instances infest food. Seeing a few of these opaque flattened creatures is nothing to be alarmed about, but if you happen to collect old books in damp places, be mindful. People often confuse book lice with bed bug nymphs or termites which are far more alarming. Continue reading
Hilloween is alive! Broadway BIA picks up 2019 edition of costume, candy, and carnival event
The Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce may be dead but Capitol Hill’s celebration of little ghosts and goblins will live on.
The Broadway Business Improvement Area has announced it will host this year’s Hilloween, an annual, all-ages costume and candy carnival on Broadway. Continue reading
60+ pictures of a not watered down Hilloween 2018
Congress has not — yet — moved Halloween to the last Saturday in October. This year, with Capitol Hill’s favorite holiday falling on a Wednesday night, Hilloween enthusiasm may have been a little watered down by weekend celebrations but at least the rain was never heavier than a drizzle.
CHS was on patrol in the Pike/Pine/Broadway zone to see how the big kids were playing and to count how many Elevens we could find (a dozen?). We also found a peculiar nautical element in the thick of the Hill’s trick or treat hot zone at 18th and Mercer where a “Hunt for Blue November” display included a trip through the guts of a Russian submarine complete with periscope and a Putin-on-a-porpoise (probably a dolphin) porthole before emergence at the steps for the Kremlin for a visit to the candy bowl. A family of matryoshka were in attendance. Putin was nowhere to be found. Continue reading
73 spookiest Capitol Hill Seattle posts… ever
Here are some of the best tales of mystery and paranormal activity from around Capitol Hill from the CHS archives. Feel free to tell us any Capitol Hill ghost stories you know about in the comments.
- Lake View Cemetery, Annotated
- The Williamson Sisters
- Meet the decomposers of Capitol Hill
- After mystery summer disappearance, Capitol Hill mystery soda machine mysteriously resurfaces
#6
- A new haunting on Capitol Hill
- Dougsley the corpse flower in bloom at Volunteer Park Conservatory
- Garbage truck gone rogue closes streets around E Olive Way
- Dead can dance on Broadway (and they did Saturday night)
- CHS Crow | Lou, Carrie & Yohan — ‘The ghost messed with me a lot’
- The great Capitol Hill eastern cottontail mystery of twenty eighteen
- Death and density: 40,000 and counting make Lake View their eternal Capitol Hill home Continue reading
Hilloween 2018 pics from the crowd — Plus, where to trick or treat on Capitol Hill
Are we still doing Halloween this year? The world is frightening enough. But this seems like the wrong time to abandon a celebration of the freakish and bizarre. Plus, costumes are fun. Here are a few images from the crowd from this weekend’s kid-friendly Hilloween celebration on Broadway. You can search through for some costume ideas — and to spot a Hillebrity or two. More spooky shenanigans are to come Wednesday night.
(Image: Alex Garland/CHS)
If you are planning to add some trick or treat action to your Hilloween, we’ve included the famous CHS Trick or Treat Hot Zone map, below. It’s the area of the Hill where you’ll find scenes like the above — and buckets and buckets of candy. Here’s a message from the “Red Zone.” They’re waiting for you. Happy Hilloween. Continue reading
Hilloween reminders: Kids carnival and trick or treating on Broadway, Fire Station 25 pumpkin carving
Hey kids, in addition to the big night, Capitol Hill has some extra Hilloween treats lined up for you.
Tuesday, E Pine’s Fire Station 25 is hosting a night of pumpkin carving (bring your own!) and hanging out with firefighters and police officers:
And don’t forget Saturday brings the annual Hilloween Carnival and trick or treat parade to Broadway:
More Hilloween 2018 events from the CHS Calendar… below!
