McLoughlin House, home of Oregon City's co-founders · Oregon City Municipal Elevator, one of four in the world · Clackamas County Courthouse
US Ghost Adventures markets its Oregon City program as 'Oregon City Ghost Tour: Outcasts, Oracles, & Oblivion,' meeting nightly outside Five Zero Trees, 719 Main St, for a roughly 1-hour, 1-mile walk through downtown Oregon City. This is a distinct operator and program from Northwest Ghost Tours, the Rocky Smith-led walking-tour operation already documented in this corpus at oregon/oregon-city-ghost-tours.json, which meets at the same Municipal Elevator but is not affiliated with US Ghost Adventures.
The USGA route covers the McLoughlin House, home to Oregon City co-founders Dr. John McLoughlin and Marguerite McLoughlin, and the Oregon City Municipal Elevator, one of only four municipal street elevators in the world. The operator also references the Clackamas County Courthouse in connection with the real 1980s case of Dayton Leroy Rogers, known as the 'Molalla Forest Killer,' who was apprehended and tried there.
Sources
- https://usghostadventures.com/oregon-city-ghost-tour/
- https://www.getyourguide.com/oregon-l951/ghost-vampire-tours-tc23/
ApparitionsReported phantom touchUnexplained presence
According to US Ghost Adventures' own promotional material, the McLoughlin House is haunted by Dr. John and Marguerite McLoughlin, whose graves were moved from their original resting place to the current property; the operator describes uneasy feelings and a reported phantom push or shove tied to that relocation. At the Oregon City Municipal Elevator, the operator recounts a ghost linked to a gruesome accident from the structure's early, more dangerous era of operation.
At Five Zero Trees, now a dispensary, the operator's account holds that the spirit of the building's original pharmacist still 'goes about business as usual' in the space that once treated Oregon Trail travelers. In connection with the Clackamas County Courthouse, the operator recounts the real 1980s case of serial killer Dayton Leroy Rogers (the 'Molalla Forest Killer'), who was tried there, and attributes reported courthouse phenomena to one of his victims, who remains unidentified as a Jane Doe.
All of this is the tour operator's own marketing and narrative material, not documented history verified independently for this listing; it is included here as a description of what the tour covers, not as an endorsement of any specific claim. The Molalla Forest Killer case itself is real documented history; HauntBound names no victim and attributes no confession beyond what is a matter of public record.
Notable Entities
John and Marguerite McLoughlin (McLoughlin House, operator lore)
