The Spirit of the Dog-Faced Boy

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Location: Lithia Park, Ashland, Oregon, United States of America
Dates Active: 1926 to Present
Category: Disappearances, Haunting, Nice Spirits, Odd People, Strange Crimes
Cause: Unknown
Status: Ongoing
Entry ID: 022424K-00080

Summery: 

The story of the Dog-faced Boy, who is said to haunts the streets around Lithia Park.

In Depth:

When it was first opened in 1908, Lithia Park was only a small patch of land, but eventually grew inside to a nearly 100 acre park with duck ponds and streams, walking paths, a Japanese garden, a playground, and a bandshell. It even had a zoo and campgrounds at one time, but those days have long since passed. However, the park is also home to a few dark secrets, including stories of numerous ghosts haunting the grounds.

One such ghost is that of the "Dog-Faced Boy," who was supposedly a real person who lived in Ashland in the 1920s. Little is known about him other than had hypertrichosis, or "werewolf syndrome", a condition which caused him to have overactive hair follicles all over his body. This gave him an extremely hairy appearance, one that resulted him in being shunned by regular society. Because of the way he looked he had little in the way of income, and resorted to selling pencils and pilfering parked vehicles for anything he could pawn or use. Anytime anyone saw him he always had a sack slung over his shoulder, carrying everything he owned inside.

Then sometime in 1926 he disappeared and was never seen alive again. Some speculated that he must have stolen something from the wrong vehicle ore overheard something he shouldn't have, and was murdered somewhere around Ashland near Lithia Park. Of course, he may have simply just skipped town, but it would have been rather difficult to miss him anywhere else with his medical condition without a significant amount of shaving. Whatever happened to him, he never cropped up elsewhere and his body was never found.

Then in the 1960s something strange began to happen around Lithia Park, around where the Dog-faced Boy used to try and sell his wares. People started seeing a hairy figure appearing and disappearing around the area, and items also started to vanish from parked, unlocked cars. Police were called on several occasions to investigate, but no perpetrator was ever found. When the police interviewed victims and witnesses, they always said the same thing: the crime was perpetrated by none other than the Dog-faced Boy.

But the story doesn't end there. Some people who visit the park's playgrounds claim to have had encounters with the Dog-faced Boy, if only via strange instances with their children. Some kids have been spotted playing with other children who can't be seen, and when asked about it they describe a new friend that appears to look like a dog.

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Last Updated: March 23, 2024

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