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Explore 60 haunted places in Oregon. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
Woodburn, Oregon · Historic house
A woman in an old-fashioned black dress is the best-defined apparition in Settlemier House lore. Haunted Places contributor Callum Swift says she is blamed for rearranged furniture, while visitors also report laughter, footsteps without a visible walker and doors suddenly opening.
Lebanon, Oregon · Theater
Kuhn Theatre’s stories center on a girl in white said to haunt the balcony. In Callum Swift’s Haunted Places account, laughter and self-moving doors accompany her appearances, while projection-booth workers describe the distinct sensation of being hugged by someone they cannot see.
Dayton, Oregon · Cemetery
Lafayette’s cemetery legend centers on a woman said to appear among the graves, laughing or driving visitors away. Haunted Places recounts a purported recording telling someone to go home. The familiar explanation that she was executed as a witch is part of the legend, not established Oregon legal history.
Bend, Oregon · Hotel
Guest accounts from Lara House’s lodging years describe an unseen nighttime visitor in the bedrooms. Haunted Places contributor Callum Swift recounts displaced objects and low whispering sounds, without giving the presence a name or a documented historical identity.
Astoria, Oregon · Theater
The Liberty’s best-dressed ghost is Handsome Paul, said to appear ready for an evening out. Haunted Places also records an elderly woman’s apparition and theater equipment mysteriously running when employees arrive in the morning. Rattling knobs, unexplained knocks and displaced objects form the rest of the backstage lore.
North Bend, Oregon · Theater
A woman in old-fashioned clothing is said to appear in the women’s restroom, while two children are heard running through the halls. Haunted Places contributor Callum Swift also reports doors opening and closing late at night. The theater’s resident-ghost stories survive alongside an active community performance program.
Klamath Falls, Oregon · Theater
A former actor is said to remain a faithful audience member at the Linkville, sometimes appearing with a pipe during dress rehearsals and then vanishing. Haunted Places contributor Callum Swift also describes inexplicable music and lights in the attic, casting the resident spirit as a friendly theater regular.
Ashland, Oregon · Natural landmark
A flickering blue light over a duck pond is Lithia Park’s best-known haunting motif. Haunted Places attributes it to the spirit of a girl in a local tragedy legend. The light, rather than a reliably identified historical person, is the specific reported phenomenon associated with the park.
Ontario, Oregon · Natural landmark
Malheur Butte’s lore involves small shadow creatures rather than a named human ghost. Haunted Places recounts dog-sized shapes appearing after dark, making strange noises and pursuing visitors. Stories connect the creatures with secret witch gatherings on the volcanic landmark, an explanation presented as legend.
Jacksonville, Oregon · Hotel
McCully House’s haunting story is brief and visual: an unidentified woman is said to appear in the inn’s corridors. Haunted Places does not provide a name or a securely documented personal history for the figure.
Oregon City, Oregon · Historic house
John McLoughlin’s former house is associated with footsteps, tobacco scent and beds that look newly slept in. Haunted Places describes visitors feeling a touch on the shoulder or seeing a shadow in the hall. A woman in period dress near the staircase is sometimes identified in the stories as Marguerite McLoughlin.
Troutdale, Oregon · Hotel
Edgefield’s reputation reaches beyond human ghosts. Haunted Places repeats guests’ stories of a phantom dog waking them with the sensation of a cold nose against their faces. Other accounts describe a woman appearing in guest rooms and children heard crying in an area associated with the former infirmary.
Forest Grove, Oregon · Hotel
A white-haired woman in a patterned dress and slippers is the Grand Lodge’s recurring apparition. Haunted Places notes that employees’ descriptions inspired a portrait displayed in the building. Some storytellers connect her with Anna, a long-term resident, though the sighting tradition does not establish the figure’s identity.
McMinnville, Oregon · Hotel
A ghost nicknamed John is thought by local storytellers to be a former long-term lodger. Haunted Places associates his continuing presence with sudden cold patches on the first and second floors and in the cellar bar. The ghost tradition is separate from the hotel’s better-known UFO festival.
Portland, Oregon · Other
Nina, the woman said to haunt the old elevator-shaft area, anchors the restaurant’s ghost lore. Haunted Places contributor Michael W recounts cold patches, shoulder taps, whispers, swaying stained glass and a man in an old-fashioned black suit on the stairs. The account blends staff stories with the contributor’s claimed firsthand experiences.
Wheeler, Oregon · Hotel
Visitors’ stories at the Old Wheeler Hotel tend to begin with a fleeting reflection: a figure in a mirror or movement just beyond direct sight. Haunted Places also records orb photographs and a renovation legend in which troublesome spirits eventually accepted the building’s restoration.
Cave Junction, Oregon · Hotel
A woman called Elizabeth is said to walk the Chateau’s corridors at night. In the legend repeated by Haunted Places, she was a bride whose wedding ended in betrayal and tragedy. The reported hallway apparition belongs to the lodge’s folklore, rather than a separate ghost story about the cave system.
Salem, Oregon · Other
The Capitol’s ghost lore includes footsteps across marble floors, quiet voices and doors closing without an obvious cause. Haunted Places also repeats a report of a deceased legislator appearing after hours and points to Sandra Allen’s book Ghosts in the Capitol as a collection of the building’s stories.
Bend, Oregon · Other
The O’Kane Building has a ghost story for several levels. In Callum Swift’s Haunted Places account, voices, lights and apparent smoke occur upstairs when nobody is there; downstairs, a waitress is heard calling orders in the restaurant, while an elderly man’s apparition occupies the basement.
Ashland, Oregon · Hotel
The Peerless has a brief haunting tradition associated with its former boarding-house life. Haunted Places contributor Callum Swift attributes the reported spirit to a woman said to have worked in the sex trade, but supplies no specific encounter, confirmed identity or evidence for her biography.
Pendleton, Oregon · Other
A persistent intercom once gave Pendleton’s old Carnegie library an uneasy after-hours reputation. The building now hosts art and music, but its older story still belongs to these rooms.
Pendleton, Oregon · Other
Among the rooms on Pendleton’s underground tour route, a former living space associated with Chinese residents has a particularly specific ghost story. Haunted Places places the reported presence in the room’s far-left corner. It is a localized tour tradition, rather than evidence that every downtown passage is haunted.
Portland, Oregon · Historic house
Ghost-tour accounts connect unexplained rose perfume with Georgiana Pittock and describe a portrait of Henry Pittock moving on the wall. US Ghost Adventures presents these small household disturbances as signs that the mansion’s original owners remain attached to their home.
Gold Hill, Oregon · Cemetery
A lantern-bearing figure in a hood is said to walk among Rock Point’s graves and disappear when approached. Haunted Places also collects reports of greenish mist, unexplained lights and sounds around the cemetery. The elaborate supernatural explanations attached to these sightings remain cemetery folklore.