Westenders Really Big Weekend, Part II: The Great Ghost 'n Grub Hunt!

Westenders pose in front of 'Zetta', Cafe Revo's mascot, before they head out for an evening of ghost-hunting! (photo: Samantha Hill)

We started the adventure by meeting a Chano & Pinky's soon-to-be-opened new restaurant Cafe Revo for a sneak peek at what will be simply Seattle's best Italian restaurant. Chano & Pinky gave us a tour of the space, including what will be a spacious kitchen, beautiful dining areas which will evoke feelings of eating in an authentic Italian piazza, and the incredible bar, which is being made from a hand-carved slab of maple by skilled pacific northwest craftsmen! For more information on Cafe Revo, follow this link.

Taking our leave of Cafe Revo, we enjoyed a nice ride along the Seattle waterfront and ended up at the Old Spaghetti Factory for an early dinner. Having fortified ourselves for the night's adventures, Westender Smiley led us on a merry chase up to Capitol Hill and the Museum of the Mysteries!

Seattle Museum of the Mysteries curator Phillip Lipson
This museum is truly a hidden jewel on Capitol Hill. Curators Phillip Lipson and Charlette LeFevre have assembled an astonishing collection of books and artifacts concerning the paranormal. You can find here information on UFOs, ghosts, psychic phenomena and all manner of other mysteries!

Charlette led us on a ghost-hunters tour of the area around the Museum. She is very knowledgeable about the area's history, and told us many stories of Seattle from it's Prohibition days, when the Museum was a speakeasy. Unlike many 'ghost tours' that our geared towards entertaining tourists, Charlette and Phillip are serious paranormal investigators who showed us how real ghosthunters do it. Equipped with a couple of instruments that are used by ghosthunters to detect possible paranormal activity, we went to one of Seattle's best-known haunted locations, the Harvard Exit theater.

RogerTango uses a ghost detector to look for the paranormal in a haunted mirror at the Harvard Exit theater (photo: Samantha Hill)

While we did not see any obvious paranormal phenomena, we did note some odd readings on our instruments. Whether they indicated the presence of spirits, one can only speculate.

Returning to the Museum, we played a few hands of 'ghost poker', where a chair is kept empty for the resident ghost. It is said a previous tenant of this space, Peter Alexander Dunnovitch , never left!

Fuzz gets ready to cut cards with a ghost! (photo: Samantha Hill)

All in all, it was a fantastic evening of supernatural fun! For more information on Seattle's Museum of the Mysteries, follow this link: Seattle Museum of the Mysteries

All this fun, and it's only Saturday! Stay tuned for "Westenders Really Big Weekend, Part III: The Fall Foliage Ride"!