Time: 9:00pm Where: The Royal Room (5000 Rainier Avenue South Seattle, WA 98118)- More Info: http://www.theroyalroomseattle.com, Community: Kubota Gardens Forest Restoration Work Party Details:Did you know that outside the beautifully maintained Japanese garden there is a wild and beautiful natural area? He couldnt be it was against state law for immigrants from Japan to own or lease property. I know what you mean. My experiences have always been rough. I'm so scared. The gardens at the park are home to multiple gardening clubs, and is available for weddings and other events. I looked at the house and saw 3 little red fireflies moving around in circles and everywhere all on the side of the house. Hearty snack plates and desserts available, $2.50-$7.00. The dog stopped barking when it followed me into my room and then when the dog entered it jumped on my couch I sleep on and barked until the pressure was gone and then both dogs barked like crazy at the front door. One of his friends calls him the unofficial historian of the park, a title he backs up with a long memory of this strange part of the park. In 1927 an immigrant from Japans Shikoku Island, Fujitaro Kubota, bought five acres of recently logged swampland. They had a vision for Detroit as a human-scaled city for a post-industrial world, and theky are working to make it real.We Art Not Ghosts tells their stories from community businesses, to place based schools, to thriving urban gardens and spoken word artists, these are the tales of Detroiters remaking their city with vision and spirit. Me and my sister were signed up to go a seminar specifically for ages 13-21. To publish a comment or vote, you need to be logged in (use the login form at the top of the page). David Binney, Cuong Vu Details:Supremely gifted guitarist, composer, arranger, vocalist and songwriter, Joel Harrison has been a mainstay in jazz since the 1990s and has released 16 records as a leader since 95. After a few twists and turns, through a swamp of English ivy, the trail spits you out onto an abandoned road. News, current events in & around Seattle, Washington, USA. Me and my sister were close so I got mad and started cursing at the house and threw rocks at. Its that time again when pumpkins orange globes lay thick in the fields, spiders weave webs from plants and doorways, and the wind howling through the trees late at night sounds just like a wailing baby. that is creepy and there is a spirit or spirits attached to me as well so I understand what you are talking about. 10am 5pm. Countless trails snake through the woods, and some end up at the western edge of the parcel. Let's keep in mind that I was 15. I never really believed it until some years later. I get in the car and Justin is staring at me. At the moment, you can't get to Tub Lake unless you hop the chain link fence and bushwhack through thick blackberries and creeping English ivy. I don't know what they were so I am not even going to try to explain further. We saw two shooting stars (possibly space junk lol) and we sat on a blanket for about 20 or 30 minutes. North SeaTac Park is a slice of old Puget Sound, a preserve of the sort of seedy place that existed before Amazon and $2,000 rents, before Nirvana even. 2022 Cascade Public Media. When I was 15 years old, I belonged to a church group. This is my first post here and I have been catching up on other peoples experiences during the holidays. North from Sunset Park across South 136th Street you get to North SeaTac Park, proper. But who owns dreams anyhow? You must have JavaScript enabled to use this form. The house responded with 3 knocks. Well, birthday boy climbed the fence and knocked on the door 3 times. This is heart of the park, the part that was cleared of houses beginning in the 1970s due to Federal Aviation Administration restrictions. He just wouldn't look at me. As for your demon well I cannot explain it except for maybe you picked it up from those amongst you, I wouldn't even doubt you got it from the boy you were with, I'm not a skeptic and I definately believe in ghosts, have had experiences just twice of my own, but I guarantee you didn't get it from the gardens, I have been in there many many times alone at night and have never had anything bad happen or attach itself to me and I myself am also a religious person. The 55-Acre Parcel is popular among local mountain and BMX bikers. Even then, however, Kubota was not the official owner. Please bring yellow intake sheet, photo ID, Social Security card, personal check for use in requesting direct deposit, and last years return as well as any current tax documents. Although your story quite entertaining as it was And very well told I might add, the urban legend is a myth and just that. It's contaminated by a variety of chemicals, according to state records. I also remember feeling good at the things I told her. These days, it's the perfect place for an autumn walk. Our first thought was a monkey haha so maybe another human. A sturgeon has been suggested (a sturgeon was spotted in a Bellevue lake, thus the theory) but sturgeons are bottom feeders, and eat snails and small fish. Not knowing what it was barking at I went to see. Guess where we go on our lunch break. Ben and Hal opened a nursery on the site in 1953, and years later hired Shintaro Okada to come over from Hiroshima to help them design a garden in memory of Toll. It's a cool, foggy morning in the 55-Acre Parcel. On the drive home me and my sister were fighting and I felt like, I was watching me argue with her through my eyes. The red lights I saw were crazy in movements but were in some sort of unison with each other. You'd get a lot of miscreant teens, ditched stolen cars, and the occasional body. Or was it just the wind? Cheryl Lee Wims disappeared on her 18th birthday on May 23, 1983. The remains of two other Ridgway victims, Shawnda Lee Summers and a woman known only as Jane Doe B10, were found in that same area. If you don't have an account, sign up, it's free! But there it is, a hidden treasure, with nearby noisy highways, busy freeways, buzzing power lines and the main flight path into Sea-Tac. In the middle of the park is a house where an Asian family used to live. Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. This is Tub Lake, which is not actually a lake, but one of the last remaining urban bogs in the Seattle area. They had a vision for Detroit as a human-scaled city for a post-industrial world, and theky are working to make it real.We Art Not Ghosts tells their stories from community businesses, to place based schools, to thriving urban gardens and spoken word artists, these are the tales of Detroiters remaking their city with vision and spirit. Showings: Doors open 6:15, Movie at 7:00 (Motown will be playing, come early and dance!) Sure enough, the sound of the rock hitting the house was replied to by a sound from the inside of the house. Please bring yellow intake sheet, photo ID, Social Security card, personal check for use in requesting direct deposit, and last years return as well as any current tax documents. We quickly gathered our things and left. Near the abandoned equestrian area, Kurt Gould emerges from the woods accompanied by two friends and a group of curious dogs. The story for that was the father got possessed and killed his wife, his 17 year old daughter and himself, on his daughters birthday. Time: 8:00pm Where: The Royal Room (5000 Rainier Avenue South Seattle, WA 98118) More Info: http://www.theroyalroomseattle.com, Community: Beacon Hill Community Work Party Details: Come out to the Beacon Forest P-Patch for a work party! Door donation $3, students $1. I was excited because I have never seen fireflies before. I tell them to f*** off, I'm tired. Hearty snack plates and desserts available, $2.50-$7.00. Time: 7:00pm, doors open at 6:30pm Where: New Freeway Hall (5018 Rainier Ave. S., Seattle) More Info: RWseattle@mindspring.com. Your Ghost Stories is your source for sharing paranormal experiences and hauntings. The following comments are submitted by users of this site and are not official positions by yourghoststories.com. I turned to the pages on the San Juan Islands and was happy to see the cemetery mausoleum in Friday Harbor mentioned as well as Fort Casey and Sunnyside Cemetery, both on Whidbey Island. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of gross indecency, an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing. Will Mayor Harrell revive Seattle's 'aPodment' fight? I didn't swear or talk bad like that until I joined the Marine Corps. He came in a group with 4 other guys from California and they stayed at my house. This is in Seattle, Wa and the place we went to is called Kabuta Gardens. Neglected but not lost. He was also a member of the Plymouth Housing Group Board. At that moment, it dawns on me. Apparently it was big thing before he joined the SPD and then he repeated the whole urban legend about being 17 and knocking on the door. Time: 4:00pm-7:00pm Where: 7421 S 126th Street, Seattle, WA More Info: Facebook.com/Skyway.Post. The local indians will not fish or swim in the waters of this lake. He described in detail, not the demon, but my house. He hasn't seen a horse here recently, but remembers a time in the 1990s when the place was packed. But as far as I can tell, she -might- have married a Mr. Albert Ikeda, but I can't confirm that yet. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, petroleum, lead, polychlorinated biPhenyls (PCBs). While he was climbing the fence, I was at the side of the house standing by whatever light I could get from the moon. If you go: Kubota Garden park is at 9600 Renton Ave. S. Directions from Kubota.org are here. The random pairing of a US Marine and a US Sailor on guard duty talking about that night, his visions and reassurance that the demon (who he knows by name) wants me to stray away from my religious beliefs. Learn more about Reddits use of cookies. The dare/urban legend was if it was your 17th birthday and you knocked on the door you would die a week later. During the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, spectators paid 25 cents to see the garden. Door donation $3, students $1. Save the most beautiful part of the park for last. Or would stalk us and decide to scare the shit out of us? Keep heading north and you'll find yourself in the "55-Acre Parcel." SEATAC, WA - Walk due west from the small skateboard park behind the SeaTac Community Center and you'll find a narrow trail that cuts through the dark woods. In any case, she didn't die young either. Civics: Call to Action: End the Siege on Black Lives Details:A Black History Month community meeting to strategize around critical issues of race and resistance. It was not until 1966 that state law was changed and Kubota became the legal owner. North of Tub Lake is Sunset Park, once the site of Sunset Junior High School. I looked up videos of fireflies on YouTube and they didn't move like the things I saw at the house. But family and friends, neighbors, and clients, and those who had grown to love the Gardens appealed to the city. To this day, jets of all sizes float over the park just a few hundred feet up in the air on their way to Sea-Tac.