Charlette and Phillip, Seattle Museum of the Mysteries.
Charlette LeFevre and Philip Lipson want to know how Seattle ended up with an exhibit such as "Bodies." (October 28, 2006) . Photo by Meryl Schenker/Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Philip Lipson, bespectacled and soft-spoken, is the dreamer, and Charlette LeFevre, intense and articulate, is the feisty skeptic. Together, the two paranormal enthusiasts reprise a kind of latter-day Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, a little older and a little rounder than their "X-Files" alter egos. Now the two proprietors of Seattle's Museum of the Mysteries are taking on the biggest mystery of their careers: How did Seattle, which prides itself on its cultural sensitivity, come to put the corpses of some 20 unclaimed, unidentified Chinese individuals on display for profit in the name of edu-tainment?
Charlette LeFevre and Philip Lipson want to know how Seattle ended up with an exhibit such as "Bodies." They traffic in the weird and unexplained themselves, but the multimillion-dollar "Bodies ... The Exhibition" show now on view in Seattle just over a mile away from the museum violates their sense of human decency, and -- they say -- the human rights of the individuals who have been dissected for display. "We have a responsibility to speak up," said LeFevre, who, with her partner, hosts ghost tours of Capitol Hill. "We speak about the dead, but we do it in a respectful way."...