The Most Haunted Places in Oregon

Ranked

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   1. Yaquina Bay Lighthouse Newport · Museum / Historical Site · Family Comfort: High

   Yaquina Bay Lighthouse was lit in 1871 and decommissioned three years later; it is Oregon's only surviving wooden lighthouse and opened as a museum in 1956. Its ghost story traces to fiction: Lischen Miller's 1899 story 'The Haunted Light' told of a girl named Muriel Trevenard who vanished inside the lighthouse, leaving only her handkerchief. No such disappearance is on record, but visitors report footsteps on the stairs and a woman glimpsed in period dress.

   6 original accounts · documented across 3 decades, 1920-2009

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   2. Wolf Creek Inn Wolf Creek · Haunted Hotel / Inn · Family Comfort: High

   Wolf Creek Inn opened in 1883 as a stagecoach stop on the Applegate Trail and is the oldest operating inn in the Pacific Northwest; the State of Oregon restored it between 1975 and 1979. Novelist Jack London stayed there and finished The Valley of the Moon in 1913. Guests have reported his apparition and voice in the room where he slept, along with doors opening and closing on their own and footsteps in the corridors.

   6 original accounts · documented across 4 decades, 1879-2023 · retold in 4 later publications

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   3. Geiser Grand Hotel Baker City · Haunted Hotel / Inn · Family Comfort: High

   The Geiser Grand opened in 1889 as the Hotel Warshauer during a mining boom and was renamed for owner Albert Geiser in 1902; it closed in 1968, sat vacant for decades, and reopened in 1993. Staff and guests describe a 'Lady in Blue,' Annabelle Geiser, on the staircase and near Room 302, with footsteps after hours and cold near the mezzanine. A second figure is a cowboy tied to a shooting from its gold-rush years.

   5 original accounts · documented across 4 decades, 1993-2021 · retold in 3 later publications

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   4. Heceta Head Lighthouse Yachats · Haunted Hotel / Inn · Family Comfort: High

   HauntBound identified four distinct published accounts at this working hotel, across four kinds of published source. Four later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include apparitions and objects moving.

   4 original accounts · documented across 5 decades, 1950-2022 · retold in 4 later publications

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   5. McMenamins Edgefield Troutdale · Haunted Hotel / Inn · Family Comfort: High

   HauntBound identified eight distinct published accounts at this working hotel, across four kinds of published source. Three later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include apparitions.

   8 original accounts · documented across 2 decades, 2002-2018 · retold in 3 later publications

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   6. Lone Fir Pioneer Cemetery Portland · Cemetery / Burial Ground · Family Comfort: High

   HauntBound identified six distinct published accounts at this burial ground, across three kinds of published source. Reported phenomena include a sensed presence and disembodied voices.

   6 original accounts · documented across 3 decades, 2004-2025

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   7. Todd Hall, Western Oregon University Monmouth · Haunted House / Historic Home · Family Comfort: High

   Todd Hall at Western Oregon University was built in 1912 as its first dormitory, named for Jessica M. Todd, the first Dean of Women, who ran student life until her 1931 retirement. Staff and students since 1980 have described lights in the highest windows when the building is locked and empty, objects rearranged overnight, and voices in the basement. A 2009 investigation found no evidence, though the lore of Todd watching over the building persists.

   3 original accounts · documented across 2 decades, 1944-2013 · retold in 2 later publications

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   8. Pittock Mansion Portland · Museum / Historical Site · Family Comfort: High

   HauntBound identified three distinct published accounts at this museum site, across three kinds of published source. Six later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include objects moving and phantom footsteps.

   3 original accounts · documented across 5 decades, 1960-2021 · retold in 6 later publications

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   9. Captain George Flavel House Museum Astoria · Museum / Historical Site · Family Comfort: High

   Captain George Flavel, a Columbia River bar pilot, built this Queen Anne mansion in Astoria, completed in 1885; the Clatsop County Historical Society has run it as a museum since 1951. Staff describe faint piano music and voices near the second-floor music room where his daughters, Nellie and Katie, once practiced, along with a male figure in 19th-century dress reported in Flavel's former bedroom and a floral perfume attributed to his wife, Mary Christina.

   4 original accounts · documented across 4 decades, 1983-2024 · retold in 2 later publications

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    10. Columbia Gorge Hotel Hood River · Haunted Hotel / Inn · Family Comfort: High

    HauntBound identified four distinct published accounts at this working hotel, across four kinds of published source. Three later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include apparitions and cold spots.

    4 original accounts · documented across 2 decades, 2015-2023 · retold in 3 later publications

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