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Hauntings of Bendis this the endNathaniel KellyThe Broadside

Location: Pilot Butte Cemetery

Though I personally did not see or hear ghostly presences or entities, I felt an unknown presence.

The experience occurred while I was stand-ing right where another group thought they saw a shadow for only a split second. You prob-ably have heard of the theory where the tem-perature around you is warm then all of a sudden you feel a sudden rush of cold air in one spot. That is what I felt. I looked in the direction of where the camera was pointing and I felt an extreme rush of cold air. The night was chilly, but not windy. It felt like a good presence stating, “Here I am.”

To me, it felt like a tingly sensation running down my whole body.I also felt two more presences. One while standing right next to

Father Luke Sheehan’s high cross; though his presence was there, it was not as strong. Another presence I felt when I was walking alone near a strange mound. The presence pushed me a little, stating that this was his/ her territory. That was the scariest moment.

Nevertheless, I was not scared because I knew there were good spirits trying to contact the outside world.

Location: Drake Park Footbridge, or the Bend Elks Lodge

Though I felt neither a spiritual presence nor observed any paranormal activity while walking on the footbridge, there are other haunted places in Bend, Oregon.

Before the Bend Elks Lodge was converted into a restaurant/pub, the Bend Elks Lodge used to be a gathering place where the Elks group would meet. A couple ghost stories still haunt the lodge to this day. One of them is about a woman who would stay in her office late at night after the Elks meeting concluded.

She was the only person in the building at the time; or so she thought. She would clean up and lock up the lodge for the night. One night, the woman thought she heard footsteps going up the stairs. She looked, but she did not see anyone. She went up the stairs and saw an old man bearing a Bend Elks hat walking down the hallway.

The woman yelled, “Hi there!”No answer.The entity went into another room and the woman followed. She

looked everywhere for the man, but he was never seen again.The ghost or entity has appeared on several other occasions after a

Bend Elks meeting.

You may contact Nathaniel Kelly at nkelly@cocc.edu

Haunted RedmondBethany HargroveThe Broadside

Redmond’s most haunted site has been the stuff of legends for 80 years-- ever since ghostly apparition appeared in a picture of the Hotel owners in 1930.

Originally built in 1906, the Hotel Redmond burned down in 1927. The fire was devastating and destroyed much of Redmond’s downtown at the time, but downtown rebuilt. The hotel was recon-structed in 1928, taking on the title of The New Redmond Hotel.

The owners at the time, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, had a picture taken of them in the lobby in 1930, and were shocked to see a third subject in the picture; a woman with her back turned to the camera, eerily transparent.

Ever since, rumors and accounts of the unknown woman appari-tion, bodiless footsteps moving furniture, and inexplicable orbs of light have surrounded the New Redmond Hotel and its legacy.

Larry Van Antwerp, the representative and maintenance supervi-sor for the Historic New Redmond Hotel, said “I’ve been involved

Bend: Not that HauntedTobey Veenstra

The Broadside

All the ingredients for a horror movie were there. College students. A cemetery. Ouija board. Probable virgins. But there was no horror.

The new moon made the night dark, and we arrived at the Pilot Butte cemetery a little before midnight. We even split up

into small groups – M. Myers, et al. love that – but the only shock of the night came when the cemetery’s sprinkler sys-tem started up. Soon, hanging out in the cemetery began to just feel like hanging out in a park at night, except a little more depressing. Once bored, we broke out the Ouija, but to no

avail. For being such a historic cemetery in Bend, there sure weren’t a lot of spirits in the mood for Hasbro’s classic game

that night. After an hour of no-show ghosts we packed it up and went

to the next haunted place on our haunted itinerary: Drake Park’s haunted footbridge. With a history of one corpse showing up in the pond by the bridge every ten years since 1980, we thought we’d be right on schedule for another one. No such luck. At one point we did hear a couple of haunting moans but they turned out to be from the drunks on the bridge. Oh well. There is a little over a week left in the year’s most haunted month, so we might still find a spooky situation. Unfortu-nately, this is probably the least haunted town to find it in.

You may contact Tobey Veenstra at tveenstra@cocc.edu

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When the lights goOutwith the hotel for over 20 years and nothing has ever happened to me,”

but still tells the stories that support the rumour.Van Antwerp said the Hotel used to host people from the airfield

very frequently, and even then the area was rife with rumors.One stewardess was so terrified by the ghost stories that she refused

sleep in alone in her room and instead spent the night on a couch in the lobby.

A pilot, who Van Antwerp described as a 40-something “smart guy,” had stayed alone in the Hotel many times. However, one morning as he was combing his hair in front of the mirror, he saw a pair of arms outstretched behind him that were not his. He was alone in his room.

More recently, the owner of the Italian Eatery Guido and Vito’s was staying in the Hotel while the restaurant was being installed in the downstairs section of the Hotel. “He would swear up and down that he heard stuff,” said Van Antwerp, such as footsteps and children laugh-ing in his room when he was alone

Orbs of light have also been documented on site, both in photo-graphs and on film.

“There was one that I saw when Guido and Vito’s was open,” Van Antwerp said, referring to the Italian Restaurant in the Hotel build-ing. The restaurant had installed motion-sensing security cameras; one night of footage captured light orbs all over the video

Van Antwerp isn’t sure why, with relatively few direct experiences, the haunting rumors persist.

“It has nothing to do with tourism, to the best of my knowledge,” he said.

For years people have claimed stories to help perpetrate the haunt-ing rumor—rumors like the paranormal presence was a woman who couldn’t escape the Hotel and died in the fire in 1927, but “Nobody died in the fire!” Van Antwerp debunked.

Van Antwerp is skeptical about the legendary picture that started it all. “To me, it’s just a double exposure,” he said.

However, other peculiar things about the Hotel may have more to do with continuing rumor of haunting, such as monkeys kept in a room with a window to the alleyway, and coyotes kept in the basement, where they would howl every time they heard church bells.

Van Antwerp said that he has never had a paranormal experience in the Hotel in his twenty years there, but his closest thing to an experi-ence is a “silly one.”

“When the current owners bought the hotel they installed a new elevator,” Van Antwerp recalled. He said he pushed the button to go up stairs and heard a small voice saying, “Hello?”

After a moment of confusion, Van Antwerp remembered that in the new elevator an emergency phone had been installed, and he’d called it by accident.

The New Redmond Hotel-- haunted, or just rumors? Contact the Redmond Historical Society if you’re interested in learning more. Ac-cording to Van Antwerp, room 316 is the site of the most paranormal experiences, just in case you decide to visit.

(The video of light orbs in the restaurant can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ddaDqtsF2k or by searching Ghosts at Guido & Vito’s Italian Eatery).

You may contact Bethany Hargrove at beth.m.hargrove@gmail.com

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Expect more Haunted Bend coverage in the next issue of The Broadside