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Location:
This private residence can be found
in a North Portland community, on North Watts Street, in Portland, Oregon.
Please respect their privacy.
Description:
This roomy, three story Victorian
home was built around the turn of the century, like many of the houses
in its neighborhood, for managers and employees of a meat processing plant
in town. It was newly remodeled in the early '80's, and is in pretty good
shape.
History of Manifestations:
The ghosts that stay here, are a result
of an incident that happened in 1973, a deadly example of domestic violence.
A mother and her five children went to stay at this house, to get away
from her estranged husband. Around 2:50 AM one early morning, two days
before Christmas, this mother made the fatal mistake of letting her estranged
husband in the front door. After beating her, he shot her to death on
the couch near the front door, and then killed himself.
In the '80's, the house was up for
sale, and stood empty for 18 months, before the B family bought it for
a very reasonable price, in a very tight housing market, unaware that
a murder / suicide had happened here 12 years before. They soon discovered
that their new home was "different." "Something was there."
Manifestations:
The ghosts of the dead couple, Marles
and Billy, renamed Mrs. & Mr. G by the B family, are the unseen housemates,
who mean no harm to the living.
1) Marles, (Mrs. G) tries to be helpful
and kind to the children, because she misses her own kids, and wants to
help take care of the B children.
* The B's almost 3 year old daughter,
Cassie, was the first to see their unseen housemates. Mrs. B never tucked
in the covers around her children, in case they had to get out of bed
for any reason. The little girl told her mother about the nice lady
with long hair who tucked in her covers at night, and that a scary man
who never smiled stood behind her, just watching. Mrs. B started to
check later in the evening, after Cassie had gone to sleep, and she
had been tucked in by someone.
* In the fall of '87, one night,
both girls, Cassie and Gennie slept in Gennie's room. Mrs. B awoke to
a freezing cold room, around 4:30 am, because the outside weather had
changed. She went to the little girls' room, to plug in the electric
heater, only to find it already plugged in and doing its job of keeping
the girls warm.
2) Mr. B had plugged a VCR in to record
a favorite program. After he got home, the VCR had been unplugged, sometime
after his program was recorded.
3) Electrical household items turned
themselves on and off at will.
* During the month of Feb.1988, occasionally
the TV and the radio took turns turning on by themselves, giving the
B family quite a start.
* The third floor lights are always
going off and on, at will, when no one is up there.
* The B family would leave their
home totally dark, to come home to a house where lights are blazing
in various rooms. Gennie's room lights pop on by themselves frequently.
4) The ghosts have throughout the
years walked around the floors, gone up and down the steps, knocked on
doors, and have unlocked the front door and gone through it and then have
come back in, slamming the door every time they went in or out. However,
Mr. & Mrs. G do listen to reason. When Mrs. B asks them to stop because
the B family is trying to sleep, or that their noise may wake the children,
they cooperatively will stop.
* The windows in Gennie's room have
been found open on many occasions, after they had been securely locked.
5) Mr. B's paycheck stubs were kept
in a folder in the filing cabinet. One day, they mysteriously were found
out in the kitchen. Neither Mr. or Mrs. had gotten them out.
6) The whole B clan has seen and felt
these apparitions and heard disembodied voices.
* Cold spots have been felt throughout
the house.
* Mr. G. - Little Cassie called
him Mr. Simon, and wanted to invite him to her birthday party. Her older
sister, Gennie, saw him one Christmas down in the living room, admiring
the pretty, decorated Christmas tree. The apparition turned and saw
her, and disappeared immediately.
* Out of the corner of their eyes,
they have seen a white thing that disappears when looked at directly.
* One night when Mr. B was at work,
Mrs. B was sleeping with her door open a crack, and the light on in
the hall. She suddenly awoke to find Mr. G. casually strolling toward
her bedroom door, right toward her. She at first thought it was Mr.
B, but when she realized that it wasn't, she quickly turned on the light
and Mr. G vanished.
* Mr. B had been on an early day
shift, so he had gone to bed earlier than the rest of his family. Once
again the bedroom door was open a crack, and the hallway light was on.
Some noise woke him up from a sound sleep, and he saw a lady coming
toward him in a gown. He thought at first it was Mrs. B. He was about
to embrace this lady as she came real close to him, when he realized,
"This is not my wife!" "AHHHH!" This lady had a more slender build,
slender face and straight hair down to her shoulders. This incident
stayed with him for days and weeks to come. There was no question of
the reality of their ghostly housemates.
* Mrs. B has heard a woman crying
in the kitchen, and a booming man's voice in the living room, when no
one was there.
Still Haunted?
Yes.
Mr. and Mrs. G and the B family have
a peaceful co-existence. The ghosts do their best not to upset the girls
and have been kind to them. They have also seem to like the Mr. and Mrs.
B, while letting them know that they still exist, giving them a surprise
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