Is Lake View’s new wall to keep you out — or them in? (Image: CHS)

They’ve been burying dead people at the site of Capitol Hill’s Lake View Cemetery since 1872 but for (not so) mysterious reasons, the city built a new wall in 2021. It is there to keep you out — and, maybe, to keep the residents in. That’s spooky. We’ve added the story to the list along with dozens more X-Files, ghosts, mysteries, and bumps in the night from the CHS archives, below. Happy Hilloween.

85 SPOOKIEST CAPITOL HILL SEATTLE POSTS… EVER

1. Why they built a new wall around Lake View Cemetery
2. Witches, superheroes, and monster dogs in a Hilloween pet parade in Volunteer Park
3. Hilloween lives! Pictures from masked and vaxxed Pike/Pine — Plus, where to trick or treat on Capitol Hill
4. Hilloween lives, Part II: The trick or treatering — 60+ pics from across Capitol Hill
5. Lake View Cemetery, Annotated
   
6. Here Lie Ten Suffragists: Capitol Hill’s Lake View Cemetery part of effort to mark history of women’s right to vote
7. Murder hornets!
8. The Williamson Sisters
9. Meet the decomposers of Capitol Hill
10. The radioactive leak at Harborview
11. Hilloween 2019 costumes
12. The mind boggling array of stairs and corridors connecting history at TOPS K-8
13. The five creepiest crawlies you’ve never heard of that live with you on Capitol Hill
14. A new haunting on Capitol Hill
15. Dougsley the corpse flower in bloom at Volunteer Park Conservatory
16. Garbage truck gone rogue closes streets around E Olive Way
17. Dead can dance on Broadway (and they did Saturday night)
18. CHS Crow | Lou, Carrie & Yohan — ‘The ghost messed with me a lot’
19. The great Capitol Hill eastern cottontail mystery of twenty eighteen
20. Weird streets of UMadBro
21. Death and density: 40,000 and counting make Lake View their eternal Capitol Hill home
22. The Harvard Exits
23. Volunteer Park pet costumes
    

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24. 80+ pictures from Pike/Pine Hilloween weekend 2017
25. Broadway Chronicles | No Hands Man
26. Big Boylston Ave raccoon bites woman
27. CHS Video | A sea monster in Volunteer Park
28. Man charged in string of fake FBI agent robberies
29. Under protection of the Hex of Obsolescence, Capitol Hill artist creates Problem Glyphs
30. Chalk number mystery on E Howell cobbles
31. The ghosts of Hill’s indie bookstores past
32. Sleepy bar patron rescued from Broadway nightspot
33. Stepping on Republican stairs, the most forlorn landmark in Seattle
34. ‘Capitol Hill is lousy with zubats’
35. Capitol Hill Psychic Boutique — 23rd Ave neighborhood psychic has spiritual, California connection
36. 16th Ave E’s ‘haunted house’ comes down
37. Why is this black metal box at 10th and Pike?
38. Scary 911 call at 17th and Olive turns out to be false report
39. Solved: the mystery of the missing Stranger building rosettes
40. The mystery of Seattle University’s disappearing Democrats
41. Stranger Things: What are you wearing this year for Hilloween?
42. Pikes/Pines | Gypsy moths are on the Hill
43. Terrifying Hilloween Costumes
44. New artwork in Chophouse Row builds on old foundations — the ‘ghost’ of a Capitol Hill farmhouse
45. A look at the future of cinema with the ghost of the Harvard Exit
46. CHS X-Files | #13Magnus
    

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47. CHS X-Files: The Joan Armatrading painting of 14th and Olive
48. CHS X-Files | Capitol Hill drone pilot spotted, glowing orbs
49. CHS X-Files: Mystery midnight boom rattles Miller Park and Madison
50. The tale of the Winchester House of Capitol Hill (that never ever existed)
51. Capitol Hill skinned squirrel mystery SOLVED
52. Tale of the spooky business on 19th Ave E
53. Identification of second body found in Interlaken Park still a mystery
54. Happy Halloween Capitol Hill! Check out my real paranormal ghost video, if you dare!
55. Take a spooky hike through Capitol Hill’s Lake View Cemetery
56. Paranormal Investigative Unit Capitol Hill Office #1
57. Paranormal Investigative Unit Capitol Hill Office reports — File #2012
58. CHS Re:Take | The lost community of Boren
59. Man found dead in car on Broadway E, Capitol Hill Safeway cleared by mystery odor
    
60. Campaign against Confederate monuments targets memorial in Capitol Hill cemetery
61. Ready! Capitol Hill’s Pac-Man pavement park takes shape
62. Experts: Capitol Hill mystery soda machine disappearance ‘maybe’ time travel
63. How Capitol Hill’s tile and terra cotta mystery ruins ended up at Harvard and Roy
64. Missing on Bellevue Ave E: Harry’s Fine Foods signs
65. CHS Pics | The Skipping Jestress of Capitol Hill
66. Emmett Montgomery selects Capitol Hill for Secret Grandpa Subscription Service headquarters
67. Meet the Klineburger Brothers and Capitol Hill’s taxidermy past
68. First Hill memorial planned for officer killed in 100-year-old unsolved SPD murder
    

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69. The secret goldfish pond below Stevens Elementary
70. Clown Girl spotted on Broadway
    
71. After 30 years on Broadway, The Byzantion makes way for ‘slightly mystical’ Spirit Animal
72. Writers return to old haunts with ghost story at Capitol Hill’s Hugo House
73. Capitol Hill novelist’s latest sci-fi work is written from the first-sea monster perspective
74. Capitol Hill filmmakers shoot ‘lesbian supernatural thriller’ in a haunted mansion
75. Visitors to his Capitol Hill grave — and the Pine Box — mark 40th anniversary of Bruce Lee’s death
76. The ‘ghost’ of a Capitol Hill farmhouse
77. Digging up Capitol Hill’s mortuary past as the last funeral home works to prolong its life
78. Patrick J. Sullivan House hits market just in time for Hilloween
79. Spoiler Alert: Mystery of the Capitol Hill Mystery Coke Machine’s mysteries REVEALED
    

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80. Is the Creepy Cameraman hanging out on Capitol Hill?
81. Seattle Demo Project activates ‘the ghosts’ in Central District house slated for demolition
82. Capitol Hill’s Civil War cemetery
83. With the push of a button, nuanced Ghost Note Coffee opens on Capitol Hill
84. No mystery — Capitol Hill’s mystery soda machine is still missing
85. Capitol Hill’s five most haunted places
    

    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.” More…

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