The Seattle Files

Deranged serial killer Billy Gohl might be the most prolific serial killer in US history.  Estimates of his death toll range as high as 200.

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Jekeva Phillips is a writer, performer, and producer of the arts. She is the editor-in-chief of Word Lit Zine, company member at CSz Seattle-Home of ComedySportz, and  director of Bibliophilia Storytelling Festival. She is hard at work on her first novel.

Louie Louie is a sweet and simple love song, but because of an indecipherable recording by The Kingsmen in the 1960s it became the subject of a year long FBI investigation over indecency charges.

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Jordan Moeller is a Seattle-based sketch comedian, actor and writer. He is a member of the award-winning Villains sketch comedy group and is one half of the surrealist comedy duo, Time Bath. His other artistic pursuits include clowning, dance, and Mario Kart.

Before changing his name to Osho, spiritual leader Rajneesh led a cult in Oregon that was responsible for the largest bio-terrorist attack every committed on US soul.

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Samantha Demboski is an improv and sketch comedian, fringe theater artist, and all-around mostly reasonable person. She is a founding member of groups Fifty Percent Less Bear and BEEF!, the creator/producer of NASTY Improv, and is half of the writer/director/performer duo behind This Is My Dinner–the performance-art-dramedy-musical hitting your hearts and minds in 2018. She has also performed with Being Humans, Specific Northwest, and IMPROVATRON, and has talked about doing stand-up for a long time but keeps finding reasons to not try it. She is just now noticing how many of these names are in ALL CAPS.

When it came to connecting Lake Washington, Lake Union, and Puget Sound, engineering genius Hiram M. Chittenden developed a system of locks that is a modern marvel.

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Ben Lidgus is a cast member at ComedySportz in Fremont and a tutor for children who struggle with math and science.  He has been doing comedy in Seattle since 1998.

Can you raise a Gorilla to act like a human?  No you can’t, but that didn’t stop one Anacortes family from trying.

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Caitie Auld majored in Theatre at the University of Puget Sound and since graduating in 2010 she’s galavanted around Seattle doing fringe theatre. In 2014 she co-founded the all female sketch comedy group Day Job and they have been writing and performing in comedy festivals across the country.

In 1935 young George Weyerhaeuser was kidnapped walking home from school in Tacoma.  Over the following days the wealthy lumber family scrambled to meet the ransom demands and get him back safe.

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Jeffrey Nickels is a Seattle-based sketch comedy and fringe performer. He produced Ubiquitous They Sketch at the University of Puget Sound, and since moving to Seattle has written, directed, and performed for Part Plant, 50% Less Bear, Specific Northwest and Time Bath. He is also the producer for SketchLAB!, and works with the Pocket Theater in Greenwood. He loves local history and is very happy to be here.

Gay country and western band Lavender Country released their first album in 1973.  Despite brilliant songwriting and musicianship the band never achieved mainstream success due to their defiant and “out” content.

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John Wachter is a local actor/improvisor. He can be heard weekly on podcast IMPRV news 9 at 8. after relocating from the midwest he performs with Jet City Improv from time to time. He also performs often with the comedy duos  “Rage Baby”  and “Dueling Danjos”.

In 1980 Mount St. Helens erupted, shooting ash all across the world.  While most panicked, one strong willed resident refused to leave.

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Emmett Montgomery is a comedian/storyteller who was made in Utah but has lived in Seattle for most of the 21st century and been failing beautifully on and off the stage for over a decade. When he is not wandering the country telling jokes and falling in love with America, he produces local shows that focus on building community, pushing the limits of what it means to be a performer and celebrating the unique beauty of the city he lives in (Weird and Awesome with Emmett Montgomery, The Magic Hat) Emmett was part of the top 100 in NBC’s Last Comic Standing Season 9 (2015) and was voted Seattle Weekly’s Best Comic of 2015 and named one of City Arts Magazines Artists of 2015. Has performed at festivals across the country including the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Sasquatch Music Festival and the Women In Comedy Festival and can be heard on nationally podcasts like Risk! (storytelling) , Put Your Hands Together (jokes) and Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction (gross) and has worked with famouses and brilliants like Maria Bamford, Dave Chappelle and TJ Miller. Mr. Montgomery tells jokes from his heart, usually his heart is full of hope but sometimes it is full of spiders.

After his marriage fell apart in Ohio Dr. David Swinson Maynard headed west on the Oregon Trail to get a fresh start in California.  On the way he found love, changed course, and helped found the city of Seattle.

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Anthony is a Seattle writer/performer of comedy. You can see him in Sober Virgin, Kangaroo Court, and Hell Yeah (formerly God Bless Ya.) He loves hugs. If you see him, give him a hug. You will make his day if you give him a hug.

John Tornow was an outcast from society who chose to live alone in the seclusion of the woods rather than in society.  After a family dispute turned deadly he became a hunted man in a wilderness he knew better than anyone.

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Mike Schubert is a West Seattle resident, an improviser with CSz Seattle and Jet City Improv, and the host of Potterless. Potterless is a podcast documenting Mike’s journey as he reads the Harry Potter series for the first time at age 24, recapping a few chapters at a time with HP experts and poking fun at absurdities along the way. Mike can also be found at @Schubes17 on all social media outlets making egregious puns and other dad jokes.