Macabre Ghost History of Portland, Oregon walking tour: Chills and Chills in Portland booking from $34.00

Macabre Ghost History of Portland, Oregon walking tour: Chills and Chills

Overview

From fiery deaths to watery graves: In this 1.5 mile cemetery walking tour, we weave what we know of the peoples who lived here for millennia with verifiable stories of recent centuries. We can only guess, based on our psychics’ readings and eerie coincidences we have observed, where people here before us feared to walk and canoe at night.

As a wise person wrote, every story ends as a ghost story. Our ghosts are legion.

We now call it Oregon; “ourigan” was ancestral home to hundreds of thousands. They have left a darkness here, expressed with stories from the earliest days of our written history to modern times.

Starting with early disasters, we will tell ghost stories we have collected, from fiery deaths to those in the waters of nearby river; from self-inflicted to deaths brought by the state or a rich man’s guilt. Our route takes us through the inner eastside, where more of Portland’s disasters have happened than any other part of the city & where many early settlers are buried.

City: Portland

Thu 18 Sep

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What's Included

Guided walking tour

Additional Info

Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Public transportation options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

What To Expect

Revolution Hall

We will meet at Revolution Hall, a former high school who counted many now-famous people who would lead brilliant but tortured lives as alumni and suffered a tragic fire a century ago.

Lone Fir Pioneer Cemetery

We will enter the Lone Fir cemetery near the section known only as “Block 14,” where mass graves of Chinese immigrants and those who died at the nearby asylum for the insane were buried. After telling some of the stories we know, we will walk through the cemetery, visiting the final resting places of residents that we have heard stories of already, as well as some of the most intense resident deaths; from dramatic drownings to axe murders to suicides.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Reviews (7)

Nomad32084063597

Oct 2024

Misleading and definitely not worth the price. Inaccurate description of the event, no talk about ghosts just info you can find online about past people from Portland. Incomplete tour due to how bad it went.

Response from Host

Oct 2024

Hi there, I’m sorry that you didn’t like the historical ghost tour, but it seems as if you may have read an entirely different tour description as you submitted this review as the same time as you asked for a refund due to “booking wrong tour.” And our description very clearly says you will be learning about historical people in portland. When you left early you told your guides you thought it was a one-hour tour. We do tell stories about historical Portlanders, and you should definitely not book this tour if you don’t like history. (and as you had a trainee along we were able to confirm that your guide did indeed talk quite a lot about ghosts, perhaps you didn’t listen to anything they said?)

Jemma_B

Nov 2023

We had such a great time learning about the history and the cemetery was very interesting. Our guide was fantastic!

Nomad25214673975

Oct 2023

Unusual and deeply respectful take on ghost tours, looking at history and intimate stories from a lens of the tales of marginalized and women’s narratives. I’ve taken a lot of ghost tours and this one was less spooky hauntings but more stories of spirits. Well told.