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Things are already getting wild on Capitol Hill — and it’s not even Hilloween, yet! Wednesday night, Seattle Fire and police were called to a tony neighborhood along north Broadway after a strange attack that left a 30-year-old woman with an animal bite to the hand. Medics treated the injury but couldn’t confirm the victim’s account of a wild raccoon attack after the animal fled the scene. It’s still out there, somewhere.

Happy Hilloween.

There’s a full weekend of Halloween events including Saturday’s Hilloween carnival and more. We’ve also posted an updated trick-or-treat map.

Some early shots from 2015

Need costume inspiration? Take a look at Hilloweens past: 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010

Here is another CHS tricky, treat-y tradition. We’ve updated our annual list of the spookiest CHS stories… ever. We’re up to 31! Don’t read in the dark! CHS will be out and about on Halloween as always to capture the scene and cover any breaking news. See something others should know about? Email CHS or call/txt (206) 399-5959.

In the meanwhile, here are some of the best tales of mystery and paranormal activity from around Capitol Hill from the CHS archives. Feel free to tell any Capitol Hill ghost stories you know about in the comments.

In 2010, CHS found these lines of numbers written in chalk on the cobbles of E Howell particularly disturbing

1. Chalk number mystery on E Howell cobbles
2. 16th Ave E’s ‘haunted house’ comes down
3. Why is this black metal box at 10th and Pike?
4. Meet the Klineburger Brothers and Capitol Hill’s taxidermy past
5. The tale of the Winchester House of Capitol Hill (that never ever existed)
   

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6. Capitol Hill skinned squirrel mystery SOLVED
7. Tale of the spooky business on 19th Ave E
8. Happy Halloween Capitol Hill! Check out my real paranormal ghost video, if you dare!
   
9. CHS X-Files | #13Magnus
10. CHS X-Files: The Joan Armatrading painting of 14th and Olive
11. CHS X-Files | Capitol Hill drone pilot spotted, glowing orbs
12. CHS X-Files: Mystery midnight boom rattles Miller Park and Madison
13. Paranormal Investigative Unit Capitol Hill Office
14. Paranormal Investigative Unit Capitol Hill Office reports — File #2012
15. First Hill memorial planned for officer killed in 100-year-old unsolved SPD murder
16. Nevertold Casket Company looks for new home
17. Clown Girl spotted on Broadway
18. After 30 years on Broadway, The Byzantion makes way for ‘slightly mystical’ Spirit Animal
19. Visitors to his Capitol Hill grave — and the Pine Box — mark 40th anniversary of Bruce Lee’s death
20. Digging up Capitol Hill’s mortuary past as the last funeral home works to prolong its life
21. Is the Creepy Cameraman hanging out on Capitol Hill?
22. Seattle Demo Project activates ‘the ghosts’ in Central District house slated for demolition
23. Writers return to old haunts with ghost story at Capitol Hill’s Hugo House
24. Capitol Hill novelist’s latest sci-fi work is written from the first-sea monster perspective
25. 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…

     

26. A new haunting on Capitol Hill
27. Dead can dance on Broadway (and they did Saturday night)
28. CHS Crow | Lou, Carrie & Yohan — ‘The ghost messed with me a lot’
29. Death and density: 40,000 and counting make Lake View their eternal Capitol Hill home
30. Spoiler Alert: Mystery of the Capitol Hill Mystery Coke Machine’s mysteries REVEALED
    
31. The Harvard Exits