Monthly Archives: October 2012
Ghosts of a tragedy
Terry Covington, Salmon Creek My ex-husband does not believe in ghosts, but he also is sure that he saw one. We lived in a rented house in Moscow, Idaho. It was a little run down, but was on a nice street and close enough to Washington State University, where he was teaching ROTC. Very early […]
The woman in white
Jack Miller, The Dalles, Ore. I used to work as a closer in a Bend restaurant. I was hired when the previous guy locked up and didn’t return for his next shift. I started seeing weird things, but I just figured it was imagination working alone late at night. The guy showed up two weeks […]
A happy Christmas spirit
Jacqueline Miller and family, Ridgefield Our dad loved Christmas. It was always right up there with fishing and cigars. He loved it when our family made a tradition of getting together on that day for eating and fun presents. We took turns going either to Hood River, Albany, Tigard or to our place in Ridgefield […]
Odd happenings on a dead-end street
Janet Henderson, Vancouver The last house on a dead-end road in Clark County is where my family lived for only one year, but what a year it was. Our youngest child, 4 years old at the time, was nearly impossible to get to bed. He said the faces in the window frightened him. He said […]
Ghost washing
Eckhard Smith, Camas One morning my wife greeted me at the breakfast table and asked me if I had used the washing machine the night before. I managed a puzzled no, “Why are you asking me?” Earlier in the morning, she asked my two teenage boys the same question. Both of them replied that neither […]
Ghost of Christmas past
Barb Gagnier, Vancouver On Christmas Eve I pulled into my son’s driveway and got out of the car to move a bunch of Christmas gifts from the back seat. While doing this, my husband came out of our son’s apartment and asked who was with me. “No one,” I said, and wondered why he’d ask […]
Digging a ghost ditch
C. W. Gatney, Vancouver Several years ago, because of construction, I decided to take the back road to Battle Ground, where I worked. This route took me to “China Ditch Road.” It was a very foggy morning, I was just past where the Little League field is now, going north. I was creeping because of […]
A midnight stroll
Dennis Sparks, Vancouver In the late ’60s, there was an abandoned house with a bell tower on C Street, just south of Fourth Plain. A bunch of us teenagers worked for a haunted house fundraiser there, and after the show some of us decided to stay. We slept in the upstairs empty room, and just […]
Ghost dogs of Battle Ground (Part I)
Dennis Sparks, Vancouver In the mid-’60s on Halloween, a bunch of us teens decided to sleep over in a partly burned cabin in the middle of an abandoned field. The cabin was surrounded by thick trees, with a field that spread past them. After we had all dozed off, we heard dogs barking. Sensing that […]
Ghost dogs of Battle Ground (Part II)
Bronwen Lee, Battle Ground One morning I walked out from our wilderness cottage to our burn can and saw our Siberian Husky “Stormy” between me and the can, blocking my favorite path into the orchard. She planted herself between me and the can and stared as if to get me back in the house. Feeling […]