Private Eye on Seattle Tours Press

Since 1997 Private Eye Tours have been featured in both print and film in the Pacific NW, USA & through out the world. The tours have also been featured on local radio, TV, as well as the BBC & TwoFour, UK.

They also have been covered in Seattle's Best Places and other travel guides such as Eccentric America, Frommers, Ghost Hunter's Guide to Seattle, Ghosts of Seattle, A Haunted Tour Guide to the Pacific NW & City Ghosts.

Internet Article Paranomicon Magazine Jan 2013

An interview with Jake: HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN ACTIVE IN THE PARANORMAL AND WHAT SPARKED THE INTEREST? To Read more Click Here

Northwest Travel October 2010

Owner and tour guide Jake, of Private Eye on Seattle's Haunted Happenings Tour, covers nearly the entire city on what is the most unusual Seattle city tour to be found .... While shuttling guests to 14 locations, Jake gives an engaging primer on ghosts.

OCTOBER 2009 Brian Calvert of Komo News Radio interviewed Jake in Seattle's Georgetown Haunted History Unearthed

"In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, it was the place Seattle residents frequented to have a good time. There were bars, brothels, gambling halls.

At the time, Georgetown was described by many as the “cesspool” of Seattle. It wasn’t part of the city until 1910, so many thought of it as the “Wild West.” Things have certainly changed in this neighborhood, but today, if you're looking for them, you can still run into Georgetown's past residents, including Sarah.

“Oh yes, everybody knows about Sarah,” says a woman simply known as “Jake.” She’s the proprietor of Private Eye Tours and regularly gives tours of the most haunted haunts in the area. Jake agreed to walk us around Georgetown, and our first stop was the aforementioned “Sarah’s” home, the Georgetown Castle. Not really a castle, it is one of the largest homes in the neighborhood, and since it was built in the late 1800’s, it has quite a history. " Read the full article

Puget Sound Business Journal featured Private Eye Tours in AUGUST 2009.

"Private Eye on Seattle is one of numerous specialty tours offering visitors slices of local culture and history."

"Jake’s first stop on a recent tour of Queen Anne crime scenes was on the edge of Seattle Center. One night years ago, Mrs. Lee, the owner of a popular neighborhood restaurant, disappeared, along with that night’s receipts and a closely guarded secret soy sauce recipe that Mrs. Lee kept on her person at all times."

"Searching for her, the police came across a pool of blood underneath a large bush that still stands in front of an old brick building near Key Arena."

Seattle PI October 2008 "Seattle's Ghost Tours are really windows on the past"

"If you talk to Jake, the curiously named female guide of Private Eye on Seattle's Haunted Happenings ghost tour, she'll tell you the city is teeming with good stories. One is the Georgetown Castle, a private residence that has had many incarnations, including the site of an illegitimate child's untimely death and a boarding house for World War II-era laborers. She also mentions the Arctic Club Hotel in Pioneer Square, which in 1936 housed the office of U.S. Rep. Marion Zioncheck, who at 35 plunged to his death from the fifth floor. The chill there has nothing to do with its name; instead, it's said that apparitions have touched visitors over the years. ...

For her, the appeal of ghosts to the living isn't that complex.

"We're in uncertain times right now," she said. "Look at the economy, politics. People grab for something and when you die, the idea you still go on is intriguing for some people." Read the full article

Seattle Woman Magazine October 2006

"Ghost hunters come from all walks of life and all have their own methods for communicating with the other side. While ghost hunting has no gender gap, the percentage of women joining paranormal groups appears to be growing. “Women are more intuitive,” says Jake, owner of Private Eye Tours and a member of Washington State Paranormal Investigations and Research, or WSPIR. (She requests that her last name not be used because she makes a living taking strangers on late-night murder mystery and ghost-hunting trips throughout Seattle.)"

...While the month of October brings out the thrillseekers who want to be spooked, she says "the truth is the ghosts could care less whether it's Halloween. They come out at all times, all year long."

Where Magazine October 2006

"If imagination does not take you far enough, Jake's three-hour driving tour of haunted Seattle includes photographs of ghosts taken by previous tourists, so you can choose to believe.... "You see Seattle in an unusual way--this is not your standard vanilla tour... says Jake. ...you see the gritty and not so nice parts, you get to hear and see the spirits of Seattle."

From the Georgia Straight by J. Kingston Pierce

Seattle—It was an audacious heist. While most Seattle residents were happily celebrating George Washington’ s birthday with a three-day weekend on mid-February 1954, and while local lawmen were occupied at their annual policeman’s ball, thieves calmly blocked off both ends of an alley at 1^st Avenue and Cherry Streets and set about breaking into the Pioneer Safety Vaults Building.

They entered in the back, then cut through a steel door from the business office. Using picks and sledge hammers, the crooks finally used acetylene torches to overcome a steel wall separating them from 1,640 safety-deposit boxes. "Many of them [were] stuffed with cash, gold brought down from Alaska, jewels, negotiable bonds, and various ill-gotten gains hidden there by crooked policemen."

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