Jennifer Ann – Oregon Hauntings

Newberg, OR

I was about 14 and had went over to my friends house for the weekend. She lived in a two story duplex, and the her neighbors had two small children. They were going out for the evening and asked if we would babysit them until they came home, we agreed.

We got over there at about 8pm and put the kids to bed. The little girl upstairs and their son downstairs. There was nothing different about that night, it didn’t feel weird or spooky so hung out in the dining room and decided to do some homework that we had. Not much time had passed, when all of a sudden we herd walking up stairs. Thinking that maybe the little girl was playing in her room, we decided to go up there and let her know it was time for bed. However when we got up there, she was laying there asleep. So back downstairs we went. 

I remember telling my friend that maybe she was “playing opossum” because I used to do that when I was her age, if I heard my parents coming I would pretend I was asleep. With that said, we sat there a couple minutes in silence, wondering if she would get back up, and again we heard what sounded like she was walking around. So I snuck up the stairs as quietly as I could. When I had reached the bottom stairs the noise had stopped, and once again looking in her room, she was sleeping away. 

This time however, when I came back down the stairs I looked over at my friend and thought that was really odd, and at that point there was a loud thud. like someone had thrown a heavy coffee table inside the window upstairs. No sound of breaking glass, just the location of the thud and how loud it was, like something had been dropped. We were terrified! However we ran up there anyways, Yet again, nothing was found, nothing was heard and the little girl was fast asleep. By this point we were both scared, but we were hoping that my friends mother or brother were moving things around next door, so we tried to stay calm and luckily the children’s parents came home at this point. We told them what we heard, and they both looked at us like we were crazy and off we went back to her side of the duplex.

Upon getting back, her mom and I were really close so I had told her what happened. When she heard what we had experienced, she looked at me and said “well that’s strange because I have heard that the last two nights” Now, when I heard that, I knew this was something that wasn’t  ”normal” so I told her that I would stay up with her to see if the noises came back. 4am, the noises returned. This time though, it was so loud it sounded like someone was dragging a huge bed across the floor above, the thuds, the screeching, the walking around. The weirdest part about it all, whenever we would go upstairs it was silent, and my friend and her brother were sound asleep. However, as soon as you where downstairs again, the sounds were almost deafening. 

At this point, her mother and I started to do a house blessing, because we both felt in our hearts that this was something evil, so we prayed, and eventually, after 2 or 3 hours the sound had gone. There was nothing but a distinctive ringing in both of our ears….. The sounds never returned. 

Boardman OR

Another experience that I had was about two years later, when I turned 16. Another friend of mine, decided to go with my father and I on our yearly camping/fishing trip. We were at an actual campground that had a pool, and a bunch of people were staying there that weekend. It was warm, so my friend and I spent most of the time swimming and during that time we had made some friends. 

On our second night there, we had parted ways with our new friends and let them know that if they wanted to stop by our tent to hang out later that they could. Time came and went,  nobody showed. Well it was probably about 9 or 10pm when all of a sudden we heard fast walking outside our tent. (There was a light on, that illuminated things outside and we could see no shadows around our tent, and the sound was close enough to where one would think there would be a shadow) Within the first 2 minuets of this going on, something came over me that told me to run. So i grabbed my friend by her hand and we ran as fast as we could to the women’s bathroom ( this was the first time we had went to the outside restroom, because the pool area was closed which is where we normally would go) and all the way there we felt as if we were being chased.  

Once in the bathroom, there was a bit of gravel outside the door, and we could hear footsteps, passing back and forth. Terrified and confused on what to do, we got a brave streak and I told her to hide in one of the stalls, while I opened the door. She begged me not to, and at this point were both crying out of sheer fear. I did it anyways, and when I opened the door, nothing was there….just the wind and a forest of trees. Shutting the door, the gravel made no more sound and after waiting in there for about an hour, we decided to go back to our tent. It was a restless sleep, but we made it through, but the really strange part, comes from what we saw the next morning. 

The previous night we had run by a ton of trees, on our way to the bathroom, when I opened the bathroom door I stared at a forest. That next day tho looking over at the outside restroom, there was no forest there. Not a single tree stood….nothing but a gravel lot. Talk about creepy!

Portland OR

My same friend in the previous story, whom I had went camping with. I always spent a lot of time with her, we would always hang out at each other’s houses. Now, her house, the family and I believed was inhabited by a spirit of a young girl. Not much ever happened there, except for if you were down in the basement you could hear small feet run in the hallway upstairs when no one else was home. 

Well on this particular day, my friend and I were hanging out in her room, when all of a sudden we heard footsteps and heard a doorknob turn. Thinking it was her older sister we went out into the living room, only to find out no one was there. So we joked to ourselves that it must be the little girl, and decided to go hang out, outside. 

Hours passed, the family came home and it was just about time for bed. Well her little brother had a friend staying over for the night, and her and I decided to sleep in the guest room downstairs. Well just before we were going to go to bed, we decided to go scare the boys (they were sleeping in the living room upstairs, and there was a landing that you could look through the railing and see them) well, all of a sudden one of them got up, and we thought they were gonna “get us” because we had tried to scare them earlier. So down the stairs we ran, running as fast as we could, turning off the lights in the process, shutting the guest bedroom door jumping under the covers to act like we were asleep… Then the door slammed open and all the lights in the bedroom, the hall, and the family room came on. We laid there, trying really hard not to laugh, but yet this eerie feeling came over the both of us, like we were being stared at. so we looked at each other then lifted our heads and looked toward the door, and there was nothing there. 

We were really creeped out by this point and deiced to go upstairs and tell her little brother and his friend that, that wasn’t funny and we knew it was them. Well when we said this, we got yelled at by her Mom, because she had been sitting there the entire time and told us, they had never left the living room and that we needed to go to bed…..

We never slept in the guestroom again.

July 15th, 2009|2 Comments