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Episode 147: Haunted PNW
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Welcome back, Witches! This week, we’re taking a spine-chilling trip to the Pacific Northwest to explore two of its most haunted locations—Lithium Park, where restless spirits and eerie energy linger, and the historic Moran Mansion, home to ghostly whispers and shadowy figures. Are these places truly cursed, or just victims of eerie folklore? You decide. So get in, loser, we’re going ghost hunting! 👻✨
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References:
- Podcast: PNW Haunts & Homicides. Lithia Park: Specters and Shakespeare. (2024). https://www.spreaker.com/episode/lithia-park-specters-shakespeare--58400542
- City of Ashland. Lithia Park. https://ashlandoregon.gov/facilities/facility/details/Lithia-Park-22
- S., Reina. Lithia Water Fountain. Atlas Obscura. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lithia-water-fountain
- Unsolved So. Oregon: A Fatal Strike (2020). https://kobi5.com/news/unsolved-so-oregon-a-fatal-strike-135561/
- Seattle Terrors (2024). The Haunted Rosario Resort and Spa. Seattle Terrors. https://seattleterrors.com/the-haunted-rosario-resort-and-spa/
- San Juan Islands Visitors Bureau (n.d.). Haunted Hotels of the San Juan Islands. San Juan Islands Visitors Bureau. https://www.visitsanjuans.com/haunted-hotels-in-the-san-juan-islands
- https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g58448-i1545-k752668-Rosario_Resort_Haunted-Eastsound_Orcas_Island_San_Juan_Islands_Washington.html
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Introduction to Witchcraft Podcast
00:00:00
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Do you feel drawn to learn more about witchcraft and the occult but feel lost on where to start? Then welcome to Get In Loser Where Doing Witchcraft, a podcast all about what it means to be a witch and where to get started on your journey.
Exploring the Pacific Northwest
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Join us as we navigate through various witchy topics and share what we've learned about the craft. So get in witches as we travel to another spooky destination, this time in the Pacific Northwest.
Coffee Talk and Kitchen Challenges
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I've also not had coffee yet. I've already had water. i don't know how you do that. Coffee is like the first thing. Well, I lied. usually get up and drink some water because I'm thirsty in the morning.
00:00:58
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And then coffee immediately. Yeah. yeah I want, ah trust me, I want coffee, but I just like, I don't want to iced coffee and I'm too lazy to make a pour over. So is it is water or nothing, I guess.
00:01:18
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You guys in your difficult coffee situation. Yeah. And we don't have any room for a fucking coffee maker in our, I mean, we have our espresso machine, but like, I just don't want to deal with any of that. I just want,
00:01:33
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ah cup of coffee but we don't have a coffee yeah so we have ah coffee pot and then an espresso machine up with like the little grinder and all of that anthony did a whole little espresso setup so it's really nice but it's so much work so i also would like just that drip coffee machine that grinds my beans and then makes my coffee for me Yeah, that would be nice to have if we had a like a bigger – I mean, we have an espresso machine. we have like a good espresso machine, like a Breville.
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Then we have pour over and we have cafetiere and the – can't remember what it's called, that Italian one that goes on the stove.
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We have many different coffee. Yeah. bullshit in our house but we don't have a drip coffee maker we also don't have room for a drip coffee maker our kitchen is so small so like a little um because we don't have a lot of counter space in our kitchen so i bought like a little ah kitchen stand it holds like our knives like it has a magnetic knife block on it and it's got like shelves for our little like um like our rice cooker and our air fryer like those kinds of things because we don't have like storage for them out here and then the table portion of it is our coffee station I have my like drip coffee for that like there's no place for that I had to put it Timu like a tiny one that's like tiny and we had to like measure it exactly because we only had like a certain amount of space and we were like if we can't find anything I don't know what we're gonna do
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yeah I'll have to send you a picture of our kitchen. like Literally, yeah it is a galley kitchen and there's no room anything. No, hate galley kitchens. yeah there's no We can't add anything to it. like it Ours is just like a big square yeah room like with a door. like It's not like open. It's just like ah square room with how are tiny amounts of counter space.
00:03:36
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When we lived off base, that's how our kitchen
Trash Separation Practices
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was like. and so We were able to like add because we had like a whole corner in the back where it was just there was nothing there was just empty space and so we were able to add things because we didn't have enough room or cabinet space but there is there's nothing like that here like yeah it's just the tiniest kitchen in the world with no room do they separate their trash in england mm-hmm Well, no, they don't. They just separate trash from recycling, but that's it.
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But so here we have to separate everything. Yeah. We have four different trash cans out here. Like, well, inside four different trash cans because you have like your bio.
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I lied. We have five because you have your bio, your yellow bag, your regular trash, your paper and your glass. Yeah. So our kitchen has literally like five trash cans. Yeah.
00:04:33
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So like what little space we have is all fucking trash cans to separate all of our trash. Yeah, that's how I remember because Mike's mom used to live in Germany. And so I'd have to have that. But she had like this one stackable one.
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So it was very consolidated. Yeah. Ours is. We have like one that's like three wide, like with little foot pedals to open it. And then. um we have a little uh bio bin that because you have to use like paper bags and stuff for that one sorry our bio bin is just like this little tiny one and then we have ah giant one that's the yellow bag because that's the bulk of our trash anyways but yeah ours just takes up so much room yeah we have a we have four trash we have four bins because yeah recycling and um
00:05:22
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an actual trash, but all of our trash bags have to be clear. And then that way, because the trash men, when they come by, they go through your trash. And if yeah there's something wrong, they won't pick it up. but yeah Which is fine because I sort my shit right. But a lot of people, when they come over here, like we have some neighbors that are down the street. They have a really hard time figure out how to do that. And I'm like, it's not that difficult, but we see that a lot here with the yellow bags. They will, cause you have for um the yellow bag is like, I know you probably know prison bikes, mom, the yellow bag is like your recyclables essentially. So it's like your cans, like aluminum, um waxed cardboard, like milk cartons and that kind of stuff and plastic all goes in there, but it has to go in this like see-through yellow bag.
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And they'll sometimes, like, check your bag. And if it's not right, they'll they won't take them. And sometimes they'll, like, dump out all of the stuff. So you have to, like, clean it up. Nice. you see people, like, bitching all the time. Like, oh, they dumped out all my trash. And it's like, fucking sort it right. They literally give you a list of everything that goes on there. And there's an app that you can go on and check it, too.
00:06:35
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Oh, man. It would be nice if you had app. It would all be a Japanese, though. So that wouldn't be helpful.
Haunted Lithia Park
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Yeah. Yeah. yeah it It's fine. I like it better this way, but at the same time, it is – I mean, it takes more effort and energy, but Okinawa is an island. Yeah. Sometimes it's a pain in the ass, but it's nice.
00:06:57
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Yeah. But we're not talking about coffee and trash. and No, we're not. This is very, very not super interesting – banter for this podcast episode, but it is what it is.
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Sorry, guys.
00:07:15
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but We're out of things to talk about. No. Right. What are we talking about today? We're talking about some haunted stuff in the Pacific Northwest. Yes.
00:07:27
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This episode, I thought that, well, I had a hard time researching this episode because some of the places I wanted to research were some of these like haunted trails and stuff like that. And then I would go to research them. And then it's literally just, here is a hiking trail. yeah Nothing about the history, but it's just like, you know, here's how to survive on this trail. Not like survive, like you're going to die, but like, here's all the essentials you'll need for this hiking trail.
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Here's like, you know, here's if you want to run it or like, I don't know. It was very much like a all of the articles would be If I was there actually walking on this trail and nothing about history, but then they would show up. If you search like anything like about haunted Pacific Northwest, they would be like the top things. And I'm like, Oh, I want to know what the history is.
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Zero. So this i went to a list. i was like haunted places in the Pacific Northwest. And I just picked this website and I was like, oh, like there was like a tiny blurb, right? It was like Lithia Park, which spoiler alert, that's what I'm covering.
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um And it talked about like ah small thing. And I was like, this sounds really interesting. I'm going to do that. Then I tried researching it and there was like nothing. Like I was running into the same thing. It's like, here's this beautiful park. Here's all these trails.
00:08:49
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Don't go there after dark. But anyways, like that was like literally all I was finding. I had to dig so hard. It took me so long to find this information and it's really disjointed. So I'm hoping that like,
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as I go through this, it all like kind of comes together for everyone, but it was because it was so hard to find the information. But once I started digging, i started finding like more and more and more. So i don't know. it It wasn't the easiest to research, but it was kind of like, it was really interesting.
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was a, you know, a haunted space that I hadn't like heard of, but that had a lot of cool stories around it. And it was on like, Reddit forums and like ghost hunting forums that I found and stuff. So it was pretty cool.
00:09:37
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Yeah. Well, let's get into it then. All right. excited to know. Like I said, going be covering – think it's Lithia Park – but it's in Ashland, Oregon.
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And this park is the largest and most central park located in Ashland, Oregon, and it consists of 93 acres of forested canyon land. Its name originates from the naturally occurring lithium oxide that was found in the stream water that was actually pumped into the park.
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The park itself has two large green spaces, a stage area that's used for musical performances, duck ponds, volleyball, pickleball, tennis courts, and a large playground, picnic areas, a Japanese garden, and the famous Butler-Perazzi marble fountain, which I looked up because I had never heard of this.
00:10:25
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And it is so pretty. And it's full of like a ton of hiking trails. It also hosts an ice skating rink in the winter along with the Festival of Lights. And it's home of Oregon's Shakespeare Festival.
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The park was created in 1892, where it started off as just a small eight-acre park that was used for many entertainment and cultural events for the area.
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There was an old flour mill that was at the entrance of the park that got torn down in the early 20th century, and this allowed for a waterfall and duck pond to be built in 1910.
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And then in 1914, construction started to turn the park into what it is seen as today. In 1911, residents of Ashland discovered that the park was situated next to a spring that was high in lithium.
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And for those that don't know, because I was one of them, i was like, why is this important? Lithium water was considered to be a health tonic as far back as 1880. So to capitalize on this, the town decided that they were going to lay pipes.
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that would bring the water into Ashland where they would have it run to this health resort that they were going to build. But after the health resort failed to break ground, they instead built a beautiful fountain in the park that contained multiple spouts to drink from.
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In the 1920s, it was decided that there would be a market in bottling lithium water. So they built a second fountain on the plaza in town that was completed in 1927, along with a jug filler as well that locals could come and fill their own growlers with.
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This was thought to be something that would bring tourists into the heart of Ashland rather than just visiting the park. These fountains have been considered landmarks by the American Water Works Association since 1982.
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And over the years, the park has been home to several tragedies and devastations. And I'm going to share just a few of them. But if you're interested in Lithia Park, there is so much more that you could read about.
00:12:31
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So the first thing that I'm going talk about on this is that there was like so many things connected to trains and Lithia Park. And there were too many to list, but there were literal like several stories of people being killed by trains near the park.
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And one of them was as recent as just a couple of years ago. In 1974, flood occurred that washed out the majority of the park's vegetation and the park required a large amount of restoration.
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In 1997, second flood hit the park that prompted the park's commission to approve restructuring and fortification to all of the bridges, as well as the restoration project to Ashland Creek to help prevent future flooding.
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In 2011, well-loved 23-year-old man named David Grubbs was murdered in or near Lithia Park. They're still not 100% sure. His body was found nearly beheaded in the park, and the case remains unsolved still today.
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So Ashland police were looking into MS-13, who had been known to be head people in the area, as well as looking at a local LARPing group, apparently, because they stated that the injuries to David's neck and head appeared to have come from either a machete or even a sword, which is crazy.
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And in 2022, there were two separate DUIs that occurred just days apart, destroying pieces of the park. The least destructive one took out the Lithia Park sign and did some damage to the park's median.
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But the second one was a tree that was historically part of Ashland's Festival of Lights event, like every year for basically forever. so the town was kind of like devastated by this tree.
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was apparently it was this huge tree and they just like ran right into it and The whole tree went down. It's terrible. And so, ah' right. So that's just like a little, like, there's a whole lot more and you guys, if you are interested in the park, there's a ton online that I came across, but I didn't want to spend all day talking about the tragedies that happened in the park when we're here to talk about the spookiness.
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So the overall agreement from those that have visited Lithia park over the years is that you shouldn't go at night. There seems to be an overwhelming ominous feeling that you're being watched and Many report that shadows or even shadowy figures have been seen out of the corner of their eyes, as well as hearing footsteps following them, but no one else is there.
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Ghost hunters have caught EVPs um just simply saying hi and others have caught distorted figures in the backgrounds of their photos. So the first ghost we're going to talk about, though, is that eighteen hundreds blue girl or blue lady.
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Visitors have claimed to have seen a blue orb up appear that tends to spark the appearance of a young girl dressed as if she's from the eighteen hundreds She's believed to be the spirit of a young girl that was raped and murdered in Lithia Park near the duck pond, where her spirit always appears.
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Some have reported hearing a woman whisper in their ears near the duck pond, while others report hearing a woman scream and beg for help in the distance, but they're never able to find anyone in trouble.
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Others have reported the blue orb, or sometimes they refer to it as a blue mist, showing up directly in front of their cars as they're driving in or out of the park near the duck pond. And as the car passes through the mist, everyone within the cars report feeling an icy chill come over them.
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The second one is the train robber. So he apparently... This train robber sought refuge within the borders of the park after a daring heist, but he encountered a group of vigilantes that drowned him in one of the park spots of water.
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Many visitors to Lithia Park have claimed to see the apparition of a disfigured man that fits the train robber's description, wandering some of the more serene pathways within the park.
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The next ghost I'm go to talk about is an actor by the name of Charles Lofton. So apparently one of his dreams was to play King Lear in the Shakespeare Festival's play.
00:16:28
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So in the 1960s, he got his wish and he was cast into the role, but tragically he passed away before he ever got to set foot on stage. So now whenever King Lear is done at the festival, the actors in the play will often hear phantom footsteps backstage and And they also say that while they're rehearsing, a shadow that everyone believes is the shadow of Charles Spirit sits in the audience to watch them.
00:16:52
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This one creeped me out because I don't like, even in like scary movies that aren't real, like... Creepy little kid ghost or like child laughter?
00:17:05
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No thank you. So apparently the elizabeth Elizabethan Theater sits at the entrance of the park and many of the night watchmen that have worked at the theater claim that children's laughter will often be heard all throughout the theater late at night.
00:17:22
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And I feel like that's just like the scariest thing that I've found on Lithia Park because to me, there's just nothing scarier than creepy ghost kids. Like if i was a night watchman in this fucking theater and I'm sitting there and I know no one else is in there and I hear little kids fucking laughing and like playing, I'd be like, I quit.
00:17:43
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Bye. Right. Yeah. Here's my resignation. There is no one watching the theater because I'm going home. And then this one I feel like is really sad.
00:17:55
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So there's a ghost that is known as the hunchback of Lithia Park. So in the early 1900s, a young boy was born into a logging family.
00:18:06
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But he was born with a condition known as kyphosis, which is just an abnormal forward curve of the upper spine. So it just kind of made him like a little bit hunchbacked.
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And as the boy got older, he was later also diagnosed with hypertrichosis, which is excessive hair growth. And for him in particular, it was mostly tied to his face.
00:18:31
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So he was teased relentlessly as a child, being called names like Dogface Boy of Ashland, while others simply just referred to him as a werewolf. And there's no mention of his mother at all. The boy was often left to fend for himself, so he often stole to get by And one of the targets he tended to rob were trains, and he was often carrying a sack of things over his shoulder, leading many people to believe that he was homeless.
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In the mid-1920s, he went missing, and while no body was ever found, it was speculated that he had been murdered. Almost 40 years later, sometime in the 1960s, the boy was spotted in Lithia Park again, but appearing to have not aged a single day or to have changed in appearance in any shape or form.
00:19:18
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Someone had called the police reporting that they saw this young boy with a hunchback um and an extremely hairy face attempting to steal from cars in the parking lot. But when police showed up, they couldn't find the boy or even any evidence that one had been there. So like no footprints, no fingerprints, nothing.
00:19:37
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And none of the cars were like actually broken into. And then lastly, parents that take their children to the playground at Lithia Park will often report noticing their children speaking with an imaginary friend.
00:19:52
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Oftentimes, if they're asked about this, they'll describe a young boy wearing old clothing, sitting hunched over and saying that he appears hairy and dog-like. They talk about him playing with a train that disappears when they try to play with it, and all of the children describe him as being really nice and say that they had fun playing with him, which is, like, so sad and so cute at the same time. yeah A little creepy. Like, he just wants to be a little...
00:20:19
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A little boy that plays. He just wants to play. Yeah. yeah And then just a couple other things I found. So someone reported having heard what sounded like someone playing music on a jug, like the old style of literally just like blowing into a glass jug.
00:20:36
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And they said the music sounded happy and even playful. But then it just like stops dead. And they hear this like man scream throughout like the forested area.
00:20:47
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And after this, like, they don't see anyone. They don't hear anything else. And this particular story is thought to be attached to a logger who was killed by a fallen tree. In the same area that this report comes from, a logger had died after a tree crushed him.
00:21:04
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And his lumberjack-looking spirit is often seen carrying an axe. The logger is also thought to have been the father of the hunchback of Lithia Park. Oh, Yeah. Yeah.
00:21:16
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so So while I couldn't find like a ton of information, i did find little pieces. So I liked this a lot. um I definitely, if I ever go to Ashland, Oregon, I'll definitely go check it out.
00:21:30
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Probably not at night after like all of the warnings that people say, like, don't go at night. Right. Yeah. But yeah. Yeah. So um we are now going to travel, guess, a little bit north.
Moran Mansion and Ghostly Tales
00:21:44
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I honestly don't know.
00:21:46
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my geography very well um but i think washington so yeah we we just go in oklahoma um or i went to school in oklahoma so you know but i'm pretty sure washington washington is above oregon so yeah we're going uh we're going a bit north um and we're traveling to moran mansion which is located on the san juan islands on Orcas Island in particular at the Rosario Resort.
00:22:14
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So the Rosario Resort was the former estate of Robert Moran, who was a Seattle mayor and a shipbuilder in the late 1800s. Originally from New York at 18, he traveled to San Francisco and really made a huge name for himself.
00:22:30
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He started out as a cook, and a deckhand on many of the steamboats in the area, but then he eventually saved enough money to bring his family to Seattle, where he moved and opened up a marine repair shop.
00:22:42
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That ended up becoming incredibly successful. In 1888, he was elected mayor, and the next year, the Seattle fire devastated the area. With his help to rebuild the city as fast as possible, his company grew immensely under his name.
00:22:58
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And he also won a contract to build the USS Nebraska for the U.S. Navy. But by like 1905, when he was just 48, his doctor was like, bro, you need to retire. So taking his doctor's advice, he took a pleasure cruise through the San Juan Islands where he felt drawn to the islands and the lifestyle. And he ended up buying a small sawmill on Orcas Island and began working to build the mansion.
00:23:25
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Before Morin Mansion was built, Robert developed the area to be as self-sufficient as possible, so providing its own water and electricity with the help of hydroelectric power. And at the height of the Rosario Resort in 1911, the estate contained over 7,800 acres, and the mansion itself was said to be crafted by artisans with Honduran mahogany and Indian teak,
00:23:49
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and the resort was dubbed the Showplace of the San Juan Islands. They would also open the home to the public every Thursday for horseback riding, camping, fishing, and swimming.
00:24:01
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In 1921, part of the estate was donated to the state of Washington, which created Morin State Park. But in 1932, unfortunately, Morin's wife, Melissa, passed away from cancer, and shortly after that, the decision was made to sell the home to the Ream family.
00:24:19
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So the Ream family was a family from California consisting of Donald and Alice, and the Reams used the Rosario Resort as a part-time residence.
00:24:29
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But Alice loved the house so much that she wanted to put her own spin on the home. So over time, She brought in a lot of antique furniture, ornate rugs, and she also redid the exterior of the house.
00:24:43
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And she also came ah often without her husband. So while her husband really just used it as kind of a part-time like summer residence, she would come a lot and she ended up like spending most of her life there.
00:24:54
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So Alice was often known for wearing a red either nightgown or cocktail dress. It depends on which version of the story you're reading and she would hop on a motorcycle she owned a harley and she would drive into the local town to play cards with the locals which i thought was pretty funny because she did this whenever she was like in her 30s and 40s so like yeah like yeah i'm goingnna throw on my red neck nightgown and just go play cards on my harley she sounds like a pretty cool lady yeah she does yeah
00:25:30
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But in 1956, Alice passed away at the Rosario Resort, also from cancer. And the house was again sold just two years later. So when it comes to ghostly activities, the main ghost or presence that is felt along this resort is the Lady in Red, aka Alice Goodfellow Ream.
00:25:52
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It's said that her restless spirit haunts the house and her presence is most often felt in what used to be the living quarters on the second floor of the Morin Mansion. And what it is now, it's called the boardroom, but this used to be her bedroom suite and people report hearing sounds of high heels or sounds of lovemaking and giggling.
00:26:14
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Oh no, ghost sex. Yeah, I know. I'm just like, what? Okay. Interesting. oh Keep it together, guys. like you Please like keep it down. Like,
00:26:27
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and going to sleep here. um The general manager at the hotel said that the hauntings began when the mansion was converted to a resort for people to come and stay in the 1960s. So pretty shortly after she passed and after the house was sold, most often people would hear footsteps, sounds of people being like right outside your door, shadows, or seeing an image of a woman walking by and flashes of light.
00:26:54
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And often, She's seen as a figure in red. The manager has also been with the hotel for well over 35 years. If he's still there now, I was watching an interview that he did with a documentary team.
00:27:07
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And at that point, like, I can't remember when that was recorded, but it was like, 2019 or something like that. So if he's still there, he's been there for a really long time. But he said that it is most often the employees that tend to see Alice and two employees over the years have left, like just completely walked out without ever coming back after their experiences.
00:27:28
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And I was reading that other staff reports laundry unfolding by itself and faucets turning on. And to be fair, that would really piss me off if I was working and someone was unfolding the laundry that I was holding. First of all, I don't even want to fold the laundry at my house, let alone the laundry at my job. Yeah.
00:27:46
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So I'm going to need you to stop. like Unless you're going to fold the laundry, going to need you leave it alone. ah Yeah. A paranormal group also came to the hotel to do an investigation at some point, and they picked up an orb on a night vision camera and around 3 a.m.
00:28:03
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They also picked up the sound of a party with people talking um for about 10 seconds. And the hotel manager was talking about this and he said, what's crazy is like, it's it sounded like there was like a full bar going on downstairs, like a full on party sounds of drinks and stuff. And it picked it up for about 10 seconds on their EVPs, which is creepy.
00:28:29
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Yeah. It's fine. It's fine. Also a ghost that I wanted to mention as well. Like this is just kind of like a special mention Octavia's ghost. So Octavia van Morham was one of the first innkeepers at the Orcas hotel, which is a hotel nearby the Moran mansion.
00:28:48
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And Octavia moved to the area in 1904 to begin working at Orcas Hotel. And their kitchen is also named after her as well. But after Octavia's passing, guests report hearing footsteps and strange noises coming from the top floor of the Orcas Hotel, even when no one is around.
00:29:07
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And so lastly, because like I said, i found it difficult finding a lot of information on this resort. It is listed on like every list as being one of the most haunted places in the Pacific Northwest, but it didn't feel like there was a ton of different stories. Every website I would go to is basically the same thing, but I found some stories on TripAdvisor.
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And so I thought I would include those as well. So The user SquirrelyOne posted that she and her husband visited the resort and one night after dinner, they decided to go exploring the mansion.
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She said that she and her husband were the only two people walking around upstairs and they were taking in the charm and the beauty of the rooms. And I guess the way that Morin Mansion and just the resort itself is set up because of all of the history, you can kind of take yourself on self-guided tours around the place.
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So eventually she and her husband split up and they entered up bedroom, um or at least she entered a bedroom and she immediately felt like she was not alone. She reported that the hair on her arms and the back of her neck stood up and she had the overwhelming feeling that someone was behind her and that she needed to leave the room.
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So ah hate that for her, it is haunted. So don't know. it is haunted so i don't know Another post by Stealthy Steven says that about 10 years ago, so basically 28 years from now, as this was posted 18 years ago, writes,
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At the hotel at around 1 o'clock a.m. and immediately was convinced that it was haunted because he says that he saw and felt a ghost walking down a flight of stairs.
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He also said that he could see ghostly figures near an old looking structure outside near the parking lot. And it freaked him out so bad that he couldn't sleep. And so like, you know, like I said, he checked in at 1am and he wasn't able to check out until 6am the next morning, but like basically he didn't sleep the entire night. And then as soon as he was able to, he checked out and left.
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He's like, I gotta get out of here. Great. And then lastly, i thought this one was kind of the creepiest one. Another post, and this one's from Naomi1837, says that she was staying at the Morin Mansion in the early 90s with her husband, her daughter, who was about six years old at the time, her in-laws, and her sister-in-law.
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And during their stay, they received a tour of the mansion and they saw pictures of the Morin family displayed downstairs by the piano. And one night after they received this tour, they were playing a card game in their room. And suddenly in the middle of the game, her six-year-old daughter put her finger to her mouth, hushed everyone and said, Mrs. Moran just came through a door in that wall.
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And so she asked her daughter more questions and the little girl said that she was wearing a red dress and that she opened the door, looked at her and then at everyone else in the room and left.
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And honestly, the red dress would be Alice Ream in this situation. i don't think it was Mrs. but who knows? i thought that was creepy.
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So that is the Rosario Resort slash the Moran Mansion. That was interesting. i love spooky places and I would go to both of these. Yeah.
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i And I love like... If you guys look online too, the pictures of the Morin Mansion, it's absolutely beautiful. It's massive and it's got the most beautiful view. like It sounds like the most wonderful place to live. So I can understand like while I'm doing the research, like I found so much stuff on Alice Ream that I'm just like, I can see why she would not want to leave.
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like Yeah. It's supposed to be her... vacation home, I would absolutely stay there 100% of the time. So yeah, the same with like Lithia Park is absolutely beautiful. The marble fountain, like the famous marble fountain that's in it was gorgeous.
Exploring the Pacific Northwest's Appeal
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And they like redid it at one point because it had gotten like, just like deteriorated a little bit over the years.
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But I looked up photos of it because it was like, oh, this is like a world famous thing. And I was like, I've never even heard of it. So I wanted to go see what it looked like. And it was just beautiful. And even the um drinking fountains that they built for the lithium water, like even that was just like really pretty. All the trails looked amazing. I was like, this would be just a beautiful, serene place to go like hiking in, but also like slightly terrifying. Right.
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There were so many forums of people like kind of like TripAdvisor or like Reddit forums where people were talking about their experiences there. And i like so much of it sounded so creepy, but also I'm like, I'm intrigued.
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Right. Yeah. This would be the Pacific Northwest has always been on my list of places to go explore. And i wish that there was... more options as far as like for us as military families to live there because it's too expensive to live near Seattle. And then I don't want to, I don't know.
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There's just not a lot of options, but um I think it would be so nice to go and visit. We've like flown through Seattle before, but never actually it was able to actually explore it. So maybe one of these days when we're coming back to the States, we'll hit up Seattle again. But what's the base that's out that way?
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i think it's Louis McCord. McCord. Yeah. Anthony taught a class out there for like two weeks and I went out there with him and we just like explored like the Seattle area and stuff. And it was so pretty.
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went to like Mount Rainier and stuff. And then his sister lives somewhere in Oregon. I don't remember the name of the town that his sister moved to, but she loves it out there.
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yeah Everyone that I've heard that has moved to Oregon has loved it. And apparently there is like an active guard, um duty station out there but i can't remember the name of it but it looks stunning but yeah it's absolutely beautiful but it is expensive yeah it is very expensive unfortunately yeah we should just plan a trip we'll go visit it yeah we'll go visit it like well When we moved back to the States, Mike and I talked about like, we need to be tourists in States again, because we do it everywhere
Conclusion and Next Episode Teaser
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else. And we have never done it in the States, which is stupid. Cause why not?
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So we will have to go.
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That's it for this episode of Get In Loser We're Doing Witchcraft. You can find our source material for this episode linked in the show notes.
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Join us next week as we explore spring cleaning rituals. Until then, philosophy and witches.