Ghosts in Costume

There's one house in Seattle that should be considered uninhabitable now. The latest killing spree has hit me as one of the most striking crimes in some time. For some reason I can visualize the scene too well, partying ravers dressed as the undead in a house party at dawn, a shooter entering, drugs blurring reality. Stunning.

Having lived nearby that neighborhood some time ago, it's not something one would consider there. Overdoses yes, many, but not mass killings. This goes down as a mystery, considering the man blew his head off when confronted by officers. More folklore for an eerie region. It even has the perfect name, “the Seattle Zombie Rave Party Killings.” Hollywood couldn’t have thought that up, probably not even during the 1980's.

Perhaps this will be used in an anti drug campaign somewhere, even though they may have had nothing to do with this. Surely lessons can be learned, considering two of the 6 dead were Melissa Lynn Moore, age14 ,and Suzanne Thorne, age 15. A make believe nightmare come to life.

I did attend a few raves in Seattle. At age 25 I felt like an old man. The average age was probably 18, many younger. 14 year old girls dressed in fairy wings surrounded by people flying on ecstasy, probably not something a parent should allow..and especially not an after party till the sun is back up again, but who am I kidding, the parents didn't know.

If ghosts do exist, I'm certain the imprints are left by this night gone way wrong. The images of a tragedy replaying.

SEATTLE - The young man who killed six people at a house party over the weekend had brought three guns, more than 300 rounds of ammunition, a baseball bat and a black machete, and told guests as he blazed away, "There's plenty for everyone," authorities said Monday.

Police said the victims, many of them dressed up as zombies in black with white face paint, had met Huff earlier in the night at a rave called "Better Off Undead" and invited him to a party at their rented home.

Aaron Kyle Huff, 28, left the party at about 7 a.m. and returned wearing bandoliers of ammunition and carrying a 12-gauge pistol-grip shotgun and a handgun. As he walked back to the party, Huff used spray paint to write "NOW" on the sidewalk and a neighbors' stairs, police said. He killed two people on the front steps, then killed three more people in the living room and went looking for more victims, police said.

He tried to enter a locked bathroom, jiggled the handle and fired a few rounds through the door, missing a frightened couple.