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The Wandering Ghost of Evan MacClure

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Picture generated with AI Location: Newport, Oregon, United States of America Dates Active: December 1873 to Present Category: Haunting, Lighthouses, Mysterious Sounds, Wandering Ghosts Cause: Unknown Status: Ongoing Entry ID: 031024A-00083 Summery:   The ghost of the captain of a whaling ship washes up on the Oregon coast looking for a place to rest. In Depth: According to legend Captain Evan MacClure was once the captain of the whaling ship Moncton , who had a reputation as a womanizer, a jerk, and liked getting into fights. Needless to say he was not well liked, especially by his first mate Bill Brewster. The story goes that Bill Brewster was betrothed to a woman named Lehui Opakhini, who worked as a call girl in Hawaii. While the Moncton was in port in Hawaii, Brewster was visiting a saloon with his fiance when MacClure decided he wanted to use Lehui's services. Brewster and MacClure got into a fight, with MacClure coming out on top. MacClure pulled a Mike Tyson and bit ...

Malheur Butte

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Picture generated with AI Location: Malheur Butte, Oregon, United States of America Dates Active: Unknown Category: Evil Spirits, Haunting, Mysterious Sounds, Peculiar Natural Formations, Shadows, Witchcraft Cause: Unknown Status: Ongoing Entry ID: 030624A-00082 Summery:   This extinct volcano is home to strange living shadows, ghost dogs, and is supposedly a meeting place for witches. In Depth: Malheur Butte is an extinct volcano that is located near the border between eastern Oregon and Idaho, just west of Ontario. The butte was once used by native Americans to watch the wagon trains heading west along the Oregon Trail. In the mid-1800s groups of trappers made a cache of animal furs and supplies near the nearby Malheur River, when the natives found and raided the stash. The area has since been named Malheur, which is French for "misfortune." The story of Malheur Butte becomes much darker in more recent years, with stories of all sorts of strange activity and rumors of...

Student Zombie

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Picture generated with AI. Location: Tequesta, Florida, United States of America Dates Active: August 15, 2016 Category: Demons, Strange Crimes, Werewolves, Zombies Cause: Illicit Drugs or Insanity Status: Closed Entry ID: 030424A-00081 Summery:   Florida student murders couple and eats a man's face, claiming that he was being chased by demons and thinking he had become some sort of non-human being. In Depth: On the evening of August 15, 2016, a 19-year-old college student by the name of Austin Harrouff had joined his family for dinner at sports bar and restaurant. While waiting at the restaurant Austin started acting strange, stating things like he had super powers and was immortal, but then got agitated and left the restaurant, presumably because of slow service. His parents, whom were worried about Austin's behavior, called police. He was later found four miles away in the garage of Michelle Mishcon and John Stevens, hunched over their bodies and eating John's face...

The Spirit of the Dog-Faced Boy

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Picture generated with AI 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...

The Whistling Logger

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Picture generated with AI Location: Lithia Park, Ashland, Oregon, United States of America Dates Active: 1908 to Present Category: Haunting, Mysterious Sounds, Nice Spirits, Omens Cause: Unknown Status: Ongoing Entry ID: 022424J-00079 Summery:   Another spirit said to haunt Lithia Park, this one being that of a cheerful logger who warns people of danger. 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 'Whistling Logger,' the spirit of a lumberjack that was supposedly killed on the job. While this tragedy cannot be backed up with news reports from the time, suppose...

The Ghosts of Lithia Park

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Picture generated with AI Location: Lithia Park, Ashland, Oregon, United States of America Dates Active: 1875 to Present Category: Ghost Light, Haunting, Mysterious Sounds, Technology Cause: Unknown, possible murder Status: Ongoing Entry ID: 022424I-00078 Summery:   Lithia Park has had a long history of supernatural experiences. 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 appears to roam about the entirety of the park, supposedly belonging to a young woman or girl who was murdered in the area sometime in the late 1800s (some fingering the exact year being 1875.) This young woman...

'Oi'o: The Nightmarchers

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Picture generated with AI Location: Hawaii, United States of America Dates Active: Unknown Category: Mysterious Sounds, Omens, Wandering Ghosts Cause: Unknown Status: Ongoing Entry ID: 022424H-00077 Summery:   This procession of ancestral ghosts has remained a cultural phenomenon on the Hawaiian islands. In Depth: Stemming from the oral traditions of native Hawaiian residents passed down from generation to generation, the nightmarchers are a large group of ghosts made up of ancestral warriors that march along the islands at night. They are known by many names, such as 'Oi'o or Na huaka‘i o ka Pō in Hawaiian, or Nightmarchers and Spirit Ranks in English. Such marches are traditionally claimed to happen on nights that honor Hawaiian gods Kane, Kanaloak, Ku, or Lono, where the spirits of the dead rise from their burial sites and march to sacred places all over the islands. There have been hundreds of witnesses to this strange spiritual procession over the years, with locals ...