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Employees of The Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and past workers from former businesses on the location have reported strange activity happening in the lower basement area, including sightings of an old-time miner walking around and vanishing once someone makes eye contact with him. One manager, while working alone in the basement, had the feeling of someone standing behind him when no one is around. One time he actually felt a hand on his shoulder, which caused him to immediately pick up his papers and leave for the night.

They also say things will be moved around after clearly being placed somewhere else. Very loud noises can also be heard coming from the basement. When investigated, there is no sign of any disturbances. Could the man seen haunting the vault area be the same man in the basement of The Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory?

See also: Underground Tour (The Vault) in this Section

MUTUAL LIFE BUILDING

605 First Avenue

First called the Yesler Building, the name was changed when Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York bought the building in 1897. On September 10, 1985, an Asian art performance company came to Seattle to perform a very rare piece known as Sankai Juku. Here the artists dressed completely in white and covered their entire bodies with white rice paint, appearing as ghostly apparitions. These four dancers were then suspended by their ankles from the top of the building and slowly lowered as they twisted and moved in sync with one another. Once the artists started to descend, a rope snapped and the second-from-the-left performer plummeted six floors to his death. This tragedy was witnessed by the hundreds of onlookers, who saw his body in a fetal position on the corner of First and Yesler. Eerily and coincidentally, the performance piece was called “The Dance of Birth and Death.” It was also discovered that the performers had purchased used rope from a local shipyard as it allowed them to move more freely because new rope is too tight. The sad thing is that they only tested three of the ropes before the performance. It was the fourth one that took the young man’s life. Analyzing the offending rope, it was discovered with laboratory analysis that the rope was degraded by a chemical that had come into contact with it before it was purchased.