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The Benson Hotel in downtown Portland, Oregon, is reportedly haunted by its original owner. Cathedral Park is said to be haunted by Thelma Taylor, a teenager who was murdered there in 1949. The Columbia Gorge Hotel is reputedly the site of paranormal activity. Imbrie Farm is allegedly haunted by family members of its namesake who died there.
CL. According to several historians, the U.S. state of Oregon contains over 200 ghost towns. [1][2] Professor and historian Stephen Arndt has counted a total of 256 ghost towns in the state, some well known, others "really obscure." [3] The high number of ghost towns and former communities in the state is largely due to its frontier history and ...
Reported hauntings in the state are linked to such historic places as the Oregon Trail and early coastal communities, as well as the history of Portland, the state's largest city and metropolitan area, which was considered one of the most dangerous port cities in the world at the beginning of the 20th century. [116]
Klickitat. Along Washington State Route 14, where Alder creek connects into Columbia River. 1907 (post office established) 1962 (post office closed) Barren. It is believed that Lewis & Clark camped at nearby Alder Creek in 1806. Almota. Whitman. Where Almonta Creek connects into Snake River.
42°29′35″N 123°05′06″W / 42.4931°N 123.0851°W / 42.4931; -123.0851. The Oregon Vortex is a roadside attraction that opened to tourists in 1930, [1] located on Sardine Creek [2] in Gold Hill, Oregon, in the United States. It consists of a number of interesting effects, which are gravity hill optical illusions, but which ...
Mel's Hole. Mel's Hole is, according to an urban legend, a "bottomless pit" near Ellensburg, Washington. Claims about it were first made on the radio show Coast to Coast AM in 1997 by a guest calling himself Mel Waters. Later investigation revealed no such person was listed as residing in that area, and no credible evidence has been given that ...
The Neskowin Ghost Forest is the remnants of a Sitka spruce forest on the Oregon Coast of the United States. The stumps were likely created when an earthquake of the Cascadia subduction zone abruptly lowered the trees, that were then covered by mud from landslides or debris from a tsunami. [1] Many of the stumps are over 2,000 years old ...
41. D. B. Cooper, also known as Dan Cooper, was an unidentified man who hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, a Boeing 727 aircraft, in United States airspace on November 24, 1971. During the flight from Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington, Cooper told a flight attendant he had a bomb, demanded $200,000 in ransom (equivalent to ...