Exquisite corpse book5/13/2023 At the very least, they helped popularize the expensive rites (satin-lined open caskets, lavish limousine processions) we’re accustomed to today. It could be argued, in fact, that they invented the American funeral as we know it. Butterworth and his sons were innovators. But he puts his foot down when it comes to talk of corruption.Į. R. Reporters have been requesting interviews (usually around Halloween) since the late ’80s. “With all due respect,” he boomed through the phone on a recent afternoon, “you have no idea what you’re talking about.” The 63-year-old retired funeral director is good-humored about the ghoul stories associated with his family’s business. Butterworth’s great-great grandson-says it ain’t so. The implication was that the Butterworths were among the hearse racers. Butterworth and Sons, she said, were “accused of collecting corpses for cash.” The reference was to a book titled Cemeteries of Seattle, which reports that in the early 1900s undertakers raced each other to stockpile dead bodies, for which the city would pay $50 a head. KOMO interviewed an internationally known paranormal investigator who said, “This place was the site of a very corrupt mortuary.” A KOMO newscaster spared no alliteration to elaborate. In November 2010, KOMO 4 ran a news segment titled “Ghost Hunt,” filmed on location at Kells Irish Pub, which now occupies the ground floor of the former Butterworth funeral home. The chapel is the money shot on the Market Ghost Tour.
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