Spooky Oregon : Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings and Other Local Lore
Spooky Oregon : Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings and Other Local Lore
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Author(s): Schlosser, S. E.
ISBN No.: 9781493034659
Pages: 256
Year: 201808
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 24.94
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (On Demand)

1. Monster - When his injured son returns home without his twin sisters, a father races through the fog to their rescue. As the mist thickens near the lakeshore, the father catches tantalizing glimpses of the girls and hears them sobbing for help. But each time he draws near the mist-riven figures, they vanish before he can reach them. As he stumbles about in the swirling darkness, it becomes obvious there is more at work here than an accident caused by the sudden thick mist covering the water. Something far more sinister is luring the father toward his doom in the depths of the mist-covered lake. Will he survive? 2. Rue the day - A carpenter was commissioned to work on the light keeper's house at Heceta Head.


While working in the attic, he encountered the ghost of a woman (called Rue) floating a few inches above the floor. Spooked, he dove through the ghost and jumped down through the trap door. It took him a few days to regain his nerve and return to his work site. He was not thrilled when he learned an attic window was broken and he need to replace it. This time, the carpenter opted to remained outside the house; instead climbing up a ladder to replace a broken attic window. When he spotted the same floating woman peering out at him through the broken glass, he made a beeline for home and never returned! Back inside the locked attic, someone. was it Rue?. swept up the glass from the broken window and left it in a neat pile for the caretakers when they unlocked the attic the next morning.


3. The Wanderer - An out-of-town nurse summoned to care for the sick during the Spanish Flu epidemic in Portland encounters an eccentric old man that raises strange visions in her mind; visions of death and disaster and plague. She is terrified when she meets the old man a second time on a street corner as she walks to the makeshift clinic to start her evening shift a few nights later. When he faints at her feet, she has the old man carried to the clinic and cares for him through the night. Each time she touches him, the nurse is beset with strange visions of disaster, starting in ages long past and moving forward in time. She sees the face of the Wanderer in every age. As the night progresses, the nurse realizes the unconscious man is aging in reverse - becoming younger each hour until he is a handsome young man in his early thirties as dawn breaks. By the time he wakes, the nurse has guessed the man's his true identity.


She bustles the now-healed individual out of the clinic and drives him to the edge of town. As the wanderer takes his leave, the Spanish Flu stops spreading and the people of Portland begin to heal.


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