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Haunted Places in Salem, OR

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.

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Bush House Museum

Haunted place

600 Mission Street SE, Salem, OR

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…

Source: hauntbound.com

This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.

Elsinore Theatre

Haunted place

170 High Street SE, Salem, OR 97301

Open to the public (ticketed performances).

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…

Source: hauntbound.com

This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.

Oregon State Capitol

Haunted place

900 Court Street NE, Salem, OR 97301

Open to the public (free; tours offered).

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 …

Source: hauntbound.com

This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.

Oregon State Hospital Museum of Mental Health

Haunted place

2600 Center St NE, Salem, OR 97301

Open to the public (museum and memorial).

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…

Source: hauntbound.com

This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.

Salem Pioneer Cemetery

Haunted place

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…

Source: hauntbound.com

This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.

Willamette Heritage Center (Mission Mill)

Haunted place

1313 Mill St SE, Salem, OR 97301

Open to the public (admission charged).

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…

Source: hauntbound.com

This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.