Anxious to begin hosting informative local tours again, today the Seattle Undeground Tour launched its first live virtual showings of the city’s most creepy underground apartment laundry rooms.
“Come along with us and you’ll see our old, historic Pioneer Square haunts are nothing compared to this dank underground laundry lair,” said remote tour guide Sam Clarkson as he led a live virtual audience into his Fremont apartment building’s slippery basement floor. “Oh, the crazy things people will leave down here to wander like lost souls! Legend has it if you walk in here after the Sunday laundry rush at midnight, a stray, polyester thong may follow you on the way out.”
Clarkson then handed off the virtual livestream tour to fellow guide Nora Riley in Columbia City.
“Now, if you look closely at this coin-operated dryer, you’ll notice how fucking insane it is for our landlord to charge $2.25 a load,” Riley said. “I mean look at this shithole – where is that money even going? Not into making this laundry basement look like anything except the studio set from Saw, I’ll tell you that for sure.”
Altogether, tour ticket-holders see about 10 of the city’s most ancient and unkempt apartment laundry rooms, culminating in one with a laundry basket of clothes that’s been sitting there since June 12, 1976.
