Historic haunted places in Salem, OR. Each page gives the ghost story, whether visitors can go, and a link to the site the story came from. The stories are folklore, not documented fact.
Open to the public (guided tours; admission charged).
The haunting here centers on Eugenia Bush, who spent decades in a Boston hospital for mental illness and came home after her father died in 1913, living here until her death. Despi…
Performers say builder George Guthrie watches rehearsals from the seats, and a permanent cold spot onstage is credited to him. Other stories, unconfirmed, add his young daughter an…
A 2002 book collecting Capitol staff stories includes a custodian cleaning a third-floor House office who turned to find a smiling man in a brown 1970s suit and glasses a few feet …
This campus carries heavy history, including a 1942 kitchen error that poisoned 47 patients in one morning and the 2004 discovery of thousands of unclaimed patients' copper urns. P…
Commercial Street SE & Hoyt Street SE, Salem, OR 97302
Open to the public (daylight hours; free).
In a spring 2002 night visit compiled by the Willamette Heritage Center, investigators said an angry spirit in a tree warned them to leave. Once it calmed, they reported noises fro…
Since 1914, people have described a woman in black floating or running across the bridge over the millstream, said in local tales to have been killed there by her husband. A real g…